Software Engineering Prompt Library
Overview
These prompts help senior engineers move from discovery to operations with clarity, balancing velocity with reliability and security.
Collection — prompts/SoftwareEngineering/software_engineering.json
- Architecture Decision Record: Compare options and codify the rationale.
- Technical Discovery: Frame spikes that de-risk unknowns.
- Implementation Plan: Sequence work and dependencies for delivery.
- Code Review Checklist: Focus reviews on correctness and maintainability.
- Reliability Playbook: Define SLOs, alerting, and on-call rituals.
- Technical Debt Prioritization: Quantify and schedule remediation.
- Performance Optimization: Diagnose and resolve bottlenecks methodically.
- Security Review: Anticipate threats and mitigation strategies.
- Technical Onboarding: Ramp new engineers with curated tasks and support.
- Incident Postmortem: Capture lessons from outages without blame.
Usage Tips
- Integrate prompts into engineering runbooks or team handbooks.
- Pair outputs with tickets or ADR repositories for traceability.