Core Concepts

Playbooks — Mission Templates

Understand Playbooks — the declarative mission blueprints that define roles, tasks, and coordination rules for your AI team in Burros.AI.

A Playbook is a pre-built mission template that defines how your AI team should work together to achieve a goal. Think of it as an operational manual for your AI department.

What a Playbook defines

  • Roles — Which specialist roles are needed (e.g., Coordinator, Architect, Developer, QA).
  • Workflow stages — The sequence of work: requirements → architecture → implementation → testing → review.
  • Coordination rules — How agents hand off work, review each other's output, and handle failures.
  • Required context — What information the Playbook needs upfront (repository URL, design specs, etc.).

Available Playbooks

PlaybookBest forRoles involved
SDLC WebsiteFull-stack web developmentCoordinator, Architect, Developer, QA
GenericFlexible, single-agent tasksAny available agent

More Playbooks are being added regularly. You can view and manage available Playbooks from Settings → Playbooks.

How Playbooks drive missions

When you launch a mission:

  1. The Playbook's root instruction is assigned to a Coordinator agent.
  2. The Coordinator reads your mission objective and the Playbook's workflow definition.
  3. It decomposes the goal into a sequence of tasks and dispatches them to specialist agents.
  4. Each specialist follows the Playbook's stage-specific instructions.
  5. Built-in quality gates ensure outputs are reviewed before moving to the next stage.
Tip: You don't need to understand the internals of a Playbook to use it. Just select the right one for your goal, describe your objective, and let the system handle orchestration.