UE Gameplay Ability System

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

GAS ships as the GameplayAbilities plugin (Engine/Plugins/Runtime/GameplayAbilities), which is production-ready, not Experimental. Enable it in the .uproject, then add "GameplayAbilities", "GameplayTags" and "GameplayTasks" to PublicDependencyModuleNames in your module's Build.cs. This skill covers UAbilitySystemComponent, UGameplayAbility, UGameplayEffect, UAttributeSet, UAbilityTask and Gameplay Cues.

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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