Prompts
Prompts tell the AI how to behave. The Prompt Manager lets you browse built-in domain prompts, create your own, and mark prompts as QuickLauncher shortcuts.
Accessing the Prompt Manager
Open the plugin Settings dialogueue and switch to the Prompts tab.
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Active prompt
Right-click any translation prompt in the tree and choose Set as active prompt for this project to designate it as the active prompt. The active prompt is shown with a pin icon and bold blue text. It is used by memory bank Quick Add when appending terminology, and is auto-selected in the Batch Translate dropdown. The active prompt is saved per project.
What’s in this section
- Built-in Prompts – the prompts that ship with the plugin, organised by category
- Prompt Variables – placeholders you can use to make prompts context-aware (language, segment, project)
- Writing Custom Prompts – anatomy of a good prompt, worked examples, and tips
- QuickLauncher Shortcuts – marking prompts as QuickLauncher items, keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+Alt+1-0), and reordering
- Organising Prompts – folders, drag-and-drop, and the prompt library structure
- Prompt File Format – the
.svpromptformat, YAML fields, and creating/editing/deleting prompts