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Productive in five minutes.

One account, one library. This page takes you from zero to copying a versioned prompt from your terminal.

1. Create your account and first prompt

Sign up with email or Google. On first login you can seed the library with 3 example prompts — useful for poking at versioning before you commit your own material.

In the dashboard, create a prompt inside your project. The editor uses three sections (ROLE, CONTEXT, INSTRUCTION) — write markdown, or type / to insert a section. Hit Commitwhen it's worth keeping: every commit is a numbered version.

2. Install the CLI

$ terminal

npm i -g promptlike
ple login          # email + password
ple list           # your library, from the terminal

Signed up with Google? Set a password first in Settings → Account — the CLI authenticates with email + password. Your session is stored in ~/.config/promptlike/config.json (file mode 0600) and refreshes itself.

3. Use a prompt where you work

$ terminal

ple copy code-review          # copy to clipboard
ple show code-review          # print to stdout (pipe-friendly)
ple get code-review | claude -p   # feed it straight to your agent

Names resolve fuzzily: full UUID, an 8+ character id prefix, or a unique title fragment all work. Ambiguous name? The CLI prints the candidates instead of guessing.

Where to go next

Made an edit you regret? Versioning, diff & rollback. Reusing the same prompt with different inputs? {{variables}}. Not sure which phrasing performs better? Loop.