Pre Authored Prompts

# Pre-authored prompts

This is the use case substrate was built around. The rest of the features are scaffolding for this one pattern.

## The pattern in one paragraph

You write a prompt — a detailed instruction, a checklist, a step-by-step playbook — once, deliberately, when you have the context and the patience. Days or weeks later, an agent picks it up via MCP search and follows it. The prompt is **authored in calm time**; it's **executed in busy time**. The bundle is your past self leaving instructions for your future self's agent.

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## Why this matters

The hardest part of working with an AI agent isn't the model — it's writing a good prompt at the moment you need it. That moment is usually the worst moment:

- You're context-switching from something else.
- You're on mobile, in a meeting, at 11pm.
- You half-remember the gotchas from last time and don't want to repeat them.
- You're rushing, so the prompt comes out vague, the agent guesses, and you spend longer fixing the output than you would have spent writing a real prompt.

**Pre-authored prompts move the prompt-writing work to a calmer moment.** When you have ten minutes and you're thinking clearly, write the bundle. When the busy moment arrives, just trigger it.