How we curate the prompt library
A prompt library is only useful if the prompts are good. This page explains where our prompts come from, how they are reviewed, what gets removed, and how AI is used in the process.
By the ThinkWithPrompt editorial team at Synottic · Last updated: 16 October 2026
Starting point: a full review of 5,779 prompts
The library began as a large collection of prompts from three sources: an existing prompt catalogue, community-contributed prompts and Synottic’s own prompts. Every one of the 5,779 candidates received an individual decision:
| Decision | Prompts | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Merged | 3,124 | Near-duplicates folded into one canonical prompt for the same job. |
| Removed | 2,161 | Did not meet the bar (reasons below). |
| Kept | 242 | Already clear, specific and reusable. |
| Rewritten | 189 | Useful job, but the prompt needed restructuring. |
| Improved | 63 | Small fixes to inputs, structure or wording. |
The most common reasons for removal were prompts that were too thin to be useful (632), too niche for a general library (594), scene descriptions rather than tasks (213), broken or garbled (144), potentially harmful (111), not in English (91), or risky to rely on without professional input (86).
Growing the library
After the review, the library was expanded to more than 2,500 prompts covering everyday work across 28 topics. These new prompts were written with AI assistance against a written quality bar, the same one the reviewed prompts had to meet, and checked against the existing library so that they do not duplicate a prompt already there. Role- and industry-specific versions are allowed only when they change something substantive, such as different inputs, checklists, regulations or failure modes, not just a swapped noun.
Our quality bar
Every prompt in the library is expected to have:
- An outcome title: what you get, in the words you would search for, starting with a verb.
- A one-sentence description of the result.
- A clear structure that follows a named prompt framework.
- Fill-in blanks for the details only you know, such as audience, goal and source material.
- A defined output: sections, table columns or length.
- Guardrails where the stakes are real: never inventing facts, figures or citations; pointing to a qualified professional on legal, financial and health topics; and fairness and local-law notes for HR.
We avoid things that add length without value, such as inflated expert personas, filler instructions and decorative formatting.
Organisation
Each prompt is assigned one of 28 topics, a prompt framework, a level and tags for the kind of task (write, analyse, plan and so on), so you can find it by what you are trying to do. Before a prompt gets its own page on the site, it must pass completeness checks on its title, description, structure and length.
Keeping it current
Prompts are revised when better structures emerge, when you tell us one isn’t working, or when a topic changes. Spotted a problem with a prompt? Email info@synottic.com with the prompt’s title.
Who curates the library
The library is maintained by the ThinkWithPrompt editorial team at Synottic, a Human-Centred AI transformation company certified to ISO/IEC 42001 for AI management systems. Read more about ThinkWithPrompt.