Prompt Library

Browse, manage, and execute saved prompts from a searchable library

Overview

The Prompt Library is a centralized, searchable collection of all your prompts. It aggregates prompts from four sources: User Prompts, Action Prompts, Quick Prompts, and Connection System Prompts. You can open it from the main panel footer, via a keyboard hotkey, or via a mouse trigger.

The library has two variants. The panel variant opens as a popover or modal inside the main window. The overlay variant opens as a separate floating window positioned near your cursor, without stealing focus from the app you are working in. Enabled sections always appear at the top of the list; disabled sections are sorted to the bottom.

Opening the Prompt Library

Three methods are available:

Method	How to use	Result
Footer link	Click "Prompt Library" in the main panel footer	Opens as a modal inside the main panel window
Hotkey	Press the configured hotkey (configurable in Settings > General)	Opens as a floating overlay window near your cursor
Mouse trigger	Perform the configured mouse gesture (configurable in Settings > General)	Opens as a floating overlay window near your cursor

The hotkey acts as a toggle. Press the same combination again to dismiss the overlay. You can also press Escape or click the X button to close it.

The floating overlay never steals keyboard focus from your active application. After you execute a prompt or close the overlay, focus returns to the window that was active before the overlay appeared.

Prompt Types

Prompts are organized into four sections. Each section has a toggle switch that shows or hides it. Enabled sections are sorted to the top; disabled sections move to the bottom.

Section	Source	Editable here
User Prompts	Your custom prompts, stored locally on your device	Yes — add, edit, delete
Action Prompts	Prompts from your configured actions	Read-only — edit in Settings > Actions
Quick Prompts	Prompts from your Quick Prompt buttons (enabled only)	Read-only — edit in Settings > Quick Prompts
Connection Prompts	System prompts from your connections	Read-only — edit in Settings > Connections

Action prompts that belong to chain children are excluded from the library. They are triggered automatically via their parent action and are not intended for direct invocation.

Managing User Prompts

User Prompts are the only category you can create and modify directly inside the Prompt Library. Each user prompt has a short label and a full prompt text.

Action	How
Add	Click the Add button in the User Prompts section header (or in the overlay top bar). An inline form appears with a label field and a text area. Fill in both fields and click Done to save.
Edit	Click the Edit button on any user prompt row. The inline form opens pre-filled with the existing label and text. Change what you need and click Done.
Delete	Click the Delete button on any user prompt row, or click Delete inside the edit form to remove the prompt being edited.
Export data	Click the download icon button in the library footer. This saves a full data bundle (actions, user prompts, connections, quick prompts, and settings) as a JSON file for backup or transfer.

Both the label and text fields must be non-empty before a save is accepted. Clicking Done with either field empty has no effect.

In the overlay variant, Edit and Delete buttons are hidden by default to keep the interface compact. Enable them in Settings > General under "Overlay Show Edit/Delete".

Using Prompts

Clicking a prompt row selects it. What happens next depends on which variant is open.

Panel variant

Clicking a prompt row fills the prompt input area in the main window with the prompt text and closes the library. You can review or edit the text before running it.

Overlay variant

In the overlay, each prompt row shows execution buttons so you can run the prompt immediately without switching back to the main panel.

Button	What it does
Overlay (window icon)	Executes the prompt and shows the result in the Result Pop-Up Window. For actions, uses overlay execution mode. For static text, shows the raw text in the result overlay.
Clipboard (clipboard icon)	Executes the prompt and copies the result to the clipboard. For static text, copies the raw text directly.
Paste + Clipboard (clipboard with checkmark)	Executes the prompt, pastes the result into the active app, and also keeps it on the clipboard.
AI Paste	Executes the prompt through the PromptBar AI paste flow. Shown for AI-capable prompts: Quick Prompts and AI Transform actions.
Paste	Pastes the raw prompt text directly into the active app without any AI processing. Shown for non-AI prompts: static text, local transform actions, and user or connection prompts.

After executing a prompt from the overlay, the overlay hides automatically and focus returns to the app that was active before the overlay appeared.

Overlay Variant

The floating overlay is a standalone window that appears near your cursor and auto-resizes its height to fit the current content, up to a maximum height.

