What is wow-addon-structure?

A guide to structuring World of Warcraft Retail add-ons, which are extensions that change or add game interface features. It covers folder layout, the .toc metadata file, loading order, saved settings, and current add-on APIs.

Planning or reviewing an add-on folder, writing its .toc file, controlling startup order, storing saved variables, and using add-on metadata APIs.

It helps avoid add-ons loading files in the wrong order or losing settings between game sessions.

wow-addon-structure — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by JBurlison: A guide to structuring World of Warcraft Retail add-ons…

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.

agentmods

npx agentmods add skills/jburlison/wowaddonapiagents/wow-addon-structure

Any agent

npx skills add JBurlison/WoWAddonAPIAgents --skill wow-addon-structure

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JBurlison/WoWAddonAPIAgents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Your own site

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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 620 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5	$0.00049	$0.00620
Opus 5	$0.00024	$0.00310
Sonnet 5	$0.00010	$0.00124
Haiku 4.5	$0.00005	$0.00062

Measured 3d ago against content hash 8491fc1bdc27, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

wow-addon-structure 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 3d 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.

.github/skills/wow-addon-structure/SKILL.md · 53 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 53 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

WoW AddOn Structure (Retail)

Scope

Retail only, current as of Patch 12.0.0.
Focuses on folder layout, .toc metadata, loading order, and SavedVariables.
Avoid deprecated or removed APIs and call out restricted directives.

When to use this skill

Use this skill when you need to:

Design or review an AddOn folder layout.
Author or audit a .toc file.
Reason about file load order and login events.
Wire SavedVariables or troubleshoot persistence.
Query or load AddOns via C_AddOns APIs.

How to use this skill

Start with layout and naming rules in references/ADDON_STRUCTURE.md.
Build the .toc file using references/TOC_FORMAT.md.
Plan initialization order with references/LOADING_LIFECYCLE.md.
Wire persistence with references/SAVED_VARIABLES.md.
Use C_AddOns metadata APIs from references/C_ADDONS_API.md.
Cross-check patterns in Blizzard UI source from references/VIEWING_BLIZZARD_UI.md.

Reference files

references/ADDON_STRUCTURE.md - Folder layout rules, naming, and common patterns.
references/TOC_FORMAT.md - .toc syntax, directives, and file order rules.
references/LOADING_LIFECYCLE.md - Load order, events, and login timeline.
references/SAVED_VARIABLES.md - Persistence rules and file locations.
references/C_ADDONS_API.md - Key C_AddOns metadata and load APIs.
references/VIEWING_BLIZZARD_UI.md - How to inspect Blizzard UI source.

Key rules and reminders

The AddOn folder name and .toc filename must match.
The .toc file is required and defines file load order.
Files load top to bottom in the .toc list.
SavedVariables are available after ADDON_LOADED unless LoadSavedVariablesFirst is used.
Use LoadOnDemand and C_AddOns.LoadAddOn for heavy modules.
Some .toc directives are restricted to Blizzard AddOns and are not available to third-party AddOns.

Sources

Read the full file on GitHub · 53 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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.

3d ago First seen · 53 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 8491fc1bdc27

Subscribe to this mod's changes

wow-addon-structure is a skill published in the GitHub repository JBurlison/WoWAddonAPIAgents (43 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 620 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.

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