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Unreal Engine skills: drive the Unreal Editor from your agent

Epic Games' official plugin lets Claude Code work inside a running Unreal Editor: place actors, edit Blueprints and materials, build Niagara effects and run tests.

In short: Epic Games' official plugin lets Claude Code work inside a running Unreal Editor: place actors, edit Blueprints and materials, build Niagara effects and run tests. It is a free skill for people who use Claude Code and want help with coding agent skills.

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Agent / toolAccess / costLink
Claude CodePaid Claude plan or APIclaude.com/claude-code
GitHub repoOpen source · ★ 1.2kEpicGames/unreal-engine-skills-for-claude-code-plugin

Try it in 60 seconds

/plugin install unreal-engine-skills-for-claude-code@claude-plugins-official
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-official

Install command copied from the project README. Check the README for the latest version.

What it does

Epic Games' official plugin lets Claude Code work inside a running Unreal Editor: place actors, edit Blueprints and materials, build Niagara effects and run tests.

Control Unreal Editor directly from Claude Code via MCP. Hundreds of tools exposed via Unreal's ToolsetRegistry across 30+ toolsets: actors, blueprints, materials, Niagara, Control Rigs, Sequencer, State Trees, widgets,…

Short excerpt from the README of EpicGames/unreal-engine-skills-for-claude-code-plugin. Read the full README on GitHub.

Inside the repo

ContentsSkillsHooksPrerequisitesPlatform SupportInstallationInstall for a single developerInstall for a teamVerificationConfigurationOptional proxy for editor recoverySecurity

Step by step

  1. Open the GitHub repo and read the README.
  2. In Unreal Editor, turn on the ModelContextProtocol and AllToolsets plugins, then run ModelContextProtocol.StartServer and ModelContextProtocol.GenerateClientConfig ClaudeCode in the console.
  3. In Claude Code: /plugin install unreal-engine-skills-for-claude-code@claude-plugins-official (add the anthropics/claude-plugins-official marketplace first if it is missing).
  4. Start small: "list all actors in the current level", then ask for a change you can check in the editor.

Watch out for

The agent gets broad live control of your editor and can run Python inside it. Save and commit your project first and keep permission prompts on. On Windows the startup hook needs Git Bash or WSL.

Sources & credit

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