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Agent Ape is a Game Development MCP copilot — an in-editor AI agent that authors your game through deterministic tools over the Model Context Protocol (MCP). It is available now for Unreal Engine; Unity and Godot are next.

Unlike a general code copilot, Agent Ape understands your engine, your Perforce checkout state, your build rules, and your Gameplay Ability System — not just Blueprints.

Agent Ape ships as an Unreal Engine editor plugin plus an in-editor panel. It is currently in private beta.

Join the waitlist or apply as a design partner to get access. Detailed install steps land here at launch.

Once installed:

1. Open the Agent Ape panel inside the Unreal editor.
2. Pick a mode — Ask, Plan, or Agent.
3. Describe what you want in plain language.
4. The agent acts through tools, guarding your pipeline as it goes.

Three modes, with a hard mode-safety boundary:

• Ask — read-only Q&A about your project.
• Plan — proposes a plan; zero destructive edits until you approve.
• Agent — executes end-to-end, still checked by pipeline guards.

Agent Ape runs on your own model provider (BYOK). Your source and API keys never leave your machine, and telemetry is opt-in.

Blueprints (author + review + arrange), Gameplay Ability System authoring, assets / materials / VFX, worlds & levels, animation / audio / networking / AI, batch automation, and production-pipeline awareness. See the full feature list on the homepage.

Before it edits a tracked file, Agent Ape checks your Perforce checkout state — no silent permission failures. It also warns when a change needs a full build instead of Live Coding, and remembers your project across sessions.

On Unreal Engine 5.8+, Agent Ape works alongside Epic's native MCP plugin — Epic's toolsets and Agent Ape's tools run together through a single gateway, auto-detected in-editor.

Questions? Email contact@agentape.ai or join the community on Discord (link coming soon).