Prompt Engineering Context Templates

Create a Template From a Conversation — One Slot, Fixed Recipe

A case-study chat that converged on the three-beat structure becomes a template: {{input}} changes per customer, everything the iteration earned stays fixed.

Overview

Some convergences are recipes: the structure, rules, and quality bar stay constant while one thing changes per use. Template mode captures that shape — the converged case-study structure (breaking point, change, proving number; metric headline; 600 words; one pull quote) becomes the fixed recipe, and {{input}} marks the slot where each new customer interview goes. The usage notes route deeper variableization to the Prompt Variable Builder — distill here, variableize there, the composition the two tools were built for.

How to use this resource

  1. Distill the recipe

    Structure, rules, and bar from the iteration — the fixed part of the template.

  2. Place the slot

    {{input}} marks what changes per use; the task line carries it.

  3. Variableize deeper if needed

    More slots? The package routes you to the Prompt Variable Builder — by design.

Why This Works

  • Recipe-plus-slot matches how converged structures actually get reused
  • One explicit slot keeps the template honest about what varies
  • The PVB handoff composes the tools instead of duplicating them

Best for

  • Repeating tasks with one changing subject
  • Content series with fixed converged structure
  • Teams running many instances of one recipe

Not for

  • Building templates from scratch with full variable management — the Prompt Template Builder
  • Detecting ALL changeable values in an existing prompt — the Prompt Variable Builder (the package points there)

Use cases

  • Case studies, profiles, and other per-subject recipes
  • Templating a structure that converged once
  • Feeding distilled prompts into the variableization pipeline

FAQ

How does template mode decide what stays fixed versus what becomes a variable?

Everything the conversation earned stays fixed — the three-beat structure, the FORMAT line (600 words max, one pull quote, no bullet lists), and the QUALITY BAR — while a single {{input}} slot in the task line marks the one thing that changes per use. The conversation-to-prompt-builder distills that shape; you replace {{input}} each run before sending it to your own assistant.

What if my template needs more than one changeable value?

This mode places exactly one {{input}} slot, and both OPTIONAL VARIABLES and USAGE NOTES route deeper detection to the Prompt Variable Builder — distill here, variableize there. So for a second or third slot you'd run the distilled prompt through that builder rather than expecting this one to find every changeable value.

Why does the template include an AVOID list?

Because directions you rejected mid-conversation travel as an AVOID list — here "Too generic — 'great results' is exactly what case studies drown in" — so the model can't rediscover a path you already walked back. Signals are extracted VERBATIM and deduplicated, and USAGE NOTES still advise reading the prompt once before trusting it with a real run.

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