Prompting

Customization

Before executing, check for user customizations at: ~/.claude/LIFEOS/USER/CUSTOMIZATIONS/SKILLS/Prompting/

If this directory exists, load and apply any PREFERENCES.md, configurations, or resources found there. These override default behavior. If the directory does not exist, proceed with skill defaults.

🚨 MANDATORY: Voice Notification (REQUIRED BEFORE ANY ACTION)

You MUST send this notification BEFORE doing anything else when this skill is invoked.

1. Send voice notification:

   curl -s -X POST http://localhost:31337/notify \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -d '{"message": "Running the WORKFLOWNAME workflow in the Prompting skill to ACTION"}' \
     > /dev/null 2>&1 &
   

2. Output text notification:

   Running the **WorkflowName** workflow in the **Prompting** skill to ACTION...
   

This is not optional. Execute this curl command immediately upon skill invocation.

Prompting - Meta-Prompting & Template System

What It Does

Generates, optimizes, and composes prompts programmatically. It's the standard library for prompt engineering — other skills call it when they need to build or improve a prompt. The output is always a prompt to be used elsewhere, never the final content itself.

Invoke when: meta-prompting, template generation, prompt optimization, programmatic prompt composition, creating dynamic agents, generating structured prompts from data.

The Problem

Prompt engineering tends to get copy-pasted and rewritten by hand across every skill that needs it, so the same patterns drift apart and best practices live in one person's head. When you want to compose a prompt from data — spin up a custom agent, build an eval judge, generate a phased workflow — there's no clean way to separate the structure from the content. This skill makes structure code and content data: one Handlebars template plus different data renders specialized agents, workflows, and eval frameworks, and the engineering standards live in one place every skill can reference.