What is wow-client-targets?

A version-targeting guide for World of Warcraft add-ons. It distinguishes Retail, Forever, and the current Classic progression client, then checks the relevant game API evidence before code or release decisions.

Use it before looking up APIs, detecting a client, choosing compatibility code, generating TOC files, or porting an add-on between supported WoW versions.

The same add-on code may encounter different APIs and interface versions in different WoW clients. This prevents silently choosing the wrong target or treating an outdated source snapshot as proof of compatibility.

wow-client-targets — Skill for Claude Code by JBurlison

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 JBurlison/WoWAddonAPIAgents --skill wow-client-targets

Clone the repo

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install wow-addon-dev, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 37 skills.

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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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 656 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.

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 5.1	$0.00047	$0.00656
Opus 5.5	$0.00019	$0.00262
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00009	$0.00131
Haiku 4.5	$0.00005	$0.00066

Measured 7d ago against content hash 4ca5b62b57e4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

wow-client-targets 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 7d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/targets.mjs), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

plugins/wow-addon-dev/skills/wow-client-targets/SKILL.md · 33 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 33 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Client targets and source evidence

Target	Branch in Gethe/wow-ui-source	Meaning
retail	live	Current Retail
forever	forever	Forever; not Classic Era
classic	classic	Current Classic progression

all expands to these three only. Explicit targets override inferred configuration. Use the existing addon's documented targets, TOCs, and release configuration when the request omits targets; ask if these conflict or are inconclusive. Do not identify a client solely from a namespace name, a shared project constant, or one TOC interface value.

Snapshot and current sources

targets.json records source-inventory snapshots, not certification of every API. Interface numbers are derived from version.txt and must be confirmed against the target client's select(4, GetBuildInfo()) before release. A source mirror may lead or lag an installed client; honor an explicitly requested build.

With Node.js 22+, optionally run node <this-skill>/scripts/targets.mjs retail forever (or all) to print bundled metadata. No Node dependency is required to read the skills or perform source lookups using the host's tools.

For current evidence:

Resolve https://api.github.com/repos/Gethe/wow-ui-source/commits/<branch> and capture the full SHA. Do not mix moving branch content with pinned evidence.
Inspect version.txt and the tree at that SHA. Start with Interface/AddOns/Blizzard_APIDocumentationGenerated, then follow the UI addon's TOC/XML includes and client-specific files. Check shared versus game-specific loading conditions.
For each needed capability, use the evidence record: target, commit, source path, contract, loading and restrictions, with source declaration, runtime observation and operation testing recorded separately. Missing generated documentation alone means unknown, not removed.
Trace the loaded constants before implementing runtime detection. The same tree may contain Mainline, Vanilla, Mists, and other constants with different WOW_PROJECT_ID assignments. Do not invent a Forever project ID. When detection cannot uniquely distinguish clients, use per-target packaged configuration plus runtime build validation.
Consult COMPATIBILITY.md, then the specific domain skill. Scope every deprecation and restriction to the target/build where it was verified.

Read the full file on GitHub · 33 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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.

7d ago First seen · 33 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 4ca5b62b57e4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

wow-client-targets is a skill published in the GitHub repository JBurlison/WoWAddonAPIAgents (73 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 656 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-11-01.

Game development

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