directory: The prompt directory

In chores: A Collection of Large Language Model Assistants

The prompt directory

Description

The chores package's prompt directory is a directory of markdown files that is automatically registered with the chores package on package load. ⁠directory_*()⁠ functions allow users to interface with the directory, making new "chores" available:

• directory_path() returns the path to the prompt directory.

• directory_set() changes the path to the prompt directory (by setting the option .chores_dir).

• directory_list() enumerates all of the different prompts that currently live in the directory (and provides clickable links to each).

Functions prefixed with ⁠prompt*()⁠ allow users to conveniently create, edit, and delete the prompts in chores' prompt directory.

Usage

directory_load(dir = directory_path())

directory_list()

directory_path()

directory_set(dir)

Arguments

dir	Path to a directory of markdown files–see Details for more.

Value

• directory_path() returns the path to the prompt directory (which is not created by default unless explicitly requested by the user).

• directory_set() return the path to the new prompt directory.

• directory_list() returns the file paths of all of the prompts that currently live in the directory (and provides clickable links to each).

• directory_load() returns NULL invisibly.

Format of the prompt directory

Prompts are markdown files with the name chore-interface.md, where interface is one of "replace", "prefix" or "suffix". An example directory might look like:

/
|-- .config/
|   |-- chores/
|       |-- proofread-replace.md
|       |-- summarize-prefix.md

In that case, chores will register two custom helpers when you call library(chores). One of them is for the "proofread" chore and will replace the selected text with a proofread version (according to the instructions contained in the markdown file itself). The other is for the "summarize" chore and will prefix the selected text with a summarized version (again, according to the markdown file's instructions). Note:

• Files without a .md extension are ignored.

• Files with a .md extension must contain only one hyphen in their filename, and the text following the hyphen must be one of replace, prefix, or suffix.

To load custom prompts every time the package is loaded, place your prompts in directory_path(). To change the prompt directory without loading the package, just set the .chores_dir option with options(.chores_dir = some_dir). To load a directory of files that's not the prompt directory, provide a dir argument to directory_load().

See Also

The "Custom helpers" vignette, at vignette("custom", package = "chores"),for more on adding your own helper prompts, sharing them with others, and using prompts from others.

Examples

# choose a path for the prompt directory
tmp_dir <- withr::local_tempdir()
directory_set(tmp_dir)

# print out the current prompt directory
directory_path()

# list out prompts currently in the directory
directory_list()

# create a prompt in the prompt directory
prompt_new("boop", "replace")

# view updated list of prompts
directory_list()

chores documentation built on June 8, 2025, 11:19 a.m.