UE State Trees

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

State Tree is a data-driven hierarchical state machine authored as a UStateTree data asset and executed from C++ through an execution context. Runtime types live in the StateTreeModule (plugin StateTree); actor-facing components and schemas live in GameplayStateTreeModule (plugin GameplayStateTree). Mass-entity behaviours add MassAIBehavior (plugin MassAI, Experimental in 5.8) plus MassEntity, MassCore and MassSignals. Add the modules you use to PublicDependencyModuleNames in your .Build.cs.

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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