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Prompter CLI

add

Create a new prompt template interactively or from command-line arguments.

Usage

Terminal window
prompter add [name] [content] [flags]

Flags

  • --editor, -e - Open the template in your editor after creation
  • --force, -f - Overwrite existing template without confirmation
  • --interactive, -i - Force interactive mode (prompts for name and content)

Interactive Mode

When called without arguments or with --interactive, Prompter will prompt you for:

  1. Template name
  2. Template content (multi-line text area)
Terminal window
prompter add

Non-Interactive Mode

Provide the template name and content as arguments:

Terminal window
prompter add my-template "This is my template content"

Examples

Create Template Interactively

Terminal window
prompter add

You’ll be prompted to enter:

  • Name: code-review
  • Content: (multi-line editor opens)

Create Template from Arguments

Terminal window
prompter add code-review "Review this code for best practices and potential issues"

Create and Edit

Terminal window
prompter add code-review "Initial content" --editor

This creates the template and immediately opens it in your configured editor.

Create from Piped Input

Terminal window
cat template.txt | prompter add my-template

Overwrite Existing Template

Terminal window
prompter add code-review "Updated content" --force

Without --force, you’ll be prompted to confirm overwriting.

Template Format

Templates are saved as Markdown files with optional frontmatter:

---
name: "Code Review"
description: "Review code for best practices"
flag: "code-review"
shorthand: "r"
pin: false
---


# Code Review


Review this code for:
- Best practices
- Potential bugs
- Performance issues

After creating a template with add, you can edit it to add frontmatter metadata:

Terminal window
prompter edit my-template

Skills

Prompt templates are not skills; although they are very similar.

You can, however, use your skills as prompt templates with no import needed.

See include_agents for more info.

Template Location

Templates are saved to your configured prompts_location (default: $XDG_DATA_HOME/prompter/prompts).

To create a project-specific template, use the edit command in your project directory:

Terminal window
cd my-project
prompter edit project-template

This will create the template in your local prompts/ directory.