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Elsai Prompts

Package: elsai-prompts  v1.1.0

Centralized prompt management with version control and traceability — prompts are stored and managed within Elsai Foundry, giving you a single source of truth for all prompt templates across your projects.

WARNING

v1.0.0 is deprecated. Upgrade to v1.1.0 or later. Prompts have migrated from Pezzo to Elsai Foundry.

Installation

bash
pip install --extra-index-url https://core-packages.elsai.ai/root/elsai-prompts/ elsai-prompts==1.1.0

Requirements: Python >= 3.9


Why centralized prompts?

Hard-coding prompts in application code creates drift — different versions scattered across services with no history or rollback. Elsai Prompts gives you:

  • Version control — full history of every prompt change
  • Environment deployments — separate active versions per environment (dev / staging / prod)
  • Traceability — know exactly which prompt version produced which output
  • Lifecycle management — draft → review → published → deprecated

PromptManager

PromptManager is the main class for connecting to Elsai Foundry and retrieving prompts.

Initialisation

You can provide the API base URL either as a constructor argument or via an environment variable.

Option 1 — pass base_url directly:

python
from elsai_prompts.prompt_manager import PromptManager

prompt_manager = PromptManager(
    api_key="your_elsai_api_key",
    project_id="your_project_id",
    base_url="https://your-api-url.com",
)

Option 2 — set the environment variable:

bash
export PROMPT_MANAGER_API_URL="https://your-api-url.com"
python
from elsai_prompts.prompt_manager import PromptManager

prompt_manager = PromptManager(
    api_key="your_elsai_api_key",
    project_id="your_project_id",
)

Constructor parameters:

ParameterRequiredDescription
api_keyYesElsai Foundry API key
project_idYesProject ID from your Elsai Foundry workspace
base_urlNoAPI base URL. If omitted, reads from PROMPT_MANAGER_API_URL env var

Fetching a prompt

Use get_active_prompt_version() to retrieve the currently active (published) version of a prompt by name:

python
from elsai_prompts.prompt_manager import PromptManager

prompt_manager = PromptManager(
    api_key="your_elsai_api_key",
    project_id="your_project_id",
    base_url="https://your-api-url.com",
)

prompt = prompt_manager.get_active_prompt_version(prompt_name="sampleprompt")
print(prompt)

Method parameters:

ParameterDescription
prompt_nameThe name of the prompt as defined in Elsai Foundry

Using a prompt with an agent

Pass the retrieved prompt directly to an agent as its system prompt:

python
from elsai_prompts.prompt_manager import PromptManager
from elsai import Agent

prompt_manager = PromptManager(
    api_key="your_elsai_api_key",
    project_id="your_project_id",
    base_url="https://your-api-url.com",
)

prompt = prompt_manager.get_active_prompt_version(prompt_name="customer-support")

agent = Agent(system_prompt=prompt)
result = agent("How do I reset my password?")
print(result)

Version history

VersionChanges
1.1.0Migrated from Pezzo to Elsai Foundry; PromptManager with project_id and base_url
1.0.0Deprecated — Pezzo-based prompt management

Support

For SDK setup or API key access: support@elsaifoundry.ai

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