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Prompt Components

The handy shortcuts to reuse in your prompts.

1 min read Last updated May 1, 2025

What are Prompt Components

Prompt components are sections of instructions that occur regularly in your prompts: think codex calls, series context, and default instructions.

By including these as prompt calls, you no longer have to copy-paste long strings of text to include in all of your copy-editing/critique/… prompts.

Anatomy of a Prompt Component

Prompt component anatomy

  1. Name: Choose the name for your component.

  2. Instructions: Here you add the instructions that will be added to the prompts when called.

  3. Advanced: If you have included inputs in your prompt component, you can tweak these here. Prompt component anatomy advanced tab

  4. Description: Add in a description for the prompt component, to remind you (and anyone else using your prompts) what the intentions of the component are. Prompt component anatomy description tab

  5. Actions Menu:

    1. Clone: Clone the prompt component
    2. Copy to Clipboard: Copy the prompt component to your clipboard to share with others.
    3. Archive: Move the prompt component to the archive
    4. Delete: Delete the prompt component
  6. Copy include() call : Copy the prompt component call to add into your prompts.

  7. History: Look back at previous iterations of the prompt component.

  8. Usages: See the prompts where your component is used. Prompt component anatomy usages tab