🎨 ART Prompt Framework

Most prompt failures come from three missing ingredients: unclear expertise, vague objectives, and absent constraints. The ART Framework fixes all three with a simple tripartite structure applied to every prompt it writes or refactors:

• 🎯 Fewer invented facts: Explicit terms and negative constraints keep the output anchored to what you actually gave it.
• ⚡ Copy-paste ready: Every output is a self-contained block that works in a brand-new chat.
• 🧩 Works beyond Claude: The skill is a single SKILL.md file. The prompts it writes are plain text, so they run in any LLM.
• 🔬 Repeatable results: Replaces trial-and-error prompting with a structure you can reuse and improve.

Here is how a one-line request becomes an actionable ART prompt:

"Help me write a cold email to a SaaS founder."

ACT AS:
A seasoned B2B sales copywriter who writes short, specific cold emails
that busy SaaS founders actually read.

REQUEST:
Write one cold email to the founder of a 20-person B2B SaaS company that
sells inventory software to small retailers. Goal: book a 15-minute call.
Use only the company name and the founder's first name as placeholders.

TERMS:
1. Length: 75 to 100 words.
2. Tone: direct, peer-to-peer. No buzzwords, no exclamation marks,
   no "I hope this finds you well."
3. Structure:
   - Line 1: one specific observation about the company (no generic praise).
   - Line 2: the value, with one concrete benefit.
   - Line 3: one low-friction call to action.
4. Do not invent facts about the company. If something is unknown, leave it out.

Clone the repository into your personal skills directory:

git clone https://github.com/YourAKShaw/art-prompt-framework.git ~/.claude/skills/art-prompt-framework

npx skills add YourAKShaw/art-prompt-framework

1. Download this repository as a ZIP archive.
2. Make sure SKILL.md is at the root of the extracted folder.
3. Upload the folder or ZIP via Claude Settings → Capabilities / Skills.

Once installed, ask your agent to write, improve, or convert a prompt, or mention the ART framework by name:

"Write an ART prompt to help me build an automated financial reconciliation pipeline in Python."

"Turn this into a strong prompt using the ART framework: 'Create a system design document for a real-time chat application.'"

The skill returns a clean, self-contained prompt in a code block, ready to paste into a new chat.

art-prompt-framework/
├── 📜 SKILL.md      # The skill: framework, conversion rules, output rules
├── ⚙️ .github/     # Commit message workflow and checker
├── 📘 README.md     # Project documentation
├── 🔒 SECURITY.md   # Vulnerability reporting policy
├── ⚖️ LICENSE       # MIT License
└── 🛡️ .gitignore   # Git ignore rules

Contributions, feedback, and new prompt patterns are warmly welcomed! 🙌

1. Fork the project.
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/new-prompt-pattern).
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'feat: add new terms template').
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/new-prompt-pattern).
5. Open a Pull Request.

For a large change to the framework itself, open an issue first so we can agree on the approach.

Found a vulnerability? Please report it privately as described in SECURITY.md instead of opening a public issue.

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for full details.