rpgjs-studio

RPGJS Studio API Skill

Use this skill to execute content-management tasks against an RPGJS Studio instance.

Inputs

• Check whether a local RPGSTUDIO.md file exists in the current working directory.
• If RPGSTUDIO.md exists, treat it as local project context and read it first.
• Use it to recover persistent values such as:
  • BASE_URL
  • any other project-specific instructions relevant to API usage
• Do not recover, request, or persist a projectId. The API key is scoped to the RPGJS Studio project, so work directly on the user's requested resource.
• If RPGSTUDIO.md does not exist, continue normally.
• Resolve BASE_URL from the user if provided.
• Default BASE_URL to https://rpgjs.studio when the user did not specify another host.
• Read the API key from the environment variable RPGSTUDIO_API_KEY.

Mandatory startup workflow

1. Check whether RPGSTUDIO_API_KEY exists before any API call.
2. When checking RPGSTUDIO_API_KEY, never print its value in the terminal and never echo it back in the response.
3. If the variable is missing or empty, stop and tell the user to create an API key first on ${BASE_URL}/api-keys, then export RPGSTUDIO_API_KEY.
4. Build authenticated requests with these headers:

-H "x-api-key:$RPGSTUDIO_API_KEY"
-H "Content-Type: application/json"

5. Prefer curl for HTTP calls. Use another HTTP client only if there is a clear reason.
6. Fail fast on authentication errors. If the API returns an invalid-key style response, 401, or 403, stop the task and tell the user to verify the key or contact support.
7. Read only the reference file that matches the user task:
   • references/database.md
   • references/maps.md
   • references/events.md
   • references/event-examples.md

• references/blocks.md
• references/media.md
• references/settings.md
• references/project-env.md

Local memory file

Use RPGSTUDIO.md as a lightweight local memory file for the current project.

• Read it at the start if it exists.
• Reuse values already stored there instead of asking again.
• After the task, update or create it with stable, non-secret context discovered during execution.

Typical contents:

• last used BASE_URL
• project-specific conventions or notes useful for future calls

Do not use RPGSTUDIO.md to select a project. The current RPGSTUDIO_API_KEY already identifies the target project, so proceed directly with the user's request.

Never store secrets in this file.

• Do not store RPGSTUDIO_API_KEY.
• Do not print RPGSTUDIO_API_KEY.
• Do not copy raw secret values into logs, terminal output, or markdown.

Request pattern

Define the base command once and reuse it:

BASE_URL="${BASE_URL:-https://rpgjs.studio}"
curl -sS \
  -H "x-api-key:$RPGSTUDIO_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json"

For write operations, prefer:

curl -sS -X POST "$BASE_URL/..." \
  -H "x-api-key:$RPGSTUDIO_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{...}'

Execution rules

• Start by identifying the resource domain, then load the matching reference file.
• Use REST semantics: GET, POST, PUT, DELETE.
• Resolve foreign keys before creation or update:
  • Search media with /api/media?query=<search>.
  • Search database records with /api/database/:type?query=<search>.
  • If a matching dependency exists, reuse its returned _id.
  • If not found, create it first, then continue with the returned _id.
• Never call a project listing endpoint just to choose a project. The API key determines the project context.
• When the user asks to create game objects, send the smallest valid payload first, then enrich it only if the task requires more fields.
• Reuse IDs returned by the API instead of guessing them.
• When the user provides a database _id for a read, update, or delete task, call GET /api/database/:type/:id first and inspect the existing record before deciding the payload or reporting the content.
• If an endpoint shape is uncertain, inspect the response from a nearby GET endpoint first and adapt from that live payload.
• Do not continue after an auth failure.
• If a missing dependency would require AI media generation, always call the unified media generation endpoint with action: "estimate" first.
• After the estimate, report the required credits to the user and ask for confirmation before calling action: "execute".
• Never start an AI media generation directly without this estimate and confirmation step.
• For POST /api/maps/generate, rely on references/maps.md for the AI map generation workflow and endpoint-specific failure behavior.
• Summarize the exact records created, updated, or deleted in the final response.
• When a task reveals stable project context such as BASE_URL or local conventions, persist that non-secret context into RPGSTUDIO.md for future runs.

