How to Save ChatGPT Prompts and Reuse Them

To save ChatGPT prompts and reuse them, keep each prompt where you can paste it in one step. Put your general style in Custom instructions, put task prompts in a text expander such as c/summary, and save prompts you run often as an AI chat agent that opens ChatGPT ready to go.

It suits anyone who types the same 3-10 prompts every week: meeting summaries, email rewrites, code reviews.

Where can I save ChatGPT prompts inside ChatGPT?

ChatGPT has two built-in places, and each has a different job.

• Custom instructions: open your profile menu, then Settings and Personalization. What you write here applies to every new chat, so use it for how you want answers ("short bullet points, British English"), not for one task.
• Projects: create a project and add instructions to it. Every chat in that project follows those instructions, which suits one ongoing piece of work, such as a client account.

How do I paste a saved prompt in one step?

A text expander turns a short code into the full prompt, in ChatGPT, Claude or any other text box.

1. In SuperCommands, create a text expander named summary with your full prompt, for example: "Summarize the text below in 5 bullets, then list decisions and owners."
2. Click into the ChatGPT message box.
3. Type c/summary. The full prompt replaces it; paste your text below and send.

Use placeholders like {topic} for the part that changes each time.

How do I open my AI tools with the prompt ready?

For prompts you run daily, an AI chat agent saves the whole setup.

• In SuperCommands, create an AI Chat Agent, choose the tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Perplexity) and give it a name such as research. Details in the chat agents docs.
• Scenario: press Alt + S, type c research, press Enter. Your saved setup opens in the AI tools you picked, ready for the question.
• Skip it if you use one AI tool and a handful of prompts; a text expander is enough.

SuperCommands is free and open source. The local version is 100% free, forever.

What goes wrong with saved prompts?

• Custom instructions fight your prompt. A rule like "always be brief" shortens answers you asked to be long. Keep custom instructions general.
• Old prompts drift. Re-read your top 5 prompts every few months and cut lines the model now ignores.
• Sensitive details. Do not store client names or private data inside prompts you share.

Which one should you pick?

• Pick Custom instructions for your writing style across all chats.
• Pick Projects for one long piece of work with fixed context.
• Pick a text expander for a library of task prompts you paste in any AI tool. Compare options in our text expander roundup.
• Pick an AI chat agent for prompts you send to several AI tools at once. To summarize whole pages, see how to summarize a web page with AI.

FAQ

Where are ChatGPT custom instructions?

In your profile menu, under Settings, then Personalization. They apply to new chats, not ones already open.

Can I save prompts in Claude the same way?

Claude has Projects with their own instructions, which work like ChatGPT Projects. A text expander works in Claude's message box too.

How many prompts should I save?

Start with the 3-5 you typed this week. A short list you actually use beats a long library you never open.