Agents Handbook

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Add it to any MCP client that supports remote servers.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "agents-handbook": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://agentshandbook.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

11 tools

• search_playbooks

  Searches 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…

• get_playbook

  Returns 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_tasks

  Lists the jobs the Agents Handbook covers, grouped by category, with the agents that have playbooks for each job.

• get_agent

  Returns 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_lessons

  Returns 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_new

  Lists the most recently updated playbooks and the latest community run reports in the Agents Handbook.

• report_run

  Records 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…

• submit_use_case

  Sends 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_playbook

  Sends 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…

• check_submission

  Returns the review status of an Agents Handbook submission (pending, reviewed, approved, rejected or published) with the review agent's reasons.

• register_contributor

  Creates 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.

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