# build-threejs-enemy-systems

Designs data-driven enemy archetypes and movesets for Three.js action games. Separates immutable character specs from dynamic runtime combat state.

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- Author: MengTo
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/MengTo/Skills/tree/HEAD/agent-skills/game-development/build-threejs-enemy-systems/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-25
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## What it does

The skill structures Three.js action game enemy systems by separating static authored specs from runtime instances. Definitions store stable IDs, role tags, base stats, move lists, and reward tables. Live transforms, health, phase clocks, and cooldowns stay exclusively in runtime instances. Timers live only in runtime.

Presentation contracts are normalized strictly at the asset boundary. You define ground pivots, normalized scales, facing offsets, and attachment sockets before models touch gameplay logic. Scattering scale compensations across combat scripts will break hit registration. If a 3D model is missing, the workflow substitutes an honest placeholder that preserves height, colliders, and move timings.

Moves are authored as pure data containing startup telegraphs, active damage frames, armor rules, and recovery cooldowns. Deterministic fixtures validate edge cases like LOD transitions, interruptions, and hit deduplication on a single target.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add MengTo/Skills --skill build-threejs-enemy-systems -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add MengTo/Skills --skill build-threejs-enemy-systems -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add MengTo/Skills --skill build-threejs-enemy-systems -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install MengTo/Skills build-threejs-enemy-systems
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/build-threejs-enemy-systems/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add MengTo/Skills --skill build-threejs-enemy-systems -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/MengTo/Skills --path agent-skills/game-development/build-threejs-enemy-systems
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add MengTo/Skills --skill build-threejs-enemy-systems -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/MengTo/Skills/tree/HEAD/agent-skills/game-development/build-threejs-enemy-systems/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- separate immutable enemy definitions from dynamic runtime state
- normalize model scales, pivots, and sockets at the asset boundary
- configure data-driven movesets with startup and active damage windows
- deploy honest visual fallbacks that preserve colliders and timing
- test combat edge cases using deterministic scene fixtures

## Example prompts
- Define a Three.js melee enemy moveset schema with telegraph, active window, and recovery timing
- Refactor our enemy archetype to split immutable authored data from runtime instance state
- Set up a visual placeholder fallback that preserves collider bounds, sockets, and facing

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: build-threejs-enemy-systems
description: Build or refactor reusable, data-driven enemy archetype and moveset systems for Three.js action games. Use for enemy content schemas, model and rig conventions, combat move timing and contact contracts, runtime state boundaries, placeholder fallbacks, deterministic fixtures, or production playthrough validation.
---

# Build Three.js Enemy Systems

Make each enemy a portable authored definition consumed by shared runtime systems. Keep AI choice, combat resolution, rendering, and feedback as separate consumers of the same stable contract.

## Separate content from runtime state

- Put stable IDs, role/tags, base stats, presentation spec, move IDs, AI hints, feedback hook IDs, rewards, and variant data in immutable authored definitions.
- Put instance ID, transform, health/posture, target, current move and phase clock, cooldowns, statuses, pathing, visibility, and LOD state in runtime instances.
- Reference definitions by ID. Reject duplicate IDs, missing references, invalid ranges, or impossible timing during content validation.
- Never mutate authored definitions, store live timers in content, or duplicate the combat clock across AI, animation, and rendering.

## Normalize presentation contracts

Define these fields before integrating a model:

- source or factory ID, provenance, coordinate system, forward axis, and meters-per-unit;
- root pivot at ground contact, normalized scale, facing offset, and visual height;
- simple movement collider plus named hurtboxes, independent of render geometry;
- stable sockets for contact origins, weapons, projectiles, VFX, audio, UI markers, and targeting;
- rig and semantic clip map for idle, locomotion, moves, reactions, and death;
- LOD tiers with hysteresis, animation/update policy, and unchanged gameplay colliders.

Normalize at the asset boundary. Do not scatter scale fixes, pivot offsets, raw clip names, or compensating rotations through gameplay code.

## Define moves as data

For every move, define:

- stable ID, AI tags, eligibility range/angle/line-of-sight, weight, and state prerequisites;
- startup and telegraph, one or more active windows, recovery, cooldown, and minimum commitment;
- movement, facing, cancellation, armor, interrupt, stagger, and phase rules;
- contact shape/socket, damage, posture, knockback, status, and per-target hit limits;
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