prompt-gear 0.1.0b1

YAML-powered prompt manager with multi-backend support

Prompt Gear

🧠 YAML-powered prompt manager with multi-backend support

Prompt Gear is a flexible prompt management tool that can be embedded into any Python application (LangGraph, LangChain, FastAPI, etc.). It supports multiple storage backends and provides both CLI and Python SDK interfaces.

✨ Features

• ✅ Multi-backend storage: Filesystem (YAML), SQLite, PostgreSQL
• ✅ YAML-based prompt format: Human-readable and version-controllable
• ✅ File input support: Create prompts from files for better organization
• ✅ Advanced version management: Sequence-based versioning with explicit latest tracking
• ✅ Dual interface: CLI tool + Python SDK
• ✅ Flexible configuration: System prompts, user prompts, and custom config
• ✅ Environment-based config: Use .env files for backend configuration
• ✅ Robust data integrity: Transaction-based operations with automatic rollback
• ✅ uv + pyproject.toml: Modern Python packaging ready for PyPI

🚀 Quick Start

Installation

pip install prompt-gear

Initialize in your project

# Initialize with filesystem backend (default)
promptgear init --backend filesystem

# Initialize with SQLite backend
promptgear init --backend sqlite

# Initialize with PostgreSQL backend
promptgear init --backend postgres

Create a prompt

# Direct input
promptgear create chatbot_greeting --version v1 \
  --system "You are a helpful assistant that speaks politely." \
  --user "Hello! How can I help you? {{user_input}}" \
  --config '{"temperature": 0.7, "max_tokens": 512}'

# File input for complex prompts
promptgear create complex_chatbot \
  --system-file system_prompt.txt \
  --user-file user_template.txt \
  --config-file config.yaml

# Mix file and direct input
promptgear create hybrid_prompt \
  --system-file detailed_system.txt \
  --user "Simple user message: {{input}}" \
  --config '{"temperature": 0.5}'

Use in Python

from promptgear import PromptManager

pm = PromptManager()
prompt = pm.get_prompt("chatbot_greeting", "v1")

print(prompt.system_prompt)
print(prompt.user_prompt)
print(prompt.config["temperature"])

📁 YAML Format

Prompts are stored in YAML format:

name: chatbot_greeting
version: v1
system_prompt: >
  You are a helpful assistant that speaks politely.
user_prompt: >
  Hello! How can I help you? {{user_input}}
config:
  temperature: 0.7
  max_tokens: 512

🔧 Configuration

Configure via .env file:

# Filesystem backend
PROMPT_GEAR_BACKEND=filesystem
PROMPT_GEAR_PROMPT_DIR=./prompts

# SQLite backend
PROMPT_GEAR_BACKEND=sqlite
PROMPT_GEAR_DB_URL=sqlite:///prompts.db

# PostgreSQL backend
PROMPT_GEAR_BACKEND=postgres
PROMPT_GEAR_DB_URL=postgresql://user:pass@localhost/prompts

� Version Management

Prompt Gear uses an advanced sequence-based versioning system:

Version Sequence Numbers

• Each prompt version gets an auto-incrementing sequence number
• Sequence numbers are maintained independently per prompt name
• Deleted versions don't affect sequence numbering (e.g., v1→v2→v4 after deleting v3)

Latest Version Tracking

• Each prompt has exactly one version marked as "latest"
• Creating a new version automatically updates the latest flag
• Deleting the latest version automatically promotes the highest sequence number version

Examples

# Create versions - sequence numbers auto-assigned
v1 = pm.create_prompt("example", "v1", "System v1", "User v1")  # seq=1, latest=True
v2 = pm.create_prompt("example", "v2", "System v2", "User v2")  # seq=2, latest=True

# v1 is automatically marked as not latest
v1_updated = pm.get_prompt("example", "v1")  # seq=1, latest=False

# Get latest version without specifying version
latest = pm.get_prompt("example")  # Returns v2

# Delete latest version
pm.delete_prompt("example", "v2")
new_latest = pm.get_prompt("example")  # Returns v1 (automatically promoted)

�📚 CLI Commands

• promptgear init - Initialize Prompt Gear with backend selection
• promptgear create - Create a new prompt (automatically becomes latest)
• promptgear get - Get a prompt (latest version if version not specified)
• promptgear list - List all prompts with their latest versions
• promptgear delete - Delete a prompt version (auto-promotes new latest)
• promptgear versions - List all versions of a prompt
• promptgear status - Show backend status and statistics

🧩 Python SDK

from promptgear import PromptManager

# Initialize
pm = PromptManager()

# Create prompt (automatically gets sequence number and latest flag)
prompt = pm.create_prompt(
    name="my_prompt",
    version="v1",
    system_prompt="You are helpful.",
    user_prompt="{{user_input}}",
    config={"temperature": 0.8}
)

# Get latest version (no version specified)
latest = pm.get_prompt("my_prompt")

# Get specific version
specific = pm.get_prompt("my_prompt", "v1")

# List prompts (returns latest versions)
prompts = pm.list_prompts()

# List all versions of a prompt
versions = pm.list_versions("my_prompt")

# Update prompt
pm.update_prompt("my_prompt", "v1", system_prompt="Updated system prompt")

# Delete prompt version
pm.delete_prompt("my_prompt", "v1")  # Latest flag auto-managed

🏗️ Development Status

Currently in Phase 3 development:

• ✅ Basic schema and filesystem backend
• ✅ Core PromptManager functionality
• ✅ CLI interface with backend selection
• ✅ SQLite backend with structured storage
• ✅ PostgreSQL backend with connection pooling
• ✅ Advanced version management with sequence numbers
• ✅ Robust data integrity and transaction support
• ✅ Comprehensive test coverage across all backends
• ⏳ Advanced features and optimizations (Phase 4)
• ⏳ PyPI packaging (Phase 4)

📄 License

MIT License