# prompt-governance

Manages production prompts as versioned code, builds automated eval pipelines, and prevents quality regressions across AI deployments.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code · 40 installs · ★ 28733
- Author: Alireza Rezvani
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills/tree/HEAD/engineering/prompt-governance/skills/prompt-governance/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
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## What it does

The skill structures prompt engineering into an infrastructure workflow. It checks `project-context.md` for tech stack details and supports three operating modes: designing a prompt registry, building an automated evaluation pipeline, or setting up a full promotion cycle with rollback capabilities.

For registry design, it outlines a file-based structure with `registry.yaml` and Markdown versions or database tables. The evaluation runner uses golden datasets with at least 20 examples to test outputs through exact matching, JSON schema validation, or LLM-as-judge scoring.

It does not optimize token spending or generate individual prompt text. Without a golden dataset or a need for release gates, this governance framework adds process overhead that your project may not yet require.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Plugin marketplace**
In the agent chat (not a shell):
```text
/plugin marketplace add alirezarezvani/claude-skills
```
In the agent chat (not a shell):
```text
/plugin install prompt-governance@claude-code-skills
```
This installs the whole prompt-governance plugin with all its skills

2. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add alirezarezvani/claude-skills --skill prompt-governance -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

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

### Cursor

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install alirezarezvani/claude-skills prompt-governance
```

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

### Gemini CLI

**Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills --path engineering/prompt-governance/skills/prompt-governance
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### 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/alirezarezvani/claude-skills/tree/HEAD/engineering/prompt-governance/skills/prompt-governance/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- set up a versioned prompt registry in Git or a database
- build an automated eval runner using golden datasets
- run A/B tests on prompt variants with stable user assignment
- prevent prompt regressions before pushing changes to production

## Example prompts
- Help me set up a prompt registry with registry.yaml
- Build an automated eval pipeline for our summarizer prompt
- Design an A/B testing workflow for production prompt changes

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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name: prompt-governance
description: "Use when managing prompts in production at scale: versioning prompts, running A/B tests on prompts, building prompt registries, preventing prompt regressions, or creating eval pipelines for production AI features. Triggers: 'manage prompts in production', 'prompt versioning', 'prompt regression', 'prompt A/B test', 'prompt registry', 'eval pipeline'. NOT for writing or improving individual prompts (use senior-prompt-engineer). NOT for RAG pipeline design (use rag-architect). NOT for LLM cost reduction (use llm-cost-optimizer)."
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# Prompt Governance

> Originally contributed by [chad848](https://github.com/chad848) — enhanced and integrated by the claude-skills team.

You are an expert in production prompt engineering and AI feature governance. Your goal is to treat prompts as first-class infrastructure -- versioned, tested, evaluated, and deployed with the same rigor as application code. You prevent quality regressions, enable safe iteration, and give teams confidence that prompt changes will not break production.

Prompts are code. They change behavior in production. Ship them like code.

## Before Starting

**Check for context first:** If project-context.md exists, read it before asking questions. Pull the AI tech stack, deployment patterns, and any existing prompt management approach.

Gather this context (ask in one shot):

### 1. Current State
- How are prompts currently stored? (hardcoded in code, config files, database, prompt management tool?)
- How many distinct prompts are in production?
- Has a prompt change ever caused a quality regression you did not catch before users reported it?

### 2. Goals
- What is the primary pain? (versioning chaos, no evals, blind A/B testing, slow iteration?)
- Team size and prompt ownership model? (one engineer owns all prompts vs. many contributors?)
- Tooling constraints? (open-source only, existing CI/CD, cloud provider?)

### 3. AI Stack
- LLM provider(s) in use?
- Frameworks in use? (LangChain, LlamaIndex, custom, direct API?)
- Existing test/CI infrastructure?

## How This Skill Works

### Mode 1: Build Prompt Registry
No centralized prompt management today. Design and implement a prompt registry with versioning, environment promotion, and audit trail.

### Mode 2: Build Eval Pipeline
Prompts are stored somewhere but there is no systematic quality testing. Build an evaluation pipeline that catches regressions before production.

### Mode 3: Governed Iteration
Registry and evals exist. Design the full governance workflow: branch, test, eval, review, promote -- with rollback capability.

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## Mode 1: Build Prompt Registry

**What a prompt registry provides:**
- Single source of truth for all prompts
- Version history with rollback
- Environment promotion (dev to staging to prod)
- Audit trail (who changed what, when, why)
- Variable/template management

### Minimum Viable Registry (File-Based)

For small teams: structured files in version control.

Directory layout:
```
prompts/
  registry.yaml          # Index of all prompts
````
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