Modifying instruction prompt

What is an instruction prompt?

In AI, a prompt is a piece of text, a question, or a command that you provide to an AI model to generate a response or perform a task. It's essentially the input that guides the AI to produce the desired output.

— Google Gemini, reflecting on its own control mechanisms

Your instruction prompt contains instructions you expect your agent to follow through the course of conversation. Depending on the AI provider you're using, it is often referred to as a system prompt or a developer prompt. The reason we call ours an instruction prompt is to differentiate it a little bit: we have our own, much larger, system prompt that we feed to our systems. Your instruction prompt helps guide your agent's output in the context of our larger system prompt.

Modifying your agent's instruction prompt

To modify your agent's instruction prompt, visit the Settings tab when viewing your agent. It's at the top right of the window with a cog icon. In mobile view this will just be a cog icon.

Find the settings icon, at the top right of your window

From here you can modify your instruction prompt by double-clicking on the prompt, or single-clicking the edit icon beside the prompt.

Double-click or click the edit button to modify

Once you are finished modifying your instruction prompt, you can save by click the edit button, which should now appear as a checkmark, or simply by clicking away from the prompt.

Tips for writing instruction prompts

• Be specific, models respond well to very specific guidance

• Your instruction prompt is used on every generation, remember that

• Agents tend to respond well to markdown and lists

• If you want your agent to adhere to strict formats and response types, use examples like so:

User:
I love broccoli!
Calorie bot:
A single broccoli floret has about 10 calories.

Reusing old instruction prompts

We currently keep a log of all previously used prompts for your agent, however this is not exposed to end users. If you think a change log or diff would be a valuable feature please reach out to [email protected] and let us know!