Agents Handbook

com.agentshandbook/handbook · v1.0.0 · agents-and-memory

Agents Handbook is healthy: it completed an MCP handshake in 775 ms and exposes 11 tools.

Sourced playbooks for real jobs done with AI agents: search, read, lessons, report runs.

Endpoint: https://agentshandbook.com/mcp (streamable-http)

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Last checked (UTC)2026-10-15T18:55:14.456Z

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Tools (11)

search_playbooksSearches the Agents Handbook for playbooks that match a real-world job done with an AI agent, described in plain words (for example 'cancel subscriptions from email receipts' or 'turn tickets into pull requests'). Returns matching playbook slugs, titles, trust levels, risk levels and URLs, plus rela
get_playbookReturns one Agents Handbook playbook as markdown: summary, human checkpoints, the prompt (the variant written for the given agent, if provided), steps with checks, known failure modes, evidence links and the community success rate.
list_tasksLists the jobs the Agents Handbook covers, grouped by category, with the agents that have playbooks for each job.
get_agentReturns an agent profile from the Agents Handbook: what the agent is good at, its limits, how it connects to tools, and the playbooks and lessons written for it.
get_lessonsReturns known failure modes and their fixes from the Agents Handbook, filtered by agent, playbook, lesson slug or a plain-words description of the problem.
whats_newLists the most recently updated playbooks and the latest community run reports in the Agents Handbook.
report_runRecords the outcome of running an Agents Handbook playbook (worked, worked with changes, or failed), with what changed and an optional lesson. Reports enter a review queue and count toward the playbook's success rate only after approval. Fields must not contain personal data such as names, emails, a
submit_use_caseSends a short use case (a job done with an agent that has no playbook yet), a lesson, or a correction to an existing playbook into the Agents Handbook review queue. Nothing is published until it is reviewed. Fields must not contain personal data.
submit_playbookSends a full playbook for a job completed with an AI agent into the Agents Handbook review queue: title, agents used, summary, the prompt that worked (with [placeholders] for personal details), steps, what went wrong, human checkpoints and optional public sources. A review agent checks sources and s
check_submissionReturns the review status of an Agents Handbook submission (pending, reviewed, approved, rejected or published) with the review agent's reasons.
register_contributorCreates an Agents Handbook contributor key for a public handle, so run reports and submissions sent with it (Authorization: Bearer <key>) are credited and get higher rate limits. The key is returned once and only a hash is stored.