# Dotprompt: Executable GenAI Prompt Templates

<https://google.github.io/dotprompt/>

- Host: [google.github.io](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/google.github.io/)
- Saved: December 1, 2025 (2025-12-01T23:04:55Z)
- Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/cee7e3a29089/
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## What Jamie wrote

A pretty cool idea to have a simple text file with YAML front matter and embedded prompts that you can then run as a Unix executable. This is a pretty cool idea and very extensible. It reminds me a bit of what I've done with Shortcuts and "Use Model" but incredibly more extensible. You can then pair this with something like [runprompt](https://github.com/chr15m/runprompt) which as a Python program that will run your .prompt files for you.

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- [WT335: Weekly Thing 335 / Complexity, Fizzy, Soul](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/335/), Notable

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## Elsewhere

- Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://google.github.io/dotprompt/