What is Prompt?
Also called: Instruction, input
A prompt is your instruction to the AI: what you type into the input box.
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Example
“Write a friendly payment reminder to a regular customer, 80 words max.”
For pros
Good prompts state role, goal, context, format and limits. Prompts you reuse are worth turning into a template with placeholders or into a skill.
Related prompts, skills, agents and tools
Sources: platform.openai.com, Wikipedia · Checked on 19 October 2026
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