UE Async and Threading

Target engine: UE 5.8. APIs below are verified against the 5.8 headers; older forms are listed under "Deprecated — do not use".

This skill covers moving work off the game thread and bringing results back: the UE::Tasks system (Tasks/Task.h, Tasks/Pipe.h), Async/TFuture (Async/Async.h, Async/Future.h), thread-pool FAsyncTask (Async/AsyncWork.h), ParallelFor, dedicated FRunnable threads, locks and lock-free queues, FTSTicker and FTimerManager. Everything except timers is in the Core module; FTimerManager is in Engine; ENQUEUE_RENDER_COMMAND is in RenderCore. Build.cs: PublicDependencyModuleNames.AddRange(new string[] { "Core", "CoreUObject", "Engine" }); and add "RenderCore" only when enqueuing render commands.

Context

Read .agents/ue-project-context.md if it exists (module names, conventions, enabled plugins, GAS/networking setup). Do not stop if it is missing.

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