Run one of your playbooks one step at a time

MaintenanceBeginner~10 min

Before you start

Plugin version 1.10.1 or newer. An Active playbook on the Playbooks tab, and the List playbooks and Get playbook tools switched on. The playbook's own tools must be switched on too; the agent checks which ones this connection can use before it starts. For a playbook that writes content, Force draft on create on the Settings tab is a good companion.

A playbook saves you from explaining the same job every session. You write the steps once on the Playbooks tab, and any connected agent can load them. What you still want, at least the first few times, is to watch it work: which step it is on, what it found, and a pause before it changes anything.

So the first runs get a checkpoint after every step and a stop before every write.

The prompt
Run my [Weekly content report] playbook on this site.
Before you start:
- Find it in the list of Active playbooks and load it. If more than one
title is close, ask me which one.
- Check which of its tools this connection cannot use. If any step depends
on one of those, tell me which steps, skip them, and carry on with the
rest. Do not look for another tool to do the same job.
While you run it:
- Follow the steps in the order they are written. Do not add steps.
- After each step, give me one line: the step number, what you did, and
what you found.
- Before any step that would create, change, publish or delete something,
stop and show me exactly what you will do. Wait for my yes.
At the end, give me the report in the format the playbook asks for, then a
short list of any steps you skipped and why.

Why this is safe to run

Loading a playbook is a read, and the prompt checks the playbook’s tools against this connection before step 1, so a missing tool shows up as a skipped step with a reason rather than a half-done job. The agent reports after every step and stops before every write, so a playbook you are still testing cannot change anything you did not see first.

The plugin keeps its own controls underneath. Each tool the playbook names still needs its switch on, the connection’s access preset can narrow them further, read-only mode unloads every write tool, and Force draft keeps anything new as a draft on the Needs review card. Edits to a post that is already live still go live, so for those, review the change at the pause.

Already connected? Ask your agent to run your playbook by its title, and add “stop before every write” if you want the same checkpoints.

How it works

  1. Find the playbook by name with the playbook list, and load its steps.
  2. Check which of its tools this connection can use, and stop if a needed one is missing.
  3. Follow the steps in order, reporting one line after each.
  4. Pause before any step that changes the site and wait for your yes.
  5. Finish with the playbook's own report format and a list of anything skipped.

Questions

Does the agent have to follow the playbook?
A playbook is guidance, not an enforcement layer. This prompt asks the agent to follow it in order and stop at writes, and the plugin's switches, access preset and role decide what it can actually do. Force draft and read-only mode still apply.
What happens when a step needs a tool that is off?
Get playbook reports the tools this connection cannot use. The prompt has the agent name the affected steps before it starts, and skip them with a note rather than looking for another way around.
Do I need to name the exact slug?
No. The agent lists the Active playbooks and matches the title you give. If two are close, the prompt tells it to ask which one.