AI Operations · Glossary
Prompt
Component 1 of the Eight Components of an Interactive Agent. A Prompt is the authored linguistic surface where authored components render into model input or user-visible output. Treating Prompts as components removes prompt engineering as a separate skill from AI Operations.
A Prompt is a component of the agent, not a craft practised on top of one. Prompts in an Interactive Agent are authored as templates that bind to Variables, draw from the Glossary component, and operate under the agent's Policies. Prompts are not the locus of the agent's intelligence: Policies, Routines, and Tools carry that load. The Prompt is the linguistic surface where authored components render into model input or user-visible output. Prompts are versioned inside the policy library, governed centrally, and inspectable per decision through the production trace. Treating Prompts as components removes "prompt engineering" as a separate skill from AI Operations.