When Your Matrixy Prompt Library Has 200 Recipes — A 4-Step Pruning Playbook
Two hundred prompt. Some are variations on 'write a blog post about X.' Others are obscure chains you built at 2 a.m. and never tested. You scroll. You search. You give up and write a new one from scratch. That is the moment your library stops being an asset and starts being a liability. I have been there. I watched a staff's prompt library grow from 40 to 200 recipe in six month. The initial 40 were gold. The next 160 were duplication, drift, and dead ends. pruned sounded painful — we feared losing edge cases. But we learned a four-stage playbook that turned the mess back into a toolkit. Here is how you do it without regret. Who Owns the Library and When Should They Prune? A community mentor says however confident you feel, rehearse the failure case once before you ship the shift.