Practice Plans

The Practice Planner (/practice) is the most-used surface in BenchOS. Every plan is generated by your full coaching staff — Coach X (offense), Coach Shield (defense), Coach Bloom (player development), Coach Iron (strength & conditioning) — and synthesized by Coach Prime into a unified session.

Creating a plan

From the Practice Planner index, click New Plan. The form has the following inputs:

• Practice Date — defaults to the next open slot on your schedule
• Practice Type — Full Practice, Shootaround, Walkthrough, or Game Day Prep
• Duration — slider, 30–120 minutes in 15-minute increments (default 90)
• Energy Level — Pre-Game, Regular, or Recovery (auto-set based on the next game on your schedule)
• Focus Areas — multi-select: Offense, Defense, Transition, Shooting, Rebounding, Conditioning, Player Development, Team Chemistry, Situations, Press, Scouting Prep
• Include Warm-Up — checkbox (default on)
• Number of Segments — how many time blocks to plan (default 4)
• Coach Notes — free text for anything else you want the staff to consider
• Link to Schedule Event — optional; ties the plan to a specific calendar event

Two ways to create:

• Generate with AI — kicks off the AI pipeline. The form closes and you'll be returned to the Practice Planner index, where a "Generating…" card shows progress while the specialists work and Coach Prime synthesizes the final plan. When it's ready, click in to view it.
• Build it yourself — skips generation and creates an empty plan you fill in directly in the editor. Useful when you'd rather draft from scratch or already know exactly what you want.

You can also talk it out with Coach Prime instead of filling the form — a voice option above the inputs walks you through the session's focus and the install-vs.-clean-up balance, captures it live, and pre-fills the form for you to review before generating.

What's in a plan

Every generated plan includes:

• Plan metadata — date, type, duration, energy, focus areas (all editable inline)
• Warm-Up — if enabled: name, duration, drills, coaching cues
• Numbered segments — each with a name, duration, drills, coaching points, and links to plays/drills from your library
• Timeline — visual of how time is allocated across the session
• Play & Drill appendix — printable references for everything cited in the plan
• Coach's Notes — your space for additional context
• Post-Practice Feedback — rating (1–5) plus "what went well" and "what to improve"

Editing

The plan view doubles as the editor. Toggle Edit to modify any section — drills, durations, coaching cues, segment order. Changes save automatically. Drag handles let you reorder segments and drills.

Other things you can do

• Clone an existing plan as a starting point for a new one
• Archive plans you no longer need (soft delete; recoverable)
• Favorite a plan to pin it for quick access
• Print uses a clean print stylesheet — landscape, no nav, sized for a clipboard
• Link to Schedule ties an existing plan to a calendar event after the fact

Recording feedback

After a practice, fill in the post-practice feedback at the bottom of the plan — type it or talk it out with Coach Prime and let him structure your spoken debrief into the fields. That feedback feeds the weekly report and informs future practice generations — Coach Prime sees what you said worked and what didn't.