Prompt Assay
§.Documentation

The manual.

The working manual for Prompt Assay. Getting started, the public API, how BYOK works, pricing details, and the questions we get asked most.

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Skills

Skills overview

What a Skill is in Prompt Assay, how it differs from a prompt, and the workbench surfaces that author + critique + evaluate one.

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Behavioral Eval guide

Author trigger + non-trigger probes, run them across 2-5 models in parallel, and read the activation + adherence + cross-provider consistency scores.

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README badge

Embed a Shields.io badge in your skill's README that links to its public Skill Report.

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Authoring a Skill from scratch

Frontmatter contract, body conventions, scripts/ vs references/ vs body, and the common pitfalls that trip the linter on the first save.

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Sharing Skill Reports publicly

What gets published, the body-publish opt-in (authorship-gated), privacy defaults, view counting, revocation, and the carve-out from PA's no-server-side-AI-cache rule.

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Tiers, cost, and BYOK for Skills

Per-tier caps for Behavioral Eval, what each Skill instrument bills your provider, the $5 cost-preflight gate, and how to read the per-skill cost dialog.

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API reference

Prefer endpoints and code samples?

The full REST reference for the public API: endpoints, authentication, rate limits, error codes.

Open API reference