prompt
Skill41 starsChanged 2 months agoMITView on GitHub
Use when writing, generating, refining, reviewing, or being asked for ANY prompt aimed at an LLM (Claude / GPT / Gemini / Codex), or when building GPTs / Gems system instructions, or when a task is fact-check / research / image-generation prompting. Produces structured, framework-grounded prompts instead of ad-hoc ones. Invoke this BEFORE handing any hand-written prompt to a model.
20 other projects use a version of this.
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- JetBrains/mcp-steroidtheir own version, first seen Nov 8, 2026
- renanflustosa/octo-clustertheir own version, first seen Oct 25, 2026
- Munsheys/claude-prompt-architecttheir own version, first seen Oct 20, 2026
- zhamann/skillstheir own version, first seen Oct 20, 2026
- webdevarif/claude-skillstheir own version, first seen Oct 20, 2026
- mehrad-dm/mastermindtheir own version, first seen Oct 13, 2026
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- treylom/prompt-engineering-skills★ 185same name
- JetBrains/mcp-steroid★ 82same name
- oprogramadorreal/optimus-claude★ 75same name
- analystacademy/claude-skills★ 35same name
- mehrad-dm/mastermind★ 23same name
- amatray/claude-skills-public★ 9same name
- alphazede/bearing-lite★ 3same name
- ksprashu/agent-skill-forge★ 3same name
- renanflustosa/octo-cluster★ 3same name
- furic/extract-alpha★ 2same name
10 more not listed
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The file
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
2 rules. 0 are common, 2 are distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.
0
Common
Most of the 18 edited versions we read keep these.
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Distinctive
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
0
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Distinctive: line 44
Read only the matched reference above.
- Distinctive: line 62
Use this skill to generate, optimize, and refine prompts for AI tasks.
“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 18 edited versions of this file we could read. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
prompt — structured prompt generation
Vendored, unmodified-in-substance copy of the public prompt-engineering-skills
package (MIT). It turns a rough intent into a structured, framework-grounded
prompt rather than an ad-hoc one, and routes by task type.
When to use (mandatory-invocation)
Invoke this skill — do not free-hand a prompt — whenever the work is:
- "write / make / improve / review a prompt" for any model
- building GPTs or Gems system instructions
- fact-check / research prompting (IFCN-grounded base templates required)
- image-generation prompting (5-stage framework)
- any request whose deliverable is itself a prompt
A bot whose config mandates /prompt (see the repo's
docs/SETUP-CONFIG-GUIDE.md §"force-invoke") MUST route here first.
How it routes (progressive disclosure)
This SKILL.md is the router. Load the heavy reference only for the matched
task — do not read all of it up front:
See references/ for detailed procedures only when the matched prompt task asks for them.
| Task | Load |
| Generate / refine a prompt (main workflow) | references/prompt-generator.md |
| Framework / technique deep reference | references/prompt-engineering-guide.md |
| Worked examples (Claude / GPT / image) | references/examples/ |
| Build a GPTs instruction | references/instructions/GPTs-Prompt-Generator.md |
| Build a Gems instruction | references/instructions/Gems-Prompt-Generator.md |
| Build bot meta files (soul.md / CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md) | references/instructions/Bot-Persona-Generator.md |
Procedure:
- Classify the request (generate / fact-check / research / image / GPTs / Gems).
- Read only the matched reference above.
- For fact-check / research, the engineering guide's IFCN base template is mandatory — do not emit a generic XML prompt.
- Produce the structured prompt; show the user the final prompt explicitly.
Attribution
- Upstream:
github.com/treylom/prompt-engineering-skills(public, MIT) — seeLICENSE. Context-Engineering basis: Muratcan Koylan, Agent-Skills-for-Context-Engineering. - Vendored here so the bot ships self-contained. The upstream maintainer's
personal deploy script (
commands/prompt-sync.md) is intentionally excluded (machine-specific, not relevant to distributees).
How to Use This Skill
Use this skill to generate, optimize, and refine prompts for AI tasks. Helps craft better prompts for Claude, design effective instruction sets, and improve prompt engineering for specialized workflows.
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