llms.txt
The whole developer corpus in one file, for any agent that doesn't speak MCP.
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NameRina Okafor
CityLisbon
Drag a photo onto the uploader
Intelligent
infrastructure
for
every file in your
app
Uploads, processing, storage and delivery that understand
what's in every file, set up by your agent in one prompt.
Set up in minutes, scale without a rewrite
Let your coding agent add Playbook to your app, or make the calls yourself.
~/saltwood · claude
Install
claude plugin marketplace add playbook-labs/mcp-pluginsclaude plugin install playbook@playbook-pluginsThen run /mcp and sign in to Playbook.
Ask
Add Playbook to this app and upload the images in /public.
You'll need an API key to start. Sign in to Playbook to get one, no approval needed. Get an API key →
~/saltwood · cursor agent
Add the MCP server
https://mcp.playbook.com/mcpAuthorize once in your browser.
Ask
Add Playbook to this app and upload the images in /public.
You'll need an API key to start. Sign in to Playbook to get one, no approval needed. Get an API key →
~/saltwood · codex
Add the MCP server
https://mcp.playbook.com/mcpAllow it once in your browser.
Ask
Add Playbook to this app and upload the images in /public.
You'll need an API key to start. Sign in to Playbook to get one, no approval needed. Get an API key →
~/saltwood · zsh
Add your key
export PLAYBOOK_API_TOKEN=<your key>Keep it on your server, never in the browser.
Make your first call
POST https://api.playbook.com/v1/<org>/assetsSend a file URL, get the asset back. Copy gives you the full curl.
You'll need an API key to start. Sign in to Playbook to get one, no approval needed. Get an API key →
Connect to Playbook MCP
Add Playbook to Claude, ChatGPT or any MCP client, then find, tag and share files by asking.
Already on Playbook?
Create a key and start building on it.
Handle entire media lifecycle, out of the box
Uploads, processing, delivery, storage and access, behind one API key.
File uploader
A drop-in picker, URL and folder import.
Processing
Resize, convert and tag every upload.
Image delivery
One URL, served as AVIF or WebP.
Video streaming
Three renditions and scrub thumbnails.
Storage
S3, GCS or R2 as primary, with replicas.
Access control
Short-lived tokens and signed webhooks.
- AssetPickerDevice, camera, link and Dropbox, resumable.
- Signed uploadsMultipart for big files, 100 per batch.
- URL ingestSingle or 100 per call, fetched in the background.
- Folder importDropbox and Drive, re-synced by content hash.
- Drop linksNo account, with password and expiry.
- MCP uploadsAgents send bytes without your key.
- Stored onceChecksummed, repeats merge into one asset.
- Readable failuressource_error says why a fetch failed.
- Your own metadataUp to 4 KB of JSON on every asset.
- ResizeAny size, cover or contain.
- ConvertAVIF, WebP, JPEG and PNG.
- ThumbnailsStills and video frames.
- Video playbackHLS ladder and MP4 fallback.
- TranscriptionVTT, SRT and plain transcript.
- AI taggingConfidence and your own vocabulary.
- WatermarkerTiled or placed, any opacity.
- Partner pluginsPhotoroom, Picsart, Vectorizer, Flux.
- TriggersBy library, folder or file type.
- Any width or heightAspect kept, from the same URL.
- Format autoAVIF or WebP, whichever the browser takes.
- QualitySet per request.
- Signed URLsExpiry and allowed origins.
- Custom domainServed from media.yours.com.
- Cache controlSet how long the edge keeps it.
- Average colorPaint the grid before images load.
- PaletteDominant colors, most dominant first.
- OriginalsByte for byte, always.
- HLS1080p, 720p and 360p from one manifest.
- MP4 fallbackFor players that need a file.
- PosterReady for a grid or video poster.
- Scrub thumbnailsA frame every 10 seconds.
- CaptionsVTT and SRT from the transcript.
- Encode on demandOn upload or on first play.
- RetryA stalled encode restarts with one call.
- VideoPlayerCaptions and thumbnails built in.
- OriginalsThe uploaded file, untouched.
- Playbook storageNothing to set up.
- Your bucketS3, GCS or R2 as primary.
- ReplicasMirror to a second bucket.
- RetentionRules per library.
- TrashRecover what was deleted.
- Dedupe statsSee what stored-once saved.
- VersionsUnlimited history on every asset.
- ExportEverything, with tags and fields.
- ArchiveOut of the way, still searchable.
- Library keysEach with its own capabilities.
- Scoped tokensShort-lived, per library or folder.
- WebhooksUploaded, completed and failed, signed.
- Delivery logEvery attempt, with test events.
- UsageProcessing, storage, delivery, requests.
- BudgetsMonthly, with an 80% alert.
- AnalyticsWhat gets viewed and from where.
- SSO and SCIMWith audit trails.
- MCPOne URL for any agent.
A working files uploader from day one
Handles big files, links and Drive or Dropbox folders and stores each file once.
Sources
Style
Sources
One pipeline, whichever way the file arrives.
Deduplication
Two uploads of the same bytes become one asset.
Folder sync
Re-run an import and only what changed comes in.
Deliver the right image at the right size, everytime
Resize, convert, watermark and lock down any image, without running an image server.
800 px1067 px
Ask for any width and the height follows. Every size comes from the one original.
