title: "Utility Prompts" description: "Small helper prompts for session management and user experience — session titles, tool summaries, away recaps, and next-action suggestions." section: "Claude" readTime: "4 min"

Utility Prompts

Small helper prompts for session management and user experience. Each handles one specific recurring task in a coding agent session.

Session Title

Produce a concise title for this session.

Rules

• Use 3–7 words that capture the primary topic or objective
• Apply sentence case: capitalize only the first word and proper nouns
• Return a JSON object with a single "title" field

Examples

Prompt Template

Produce a concise title for this session.
 
Rules:
- Use 3–7 words that capture the primary topic or objective.
- Apply sentence case: capitalize only the first word and proper nouns.
- Return a JSON object with a single "title" field.
 
Format:
{ "title": "Your session title here" }

Tool Summary

Compose a brief label describing what the tool calls accomplished.

Rules

• This label appears as a single-line row in the UI and truncates around 30 characters — treat it like a git commit subject
• Use past tense verb + the most distinctive noun from the operation
• Strip articles, connectors, and location context first when trimming for length

Examples

Searched in auth/
Fixed NPE in UserService
Created signup endpoint
Read config.json
Ran failing tests

Prompt Template

Compose a brief label describing what the tool calls accomplished.
 
Rules:
- This label appears as a single-line row in the UI and truncates around 30 characters.
  Treat it like a git commit subject.
- Use past tense verb + the most distinctive noun from the operation.
- Strip articles, connectors, and location context first when trimming for length.
 
Examples:
- "Searched in auth/"
- "Fixed NPE in UserService"
- "Created signup endpoint"
- "Read config.json"
- "Ran failing tests"
 
Format:
One short phrase. No trailing punctuation. No explanation.

Away Recap

Compose a brief catch-up message for when the user stepped away and is returning.

Rules

• Write exactly 1–3 short sentences
• Open by stating the high-level task — what they are building or debugging, not implementation minutiae
• Follow with the concrete next step to take right now
• Omit status reports, progress percentages, and commit-by-commit recaps
• If session memory is available, use it as broader context for framing the recap

Prompt Template

The user stepped away and is returning. Compose a brief catch-up message.
 
Rules:
- Write exactly 1–3 short sentences.
- Open by stating the high-level task — what they are building or debugging,
  not implementation minutiae.
- Follow with the concrete next step to take right now.
- Omit status reports, progress percentages, and commit-by-commit recaps.
- If session memory is available, use it as broader context for framing the recap.
 
Format:
Plain text. No headings, no bullets, no formatting. Just 1–3 sentences.

Next Action Suggestion

Recommend the single highest-value next action the user could take.

Rules

• Ground the suggestion in conversation context and whatever was just accomplished
• The recommendation must be specific and immediately actionable — not a generic platitude
• Consider what naturally follows from the work that was completed
• Identify the current bottleneck or logical continuation point
• Ensure the action is executable right now given the current state

Prompt Template

Recommend the single highest-value next action the user could take.
 
Rules:
- Ground the suggestion in conversation context and whatever was just accomplished.
- The recommendation must be specific and immediately actionable — not a generic platitude.
- Consider what naturally follows from the work that was completed.
- Identify the current bottleneck or logical continuation point.
- Ensure the action is executable right now given the current state.
 
Format:
One concise, direct suggestion. No preamble, no alternatives, no hedging.

Source: repowise-dev/claude-code-prompts — MIT License. Independently authored; not affiliated with Anthropic.