What is a Playbook?
A Playbook is the method an expert captures — how a piece of work gets done, written down as a document the YAMO runtime follows exactly.
Where it sits
YAMO's vocabulary is a ladder: a Playbook is the method, a Play is one step inside it, a Service is what other people run, an Instance is one customer's ongoing context against a Service, and a Run is one execution. A Connector is a tool a Playbook declares it needs, and a Connection is the access that satisfies it. A Reference file is a document a Playbook reads while it works.
Playbook is one rung of that ladder. The rung next to it is Play.
Why the word matters
One word for one thing. A Playbook is the METHOD; a Service is that same object once it can be consumed. They are two stages of one thing rather than two things you own side by side.
The longer answer
What is a Playbook? is the page for this one: where it sits, what it is confused with, and a worked example from a real template.
The rest of the ladder
What is a Play?
What a Play is on YAMO: one step inside a Playbook, with its own job, its own inputs and its own share of what the finished artifact contains.What is a Service?
What a Service is on YAMO: the thing people run, which exists from the moment you start making it and passes through three stages before anyone sees it.What is an Instance?
What an Instance is on YAMO: one customer's ongoing context against a Service, holding their setup and their data separately from everybody else's.What is a Run?
What a Run is on YAMO: one execution of a Playbook from its trigger to its artifact, and the unit that is metered, receipted and charged for.What is a Connector?
What a Connector is on YAMO: the tool a Playbook declares that it needs, and what changes when you authorise one so that a run can reach it.What is a Connection?
What a Connection is on YAMO: the access you have authorised, which is what lets a run reach a tool a Playbook asked for, on your behalf, when it runs.Pricing
How YAMO charges: you pay for the runs you make, and nothing for the ones you do not. What a run is, what it includes, and what publishing costs.Who it's for
The six kinds of expert YAMO is built for, and what changes when the method you already follow becomes a Service that somebody else can run.
Read a Playbook that uses it
Every template in the library publishes its contract and a real example output.