# bevy-ecs

Keeps the agent inside Bevy's ECS model: plugins, components and resources, systems built on Query. Useful once your Rust project already pulls in bevy.

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- Author: gamedev-skills
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- Source: https://github.com/gamedev-skills/awesome-gamedev-agent-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/other-engines/bevy-ecs/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
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## What it does

New examples in this skill target Bevy 0.20. If `Cargo.lock` pins another minor release, the code will not compile, so the skill tells you to stay on that release and read its migration guide first.

The workflow starts by reading `Cargo.toml` and `Cargo.lock`, then registering systems into `Startup` and `Update`. Per-entity data gets `#[derive(Component)]`, globals get `#[derive(Resource)]`. Since 0.19 a resource lives on its own entity, so you pick one derive, not both. Motion goes through `time.delta_secs()`.

A pitfalls section covers the usual breakage: the `error[B0001]` borrow panic, fixed with `With`/`Without` or `ParamSet`; `Camera2dBundle` and `SpriteBundle`, gone in 0.16; and `Commands` that stay invisible until the next sync point. Systems run in parallel until you add `.chain()`.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add gamedev-skills/awesome-gamedev-agent-skills --skill bevy-ecs -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/bevy-ecs/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/bevy-ecs/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add gamedev-skills/awesome-gamedev-agent-skills --skill bevy-ecs -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/bevy-ecs/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add gamedev-skills/awesome-gamedev-agent-skills --skill bevy-ecs -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/bevy-ecs/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install gamedev-skills/awesome-gamedev-agent-skills bevy-ecs
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/bevy-ecs/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add gamedev-skills/awesome-gamedev-agent-skills --skill bevy-ecs -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/gamedev-skills/awesome-gamedev-agent-skills --path skills/other-engines/bevy-ecs
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/bevy-ecs/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add gamedev-skills/awesome-gamedev-agent-skills --skill bevy-ecs -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/gamedev-skills/awesome-gamedev-agent-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/other-engines/bevy-ecs/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- wire an `App` from `DefaultPlugins` and split setup from per-frame work
- replace bundles with directly spawned components after 0.16
- untangle two `Transform` queries that trigger `error[B0001]`
- make movement frame-rate independent with `time.delta_secs()`
- force `apply_damage` ahead of `check_deaths` using `.chain()`

## Example prompts
- \`Cargo.toml` already depends on `bevy`. Build the `App` with `DefaultPlugins`, put setup in `Startup` and player movement in `Update`.
- I keep getting `error[B0001]` on two `Transform` queries. Make them disjoint with `With<Player>` and `Without<Player>`.
- Add a wave spawner gated by `run_if` and drive the timer off `time.delta_secs()`.

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---
name: bevy-ecs
description: >
  Structure a Bevy app around its Entity Component System: build the App with
  plugins, define Component/Resource types, write systems with Query/Res/Commands,
  filter and order systems, and use the Time resource for frame-rate-independent
  motion. Use when building or debugging a Bevy game in Rust — when the user
  mentions Bevy, ECS, App::new, add_systems, Query, Commands, components/systems,
  or a Cargo.toml depending on bevy.
---

# Bevy ECS

Structure a Bevy game in Rust around the Entity Component System: the `App` and
plugins, components and resources, systems with queries, scheduling, and
frame-rate-independent updates. New examples target **Bevy 0.20**. If the project
already pins another release, keep that release and use its matching migration guide.

## When to use

- Use when wiring a Bevy `App`, defining `Component`/`Resource` types, writing
  systems that query entities, ordering/filtering systems, or fixing
  borrow-conflict panics and frame-dependent movement.
- Use when `Cargo.toml` depends on `bevy` and code calls `App::new()`,
  `add_systems`, `Query`, or `Commands`.

**When *not* to use:** this is the ECS core. Deep rendering, custom shaders/
pipelines, UI layout, and audio are separate concerns. For engine-agnostic AI or
procedural algorithms, pair with `game-ai` / `procedural-gen`.

## Core workflow

1. **Detect and pin the version.** Read `Cargo.toml` and `Cargo.lock` first. For a
   new project use `bevy = "0.20"`; never silently migrate an existing project
   across a Bevy minor release. Treat the matching docs and migration guides as truth.
2. **Build the `App`.** `App::new().add_plugins(DefaultPlugins)` gives windowing,
   input, rendering, time, etc. Register systems into schedules: `Startup` (once)
   and `Update` (every frame).
3. **Model data as components, globals as resources.** `#[derive(Component)]` for
   per-entity data; `#[derive(Resource)]` for one-of-a-kind data (score, settings,
   the `Time` clock). Since 0.19 `Resource` extends `Component` and each resource is
   stored on its own entity, so do not derive both.
4. **Write systems as plain functions.** Parameters declare data access: `Query<...>`
   for entities, `Res<T>`/`ResMut<T>` for resources, `Commands` for deferred
   spawn/despawn. Systems run in parallel when their accesses don't conflict.
5. **Drive motion by `time.delta_secs()`** so speed is frame-rate independent.
6. **Order only what must be ordered** with `.chain()` or explicit constraints;
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