Using Claude Code when modding Victoria 2.

Victoria 2 is a 2010 grand strategy game by Paradox Interactive. It's a game focused on the Victorian era from 1836 to 1936, witnessing monumental events in history such as the American Civil War, Scramble for Africa, and the First World War. For the past few years, I've been volunteering my time in the development of The Third Age, a mod that converts the game into the world of Middle Earth. Mods for Victoria 2, like in other Paradox Interactive games, are made primarily by writing text files that overwrite the default files of the game. These text files are written in a proprietary format that the community calls Clausewitz script or Paradox script. The script offers no type checking, there are few if any linting tools available, new features often have to appear in multiple files to work correctly, and the engine gives no useful error messages when script is malformed. Testing new features involves entering the game with the mod active, a process that takes at least 30 seconds at…