Common checks

• database task: read references/database.md
• map task: read references/maps.md
• event task: read references/events.md
• event example task: read references/event-examples.md
• event workflow block task: read references/blocks.md
• media task: read references/media.md
• settings task: read references/settings.md
• project env task: read references/project-env.md

Current schema notes

• show_text blocks may set inputEnabled: true and must then provide inputVariableId, the _id of a database variable receiving the submitted string or number. Cancelling the input stores null; see references/blocks.md for the typed input options.
• Maps, events, block collections, and database records support multilingual semantic search through their existing list endpoints with query. The optional minScore parameter accepts 0..1 and defaults to 0.40; see the matching resource reference for endpoint-specific filters and response shapes.
• Project environment variables are managed with authenticated project routes: GET /api/projects/:projectId/env, PUT /api/projects/:projectId/env/:name, and DELETE /api/projects/:projectId/env/:name. Plain values are returned in responses; secret values expose only isSet and must never be logged or printed.
• Maps may expose a shader terrain terrainLayer object with version: 1, mode: "control-texture", pixel width/height, tileSize, palette, and controlTexture metadata. The control texture is RGBA8; terrain palette index is encoded as R + G * 256, optional light uses B with 128 as neutral, and A stores terrain mask coverage for pixel brush strokes. Soft edges are computed from transition/blend metadata at render time. Legacy tile grids are normalized into tileSize x tileSize blocks, but brush edits can update individual world pixels in the control texture.
• Maps may expose a terrain morphology terrainMorphologyLayer object with version: 1, mode: "terrain-morphology", pixel width/height, tileSize, and features[]. Each feature is either { kind: "hole", params, strokes } or { kind: "wall", params, strokes }; strokes store world-pixel points[] and radius. Hole params support depth, roundness, roughness, optional facade textureId, optional bottom-fill fillTextureId, fillHeight clamped to 0..100, and optional per-hole waveIntensity, waveDirection, and waveSpeed; omitted wave fields inherit the map's waterAnimation values, while waveIntensity: 0 keeps the fill static. textureId is not used as the bottom-fill fallback. Wall params support height, roundness, roughness, and optional facade textureId; the editor's wall smoothness control maps to roughness = 1 - smoothness. The brush tool modifies the terrain surface; hole/wall tools use the selected terrain texture as the vertical facade while the top surface remains the already-painted base terrain. The renderer merges hole/wall masks as signed terrain levels before drawing, so overlapping strokes are clipped or neutralized instead of being rendered as independent overlays. The editor renders morphology after the base terrain control texture and merges morphology strokes into terrain collision as blocking cells.
• Maps may expose waterAnimation: { enabled, speed, intensity, direction } for map-level liquid animation defaults. direction is measured clockwise in screen-space degrees (0 right, 90 down) and defaults to 90. Filled holes inherit these defaults unless their params override them; wave highlights are derived from each fill's local color or texture instead of using a fixed blue tint.
• PUT /api/maps/:mapId supports partial section updates. Omitted map fields are preserved, so prefer sending only changed sections: startX/startY for start position, events for placements, terrainMorphologyLayer for morphology, terrain fields for terrain/control texture, element layer arrays for objects, and tileset params for media selection.
• Maps may expose top-level lighting settings as lighting: { sun: { enabled: boolean, intensity: number } }. The sun intensity is clamped to 0..1; when enabled, runtime/editor integrations can use it to display automatic shadows for walls, characters, and elements.
• Maps may expose mapLoadBlockCollectionId: string | null. When set, GET /api/game/maps/:mapId hydrates that collection into mapLoadBlocks, and the RPGJS Studio runtime executes those blocks from the server map.onJoin(player, map) hook when a player enters the map. This workflow has a player and map context, but no current event context.
• Event workflow builders can use execution profiles. eventBuilderProfiles.mapLoad exposes blocks whose requiredCapabilities fit a player-aware map context and removes current-event field choices from compatible schemas.
