promptkitlisted

# promptkit Everything downstream starts *after* a prompt is written, and nothing looks at the sentence you're about to send. That sentence is the cheapest artifact in the workflow and the highest-leverage one: a vague instruction doesn't fail loudly, it produces a plausible wrong thing, and the cost lands three steps later in a review pass and a rebuild. promptkit sharpens the prompt. It never does the work the prompt describes. Two modes, split by **artifact** rather than by effort, because their rules genuinely contradict each other: - **[`task`](#mode-task)** is the instruction you're about to hand an agent in this session. Ephemeral: one send, then it's dead. Context gets baked in, placeholders are forbidden, and it can lean on the repo. - **[`system`](#mode-system)** is the prompt your application sends on every request. Durable: its variables *are* the interface, and it has to survive input written by someone trying to break it. Get the branch wrong and you ship a prompt that fails in exactly the way the other mode guards against. That's why the split exists. ## What promptkit is not - **Not the task executor.** Handed "add auth", it writes a prompt about adding auth. It does not add auth. This is the load-bearing safety rule and the most likely failure, because the model is perfectly capable of just doing the task and will drift toward it. - **Not the skill author.** A `SKILL.md` is a prompt, so this needs saying in both directions: authoring or improving a ski