The Gameplay Abilities System in Unreal is an incredibly helpful plugin that makes the creation of gameplay behavior easy.
By using the Gameplay Ability System one can create complex networked behavior in a simplified manner.
Unfortunately there are not that many official resources to learn the UE5 Gameplay Ability System, so here are some useful links that may help you out.
Gameplay Abilities Resources
GAS Documentation Github - The most similar thing to a documentation of GAS, if you are not familiar with Unreal GAS start here with this Gameplay Ability System Github repo
Using the Gameplay Ability System - In this talk Matt Edmonds of Splash Damage Games helps you decide if GAS is right for your team or project.
The truth of the Gameplay Ability System - Alvaro Jover talks about the Gameplay Abilities System in Unreal 5, I recommend following him as he shares good information regarding Unreal Engine
A Guided Tour of Gameplay Abilities - An official video by Epic on the usage of GAS in Unreal Engine
A Gameplay Framework with GAS - Vitor Cantão builds a gameplay framework on top of GAS inspired by Risk of Rain 2, with damage pipelines, ability stacking and proc chains. Useful to see how the pieces of GAS fit together in a real project
GameplayPrediction.h - You will need access to Epic github or have Unreal Engine source code downloaded. This .h file explains really well how Network Prediction works in the Unreal Engine Gameplay Ability System
Start with the GASDocumentation repo. It is the closest thing GAS has to real documentation, and the Matt Edmonds talk is the fastest way to decide whether GAS is a fit for your project at all. Leave GameplayPrediction.h until you are actually wiring up multiplayer, since it makes far more sense once you have hit the problem it solves.
This is a starting list, not a full syllabus. It leans on overview talks and one big reference, so it does not cover step-by-step tutorials for individual systems like attributes, effects, or gameplay cues. Those are worth chasing down separately once the fundamentals click.
