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.

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. That feedback feeds the weekly report and informs future practice generations — Coach Prime sees what you said worked and what didn't.