---
title: "The Rote Playoffs: Publish Plays for Repetitive Work"
subtitle: "Ship as many public Plays as you can by turning repetitive tasks into methods anyone can inspect and run."
description: "Publish as many public Plays as you can for repetitive tasks. Build methods that anyone can inspect and run."
author: "modiqo"
published: "2026-09-02"
---

# The Rote Playoffs: Publish Plays for Repetitive Work

The Playoffs is a hackathon for turning useful, repeatable work into public Plays. You do not need to design an automation. Install Play, ask your agent to do something useful, and guide one run with the expertise you already have.

## The whole game

1. Install Play.
2. In your harness, ask: `$play [do something useful]`.
3. Guide the agent through one successful run.
4. Let rote turn the actions that worked into a shareable Play.

## Choose work worth getting back

Ask what a workflow takes from your time, energy, sanity, and tokens—and what it gives back in return.

The workflows that stick give something useful back quickly. Choose inside work you already do and repeatedly pay to rediscover. Your entry should remove real friction from your week, not manufacture a task for a demo.

## You teach. rote remembers.

Use the harness you already prefer. Apply your expertise as the agent works: choose the right tools, correct mistakes, set boundaries, and decide when the result is good.

rote stays underneath that interaction. It keeps the successful path and converts the agent's actions into an inspectable Play with fresh inputs for the next person.

## The season

The Playoffs run as seasons. Every season opens the field to builders, operators, domain experts, and first-time Playmakers, and every Play published during a season goes on the public catalog under your name.

Ship early. A Play can gather runs and improve while everyone else is still polishing their README.

## Fine print, plainly

- An entry must run as a Play through rote.
- Credentials remain local, and the Play contract must disclose writes.
- Teams are welcome. Each Play stands on its own.
- Recognition follows genuine human attention; purchased engagement, automated resharing, engagement farms, and coordinated bot activity do not count and may disqualify an entry.

> Build the Play you will still want six months from now — after the clever prompt is forgotten and the work still needs doing.