unreal-packaging

unreal-packaging is a skill for Claude Code from gamedev-skills/awesome-gamedev-agent-skills. It costs 89 tokens per session (1,239 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to turning an Unreal Engine 5 project into a runnable build that can be distributed. Packaging prepares the project's code and content, while cooking converts content for the target platform.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating Development or Shipping builds, cooking content, setting the default map, configuring packaging, and automating builds with Unreal's command-line tools.
Why use it?
It helps prevent common release-build problems, such as using the wrong build type or failing to set the map that opens first.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the unreal plugin — 6 skills shipped together , and of gamedev

Good fit Creating Development or Shipping builds, cooking content, setting the default map, configuring packaging, and automating builds with Unreal's command-line tools.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gamedev-skills/awesome-gamedev-agent-skills/unreal-packaging
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add gamedev-skills/awesome-gamedev-agent-skills --skill unreal-packaging
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gamedev-skills/awesome-gamedev-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install unreal, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

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Per session 89 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,239 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 9 Aug 2026
  • Snyk pass 9 Aug 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00089 $0.01239
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00620
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00248
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00124

Measured 12d ago against content hash c132c6ca6bab, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

unreal-packaging scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/unreal/unreal-packaging/SKILL.md · 108 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 108 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Unreal Packaging & Cooking

Turn a UE5 project into a runnable, distributable build: choose the right build configuration, cook content, set the launch map, and package — from the editor or the command line. Targets UE 5.8.

When to use

  • Use when producing a build (test or release), choosing Development vs Shipping, cooking content, configuring Packaging / Maps & Modes settings, or automating builds with RunUAT BuildCookRun for CI.
  • Use when the project has a *.uproject and Config/Default*.ini, and the goal is a packaged player rather than running in-editor.

When not to use: storefront submission/release process → steam-publish / itch-publish. Editor-time gameplay/iteration is not packaging.

Core workflow

  1. Set the launch map. Project Settings → Maps & ModesGame Default Map is what a packaged build loads first. Wrong/empty here is the most common "packaged game is black" cause.
  2. Pick the build configuration: Development (default; optimized but keeps logging/ stats/console for testing) vs Shipping (all optimizations, debugging tools stripped — for release). DebugGame/Debug are for debugging engine/game code and aren't for distribution; DebugGame isn't available for Blueprint-only projects.
  3. Understand cook vs package. Cooking converts assets to the target platform's format and packs them into .pak files. Packaging bundles the compiled executable + cooked content into a standalone, distributable set of files. Packaging runs a cook as part of it.
  4. Package from the editor: the Platforms menu → choose the platform (e.g. Windows) → set the Binary Configuration → Package Project → pick an output folder.
  5. Or build from the command line with the Unreal Automation Tool (RunUAT BuildCookRun) for repeatable/CI builds.
  6. Tune Packaging settings (Project Settings → Packaging): which maps/directories to cook, full-rebuild, compression, and whether to build all maps.
  7. Verify by running the packaged build, not just by a successful cook — launch the executable and confirm it loads the right map and runs.

Read the full file on GitHub · 108 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 108 lines · 89 tokens per session scan A c132c6ca6bab

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unreal-packaging is a skill published in the GitHub repository gamedev-skills/awesome-gamedev-agent-skills (952 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 89 tokens to every session and 1,239 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.