LetPeopleWorkShop

Let people work(shop). The LetPeopleWork facilitation toolkit.

A markdown-native, Claude-Code-native toolkit for designing, running, and learning from workshops. Bring a brief; grounded assistants help you design the session, prep the room (or Miro/video), and learn from it afterwards — so the next one is better. The repo is a Claude Code plugin — install it and the agents work in any workspace; there's no app to run.

Status: the full loop works end-to-end — designer (applies your past lessons), executor (in-person / digital prep packs), and feedback (debrief → tagged lessons), over a markdown workshop archive and an extensible practices library.

What's here

.claude-plugin/plugin.json        Plugin manifest — the repo IS the plugin.
.claude-plugin/marketplace.json   Lets you add it as a marketplace directly.
agents/                           designer · executor · feedback subagents.
skills/facilitation-practices/    The practices library as a Skill (list/explain/recommend/ground).
  practices/*.md                  Facilitation structures, one markdown file each.
templates/                        brief · design · setup · feedback · lesson formats.
docs/                             Product vision, jobs, journeys, architecture, ADRs.
workshops/EXAMPLE-*/              A sanitized sample (your real sessions live in YOUR workspace).

Install

# Add the LetPeopleWork marketplace, then install:
/plugin marketplace add LetPeopleWork/LetPeopleWorkShop
/plugin install let-people-workshop@letpeoplework

To hack on it locally, clone and run claude --plugin-dir .. (A community-marketplace install — /plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-community — lands once the plugin is approved.)

Your content stays yours

The plugin carries the toolkit; your workshops, designs, feedback, and lessons live in your own workspace, never in this repo. (This repo's .gitignore also guards against committing real sessions during development — only the sanitized workshops/EXAMPLE-* is tracked.)

Quick start (using it)

With the plugin installed, in your own workspace:

1. Ask the designer to start a workshop — it scaffolds workshops/<slug>/brief.md from the template.
2. Fill the brief; the designer writes a grounded, time-reconciled workshops/<slug>/design.md.
3. Ask the executor for a prep pack; run the session; then feedback to debrief → tagged lessons. See workshops/EXAMPLE-team-retro/ in this repo for what a brief + design look like.

Add a facilitation practice

Copy skills/facilitation-practices/practices/_TEMPLATE.md to a new kebab-case file, fill it in. The facilitation-practices skill and the designer pick it up automatically — no code change. Seeded with Liberating Structures and Training from the BACK of the Room; add more anytime.

The agents

Three assistants, each a stateless transform over a workshop folder (they compose via files, never call each other):

• designer — brief → grounded, time-reconciled agenda; applies the TBR 4Cs + Six Trumps lens and your past lessons.
• executor — design → prep pack (in-person materials/setup, or a Miro+video recipe).
• feedback — post-session brain-dump → structured feedback.md + reusable lessons tagged by practice + theme. Those lessons feed back into the next design (the loop).

See docs/product/vision.md for the full picture and docs/product/architecture/brief.md for the design.

Acknowledgments

LetPeopleWorkShop grew out of a first prototype built together with Frank Barner — thank you, Frank, for the spark that inspired this.

Credits & sources

The facilitation methodologies this toolkit draws on remain the work of their authors and keep their own terms. The practice files here are original, attributed summaries with links — not reproductions:

• Liberating Structures — Henri Lipmanowicz & Keith McCandless, published under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 — https://www.liberatingstructures.com/
• Training from the BACK of the Room — Sharon L. Bowman — https://bowperson.com/

If you adapt or redistribute, keep these attributions and respect the source licenses. Note that Liberating Structures is Non-Commercial ShareAlike — that governs the LS methods, independent of this repo's MIT license. Not legal advice; check the source terms for your use case.

License

LetPeopleWorkShop — the toolkit (agents, skill, templates, structure) — is released under the MIT License (see LICENSE). The underlying facilitation methodologies retain their own rights as noted above.