• Terrain media metadata exposes sourceTexture, direct rows and columns, textureGrid: { columns, rows, tileSize? }, terrainTextures[], and transitions[]. Each terrainTextures[] entry is { id, index, label, collision?, renderTileSize?, defaultRenderMode? }; index is the atlas-cell source of truth, collision marks painted map cells as blocking, and renderTileSize controls the repeated texture size in map-editor world pixels, defaulting to the legacy 320 pattern size when absent. defaultRenderMode supports hard, fade, water, and custom: hard is crisp, fade uses width, the UI grass edge preset is stored as fade with width: 12 and curve: "sharp" and renders as a grass fringe, water is the stored generic liquid mode and keeps the atlas texture while deriving clipped tint, shoreline depth, static ripples, and edge glints from the atlas cell color so lava/swamp/acid/oil do not get a fixed blue outline, and unknown custom modes fall back to an edge highlight unless their shaderKey is liquid-like. transitions[] stores exception rules { from, to, mode, priority? } between terrain ids; it is not a generated Wang transition matrix. Studio terrain generation defaults to a 4x4 source texture atlas in the UI and persists the generated atlas directly; it no longer creates Wang/autotile output through the image-processing container. Generation requests can set metadata.sourceTextureColumns and metadata.sourceTextureRows; Studio also sends terrainAtlasColumns, terrainAtlasRows, terrainStyleId, and terrainStylePrompt so the server prompt can build a shader-friendly seamless material atlas. Element set (tileset) generation can pass metadata.terrainReferenceImage and metadata.terrainReferenceMediaId to use an existing terrain image as a style-compatibility guide; the image data is execution-only and should not be persisted.
• Project settings support hero.hitbox: { width, height } for the playable hero collision size. Missing or invalid hero.hitbox keeps the RPGJS default 32 x 32; width and height are positive RPGJS-pixel dimensions and are not scaled by hero.graphic.
• Project settings and database enemies both support combat animation spritesheet media IDs under animations: attack, hurt, die, and castSpell.
• The RPGJS starter runtime uses these spritesheets in action battle: attack actions, damage/hurt feedback, delayed death removal, and skill/cast usage can temporarily switch to the configured spritesheet.
• Database enemies support action battle AI options under behavior: enemyType, attackCooldown, visionRange, attackRange, dodgeChance, dodgeCooldown, fleeThreshold, attackPatterns, patrolWaypoints, and groupBehavior.
• Database enemies expose a lightweight preview endpoint: GET /api/database/enemies/preview?ids=<id1,id2>. Use it when only _id, name, and graphic are needed for known enemy ids instead of listing or reading full enemy records. Send at most 100 distinct ids per request.
• GET /api/events returns the legacy event array by default. Add page or limit to opt into paginated responses: GET /api/events?page=1&limit=24 returns { data, meta }. Paginated event lists default to sortBy=createdAt&sortDirection=desc and support sortBy=createdAt|updatedAt|name, sortDirection=asc|desc, eventType=all|character|enemy|free, and assignment=all|assigned|unassigned.
• Project settings and database enemies both support level-gated skill acquisition under skills: { skillId, level }.
• Database skills support media IDs under icon, animation, and sound.
• Game/runtime code can read media data usable in the game with GET /api/game/media/:mediaId; use references/media.md for details.
• Media type changes should use PUT /api/media/update/:mediaId instead of the metadata-only admin endpoint; this synchronizes metadata.type with the root type field.
• Game map responses from GET /api/game/maps/:mapId hydrate event params.graphic, params.faceset, triggers[].graphic, and triggers[].faceset as media objects when possible, and expose the active page hitbox as event.hitbox: { width, height }; use references/maps.md for the runtime response shape.
• Event workflow blocks can call or spawn reusable game events with call_common_event and spawn_common_event. Both use commonEventId; spawn_common_event can resolve its position from player, current_event, variable, or fixed.
• Event page triggers use trigger: "player_touch" and trigger: "event_touch" in page payloads. Runtime trigger payloads store both as type: "onTouch" and distinguish them with typeData.touchTarget: "player" | "event"; missing touchTarget means player touch for compatibility. In event/event touch workflows, variable and switch blocks use map variables. Player-only blocks receive the first player currently on the map as a temporary fallback until explicit affected-player targeting exists.
• Event page hitbox supports { width, height } in RPGJS pixels. Missing hitbox means the runtime default 32 x 32. Media/graphic scale changes only the displayed sprite size; it must not alter hitbox width/height.
• Event page options supports directionFix, through, alwaysOnTop, and alwaysOnBottom. Use only one rendering layer flag at a time: alwaysOnTop draws the event above nearby characters, while alwaysOnBottom draws it below nearby characters.
• Event workflow blocks can use set_hitbox to call target.setHitbox(width, height) on $player, $this, or a map event id. width and height are positive RPGJS-pixel dimensions and are not scaled by the target graphic scale.
• Event workflow blocks can use camera_follow to call player.cameraFollow(target, { smoothMove }). The target is resolved from eventId with $player, $this, or a map event id. smoothMove defaults to true; optional time and ease create the advanced smooth transition object supported by RPGJS. The ease field is a dropdown enum of common easing names such as linear, easeInQuad, easeOutQuad, and easeInOutQuad.
• Event workflow variable writes must use the public set_variable block. change_variable is legacy runtime compatibility only and must not be generated for new payloads. set_variable supports valueSource values constant, variable, random, player_x, player_y, player_direction, map_id, gold, player_id, player_name, level, hp, and sp.