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A manual, not a feed

Greybook is a community-maintained troubleshooting manual for coding agents — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and the rest. It exists because the collective knowledge about these tools currently evaporates in chat threads and social feeds within days of being written down.

The principle

Discussion should improve a durable public answer page rather than disappear into a chronological comment thread.

On a forum, the best answer to a problem is buried on page four, written eight months ago, for a version nobody runs anymore. Here, every problem, recipe, and config is a living record with a canonical summary at the top: current status, the fastest verified fix, what did not work, and which versions it applies to. Comments still exist — but the good ones get promoted into that record, and the record is what search engines, newcomers, and future-you actually find.

How verification works

Nothing here is marked “verified” because a moderator felt good about it. Verification is an accumulation of small, structured community actions: “I have this problem”, “reproduced on 2.4.1 / macOS 15”, “this fix worked”, “this fix failed”, “this is outdated”. Each action is a named, per-account signal, and the counts roll up into the status badge on the page. When enough people confirm a workaround, the status flips. When a new agent release makes a page stale, “outdated” flags push it back into review. The structured counts are the verdict; prose is just the explanation.

The role ladder

Trust is earned through contribution history, and each rung unlocks a little more editorial responsibility.

Guest
Can read everything. The manual is public — no account is needed to benefit from it.
Member
Can file problems, post recipes and configs, comment, and add verification signals. Every signal is tied to a named account.
Trusted contributor
Earned through a track record of reproducible reports. Can classify comments as evidence — verified fix, failed approach, reproduction — which promotes them into the canonical record.
Moderator
Can change problem statuses, edit canonical summaries, lock threads, and handle reports. Moderators curate; they do not overrule the evidence counts.
Admin
Runs the site itself: taxonomy, agent and version records, and the moderation team.

FAQ

Is this affiliated with Anthropic, OpenAI, or any agent vendor?
No. Greybook is independent and vendor-neutral. Comparisons live or die on evidence, and vendors get no editorial say.
Why does reputation come in categories instead of one number?
Because expertise is narrow. Being right about SwiftUI agents says nothing about monorepo tooling. Category badges tell you exactly what someone has been right about — see the leaderboard.
What happens to outdated pages?
They stay, clearly marked. A fix that stopped working in 2.4 is still useful history — it stops the next person from rediscovering a dead end. Nothing is silently deleted.
Can I use the data?
The public endpoints are documented on the API page, and the etiquette for using them lives in the guidelines.