CorePackages Service Security Error

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Hi, I’ve been trying to follow the official Roblox Lua style guide: (Roblox Lua Style guide) and am having an issue with one part in particular under the “Requires” heading when it comes to importing modules from a different package.

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I’ve tried accessing the CorePackaging service myself, and then a package “Basics” I have loaded in-game (i.e it’s listed under “Packages” in the game explorer):

local CorePackages = game:GetService("CorePackages")
local Basics = require(CorePackages.Basics)

But I get the error “The current identity (2) cannot Class security check (lacking permission 5)” on that second line when I try to run it from a LocalScript. Am I misunderstanding something? Or is the style guide outdated?

Thanks.

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I don’t really know what CorePackages is, but I’m assuming you don’t have the security clearance (as in, us regular people can’t touch that).

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Have you tried it with ModuleScript?
If that doesnt work, I don’t know.

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CorePackages are only meant for CoreScripts made by Roblox. If you’d like to gain access to them, you must grab a copy of the package from

Studio Version Folder → Extra Content → Lua Packages

However, I believe most of them were made specifically for Core purposes, so most wouldn’t work for developers.

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Ah I see, thank you very much! Just find it a bit odd that the style guide recommended doing that then.

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I forgot to include this in my reply, but if you were to grab Roact for instance, don’t copy the Roact.lua file directly, I believe the main module for Roact is located here

Studio Version Folder → Extra Content → Lua Packages → Packages → _Index → roblox_roact

Same goes for the other packages.

Edit:
Or just grab them directly from the Roblox Github

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Thanks, this is very helpful!:slight_smile: