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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6 start here · 141 specific · 3 advancedImprove 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-promptAssistant 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-trackLearn 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-basicsWrite 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-instructionsConcise
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.
conciseReview 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Reviews existing custom or project instructions for an AI assistant, finds conflicts, vague rules, outdated facts and missing context, and returns a tighter version with test prompts.
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claude plugin marketplace add hermes-hq/hodios-distclaude plugin install hodios-prompting@hodiosThe 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
All 64- 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
All 50- 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
All 36- 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.