Top bar: Contains the User Prompts section toggle, an Add button (when User Prompts is enabled), and a Close (X) button.
Prompt sections: The same four category sections as the panel variant, each with its own toggle switch.
Focus behavior: The overlay is non-focusable by default. When you start editing a user prompt (clicking Add or Edit), the overlay temporarily becomes focusable so you can type in the input fields. Focus returns to the previous window when you save or cancel.
Dismissing: Click the X button, press Escape, or trigger the hotkey a second time.
Screen-aware positioning: The overlay is clamped to stay fully within the monitor that contains the cursor.
Scale: The overlay has its own independent scale (PL Overlay Scale), separate from the main panel UI scale.

Configuration

All Prompt Library settings are in Settings > General. The hotkey and mouse trigger can also be changed from the Prompt Library footer. Default section visibility: User Prompts on, Action Prompts on, Quick Prompts off, Connection Prompts off.

Setting	Default	Description
Hotkey	—	Global keyboard shortcut to open or close the Prompt Library overlay. Click the hotkey display to open the Hotkey Editor. Conflict detection warns you if the hotkey overlaps with an existing action or the main trigger.
Mouse trigger	—	Mouse gesture to open or close the Prompt Library overlay. Click the mouse icon button to open the Mouse Trigger Editor. Conflict detection warns you if the gesture is already used by another action or the main trigger.
Show User Prompts	On	Toggle the User Prompts section in the library.
Show Action Prompts	On	Toggle the Action Prompts section in the library.
Show Quick Prompts	Off	Toggle the Quick Prompts section in the library.
Show Connection Prompts	Off	Toggle the Connection System Prompts section in the library.
Overlay Show Edit/Delete	Off	When enabled, Edit and Delete buttons appear on user prompt rows in the floating overlay variant.
PL Overlay Scale	1.4×	Zoom level of the floating overlay window. Range: 1.0×–3.0×. Independent from the main panel UI scale and the Result Pop-Up Window scale.

Interactive Elements Reference

Element	Location	Action
User Prompts toggle	Section header / overlay top bar	Show or hide the User Prompts section
Action Prompts toggle	Section header	Show or hide the Action Prompts section
Quick Prompts toggle	Section header	Show or hide the Quick Prompts section
Connection Prompts toggle	Section header	Show or hide the Connection Prompts section
Add button	User Prompts section header (panel) / overlay top bar	Open an inline form to create a new user prompt
Edit button	Per user prompt row	Open the inline edit form pre-filled with the prompt's existing label and text
Delete button (row)	Per user prompt row	Delete the user prompt immediately
Label input	Inline add / edit form	Enter the short display name for the prompt
Text textarea	Inline add / edit form	Enter the full prompt text
Done button	Inline add / edit form	Save the prompt (requires non-empty label and text)
Cancel button	Inline add / edit form	Discard changes and close the form
Delete button (form)	Inline edit form only	Delete the prompt currently being edited
Overlay execute button	Per prompt row (overlay variant)	Execute and show result in the Result Pop-Up Window
Clipboard execute button	Per prompt row (overlay variant)	Execute and copy result to clipboard
Paste + Clipboard button	Per prompt row (overlay variant)	Execute, paste result, and copy result to clipboard
AI Paste button	Per prompt row, AI prompts only (overlay variant)	Execute through the PromptBar AI paste flow
Paste button	Per prompt row, non-AI prompts only (overlay variant)	Paste the raw prompt text into the active app
Prompt row click	Any prompt row (panel variant)	Fill the main window prompt input with this prompt text and close the library
Hotkey editor button	Library footer	Open the Hotkey Editor modal to assign or clear the PL hotkey
Mouse trigger editor button	Library footer (mouse icon)	Open the Mouse Trigger Editor modal to assign or clear the mouse gesture
Export data download button	Library footer (download icon)	Save a full data bundle JSON backup file
Close (X) button	Overlay top bar	Hide the floating overlay and restore focus to the previous window
Modal backdrop	Modal variant only	Click outside the library to close it

Actions — Configure action prompts and per-action execution behavior.
Connections — Manage AI provider connections and their system prompts.
Settings — General settings including overlay scale, section visibility, hotkey, and mouse trigger.
Main Window — The panel where selected prompts are filled for editing.
Result Pop-Up Window — Where prompt execution results appear in overlay mode.
Keyboard Shortcuts — Full list of configurable hotkeys.