Build better prompts with strategy, not guesswork.
Framework Prompting helps you turn a vague task into a clear, reusable AI prompt using PAST: Purpose, Audience, Scope, and Tone. Built in your browser, free, no sign-up.
Open source. Guided by official prompting advice from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. Refreshed daily.
From “do this task” to a prompt that travels well.
“Draft a weekly status email from my project notes.”
- Task
- Draft a weekly stakeholder update from project notes.
- Purpose
- Summarize progress, blockers, and next steps clearly.
- Audience
- Project sponsors and team leads who need a fast status read.
- Scope
- Use this week’s notes only; exclude confidential detail; highlight risks and deadlines.
- Tone
- Professional, concise, calm, and accountable.
Same task. Better thinking. More reliable output. More examples →
PAST gives structure to prompt thinking.
Instead of collecting reusable prompt snippets, define the four things that make a prompt usable in context.
Purpose
What outcome are you trying to achieve?
Audience
Who will use or read the result, and what do they need?
Scope
What belongs in, what stays out, and what constraints matter?
Tone
What voice, register, and level of formality should the output carry?
Once those are clear, the prompt becomes much easier to write well. Read the full framework →
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From prompt hoard to working prompt — the whole method, no narration needed.
Framework Prompter
Stop collecting prompts. Learn to build them.
A workbench for building prompts that work. Think through the four PAST elements with guidance grounded in official prompting documentation, and your prompt takes shape as you write. AI can suggest a starting point, but the judgment stays with you. Free, no sign-up.
- Describe the task in one or two sentences.
- Clarify Purpose, Audience, Scope, and Tone. Stuck? Ask for a suggested starting point.
- Copy, refine, or download the final prompt — Markdown for ChatGPT and Gemini, XML tags for Claude.
Built locally in your browser. Never stored. Your thinking stays yours.
Step 1 of 4
What outcome should this produce?
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Summarise this week’s progress, blockers, and next steps so stakeholders can understand the project status in under two minutes.
Who will use or read the result?
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Project sponsors and team leads who need a quick, non-technical view of progress, risks, and decisions.
What should the AI include, exclude, or respect?
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Use only this week’s notes. Include progress, blockers, owners, and next deadlines. Exclude confidential and low-level technical detail. Keep it under 200 words.
How should the result sound?
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Professional, concise, calm, and accountable. Use plain English and sound like a capable colleague writing directly to the team.
A prompt is only as strong as its thinnest element — 0 of 4 filled so far.
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Built on the official guidance, in the open.
- Guidance aligned with official OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google prompting docs.
- Re-checked daily and updated when their advice changes.
- Your prompt is built locally in your browser and never stored.
- Open-source frameworks you can inspect, use, and adapt.
When your prompt works, use SHAPE before you scale it.
Once a prompt or workflow works, the temptation is to roll it out everywhere at once. SHAPE is the thinking exercise for that moment: five questions — Situation, Hypothesis, Action, Process, Evaluation — that tell you whether you’re ready to scale, or what’s missing.
About
Who built this
Jim Christian — technology educator and author who has spent a decade teaching people how to think with technology, from classrooms to applied AI strategy. Both frameworks and this tool are open source; find PAST and SHAPE on GitHub. More writing at Signal Over Noise.
What powers it
The guidance here comes straight from the source: OpenAI, Anthropic and Google each publish official advice on how to get the best from their AI — and this site re-reads it every day. When their advice changes, the tips here change with it. Your prompt is built right in your browser and never stored anywhere.
Who it's for
People who want to understand the thinking behind a good prompt — practitioners, team leads, educators. If you'd rather learn to build a prompt than collect someone else's, you're in the right place. If you only want a copy-paste prompt library, this will frustrate you.
License
Both frameworks are open-source under CC BY-SA 4.0. Use them, adapt them, teach with them — just give attribution and share alike.