Arma Reforger Codex Skill

A Codex skill for Arma Reforger modding, Enfusion Script, Workbench workflows, and source-backed Reforger API lookup.

This skill helps Codex answer and work on Reforger tasks without guessing from general game-engine memory. It gives Codex a compact router, focused references, and local game-data search so answers can be grounded in Reforger-specific source information.

What It Helps With

Use this skill when you want Codex help with:

• Enfusion Script and Reforger mod code.
• Entities, components, lifecycle, user actions, and gameplay patterns.
• Multiplayer, authority, replication, RPCs, and dedicated-server concerns.
• Resources, prefabs, configs, catalogs, and Workbench-authored data.
• Scenario Framework, Game Master, factions, tasks, and game modes.
• Terrain, World Editor tools, navmesh, assets, weapons, vehicles, gear, UI, audio, animation, AI, servers, and Workshop packaging.
• Reviewing patches for Reforger API mistakes and incorrect engine assumptions.

The goal is practical help: explanations, reviews, small correct changes, source-backed examples, and API-aware guidance.

Why It Exists

Arma Reforger has its own engine, scripting language, editor workflows, data model, and multiplayer rules. It is easy for a general AI model to accidentally lean on Unity, Unreal, C#, SQF, or Arma 3 assumptions.

This skill keeps Codex focused on Reforger by using:

• Curated runtime references for the major Reforger systems.
• Extracted game script data for exact API names, signatures, inheritance, and source locations.
• Bounded source snippets and examples when implementation patterns matter.
• Strict rules that push Codex to verify APIs before writing code.

Key Features

• Focused references: 26 runtime references cover scripting, Workbench, resources, networking, scenarios, world tools, assets, weapons, vehicles, animation, audio, UI, AI, servers, and common task recipes.
• Exact API lookup: Codex can query extracted Reforger game data instead of relying on memory.
• Source-backed examples: Codex can find relevant game-source examples and bounded snippets before proposing API-sensitive code.
• Piecemeal work strategy: Complex tasks are broken into small verified slices instead of broad speculative rewrites.
• API and idiom verification: Generated code should verify meaningful Reforger API calls and common usage patterns, including helper calls.
• Verification mindset: The skill reminds Codex to call out anything that still needs Workbench, runtime, multiplayer, server, editor, packaging, or asset validation.

Install

Place this skill folder in your Codex skills directory.

Requirements:

• Codex with skills enabled.
• Python 3 available as py -3 on Windows for the included helper scripts.

On Windows, a typical path is:

C:\Users\<you>\.codex\skills\reforger

The skill file should be here:

C:\Users\<you>\.codex\skills\reforger\SKILL.md

Start a new Codex session after installing so Codex can discover the skill.

How To Use

Ask Codex to use the Reforger skill when working on Arma Reforger tasks:

Use $reforger to review this ScriptComponent for API mistakes.

Use $reforger to explain how replication should work for this user action.

Use $reforger to help make a small component that spawns a prefab.

Use $reforger to find the right Reforger API for a HUD widget.

Codex should read the skill, open the relevant references, search game data for exact APIs, inspect examples or snippets when needed, and then give a grounded answer or focused change.

Updating Game Data

Most users can use the skill as-is. If the local Reforger game data is missing or stale, refresh only the raw game data with Python:

py -3 scripts\update-reforger-data.py --if-needed

Normal skill use does not require live wiki access or running generation tools.

What This Is Not

• Not a replacement for Workbench, in-game, multiplayer, dedicated-server, packaging, or asset validation.
• Not a bulk code generator.
• Not permission for Codex to skip API lookup.
• Not a general Unity, Unreal, C#, SQF, or Arma 3 assistant.
• Not dependent on live wiki scraping during normal use.

For Contributors

The main runtime pieces are SKILL.md, references/, raw/game-data/, scripts/query-reforger-data.py, and scripts/update-reforger-data.py.

The deeper generation design is documented under generation/ for contributors who are rebuilding the skill and references. End users do not need that workflow for normal use.