WorkEngine v1.3.2 · https://api.talentgenius.io

Run your playbook in Claude

You made a playbook in WorkEngine Web. This is how to open it in Claude and work through it — install once, then paste the creation ID.

Not signed in here yet — you do not need to be to download. The plugin signs you in itself, in step 7.

01Make it on the web

Created and approved in WorkEngine Web.

02Open it in Claude

Paste the creation ID into Claude Code.

03Work it, both ways

Outcomes save back to the web page.

Step 1

Get Claude Code

WorkEngine runs inside Claude Code, not the ordinary Claude chat. If you do not have it yet, install the Claude desktop app from Anthropic — Claude Code is built into it.

https://claude.com/product/claude-code

Already have the desktop app? Skip the download, but read the next step: most people who got stuck were in the chat side of the app.

Step 2

Get into Claude Code, not the chat

WorkEngine is a plugin, and plugins only load in Claude Code. The ordinary Claude chat cannot run it, however you word the message. In the desktop app, switch to the Code side before anything else — the switch looks like one of these, depending on your version:

Newer Claude desktop app sidebar: a two-button toggle at the top right, chat bubble on the left and a code symbol on the right; the code symbol is selected
Newer app: tap the </> button at the top of the sidebar, to the right of the chat bubble.
Older Claude desktop app sidebar: Home and Code tabs across the top; the Code tab is selected
Older app: tap the Code tab at the top of the sidebar, next to Home.

In a terminal, Claude Code is the claude command. If Claude answers as though it has never heard of WorkEngine, check which side you are in before anything else.

Step 3

Download the plugin

Claude Code / Claude Desktop plugin workengine-decompose-goal-plugin-1.3.2.zip

Leave it zipped — Claude installs it from the zip file as it is.

Step 4

Remove any older WorkEngine first

If WorkEngine was ever installed on this machine, take it out before adding v1.3.2. Two copies with the same name confuse Claude, and an older copy cannot read playbooks from this server.

  1. Open Settings → Capabilities → Plugins.
  2. If a WorkEngine plugin is listed, remove it.

Nothing you finished is lost: your playbooks and their progress live on the server, not in the plugin.

Step 5

Add it to Claude

  1. Open Settings → Capabilities → Plugins, choose Upload plugin, and pick the zip you just downloaded.
  2. Restart Claude. The plugin loads into every Claude Code session.
Step 6

Make a folder for the playbook

WorkEngine works in whichever folder you started it in, and keeps its state in a .workengine folder beside your files.

Step 7

Sign in

The plugin has to be connected to the same account as the web app. Ask Claude to run the login — the first time, it takes you through signing in.

In Claude CodeRun WorkEngine login

It happens once per folder. After that it just starts.

Step 8

Open your playbook

In WorkEngine Web, open the playbook and find Continue in Claude with the WorkEngine plugin. Copy the line it shows you — it carries the creation ID — and paste it into Claude Code:

In Claude CodeResume WorkEngine creation cr_…

That ID is how Claude finds the playbook. There is no list to browse and no search yet — pasting this line is the way in.

If it does not start

Install Node.js temporary

The plugin's commands run on Node.js. Most machines already have it. If Claude reports that node was not found, or the login or resume commands fail before they print anything, install the current Node.js and restart Claude:

https://nodejs.org/en/download/current

Only do this if you hit that problem. The requirement is temporary — a later plugin will carry what it needs — and this step goes when it does.