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cootsnucktoday at 4:01 PM1 replyview on HN

This is pretty cool. I like using snippets to run little scripts I have in the terminal (I use Alfred a lot on macOS). And right now I just manually do LLM requests in the scripts if needed, but I'd actually rather have a small library of prompts and then be able to pipe inputs and outputs between different scripts. This seems pretty perfect for that.

I wasn't aware of the whole ".prompt" format, but it makes a lot of sense.

Very neat. These are the kinds of tools I love to see. Functional and useful, not trying to be "the next big thing".


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PythonicNinjatoday at 6:55 PM

added some examples using runprompt in blog post:

"Chain Prompts Like Unix Tools with Dotprompt"

https://pythonic.ninja/blog/2025-11-27-dotprompt-unix-pipes/