level-design

level-design is a skill for Claude Code from rondorkerin/gamestack. It costs 182 tokens per session (865 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A game-level design skill for planning individual levels, zones, rooms, and encounters. It covers how spaces guide players, teach mechanics, and control the rhythm of challenge.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan paths, shortcuts, arenas, locked areas, teaching sequences, encounter layouts, and blockmesh prototypes.
Why use it?
It helps address confusing layouts, lost players, unfair difficulty, and slow pacing before detailed art is created.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the gamestack plugin — 26 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan paths, shortcuts, arenas, locked areas, teaching sequences, encounter layouts, and blockmesh prototypes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rondorkerin/gamestack/level-design
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 rondorkerin/gamestack --skill level-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rondorkerin/gamestack

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install gamestack, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 26 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 182 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 865 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00182 $0.00865
Opus 5 $0.00091 $0.00432
Sonnet 5 $0.00036 $0.00173
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00086

Measured 8d ago against content hash 43b1db7aa3e9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

level-design 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 8d 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.

plugins/gamestack/skills/level-design/SKILL.md · 42 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 42 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Level Design

How to craft a level — or generate one — that guides players through space so they always know where to go and why, teaches through the environment instead of a tutorial pop-up, paces intensity as a rhythm of peaks and valleys, and validates all of it in blockmesh before a single art asset is committed.

Tier: universal craft (→ gamestack-core). Applies to every genre that has levels, rooms, or encounters. The macro/world spatial layer lives in open-world-design; this skill owns the level/encounter craft.

When to use this

  • Laying out a level or zone — structure type, critical path, arenas, shortcuts
  • Designing or auditing wayfinding (players getting lost or marker-following)
  • Authoring antepieces and teaching sequences for new mechanics
  • Designing or diagnosing encounter/arena propositions
  • Plotting and tuning in-level intensity curves
  • Specifying a blockmesh-first process a generator can follow

Scope

This skill owns the level/encounter spatial craft layer. Adjacent concerns live in sibling skills:

  • The macro/world spatial layer (terrain, biomes, world-map layout, exploration pull) → open-world-design
  • What to generate and how to validate generated content → procedural-generation, procgen-review
  • Combat-specific feel (hit-stop, telegraphing, enemy feel) within arenas → combat-design
  • In-level pacing as part of a session-wide arc → pacing-and-the-player-journey
  • Signposting, landmarks, signal color, silhouette → art-direction-and-readability
  • Teaching through space as part of the onboarding arc → onboarding-and-teaching
  • General reward/flow/motivation theory → game-design-fundamentals

How the pieces fit

  • GUIDE.md — the cited why, in six sub-domains: guidance language (critical path, breadcrumbing, leading lines, weenies, light/color, affordances); structure & gating (structural types, lock-and-key, interconnection/shortcuts, Metroidvania loop); teaching through space (antepiece, intro→develop→twist→conclude, the gym); encounter/arena design (arena proposition, cover, chokepoints, flanking, verticality); in-level pacing (intensity curve, rest beats, reward placement); and the greybox process (blockmesh, metrics, playtest iteration). Each rule carries an exemplar + source, a test-for criterion, the named failure mode, and the procedural/headless implication.
  • CHECKLIST.md — Do/Don't + machine-checkable Test-for criteria, grouped by sub-domain. Written to be enforced as validators in a generation loop.

Read the full file on GitHub · 42 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 42 lines · 182 tokens per session scan A 43b1db7aa3e9

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level-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository rondorkerin/gamestack (27 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 182 tokens to every session and 865 once invoked, about $0.0009 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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