Director V1: Playbooks for AI Agents

Today, it is our pleasure to introduce Playbooks for AI Agents.

Playbooks are sets of MCP tools, prompts and configuration that give your agent new abilities. Director maintains playbook definitions as flat YAML files, which makes them them easy to share and edit.

You can think of a Playbook like a Claude Skill, but for any agent, powered by MCP. Director has 1-click integrations with Claude Code, Cursor, Claude Desktop and VSCode, making it lighting fast to switch playbooks in and out of context. And tool filtering to keep your context clean and focused.

If you'd like to see it in action, head over to the home page to watch the demo video

Release Notes

• Playbooks group MCP tools, prompts and configuration into a single entity
• Full OAuth support for MCP servers (currently supported by Notion and Sentry)
• Tool filtering & prefixing, allowing you to add only the tools you need to a playbook / context
• 1-click Claude Code integration
• Move config from JSON to YAML for better readability and editing experience
• Ability to maintain playbook to client mapping in config, which is enforced at startup
• Config search pattern will look for config in current directory if available, otherwise will default to ~/.director/. (so you can commit playbooks to version control)
• MCP server connection status / lifecycle management
• Bundle the Studio with the CLI, which makes it work in Safari and Brave
• Basic MCP debugging capabilities in the CLI (director mcp)
• Added Sentry and Postgres MCP servers to the registry

Introducing the Director Registry

This week we've been working on a new feature that we're calling the Director Registry.

We've been listening to feedback from our users that our MCP server library was too small, so we've added an extra 100 MCP servers (with more coming next week). On top of that, we've added a public facing registry that you can use to find easy to install MCP servers.

Lastly, we've shipped the registry using our new design language. It brings a lot more polish and a lot more consistency across the Director platform. We'll be migrating our studio product in the near future.

Check it out today at director.run/registry and let us know what you think.

Prefixes for servers

Our MCP proxy now supports adding a prefix to all tools names for a server. This is useful for when you have multiple servers that expose tools with the same name as it makes it difficult for agents to differentiate between them.

While this functionality is only available by editing your configuration manually today, we'll be exposing it from our CLI and studio in the next few days.

Why am I personally a big fan of this feature? Well, it's the first feature that has been contributed by a community member (and hopefully not the last).

Huge thanks to mLupine from the team at Director. You rock 🌟

Opening the gates

For the last few weeks, we've been continuously testing, monitoring and improving the stability of our product with early users.

We're now comfortable that are product is stable enough to open the gates to the public (which to be fair, they already were) and start sharing Director more publicly.

We hope you enjoy using Director and if you have any feedback, please don't hesitate to reach out to us.

Added Supabase and Playwright to our MCP library

We noticed that Supabase and Playwright are extremely popular in the community. We were missing them from our easy install library, so we've added them in.

This makes it even easier to start using these tools in your projects.

Spruced up the docs

We're a tiny team so there is always a lot we could be doing. We've been busy working on a lot of new features and bug fixes lately, but that doesn't mean we can't find the time to give our documentation a little bit of love.

Our docs we're looking a little bit sad and out of sync with our latest brand iteration. Luckily for us, Mintlify is a great tool and made it a breeze to tweak the configuration and get it back looking good.

It's a small update, but it's a big improvement.

New CLI update notifications

Lately, we've been shipping new releases of the CLI almost daily, but we've been lacking a good way to let you know. From the latest version, you'll now be notified and required to update to the latest version of our CLI.

While Director is in beta, we'll be shipping new releases of the CLI almost daily, and sometimes there will be breaking changes.

We want to continue to ship at incredibly fast. To reduce any chance of deteriorating your experience, we'll be requiring you to update to the latest version as it's released.

Introducing our changelog

A few days ago, we launched our new website. Today, we're introducing our changelog. Our changelog gives us a space to share frequent updates on what we've been working on. Updates could be about anything from new features, bug fixes, or design improvements.

Expect this page to be changing all the time.

Director.run

Since we started working on Director, we've been through a lot of iterations of not only our website, but also our brand.

Our brand has impact on everything we do at Director, especially the visual aspects. We've given our brand a lot of love and attention for the last couple of days and redesigned it from the ground up.

We not only built our new website, but we've also redesigned our studio product alongside it. For now, you can check our our new website but soon you'll have a whole new experience in the studio too.

Manually add MCP servers in Studio

We got a bunch of feedback recently that it was hard to add MCP servers that are not in our library, so we've fixed that. You can now manually add any MCP server to your gateway via our studio.

To add any MCP server to one of your proxies, you can navigate to the MCP library and click the "Add server" button. After that, you'll be prompted to fill in the transport details for the MCP server. That's it!

All new installer

We've been doing a lot of testing with early potential users of Director over the last few days and one big thing kept coming up. Installing Director's CLI was painful. There was dependencies to install and it wasn't super clear what was missing (and breaking it).

curl -LsSf https://director.run/install.sh | sh

So today, we've rolled out a new installer that is a lot easier to use. It'll take care of all the dependencies for you and make sure you'll all setup and ready to go.