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Prompting and assistants

Writing better prompts, setting up assistants and shaping output, for any AI tool.

103 prompts, 2 personas, 2 workflows, 7 rules, 36 styles

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PromptPrompt engineering

Improve a prompt

Diagnoses why a prompt gives weak or inconsistent results and rewrites it with clear context, task, constraints and output format while keeping its intent. Use on any prompt for any AI assistant.

improve-prompt
WorkflowAssistant setup

Assistant setup track

Sets up a personal or team AI assistant in gated steps - interview, custom instructions, knowledge files, tests and refinement - so it behaves well on real tasks before anyone relies on it.

assistant-setup-track
PromptPrompt engineering

Learn prompting basics

Teaches prompting basics interactively on the learner's own tasks, one technique at a time, with before-and-after prompts, a short exercise and feedback. For beginners to AI assistants.

learn-prompting-basics
PromptAssistant setup

Write custom instructions

Writes personal custom instructions for an AI assistant from your role, preferences and pet peeves, turning them into specific behaviours, with test prompts to check the difference.

write-custom-instructions
StyleOutput styles

Concise

Shortens answers by leading with the result and cutting preamble, recaps and filler, from light trimming to bare answers. Use when you want less reading and the same substance.

concise
PromptAssistant setup

Review custom instructions

Reviews existing custom or project instructions for an AI assistant, finds conflicts, vague rules, outdated facts and missing context, and returns a tighter version with test prompts.

review-custom-instructions

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or install it as a claude code plugin

claude plugin marketplace add hermes-hq/hodios-dist
claude plugin install hodios-prompting@hodios

The plugin carries the prompts, personas, workflows and styles. Rules are always-on instructions, so add those from their own pages.

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Prompt engineering

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  • Improve a prompt

    Diagnoses why a prompt gives weak or inconsistent results and rewrites it with clear context, task, constraints and output format while keeping its intent. Use on any prompt for any AI assistant.

  • Learn prompting basics

    Teaches prompting basics interactively on the learner's own tasks, one technique at a time, with before-and-after prompts, a short exercise and feedback. For beginners to AI assistants.

  • AI literacy coach

    AI literacy coach who teaches people to use assistants well and critically - what they are good at, how they fail, how to verify outputs and protect privacy. Use for learning to work with AI.

  • Compress a prompt

    Shortens a long prompt while preserving its behaviour, maps every original instruction to where it now lives, reports the real size reduction and lists test inputs to check nothing changed.

Assistant setup

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  • Assistant setup track

    Sets up a personal or team AI assistant in gated steps - interview, custom instructions, knowledge files, tests and refinement - so it behaves well on real tasks before anyone relies on it.

  • Write custom instructions

    Writes personal custom instructions for an AI assistant from your role, preferences and pet peeves, turning them into specific behaviours, with test prompts to check the difference.

  • Review custom instructions

    Reviews existing custom or project instructions for an AI assistant, finds conflicts, vague rules, outdated facts and missing context, and returns a tighter version with test prompts.

  • British English rules

    Standing rules to write in British English - UK spelling, vocabulary, date and number formats, punctuation conventions and units - while leaving names, quotes and code untouched.

Output styles

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  • Concise

    Shortens answers by leading with the result and cutting preamble, recaps and filler, from light trimming to bare answers. Use when you want less reading and the same substance.

  • Actionable

    Makes any answer end in action, from one concrete next step to a prioritised checklist with owners, time estimates and a first five-minute task. Use when you need to act, not just understand.

  • Analogy-led

    Explains through analogies, from one everyday analogy for the hardest idea to an extended analogy carried through the answer, with explicit notes on where it breaks down.

  • Beginner friendly

    Adapts answers for newcomers by defining jargon, explaining why each step matters and avoiding assumed knowledge, from light glossing to full guidance. Use when the reader is new to the topic.