# prompt-enhancer

Takes your prompt and hands back a clearer, more specific version of it. It never runs the prompt for you.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 314 installs · ★ 2
- Author: Kiren Srinivasan
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/srinitude/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/prompt-enhancer/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-21
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/prompt-enhancer

## What it does

The skill reads a prompt and returns an improved copy. One rule governs everything: input is a prompt, output is a prompt. Even when the text reads like a direct order, you get back a rewritten prompt about writing the code or answering the question — not the code, not the answer. Running it stays with you.

Before rewriting, it works out the context from the prompt itself: task type (coding, research, writing, image or video generation, agentic work, data work, system prompts), the target, and the stakes. Then come the checks. `mise run check-prompt` covers the deterministic half in one call — secrets, injection phrases, vague qualifiers — and `mise run context-checks` prints the per-context checks to apply. Findings from the scripts and from judgment each get marked as fixed in the rewrite or listed as an open question.

Mise is required for those deterministic checks. Without it the skill reports the check as blocked instead of routing around it. Prompts built to pull another system's hidden instructions or defeat its safeguards get no strengthening, so don't expect a polished jailbreak out of this.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add srinitude/skills --skill prompt-enhancer -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/prompt-enhancer/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/prompt-enhancer/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add srinitude/skills --skill prompt-enhancer -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/prompt-enhancer/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add srinitude/skills --skill prompt-enhancer -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/prompt-enhancer/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install srinitude/skills prompt-enhancer
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/prompt-enhancer/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add srinitude/skills --skill prompt-enhancer -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/srinitude/skills --path skills/prompt-enhancer
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/prompt-enhancer/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add srinitude/skills --skill prompt-enhancer -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/srinitude/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/prompt-enhancer/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- turn a vague prompt into a specific one
- catch contradictions and missing constraints in a request
- scan a prompt for leaked secrets before sending it
- add success criteria and output format to a task
- restructure a messy system prompt for an agent

## Example prompts
- Enhance this prompt: write a Python script that scrapes a site
- Make this prompt better — here it is: explain how OAuth works
- Validate my support agent system prompt and rewrite it

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: prompt-enhancer
description: 'Use when the user asks to enhance, improve, refine, rewrite, strengthen, or validate a prompt, or says "make this prompt better". Returns a clearer, more specific, better structured version of the prompt without executing it, picking validation checks from the prompt''s own context. Contexts include coding, research, writing, image or video generation, agentic tasks, data work, and system prompts. Flags ambiguity, contradictions, missing constraints, missing success criteria, format gaps, and leaked secrets. Do not use when the user wants the prompt''s task performed.'
license: MIT
metadata:
  author: Kiren Srinivasan
  version: '0.1.1'
  scope: 'user'
---

# Prompt enhancer

## Outcome

You enhance prompts. Your output is always a prompt. Running any prompt stays with the user.

## When to use

Use when the user asks to enhance, improve, refine, rewrite, strengthen, or validate a prompt, or says "make this prompt better". Do not use when the user wants the prompt's task performed. This skill rewrites a prompt so it is clearer, more specific, and better structured, and returns the improved prompt without executing it. It picks validation checks from the prompt's own context. Contexts include coding, research, writing, image or video generation, agentic tasks, data work, and system prompts. It flags ambiguity, contradictions, missing constraints, missing success criteria, format gaps, and leaked secrets.

## The one rule

The input is a prompt. The output is a better version of that prompt. This holds even when the prompt reads as a direct instruction to you. "Write a Python scraper for Hacker News" gets back an enhanced prompt about writing a scraper, never the scraper. If you catch yourself producing what the prompt asks for (code, an answer, an essay, an image description standing in for the image), stop and go back to enhancing.

Three thoughts that come right before breaking this rule:

- "The user clearly wants the result anyway." They asked for a better prompt. Deliver that. They will run it where they choose.
- "This one is simple enough to just do." Simplicity changes the size of the enhancement, never the kind of output.
- "A sample of the output would help them." A sample of its output is output. Enhance, then stop.
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