- Width
- 800 px
- Height
- 1067 px
- Size
- 61 KB
Request
POST/assets/permalink_urls?width=800→ …/rs:fit:800:0/….webp
AVIF · 128 KB
WebP or AVIF for browsers, JPEG or PNG wherever else you need it. The original stays as uploaded.
- Format
- AVIF
- Size
- 128 KB
- vs JPEG
- −69%
Request
POST/assets/transform?width=1600&format=avif{ tokens: [...] }→ ….avif
Stamp previews for clients or stock buyers, tiled or in a corner.
- Layout
- Tiled
- Opacity
- 30%
- Original
- untouched
Requestcoming soon
POST/assets/transform{ watermark: { layout: 'tiled', opacity: 0.3 } }→ a stamped render, original untouched
Expires in2:00:00img.playbook.com/…?expires=…&signature=…
A public link that never expires, or a signed one that does. The signed clock here runs two hours in five seconds.
- Expires
- Within 2 h
- Login
- Not needed
- Store it
- No
Request
POST/assets/transform?width=1600{ tokens: [...] }→ signed URL, expires within 2 hours
Placeholder colors
Each asset's average color fills the grid before images load.
// next.config.jsimages: {remotePatterns: [{ hostname: 'img.playbook.com' }],}// page.tsx<Imagesrc={asset.permalink}width={800}height={1067}style={{ backgroundColor: asset.average_color }}/>
Works with next/image
Allow one host, pass the permalink, and paint the average color while it loads.
coming soon
Automate your image pipeline
Attach a flow to a folder. Every photo that lands there gets cut out, squared, converted and tagged before anyone asks for it.
Drop them here or browseJPG, PNG or WebP
chair_0412.jpg · 3000 × 4000 · 6.8 MB
Instant video playback, at every resolution
Encoded once, with scrub previews and captions, ready for any player.
review.mp4processing1080p · 0:08 · 1.7 MB
Scrub previews
Slide across a video and its frames follow the cursor, so you can find the moment without pressing play.
Adaptive streaming
One master.m3u8, and the player steps down to 720p or 360p when the connection does.
Plays on any device
One signed stream_url plays in Safari on iPhone, Chrome with hls.js, or VLC, with nothing else to sign.
Scoped access for your app, your agent and your team
Your API key stays on your server. Your app gets a short-lived token for one board, your agent signs in, and your people get links.
Your app
Your server trades its API key for a read-only token to one board. The browser keeps it for up to an hour.
Your agent
Add Playbook's MCP server to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor and authorize once. No API key to paste.
Your people
One call returns a board link with a password and an expiry. Anyone with it can view or upload.
Built to pass your engineering review
Webhooks for every change, storage in your own bucket, and answers to what your security review will ask.
POSTapi.acme.com/hooks/playbook
Webhooks
Get a POST when an asset is added, updated or deleted on a board, with the asset and exactly what changed.
Your own bucket
Keep originals in your S3, GCS or R2 bucket. Playbook processes, searches and delivers on top.
Security review, answered
SSO and SCIM for your team, an audit log, encryption at rest, and signed URLs for anything that leaves.
Questions
Playbook API is the file layer for the app you're building. Your app uploads, processes, stores and delivers images, video and documents through one API. It's powered by the same platform managing over 400 million visual assets.
One API and one key cover uploads, image delivery, video streaming and storage. Every file is accessible through your workspace, where your team can search, comment on, approve and share it without you building an admin panel, and your coding agent can manage the same files through MCP.
Yes. Large files go up in parts through signed uploads, straight from the browser to storage, so they never pass through your server. You can send up to 100 files in one batch.
It's stored once. Playbook checks the contents of every upload, and a file with identical bytes merges into the asset that's already there instead of creating a copy. For AI-generated variants you want to keep separate, mark the upload as ai_generated and merging is switched off.
Keep your S3, GCS or R2 bucket as the primary store, and Playbook processes, searches and delivers on top of it. If you're moving from another provider, send up to 100 files URLs per call and Playbook fetches them in the background.
Not for your coding agent. It signs in to Playbook with your account the first time it connects. Your app's server uses an API key, which you create in the Playbook app with no approval needs.
Files are encrypted at rest, and anything that leaves Playbook goes through signed links that expire. Your team signs in with SSO, accounts are managed through SCIM, and every action is recorded in audit log.
Media at any volume
Two million people already keep their visual work in Playbook. The API you build on is the same one the app runs on.
- 2M+people on Playbook
- 450M+files stored
- 99%uptime
- Encrypted at rest
- Signed URLs for everything that leaves
- Two-factor authentication
- SSO, SCIM and audit trails
Pay for what your app uses
Set a monthly budget and get a heads-up at 80%, not a dead app.
Free
For building and your first users.
$0a month
Included every month, before anything is metered.
- 100 GB of storage
- 300 assets
- 1K API calls / month
- Integrations & MCP access
- Unlimited reviewers and approvers
API Platform
UsageUsage-based pricing
Pay as you go
Metered on what your app uses.
- Storage and delivery
- Your own S3, GCS or R2 bucket
- Processing and plugins
- Unlimited reviewers and approvers
- Video encoding
- API, SDK and MCP
- Webhooks
- Budgets and alerts
