Description
prompts.chat is an open-source repository billed as "the world's largest open-source prompt library for AI." It was originally released in December 2022 as Awesome ChatGPT Prompts and has since been renamed prompts.chat, though the repository still describes itself as "f.k.a. Awesome ChatGPT Prompts" in its own project metadata.
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At its core, the project is a curated, community-contributed collection of prompts for AI chat models. Prompts can be browsed on the prompts.chat website or accessed as raw data in a few formats: a CSV file, a Markdown file, or a Hugging Face dataset. Anyone can contribute a new prompt through the site, and submissions sync back into the repository automatically.
Beyond the prompt collection, the project includes a free interactive guide to prompt engineering with more than 25 chapters, covering topics from prompting basics through chain-of-thought reasoning, few-shot learning, and building AI agents, plus a separate gamified track called "Prompting for Kids" aimed at ages 8 to 14. The project can be self-hosted with a setup wizard that configures custom branding, themes, and authentication through GitHub, Google, or Azure AD, backed by a PostgreSQL database. It also ships a command-line tool, a Claude Code plugin, and an MCP server so the prompt library can be used directly from other AI tools.
The repository has more than 171,000 GitHub stars and about 22,000 forks, and its own materials cite coverage in Forbes, references from Harvard and Columbia, more than 40 academic citations, and recognition as a GitHub Staff Pick and Hugging Face's most-liked dataset. It is actively maintained, not archived, and is sponsored by several developer-tooling companies including Neon, Sentry, and CodeRabbit.
The project is free and open source and can be self-hosted by organizations that want to keep their prompt library private. It's aimed at anyone using AI chat tools, from individual prompt writers to organizations building their own internal, white-labeled prompt library.
- CategoryPrompt Engineering Tools
- Pricing ModelOpen source
- DeploymentSelf-hosted
- PlatformsWeb
prompts.chat's Core Features
A large, community-contributed library of prompts for AI chat models
Data available as a browsable site, a CSV file, a Markdown file, or a Hugging Face dataset
A free, 25+ chapter interactive guide to prompt engineering
"Prompting for Kids," a gamified track for ages 8 to 14
Self-hosting with a setup wizard for custom branding, themes, and authentication
A command-line tool for using the library from a terminal
An MCP server and Claude Code plugin for using prompts inside other AI tools
A contribution flow that syncs new community prompts back into the repository
Getting Started with prompts.chat
Browse prompts: Visit prompts.chat or the PROMPTS.md file to find a prompt for your task.
Use the CLI: Run "npx prompts.chat" to access the library from your terminal.
Add it as an MCP server: Point your AI tool at the hosted MCP endpoint, or run it locally with the CLI's mcp command.
Self-host your own library: Run the setup command and follow the wizard for branding, theme, and authentication.
Contribute a prompt: Submit one through the site; it syncs into the repository automatically.
prompts.chat's Use Cases
- Finding ready-made prompts
- Private company prompt library
- Learning prompt engineering
- In-tool prompt access
