Behind the scenes

How a fleet of agents built this book

An interactive wireframe of the orchestration pipeline. Press Run the fleet to watch the squad of GitHub Copilot primitives move through the waves — design, research, author, verify, review — exactly as it happened.

Idle — press “Run the fleet” to start the orchestration.
📋 content/playbook-brief.md input

The human-authored scope: theory-first, mid-level depth, Markdown workflows, HTML chapter subpages.

🧭 Orchestrator prompt

run-playbook dispatches agents in waves and tracks state on a shared to-do board.

⚙️ Environment setup skill

Installs the gh aw CLI extension so the real command surface and frontmatter schema can be inspected and examples can be compiled.

Wave 0 — Design & scaffold

🏛️ Architect

Turns the brief into toc.yml + outline.

🎨 Frontend builder

Scaffolds the HTML shell + navigation.

Waves 1…N — per chapter group

🔍 gh-aw explorer

Inspects the real gh aw CLI + frontmatter schema — no hallucinated syntax.

📚 Theory researcher

Gathers concepts from the gh-aw docs.

✍️ Chapter author

Fills the HTML slots and writes compilable example workflows.

Code verifier

Compiles every example with gh aw compile — must compile clean with no secrets.

🧐 Chapter reviewer

Verdict: ACCEPT or REVISE with concrete fixes.

↺ REVISE → back to the author until ACCEPT
ACCEPT
💾 Commit per wave git

Each completed wave is committed, keeping a clean, auditable history.

🔗 Integration pass review

Cross-chapter check of navigation, terminology, progression, and syntax consistency.

🚀 Published book output

Verified chapters served as an interactive HTML site. Open it →

The actors (primitives)

🧭 Orchestrator prompt

The driver that runs the whole fleet in waves and tracks progress.

🏛️ Architect agent

Designs the table of contents and chapter outline from the brief.

📚 Theory researcher agent

Explains concepts grounded in the gh-aw documentation.

🔍 gh-aw explorer agent

Inspects the real gh aw CLI and frontmatter schema for the exact, real surface.

✍️ Chapter author agent

Writes chapter prose and example code into the page slots.

✅ Code verifier agent

Compiles every example until it provably compiles clean — no secrets required.

🧐 Chapter reviewer agent

Critiques for accuracy and consistency; routes fixes back to the author.

🎨 Frontend builder agent

Scaffolds and finalizes the HTML shell, navigation, and styling.

⚙️ Environment setup skill

Reproducible recipe to install the gh aw CLI extension and verify it.

🧱 Content & code rules instructions

Auto-applied conventions every chapter and example must follow.