Improve
Promptus formativus
The Forge
Three AI personas restructure, refine, and score any prompt. The output is a working tool, not a suggestion.
ArchitectImproverEvaluator
The Field Journal
Paste a rough prompt.
Three AI minds improve it.
The community perfects it.
Bring a rough idea. The Forge turns it into a clearer, structured prompt you can run, share, and iterate with the Garden.
Fig. 1. The Forge pipeline. Three personas work in sequence; their output is one tightened prompt.
The Three Beds
A small garden.
Tended with intent.
PromptTide isn't a feature catalog. It's three beds in one garden. Each does one thing well. You'll meet the others when you're ready.
Read the field note
Grow
Promptus communalis
The Garden
Plant a forged prompt in public. Others branch, fork, and tune it. Lineage is preserved — every variant traces back to its seed.
BranchForkLineage
Debate
Promptus deliberativus
The Roundtable
Convene a council of advisor personas — engineer, editor, skeptic, historian. Hear them disagree before you commit.
Multi-voiceDisagreementDecision
Cultivation Cycle
How a prompt becomes.
01
Seed
Paste a rough prompt — even a half-thought.
02
Forge
Three personas restructure, refine, and score in one pass.
03
Plant
Publish to the Garden. Your prompt grows roots.
04
Branch
Others fork and refine. Lineage is preserved.
VS Code Extension
Prompt engineering, inside VS Code.
The full PromptTide toolchain as a native extension. Write .prompt files with proper syntax support, run them against live models, improve them with The Forge, and publish — without leaving your editor.
Install for VS CodeFree · VS Code 1.85+
Syntax
Grammar for .prompt files
Full syntax highlighting — template variables, LoRA tags, weight syntax, dynamic selectors, step alternating. The file format you actually use.
Execute
Run prompts live, from the editor
Stream LLM output directly into your workspace. No copy-paste. No context switching. One CodeLens click.
Forge
The Forge — inside VS Code
Send any open prompt through the three-stage pipeline — Architect, Improver, Evaluator — without leaving your editor.
Branch
AI variants, side by side
Generate up to ten branches from the current prompt. Compare in split-pane. Save the ones that hold.
Publish
Push to the Garden
Publish or unpublish directly from the editor. A single CodeLens button syncs the file to your PromptTide account.
Browse
Sidebar panel
Your prompts, drafts, and trending community picks — all browsable from the Activity Bar without changing windows.
Sapling Plot · Open
Plant your first prompt.
Free. No card. No tour.
One prompt. One forge run. One press of publish. That's the whole onboarding. We mean it.