Standardized workflows for creating and managing guides, cookbooks, workflow instructions, and agent definitions.
Works with: Claude Code, Codex CLI, OpenCode, Gemini CLI, pi-agent, and more.
Getting Started | Usage Guide | Handbook - Skills, Agents, Templates
ace-handbook gives ACE teams a shared way to author, review, and maintain handbook assets with consistent quality gates and repeatable delivery workflows. It covers guides (.g.md), cookbooks (.cookbook.md), workflow instructions (.wf.md), and agent definitions (.ag.md).
- Author handbook assets using standardized templates and structure conventions for guides, workflows, and agents.
- Review content through quality-gate workflows that check clarity, formatting, and process compliance.
- Coordinate multi-step documentation changes through orchestration and research workflows.
Author handbook assets with consistent structure - use /as-handbook-manage-guides, /as-handbook-manage-cookbooks, /as-handbook-manage-workflows, and /as-handbook-manage-agents to create and update guides, cookbooks, workflow instructions, and agent definitions with package workflows.
Review handbook content before publishing - run /as-handbook-review-guides, /as-handbook-review-cookbooks, and /as-handbook-review-workflows to catch clarity, formatting, and process issues before updates propagate to integrations.
Coordinate larger handbook deliveries - use /as-handbook-update-docs to plan, execute, and synthesize multi-step documentation changes across package handbook assets.
Integrate with resource discovery and context loading - pair with ace-nav for workflow and resource discovery, ace-bundle for loading complete workflow instructions, and provider integrations (ace-handbook-integration-*) that project canonical handbook skills into provider-native folders.
Sync and inspect provider integrations - run ace-handbook sync to project canonical skills into provider-native folders and ace-handbook status to check integration health across all configured providers.
Extend handbook content in normal projects - put project-specific workflows, guides, cookbooks, templates, and skills under .ace-handbook/ and discover them with protocol URLs (wfi://, guide://, cookbook://, tmpl://, skill://). See Usage Guide for path conventions.
ace-test ace-handbookruns the deterministic fast suite (test/fast).ace-test ace-handbook featruns deterministic feature tests (test/feat) when present.ace-test ace-handbook allruns all deterministic layers for the package.ace-test-e2e ace-handbookruns retained workflow scenarios undertest/e2e.
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