Welcome

This documentation is designed to help you get up and running quickly. Whether you are looking to grasp the basics, use our CLI, explore the API, or follow our how-to guides, you are in the right place.

Overview

Playbooks is a platform where developers can find inspiration, accelerate their workflow, share knowledge, and monetize their expertise. It is designed to complement GitHub and the rest of the developer toolchain, not replace them.

In simple terms, Playbooks is a distribution and presentation layer for reusable software with collaboration and organization built in.

How It Works

On Playbooks, a play can represent something small like a component, block, or page; or they can be something more substantial like a starter, template, stack, or full-blown application. Plays are stateful, must have an interactive / visual element, and must be docker compatible. They must also fit within the confines of our compute limitations.

With Playbooks, developers can:

  • browse software plays from other developers
  • submit their own software plays for distribution
  • collaborate with other developers through comments and private messaging
  • organize their library using bookmarks and collections
  • take plays with them through the web app, CLI, and agent-friendly workflows
  • receive daily transfers through a usage-based revenue share model we call the Ledger

For more on how creator earnings, transfers, and payouts work, see The Ledger.

Our Mission

We're building a creator economy for developers that blends the best parts of open source with real-world market economics. We call it hybrid source software.

Market Trends

Software development is changing quickly as AI expands what builders can imagine and create. At the same time, faster creation leads to more output, more options, and more noise.

That makes trusted starting points, clear product context, and reusable software more valuable, not less. We believe developers will increasingly want working examples they can evaluate, adapt, and build on with confidence. Playbooks is built for that shift.

Who It's For

  • Developers who want better starting points and faster workflows.
  • Designers and product teams who need working inspiration and deployable building blocks.
  • Founders who want to accelerate time-to-market with stronger building blocks.
  • Creators who want to share what they know and monetize the value they create.
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