Tanuj’s Prompt-Manager As Built

What this is

Repo: lossless-group/prompt-manager, default branch master. Built by Tanuj summer 2025 alongside record-collector. The least mature of the four sources. One real commit after the create-next-app init.

Local clone: ~/scratch/augment-it-archaeology/prompt-manager/.

Stack

Notable: No state management — no zustand, no React Context, nothing. State is local React useState and a hardcoded samplePrompts array.

Components

• PromptManager.js — root component, has the hardcoded sample data
• PromptCard.js — single-prompt display
• CreatePromptModal.js, EditPromptModal.js, DeleteConfirmModal.js — CRUD modals
• ImportModal.js, ExportModal.js — bundle import / export (jszip)
• SearchBar.js — local search over prompts
• ActionHeader.js, StatisticsSection.js, SplashScreen.js, Navigation.js — UI scaffolding

The prompt schema (from the hardcoded samples)

This is the most useful artifact in the repo. Inferred from the samplePrompts array in PromptManager.js:

{
  id: number,
  name: string,
  description: string,
  content: string,           // template body with {{variable}} placeholders
  variables: string[],       // declared variable names
  category: string,          // 'Analysis' | 'Recommendation' | 'Communication' | ...
  createdAt: string,         // ISO date
  lastUsed: string,
  usageCount: number
}

The pattern: prompts are versionable, named, categorized, variable-aware templates with {{variable}} placeholders that get substituted at call time. This is close to the bolt monolith’s PromptTemplate shape and almost certainly the right starting schema for the rewrite’s prompt-template-manager microfrontend.

The gap is that the prompts are dead — they don’t connect to records, they don’t get fired against an LLM, they don’t pull variables from a record’s fields. The UI imagines a full prompt CRUD product; the wiring is non-existent.

Why this repo exists in the state it does

Best guess: Tanuj built record-collector first as a single deployable, then started splitting concerns out. Prompt-manager was the second split. He got the UI scaffold done in the same Next.js + JS style, but never connected it to a shared store because the shared-store question is the federation question, and that question never got answered.

Request-reviewer (the third split) shows the same incomplete connection — it imports RecordCard from a federated @module-federation-vite/ui package but reimplements the augmentation logic locally, because there was no shared store to pull from.

What’s missing

• A store. zustand, context, anything. The component reads from a hardcoded array.
• Persistence. Even just localStorage. Refreshing the page resets.
• Variable substitution at call time. The schema declares variables: string[] but no code reads them.
• Any connection to records or LLM calls. Prompts live alone. They don’t get fired against anything.
• Versioning of prompts. usageCount and lastUsed exist as fields but aren’t tracked.

What to lift, what to drop

Lift:

• The prompt template schema: { name, description, content, variables, category, createdAt, lastUsed, usageCount, id }
• The CRUD-shaped UI as a sketch — Create / Edit / Delete / Import / Export / Search / Statistics is the right surface
• The {{variable}} placeholder convention (matches Mustache / Handlebars conventions, easy for users)

Drop:

• The implementation (it’s a scaffold)
• Hardcoded sample data (replace with a real store)
• JavaScript (TS for the rewrite)
• The standalone Next.js host (same reasoning as record-collector)

A small structural question this raises

Prompt-manager has its own changelog/ directory in the repo. Record-collector does not. That’s evidence the per-repo split did generate per-repo conventions that didn’t survive consolidation. Worth a note: when we re-split (if we do), changelog conventions need to be settled at the parent level so it isn’t repo-by-repo.

Related

• [[Augment-It-Prior-Art-Survey]]
• [[Bolt-Monolith-As-Built]]
• [[Tanuj-Record-Collector-As-Built]]
• [[Tanuj-Request-Reviewer-As-Built]]
• Clone: ~/scratch/augment-it-archaeology/prompt-manager/
• Source: https://github.com/lossless-group/prompt-manager