What is Prompt?
The short answer
A prompt is the instruction you give an AI model: the request, the context and any constraints that shape what it produces.
Prompt, explained
Specific prompts get specific results. Naming the audience, the goal, examples of what good looks like and what to avoid does more than clever wording.
Questions people ask about Prompt
What is Prompt?
A prompt is the instruction you give an AI model: the request, the context and any constraints that shape what it produces.
Related terms
Prompt engineering is the practice of writing and structuring instructions to AI models so they produce accurate, useful and consistent results.
System promptA system prompt is the standing instruction that sets an AI's role, rules and style for a whole conversation, before any user message.
Context windowThe context window is how much text an AI model can consider at once, including your instructions, the files it reads and the conversation so far.
Vibe codingVibe coding is building software by describing what you want to an AI in plain language and iterating on what it produces, rather than writing the code line by line yourself.
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