Dot Prompts

Dot Prompts is an open, file-based specification for managing prompts. Instead of locking prompts inside a chat app or a SaaS dashboard, it treats them as plain text files with a defined structure — so they can be reviewed, diffed, and versioned exactly like code.

Files work with the tools developers already trust: Git for history and code review, editors for search and refactoring, and CI for validation. A prompt that lives in Git gains blame, diffs, and rollback for free — capabilities most prompt platforms have to reinvent.

Yes. The specification includes template rendering, so a prompt can declare variables and be reused across contexts — write the skeleton once, fill in the inputs per call. Rendered results stay reproducible because the template itself is versioned.

Read the specification, create a prompts directory in your repository, and adopt the file layout incrementally — Dot Prompts is designed so you can start with a single file and grow into multi-directory collections without migration.

Yes. Dot Prompts is an open specification published by ZelonAI. There is no license fee, no hosted tier required, and no vendor lock-in — any tool is free to implement it.