playbooks

playbooks is a plugin for Claude Code from melodic-software/claude-code-plugins. Its manifest loads nothing; the 3 skills it bundles cost 444 tokens per session together, scanned A, original, MIT.

A collection of workflow and knowledge playbooks provided as on-demand skills.

In plain words
What is it for?
It provides Claude Code workflow tips, skill-authoring guidance, and a self-authored operating doctrine, with a maintainer update skill.
Why use it?
It keeps practical guidance and operating principles available without requiring the user to remember or apply them from scratch.

Plugin for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code plugin manifest. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Good fit It provides Claude Code workflow tips, skill-authoring guidance, and a self-authored operating doctrine, with a maintainer update skill.

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Install in Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add melodic-software/claude-code-plugins/plugin install playbooks
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/melodic-software/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured The manifest loads nothing itself; its 3 skills cost 444 tokens a session between them.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

playbooks scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured today.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/playbooks/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 24 lines

What it actually says

{
  "$schema": "https://json.schemastore.org/claude-code-plugin-manifest.json",
  "name": "playbooks",
  "version": "0.9.10",
  "description": "Doctrine and knowledge playbooks as on-demand skills, plus a maintainer-facing update skill. boris — Boris Cherny's Claude Code workflow tips (howborisusesclaudecode.com); skill-authoring — Anthropic's internal skill-authoring playbook; fable-5 — Claude Fable 5's operating doctrine (self-authored, no upstream). The boris and skill-authoring packs vendor a verbatim upstream baseline; /playbooks:update drift-checks and syncs those baselines centrally (maintainers).",
  "author": {
    "name": "Melodic Software",
    "email": "[email protected]"
  },
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": [
    "playbooks",
    "knowledge",
    "doctrine",
    "claude-code",
    "workflow",
    "skill-authoring",
    "boris-cherny",
    "fable-5",
    "best-practices",
    "tips"
  ]
}
Contents

What it installs

The manifest is a name and a version. 3 skills travel with it, and installing the plugin installs all of them — 444 tokens a session between them. Each is measured on its own page, and each can be installed alone.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. today Changed cf3ace6a6375
  2. 2d ago Changed 7f82087ef5c4
  3. 5d ago Changed 5ab39560abac
  4. 7d ago First seen · 24 lines scan A 34b1ea126132

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playbooks is a plugin published in the GitHub repository melodic-software/claude-code-plugins (16 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.