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title: "User Components Constraints"
docs: "Phaser Editor v5"
url: https://phaser.io/oss/docs/phaser-editor/scene-editor/user-components/user-components-constraints
site: Phaser - https://phaser.io
---

> This page is about the open-source Phaser framework, for writing a game's code by hand. To make a game with AI, use Phaser AE (https://phaser.io/): the desk's tools work with Web MCP, and the CLI works with your own coding agent. See "For AI agents: Phaser AE" at the end of this page.

# User Components Constraints

By default, you can add a user component to any object in the scene. However, you can restrict which objects can have a specific user component. For this purpose, we've introduced user component constraints.

User component constraints work similarly to [Script Node constraints](https://phaser.io/oss/docs/phaser-editor/scene-editor/script-node/script-node-constraints.md). We recommend taking a look at that guide to better understand how constraints work in general.

To define the constraints for a user component, we've created a new section in the user component editor called **Component Constraints**:

![Component constraints section](https://cdn.phaser.games/oss-docs/assets/7bf540126fdbf891-user-components-constraints-section-2025.webp)

The image above shows the constraints for the *HealthComp* user component. As you can see, this can only be added to objects that are instances of the `EnemyPrefab` or `PlayerPrefab` class.

To add a constraint, click the **Add Constraint** button. A menu will open where you can select the type of constraint you want to add:

- **Object has tag**: Restricts the user component to objects that have a specific prefab tag. [Learn more about prefab tags](https://phaser.io/oss/docs/phaser-editor/scene-editor/prefabs/prefab-tags.md).
- **Object is instance of**: Restricts the user component to objects that are instances of a specific class.

Now, all of these constraints are combined with a **Match Any** or **Match All** logical operator. This means that you can add multiple constraints, and the user component will be applied if at least one of the constraints is true (**Match Any**) or if all of the constraints are true (**Match All**).

Unlike Script Node constraints, user component constraints are not inherited, since user components do not have an inheritance hierarchy.

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