LimaCharlie Playbooks expand the use of Python in the SecOps Cloud Platform (SCP), letting users reduce the learning curve for leveraging advanced capabilities in our platform. While the current format of our detection and response rules remain highly effective, our playbooks make much of the same functionality available to Python scripts. Playbooks also give users extreme control and granular functionality over certain operations that LCQL does not.

On the granular level, playbooks are a python script written with a specific function name. A playbook receives an instance of the LimaCharlie SDK that is pre-authenticated according to a customer’s requested credentials. Once authenticated, the playbook executes whatever activity it is programmed to perform. For more technical details on playbooks, read the official LimaCharlie [Playbooks documentation](https://docs.limacharlie.io/docs/playbook.