Prompt templates

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Describe the feature

Currently, users can only define simple, static prompts. However, Anthropic advanced prompting techniques suggest wrapping valuable information in XML-like syntax and reducing interpretation errors ¹.

It’s already possible to prepare prompts which include XML blocks, but there’s no easy way to edit those blocks without:

1. Unfolding the prompt
2. Scanning the prompt for the XML block
3. Edit the block’s content
4. Wash, rinse, repeat 2 & 3 for each block

It would be great to have some way to simplify this process, giving the user the ability to edit the content of these blocks without requiring all the steps above.

My naïve proposed UX would see Zed automatically identify XML tags which contain mustache-like syntax inside a prompt and render the identified “parameters” directly in the folded prompt as text areas. When the user edits the text areas, the new content is automatically replaced within the folded prompt in the correct location.

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Footnotes

1. https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/prompt-engineering/use-xml-tags ↩