PromptArchitect for VS Code
AI-Powered Prompt Engineering — Generate, refine, and analyze prompts directly in your editor.

🎯 Zero Impact on Your AI Usage
PromptArchitect uses its own AI backend — your Copilot, ChatGPT, or Claude usage is never touched.
| ✅ What We Do |
❌ What We DON'T Do |
| Use our own Gemini API |
Use your Copilot credits |
| Process on our servers |
Count against your AI quota |
| Work instantly — no setup |
Require any API key from you |
| Keep your prompts private |
Store or log your content |
💡 The Result: Unlimited prompt refinement without burning through your paid AI subscriptions.
✨ Features
🚀 Generate Prompts
Transform rough ideas into well-structured, actionable prompts optimized for AI assistants.
✏️ Refine Prompts
Iteratively improve existing prompts with targeted feedback. Select text, provide feedback, get refined results.
📊 Analyze Quality
Get instant quality scores and improvement suggestions for any prompt:
- Clarity — How clear are the instructions?
- Specificity — How specific are the requirements?
- Structure — How well-organized is the prompt?
- Actionability — How actionable is the output?
📚 Template Library
Choose from optimized templates:
- Coding — Programming & development tasks
- Writing — Content creation & copywriting
- Research — Investigation & discovery
- Analysis — Data & business analysis
- Fact Check — Verification & validation
- General — Versatile all-purpose template
🎯 Why PromptArchitect?
🔥 Your AI Credits Stay Untouched
Unlike tools that consume your GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, or Claude quota, PromptArchitect runs on our own infrastructure. Refine 100 prompts a day — your subscriptions won't notice.
| Feature |
PromptArchitect |
Other Tools |
| Uses Your AI Quota |
❌ Never |
✅ Every request |
| API Key Required |
❌ No setup |
✅ Bring your own |
| Unlimited Refinements |
✅ Yes |
❌ Quota limited |
| Prompt-Focused |
✅ Purpose-built |
❌ Generic code tools |
| Quality Scoring |
✅ Built-in |
❌ Not available |
| Template Library |
✅ 6 optimized templates |
❌ Limited |
⚡ Quick Start
- Install from VS Code Marketplace
- Open Command Palette (
Ctrl+Shift+P / Cmd+Shift+P)
- Type "PromptArchitect: Generate Prompt"
- Enter your idea → Get a polished prompt!
🎹 Keyboard Shortcuts
| Action |
Windows/Linux |
Mac |
| Generate Prompt |
Ctrl+Shift+G |
Cmd+Shift+G |
| Refine Selection |
Ctrl+Shift+R |
Cmd+Shift+R |
| Analyze Prompt |
Ctrl+Shift+A |
Cmd+Shift+A |
🔧 Commands
All commands available via Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P):
PromptArchitect: Generate Prompt from Idea
PromptArchitect: Refine Selected Prompt
PromptArchitect: Analyze Prompt Quality
PromptArchitect: Browse Prompt Templates
⚙️ Settings
| Setting |
Default |
Description |
promptarchitect.defaultTemplate |
general |
Default template for generation |
promptarchitect.targetModel |
general |
Target AI model to optimize for |
promptarchitect.showStatusBar |
true |
Show status bar item |
🔒 Privacy & Usage
- 🚫 No API key required — We handle all AI processing on our servers
- 🚫 No impact on your AI subscriptions — Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude credits untouched
- 🚫 No prompts stored — Your content is processed and immediately discarded
- 🚫 No telemetry — We don't track your usage patterns
📝 Examples
Generate a Coding Prompt
Input: "write a function to validate email addresses"
Output:
### Role
Act as a Senior Software Engineer specializing in input validation.
### Objective
Implement a robust email validation function that handles edge cases...
### Requirements
- Support standard email formats (RFC 5322 compliant)
- Handle international domain names
- Return validation result with error messages
...
Refine a Prompt
Original: "help me write better code"
Feedback: "make it specific to Python and include testing requirements"
Refined: "As a Python expert, review my code for best practices including PEP 8 compliance, type hints, and suggest unit tests with pytest..."
🤝 Support
📄 License
Proprietary © Meraby Labs. All Rights Reserved.