prompts

prompts is a command for coding agents from zircote/subcog. It costs 8 tokens per session (679 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for using ready-made prompt templates for common persistent-memory tasks. Prompt templates are reusable instructions for guiding an AI through a particular job.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to learn the memory system, capture useful context, document decisions, get search help, or review saved memories.
Why use it?
It saves you from writing the same memory-related instructions repeatedly and provides guidance for common workflows.

Command

Part of the subcog plugin — 4 skills, 9 commands, 5 hooks shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/zircote/subcog/prompts
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zircote/subcog

Or install subcog, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 9 commands, 5 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 8 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 679 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00008 $0.00679
Opus 5 $0.00004 $0.00340
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00136
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00068

Measured 4d ago against content hash 8bd3600141b2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prompts scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 4d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

commands/prompts.md · 106 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 106 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/subcog:prompts

Access and use pre-defined prompt templates for common memory operations.

Usage

/subcog:prompts --list
/subcog:prompts tutorial [--focus capture|recall|namespaces|workflows]
/subcog:prompts capture-assistant
/subcog:prompts document-decision "Use PostgreSQL for storage"
/subcog:prompts search-help "find authentication patterns"
/subcog:prompts review [--namespace decisions] [--action summarize]

Available Prompts

Prompt Details

tutorial

Arguments:

  • --focus: Topic to focus on (overview, capture, recall, namespaces, workflows, best-practices)
  • --familiarity: Your experience level (beginner, intermediate, advanced)

Example:

/subcog:prompts tutorial --focus capture --familiarity intermediate

capture-assistant

Process:

  1. Reviews recent conversation context
  2. Identifies potential memories (decisions, learnings, patterns)
  3. Suggests namespace and content for each
  4. Uses AskUserQuestion to confirm captures

document-decision

Arguments:

  • decision (required): Brief description of the decision
  • alternatives (optional): Other options considered

Example:

/subcog:prompts document-decision "Use PostgreSQL" --alternatives "MySQL, SQLite"

Read the full file on GitHub · 106 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 4d ago First seen · 106 lines · 8 tokens per session scan A 8bd3600141b2

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prompts is a command published in the GitHub repository zircote/subcog (28 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 8 tokens to every session and 679 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.