wow-client-targets
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Resolve Retail, Forever, and Classic progression targets and verify version-specific WoW API evidence. Use before addon API lookup, client detection, compatibility decisions, TOC generation, or porting between WoW versions.
In this repository42 other files it gives its agents.
- skills/agent-file-specs/references/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- agent-file-specsSkill
- analyze-agent-overlapSkill
- generate-agent-docsSkill
- validate-agent-filesSkill
- wow-addon-developmentSkill
- wow-addon-structureSkill
- wow-api-achievementsSkill
- wow-api-calendar-eventsSkill
- wow-api-collectionsSkill
- wow-api-combatSkill
- wow-api-currency-economySkill
- wow-api-encountersSkill
- wow-api-escape-sequencesSkill
- wow-api-eventsSkill
- wow-api-framexmlSkill
- wow-api-group-lfgSkill
- wow-api-guildSkill
- wow-api-housingSkill
- wow-api-indexSkill
- wow-api-items-inventorySkill
- wow-api-lua-environmentSkill
- wow-api-map-navigationSkill
- wow-api-misc-systemsSkill
- wow-api-professionsSkill
- wow-api-pvpSkill
- wow-api-questsSkill
- wow-api-reputationSkill
- wow-api-settings-systemSkill
- wow-api-social-chatSkill
- wow-api-spells-abilitiesSkill
- wow-api-talentsSkill
- wow-api-transmogSkill
- wow-api-unit-playerSkill
- wow-api-weekly-rewardsSkill
- wow-api-widgetSkill
- wow-api-xml-schemaSkill
- wow-controller-supportSkill
- wow-lua-apiSkill
- wow-macro-commandsSkill
- wow-native-uiSkill
- wow-ui-skinningSkill
The file
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
1 rule. About 0 are common, 1 is distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.
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Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
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Distinctive · estimate
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
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Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Distinctive: line 30
If access fails, state that the latest version could not be checked.
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 350,495 skill files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
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.txtand the tree at that SHA. Start withInterface/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_IDassignments. 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.
If access fails, state that the latest version could not be checked. Use dated bundled evidence only where sufficient; flag unresolved features and do not advance snapshot metadata. A successful function-existence probe does not establish matching semantics or permission to inspect returned values.
For Forever detection, beta defect history and current source boundaries, read Forever build evidence. For a fresh runtime comparison, follow the capture and validation procedure.
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