Enabling/Disabling Prompts

Enabling a prompt makes it possible to execute a prompt as if it were a native command. If your PATH is setup correctly, an enabled prompt is executable directly using its name, without the .prompt extension.

Enabling Prompts

Enable prompts using promptctl enable promptname:

$ promptctl enable translate

Installed /home/user/.promptcmd/bin/translate

$ translate --help

Usage: translate [OPTIONS] --lang <lang>

Prompt inputs:
      --summarize                  Whether to also summarize the text
      --text <text>                Text to translate, defaults to stdin
      --lang <lang>                Target language
      --source-lang <source-lang>  Source language, leave blank to auto detect

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Prompts created with promptctl create are automatically enabled and available as commands.

Disabling a Prompt

To disable a prompt and make it unavailable as a command:

$ promptctl disable translate

The prompt file remains in your prompts directory, but the command symlink is removed from ~/.promptcmd/bin/. You can still execute disabled prompts using indirect methods (see Executing Prompts).

To re-enable a disabled prompt, use promptctl enable again.