The prompt library
AI prompts I keep around, with honest notes on when they help and when they don't.
Prompts worth keeping, with notes on what they actually do.
The prompt How to use it Where it falls shortThe tells that make people ask "did AI write this?" in short emails and messages, a paste-in style block to hand the model, and a 30-second checklist to run before you hit send.
Changing how the model answers · Note 4 ↗Absolute Mode is a widely shared prompt that strips a chatbot down to blunt, unpadded answers, and this is my copy with notes on when it's the wrong tool.
Changing how the model answers · Note 1 ↗A grounded take on the "tell me what you know about me" prompt that makes the model show its evidence and admit when it's guessing.
Prompts that hold up a mirror · Note 1 ↗God Mode is a widely shared prompt dressed up as a cognition protocol, and underneath the theater it reliably gets deeper, more structured thinking out of a model.
Prompts for plans, apps and side hustles · Note 1 ↗Eight short prompts for everyday jobs like sorting screenshots, planning dinner from a fridge photo and writing a resale listing, with a note on where each one needs a human check.
Prompts for plans, apps and side hustles · Note 5 ↗The Truth Prompt pushes a model to stick to what it can support, say "I cannot confirm this" out loud, and check itself for fabrication, which helps most when web search is on.
Changing how the model answers · Note 3 ↗A prompt that points out where your stated values and your actual behavior don't match, and only flags a contradiction it can back up with both sides.
Prompts that hold up a mirror · Note 2 ↗A widely shared prompt that turns an app idea into a full spec you can hand to a no-code builder, plus the quick version for ideas you just saw in a post.
Prompts for plans, apps and side hustles · Note 2 ↗Execution Mode is a circulating prompt that cuts the pleasantries, apologies and hedging so every reply starts with the answer and stops when it's done.
Changing how the model answers · Note 2 ↗A pair of prompts that project where your current patterns lead in five years, then run the same projection assuming you fix your biggest blind spot.
Prompts that hold up a mirror · Note 4 ↗The widely shared "$10K a month" Growth Engine prompt walks a model through a four-phase side-income plan, and the structure is useful even if the headline number isn't.
Prompts for plans, apps and side hustles · Note 3 ↗A three-phase reflection prompt for a pattern you keep falling into, built to offer its reads as guesses you can confirm or reject rather than pronouncements.
Prompts that hold up a mirror · Note 3 ↗
