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Prompts library

Ekorbia’s prompts library is a folder of Markdown files. Each .md file is one reusable system prompt — a persona, a task template, a style guide, anything you want the model to start each chat with already in mind. The library is git-friendly, shareable, and editable in any text editor.

The library lives at ~/Documents/Ekorbia/Prompts/ by default. You can change the location in Settings → Prompts.

What ships out of the box

Ekorbia includes 28 built-in prompts covering common use cases:

  • Album Deep Dive
  • Brainstorm
  • Cliff Notes
  • Cloudflare Uptime Watcher
  • Cover Letter Writer
  • Devil’s Advocate
  • Email Draft
  • Explain Simply
  • Google Cloud Uptime Watcher
  • How Does It End
  • Job Posting Watcher
  • Lateral Thinking Puzzles
  • Log Triage
  • Murder Mystery Interrogation
  • New Listing Watcher
  • Notes Synthesizer
  • Personal Website Builder
  • Price / Availability Watcher
  • Professional Website Builder
  • Rental Watcher
  • Research Paper Tracker
  • Resume Coach
  • Sensitive Doc Q&A
  • Should I Watch This
  • Summarize
  • Text Adventure
  • Tone Reframer
  • Translate → Spanish / French / German
  • Wikipedia Edit Watcher

If you ever delete some of these by accident, Settings → Prompts → Restore built-in prompts re-copies them.

Using a prompt in a chat

In the composer, click the prompt-attach button (📋 icon) to see your prompts. Pick one and it attaches as a chip above the textarea. When you send your message, the prompt is included as a system message at the top of the conversation.

You can attach multiple prompts to a single chat — they’re concatenated in attach order. Click the × on a prompt chip to detach it.

The prompts panel

Open the Prompts tab in the right sidebar to see the full library:

  • Search box at the top — searches across prompt names, body text, and tags
  • Favorite filter chips — five colored buckets you can use to categorize personal favorites
  • Tag filter chips — free-text tags pulled from each prompt’s frontmatter
  • Sort options — Recent / A→Z / Z→A / Favorite (default: A→Z)
  • List on the left, prompt body on the right — the column is resizable

Right-click any prompt in the list for actions:

  • Attach to current chat
  • Edit (opens the .md file in your default editor)
  • Reveal in Finder
  • Set favorite color (None / Red / Yellow / Green / Blue / Purple)
  • Delete

The .md file format

Every prompt is a Markdown file with optional YAML frontmatter:

---
name: Email Draft
tags: [writing, work]
description: Write a professional email from rough bullet points.
---

You are a professional email drafter. Given a list of bullet points or rough
notes, produce a clear, concise, polite email...
FieldRequiredWhat it does
nameNo (defaults to filename)Display name in the list
tagsNoUsed by the tag filter
descriptionNoCurrently not displayed, but reserved for future use

The body below --- is the prompt content. Everything after the closing --- is what the model sees when this prompt is attached.

Filename is the stable ID. The .md filename (without extension) uniquely identifies the prompt. The display name in frontmatter is just for the UI — renaming a prompt is renaming the file, which keeps things consistent if you sync the folder via git or Dropbox.

Favorites

Favorites are five colored buckets — Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple — that you can assign to individual prompts via right-click. They’re a personal categorization system: maybe Red is “everyday,” Blue is “for research,” Green is “watchers.” Use them however helps you find things.

Favorite colors are local to your machine — they live in Ekorbia’s local database and don’t travel with the .md files if you share them. This is deliberate: your favorites are personal, not metadata for the prompt itself.

Importing prompts

Click Import in the Prompts panel header to import .md or .txt files into your library. Plain-text files become Markdown files with no frontmatter — fine to start with, edit later.

Sharing prompts

Because prompts are plain Markdown files in a folder you control, you can:

  • Sync the folder via git, Dropbox, iCloud, etc. — everything but favorite color travels with the file
  • Email a .md file to someone with Ekorbia — they drop it in their prompts folder and it appears in their library
  • Build a team prompt repo — a shared folder of best-practice prompts everyone pulls from
  • The chat window — for the prompt-attach button in the composer
  • Settings — for changing the prompts folder location