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title: "Playbooks"
description: "Opinionated patterns for running a workspace with your agents, from the rulebook they follow to the routines that keep it alive."
canonical_url: "https://trytree.house/docs/playbooks"
last_updated: "2026-09-29"
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# Playbooks

Opinionated patterns for running a workspace with your agents, from the rulebook they follow to the routines that keep it alive.

A Treehouse workspace works best when it's more than storage. Think of it as the shared memory of a team where some of the members are agents. The people and agents change from week to week; the workspace is what carries the context between them. An agent that starts a fresh session with no memory can read the workspace and pick up where the last one left off.

That only works if the workspace is organised in a way agents can follow. These playbooks are the patterns we've found work: plain-file conventions, written down where every agent will find them. None of them need special features. Start with [write your AGENTS.md](https://trytree.house/docs/playbooks/write-your-agents-md), then pick whichever of the others fits how you work.

## In this section

- [Write your AGENTS.md](https://trytree.house/docs/playbooks/write-your-agents-md): The one file every agent reads first. What to put in it so any agent, in any session, works the way your team does.
- [Shape your workspace](https://trytree.house/docs/playbooks/shape-your-workspace): Folder structures that work for people and agents alike, and the handful of habits that keep a workspace easy to navigate as it grows.
- [Run an inbox your agent files](https://trytree.house/docs/playbooks/inbox-and-filing): Drop anything into Inbox/ without deciding where it goes, and have an agent file it by rules you write once.
- [Review your agent's work](https://trytree.house/docs/playbooks/review-loop): Let an agent draft, review it with comments in the web app, and have the agent work through your feedback thread by thread.
- [Give your agents a memory](https://trytree.house/docs/playbooks/memory-and-decisions): Status pages, decision records and handoff notes that let any agent pick up where the last session left off.
- [Set up routines](https://trytree.house/docs/playbooks/routines): Recurring agent work, like a morning inbox run or a weekly review, and where the schedule lives when Treehouse doesn't run agents itself.
- [Work with several agents](https://trytree.house/docs/playbooks/multiple-agents): Give each agent its own key and its own lane, hand work over through files, and let versioning catch the collisions.
- [Run client work](https://trytree.house/docs/playbooks/client-work): A folder per client, agents that prepare the deliverables, and share links that give clients exactly what they should see.
- [Build a second brain](https://trytree.house/docs/playbooks/second-brain): A personal workspace where you capture everything quickly and an agent keeps it filed, linked and useful.