Official agent skill

Auditable Playbook Designer

by cursor in cursor/plugins

Designs a step-by-step playbook for large or unfamiliar work, runs it as a loop of hypotheses and measurements, and logs decisions so a human can review them later.

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Install Auditable Playbook Designer

skills CLI
$ npx skills add cursor/plugins --skill figure-it-out -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install cursor/plugins figure-it-out --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cursor/plugins.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/pstack/skills/figure-it-out .claude/skills/figure-it-out && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
figure-it-out
GitHub stars
10k
Used in
8 other repos
Token cost
~1k tokens
SKILL.md length
566 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
99
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

Designs a step-by-step playbook for large or unfamiliar work, runs it as a loop of hypotheses and measurements, and logs decisions so a human can review them later.

  • Planning a large migration that no existing playbook covers
  • SKILL.md covers Start, Phase A: Frame, Phase B: Design the workflow and Phase C: Run the loop, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Ambitious multi-part changes where a human will review the result later

What it does

When no narrower playbook fits, the workflow itself is the first deliverable. The agent begins with a todo list that opens with reading the Principles of the poteto-mode skill, then frames the job: a falsifiable definition of done, scope in rough units and effort, and a rigor level set high for one-way doors and lower for reversible steps. It presents the framing and tradeoffs before a long run.

Design then splits the work into atomic units that can land independently, riskiest unknown first, with a verification harness built beforehand from a baseline of the pre-change state. One-way design decisions go to the architect skill, and parallel work happens only across seams, each worker in its own worktree or branch. The run treats each unit as an experiment: state a hypothesis, make the smallest change, measure, keep or revert. Decisions are logged as steps land through show-me-your-work.

When your agent uses it

  • Planning a large migration that no existing playbook covers
  • Ambitious multi-part changes where a human will review the result later
  • Work that needs a decision trail and measurable checks at each step

Example prompts

  • “Figure it out: migrate our REST handlers to the new routing layer without breaking clients.”
  • “Design an auditable plan for replacing the legacy auth module, then run it.”
  • “I will be away for a few hours. Plan this refactor, log every decision and work through it.”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit ccb5507. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Auditable Playbook Designer loads about 1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 89 tokens; SKILL.md has 566 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~89
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 566 words (~1,015 tokens).

“When the task matches no playbook, design one. The deliverable before any code is the workflow itself: a sequence of phases that scales rigor to the task, runs the scientific method, and leaves a decision trail a human can audit…”

— opening of SKILL.md by cursor
name
figure-it-out
disable-model-invocation
true

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in pstack/skills/figure-it-out of cursor/plugins.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit ccb5507

Used in 8 other repositories

We found 8 copies of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 8 other GitHub owners. This page covers the copy in cursor/plugins, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

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Implementation Plan Creatortailcallhq/forgecode7.6k1 repos~1.1kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0
Implementation Plan Writerimbue-ai/bouncer400—~2.1kAutomated safety check: PassAGPL-3.0

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Questions about Auditable Playbook Designer

What does Auditable Playbook Designer do?

Designs a step-by-step playbook for large or unfamiliar work, runs it as a loop of hypotheses and measurements, and logs decisions so a human can review them later. When no narrower playbook fits, the workflow itself is the first deliverable. The agent begins with a todo list that opens with reading the Principles of the poteto-mode skill, then frames the job: a falsifiable definition of done, scope in rough units and effort, and a rigor level set high for one-way doors and lower for reversible steps.

When should I use Auditable Playbook Designer?

Auditable Playbook Designer fits situations like: planning a large migration that no existing playbook covers; ambitious multi-part changes where a human will review the result later; work that needs a decision trail and measurable checks at each step.

How do I install Auditable Playbook Designer in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add cursor/plugins --skill figure-it-out -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (pstack/skills/figure-it-out in cursor/plugins) into .claude/skills/figure-it-out in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Auditable Playbook Designer in Codex?

Run `npx skills add cursor/plugins --skill figure-it-out -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (pstack/skills/figure-it-out in cursor/plugins) into .agents/skills/figure-it-out in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Auditable Playbook Designer in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add cursor/plugins --skill figure-it-out -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/figure-it-out, .gemini/skills/figure-it-out, .github/skills/figure-it-out and .opencode/skills/figure-it-out in your project.

What does Auditable Playbook Designer need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Auditable Playbook Designer is instructions for the agent only.

Does Auditable Playbook Designer access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Auditable Playbook Designer safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Auditable Playbook Designer use?

No licence was found for Auditable Playbook Designer or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.

How many tokens does Auditable Playbook Designer use?

About 1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.1k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Auditable Playbook Designer?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Auditable Playbook Designer: Launch Delivery Pipeline (Yeachan-Heo/oh-my-claudecode, 40k stars), Agent Goal Brief Writer (KKKKhazix/khazix-skills, 21k stars), Incremental Implementation (addyosmani/agent-skills, 103k stars) and Implementation Plan Creator (tailcallhq/forgecode, 7.6k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Auditable Playbook Designer?

cursor (a GitHub organization, an official publisher) maintains it in cursor/plugins, which has 10,278 GitHub stars. The repository holds 99 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 8, 2026.

Source: cursor/plugins on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.