
In a lot of production systems the prompt is the most behaviour-critical string in the codebase and the least governed. It gets edited in a dashboard, tweaked to fix one complaint, and nobody can say afterwards what it used to be or why it changed. Prompt versioning is the fix, and it is mostly a matter of applying practices the team already uses for everything else. Put the prompt where the code is Prompts stored in a vendor dashboard or a database row sit outside review, outside history and outside your deployment process. Somebody can change production behaviour without a
