prompt-atoms

Prompt engineering as a canonical, machine-readable, versioned library — replacing closed vendor libraries and scattered cookbooks with typed personas, constraints, formats, tool-use templates, refusal patterns, and output schemas.

prompt-atoms is a *-Atoms catalog in the Convergent Systems ecosystem. It defines what exists in its domain — typed, versioned, machine-readable, composable, and open — so runtimes (and humans) can stand on shared infrastructure instead of reinventing it.

Structure

prompt-atoms/
├── ATOMS.yml              # Catalog manifest
├── atoms/                 # Reusable building blocks
├── prompts/           # Compositions assembled from atoms
├── rules/                 # Typed constraint vocabulary
├── schemas/               # Catalog-specific JSON Schemas
├── exports/               # CI-generated machine-readable exports
└── docs/                  # Human-readable documentation

Atom types

• persona
• constraint
• format-instruction
• tool-use-template
• refusal-pattern
• output-schema

Rule types

• model-compatibility
• token-length-constraint
• format-compatibility

Runtime consumers

aish, olympus

How to consume

Machine-readable exports are published in exports/ on every release:

• exports/manifest.json — lightweight discovery (name, version, counts)
• exports/catalog.json — full catalog dump (every atom, composition, rule)

Exports are deterministic, signed, and versioned. See ATOMS.yml for the manifest and the conformance spec.

How to contribute

1. Read ATOMS.yml to understand the catalog's atom types, compositions, and rules.
2. Add a new atom under atoms/<type>/ or a composition under prompts/<name>/.
3. Open a PR. CI validates the schema, references, and exports.
4. Larger structural changes go through the XAIP process.

Ecosystem

• Federation: xdao.co · github.com/convergent-systems-co/xdao
• Spec: github.com/convergent-systems-co/atoms-spec
• Tools: github.com/convergent-systems-co/atoms-tools
• Umbrella: github.com/convergent-systems-co/atoms — all catalogs as submodules
• Other catalogs: brand-atoms, service-atoms, prompt-atoms, policy-atoms, identity-atoms, compliance-atoms, workflow-atoms, agent-atoms, knowledge-atoms, event-atoms, plugin-atoms

License

Apache-2.0 — see LICENSE.