Playbook is a Claude Code plugin and CLI for disciplined AI-assisted engineering. It ships skills, slash commands, subagents and safety and state hooks for planning, review, memory and guarded editing, and a playbook binary that runs the hooks.
Start with the playbook README and the docs.
| Repo | What it is | Install |
|---|---|---|
| playbook | The plugin, the playbook binary, the pbtop usage and cost dashboard and the docs. |
brew install pragmatic-engineer/tap/playbook, then playbook setup. Or run the install script: curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pragmatic-engineer/playbook/main/install.sh | bash |
| homebrew-tap | Homebrew formulas for playbook and pbtop. |
brew install pragmatic-engineer/tap/playbook |
| marketplace | Claude Code plugin marketplace that lists playbook. | claude plugin marketplace add pragmatic-engineer/marketplace then claude plugin install playbook@pragmatic-engineer |
| .project-template | Template for new Rust library crates. | Use it as a GitHub template. |
| playbook-telemetry | Archived. Replaced by pbtop and playbook usage. |
Not needed. |
Homebrew 6.0.0 and later asks you to trust non-official taps. The fully qualified install above trusts only that formula. To use short names or trust the whole tap, see the Trust the tap.
Community files for all repos live in .github: contributing, security and support.
