roblox-datastores · sentinelcore — Claude Code skill for Roblox player data

What roblox-datastores does

The skill feeds your agent a working reference for DataStoreService on the server: GetAsync, SetAsync, UpdateAsync, RemoveAsync, GetOrderedDataStore and GetSortedAsync. It ships Lua snippets for the basics — store setup, loading inside pcall, a plain save, an atomic counter increment via UpdateAsync, and a retry helper with a delay between attempts.

Auto-save gets its own section: PlayerRemoving paired with BindToClose. Skip the BindToClose handler and unsaved sessions vanish when the server shuts down, so this is worth checking if players report rolled-back progress. Versioning is covered too: a _version field with migration in the load path, and a new store name like PlayerData_v2 when the schema breaks.

A mistakes table spells out what goes wrong: datastore calls without pcall, saving on every Changed event until you hit write limits, handing out default data after a failed load, using SetAsync for counters instead of UpdateAsync, storing Instance or functions. Leaderboard values must be positive integers.