Pre-written instruction text, usually stored as templates with variable slots, intended to produce more consistent output from a language model.

Sold as a product in its own right, as though ordinary sentences require special preparation before a model can accept them, which is the one thing a language model is specifically built not to need.

• Preparation Theater: Implying that plain English must be certified before use, when accepting plain English is the entire premise.
• Template Repackaging: Charging for a folder of saved sentences with blanks in them.
• House-Cleaning Reality Check: Like writing "buy milk" on a sticky note, adding the word "please," and calling it a "fridge-ready prompt."

My Fair Lady (1960s) where Eliza Doolittle is drilled on a single sentence until she can deliver it in the accepted form, and the room treats the polished delivery as proof of substance.

Saved instruction templates with blanks to fill in.

“Our library ships two hundred AI-ready prompts tuned for enterprise legal workflows.”

“We saved twelve instruction templates so the team stops rewriting the same request from scratch.”