Ka0s KickCD

KickCD is a lightweight, single-folder WoW addon that helps the player make informed interrupt decisions in real time. It pairs two pieces of UI:

• A movable, persistently-visible icon grid of the player's interrupt + cast-stopping CC abilities, with cooldown swipes and a clear ready / not-ready state. Sensible defaults per class and spec; the secondary block can be anchored to any of 13 points on the primary icon and filled in any of 8 grow directions.
• An independently-anchored target cast bar that mirrors the current target's cast or channel — spell icon, name, and remaining time. Bar fill color, background, border style, and font are configurable per interruptibility state (interruptible vs. uninterruptible). The bar can free-float, anchor to the icon grid's primary icon, and auto-size to the grid's actual visible footprint.

Both panels share a single addon-wide visibility mode and a single drag lock. The addon is fully compatible with WoW 12.0's "secret value" protection on protected-interrupt cooldowns and casting info.

Everything is configurable through the standard Blizzard Settings panel and through the /kcd slash command (every panel control has a CLI peer via /kcd get / /kcd set).

Screenshots

Addon in action

Zoomed in view of the icon grid and cast bar

General settings panel

Icons setting panel

Castbar settings panel

Spells settings panel

Usage

Slash commands

/kcd is the short form; /kickcd is a long-form alias for the same handler. Every chat line is prefixed with a cyan [KCD] banner.

Settings panel

Five subcategories under Ka0s KickCD:

Use /kcd unlock to drag the icon grid (and the cast bar, if it's in FREE anchor mode) into position, then /kcd lock to fix them.

Critical settings

A few options change the addon's behavior more than any others.

Visibility modes (General → Master controls → General visibility)

A single visibility selector governs both the icon grid and the cast bar. The master enable toggle still wins — disabled hides everything regardless of mode.

The per-icon glow trigger (Icons → Ready glow → Trigger) reuses three of these values — always, target_casting, target_casting_interruptible — plus a never option to disable the glow entirely. (in_combat is intentionally absent; the glow is a per-cast cue, not a combat-state indicator.) Primary and secondary icons each carry their own trigger.

Cast bar anchoring (Cast bar → Position)

Two modes:

• Free (drag to move) — the cast bar is a free-floating frame. Unlock with /kcd unlock, drag, lock again with /kcd lock. Position is saved per-profile.
• Anchored to primary icon — the cast bar attaches to the icon grid's primary icon via three settings: an attach point on the primary icon (one of 13), the matching point on the cast bar (same 13-option set), and an X / Y offset. The cast bar follows the grid for free; the bar itself is not draggable.

Defaults: Anchor mode = PRIMARY, attach point TOP_LEFT ↔ BOTTOM_LEFT, offset (0, 1) — bar sits 1 px above the primary icon, left-aligned.

Cast bar orientation, growth, and auto-size (Cast bar → Orientation)

• Orientation — HORIZONTAL (default) or VERTICAL. Vertical rotates the whole frame 90°; spark, fill, name, time, and icon layouts all follow.
• Growth direction — pairs with orientation. Horizontal accepts RIGHT / LEFT; vertical accepts UP / DOWN. Switching orientation auto-resets growth to the canonical default for the new axis.
• Auto-size to icon grid — when on, the bar's long axis matches the icon grid's actual rendered size in that direction (horizontal → bar width, vertical → bar height). Tracks the grid's visible footprint, so adding/removing/disabling icons resizes the bar in place. The orthogonal dimension stays as configured.

Icon grid anchoring (Icons → Layout)

Primary anchor places the secondary block on the primary icon (12 <SIDE>_<ALIGN> tokens + a 13th CENTER that stacks the block on the primary). Grow direction picks the fill order inside the block (8 combinations of right / left / down / up). Rows × Cols is the block's capacity. Anchor and grow are independent — any anchor pairs with any grow direction.

If more spells are enabled than the block holds, the extras are dropped — the addon prints a one-time chat warning per (class, spec, capacity) tuple so you know to bump rows × cols or remove spells.

FAQ

Troubleshooting

Issues and feature requests

All bugs, feature requests, and outstanding work are tracked at https://github.com/tusharsaxena/kickcd/issues. Please file new reports there rather than as comments — the issue tracker is the single source of truth for the project's backlog.

Testing

There is no automated test harness — verification is manual, in-game. The end-to-end smoke-test suite covering install, visibility modes, lock/drag, cast bar, spec/talent/pet rebuilds, profiles, and 12.0 secret-value safety lives at docs/smoke-tests.md. Run it before tagging a release or after refreshing libs / bumping ## Interface:.

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