Make Playbook

by tamdogood

Make Playbook is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by tamdogood in builder-essential-skills.

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Install Make Playbook

Copy Make Playbook into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/tamdogood/builder-essential-skills/tree/main/skills/make-playbook ~/.claude/skills/make-playbook

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/tamdogood/builder-essential-skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/make-playbook/SKILL.md in tamdogood/builder-essential-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/make-playbook
Collection: One of 18 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 2032 skills

What Make Playbook does

Make Playbook guides solo makers through idea, build, launch, growth, monetization, automation, and exit decisions for bootstrapped apps. Use it to choose what to build next, diagnose stalled growth, and maintain a per-app MAKE.md tracker.

Make Playbook is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Make Playbook comes from a repository tagged agent, ai, ai-agents, claude-code and claude-code-plugin.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

MAKE Playbook

Use this skill as a stage-specific operating system for solo and bootstrapped software products. It is an original checklist and diagnostic system inspired by Pieter Levels' MAKE: The Indie Maker Blueprint; it is not a substitute for the book. Keep attribution intact when reusing the references.

Stage Model

Idea -> Build -> Launch -> Grow -> Monetize -> Automate -> Exit

Always treat references/ethos.md as the standing frame for bootstrapping, persistence, and ethical constraints. Load it once per session when it has not already been read. Its constraints override stage tactics: no fake engagement, fake reviews, dishonest growth hacks, user-hostile monetization, or selling user data.

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Make Playbook

What else does tamdogood publish alongside Make Playbook?
Make Playbook is one of 18 skills that DirSkills catalogs from tamdogood/builder-essential-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Async Learning Teacher, Build Scenario Tests and Code Standards. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Make Playbook does, and is maintained by tamdogood in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the tamdogood/builder-essential-skills page.
How does Make Playbook compare to other Automation skills?
Make Playbook ranks #1890 by stars among the 2032 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Make Playbook against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.