Prompts library
# 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**.
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## 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**:when to use it
Community prompt sourced from the open-source GitHub repo ekorbia/ekorbia-desktop (MIT). A "Prompts library" style prompt — adapt the placeholders and specifics to your task. Imported as-is and not independently retested here, so check the output before relying on it.
tags
writingcommunitygeneral
source
ekorbia/ekorbia-desktop · MIT
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