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title: Overview
seoTitle: Prompt and Skill Management
description: Choose prompt templates for model calls or skills for tasks your agent loads as needed.
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# Prompt and Skill Management

Langfuse versions prompt templates and agent skills. Choose based on what your application needs to load:

| Manage                                           | Use for                                                                         | Get started                                            |
| ------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------ |
| [Prompts](/docs/prompt-management/overview)      | Text or chat templates your application compiles for model calls                | [Create a prompt](/docs/prompt-management/get-started) |
| [Skills](/docs/skill-management/overview) (beta) | Task instructions in `SKILL.md` and supporting files your agent loads as needed | [Create a skill](/docs/skill-management/get-started)   |

Both support version labels such as `staging` and `production`. An agent can use a prompt for its conversation and load a skill for a specific task, such as handling a refund.

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## Agent Instructions

This page is part of the [Langfuse](https://langfuse.com) documentation, published as plain Markdown for AI agents. Every page is available as Markdown by appending `.md` to its URL, or by sending an `Accept: text/markdown` header. This page: `https://langfuse.com/docs/prompt-and-skill-management/overview.md`.

### Querying these docs

If the answer is not on this page, query the documentation instead of guessing:

- **Semantic search** across all Langfuse docs, returning an answer with the relevant pages and excerpts. Ask a specific, self-contained question:

  ```bash
  curl -sG "https://langfuse.com/api/search-docs" --data-urlencode "query=How do I trace a LangGraph agent?"
  ```

- **Index of every page**: <https://langfuse.com/llms.txt>, with per-section indexes [llms-docs.txt](https://langfuse.com/llms-docs.txt), [llms-integrations.txt](https://langfuse.com/llms-integrations.txt), and [llms-self-hosting.txt](https://langfuse.com/llms-self-hosting.txt).

### Before writing Langfuse code

- **Install the [Langfuse Agent Skill](https://langfuse.com/docs/api-and-data-platform/features/agent-skill).** It encodes Langfuse's own best practices for instrumentation, prompt management, and evaluation, and materially improves results.
- **Read [What does a good trace look like?](https://langfuse.com/docs/observability/best-practices.md)** before instrumenting an application.
- **Verify endpoints, parameters, and response fields** against the [API reference](https://api.reference.langfuse.com) instead of inferring them from code examples.
- **Use the [Langfuse CLI](https://langfuse.com/docs/api-and-data-platform/features/cli)** (`npx @langfuse/cli api <resource> <action>`) to read or write traces, prompts, datasets, and scores from the terminal.

Found an error in these docs? Please open an issue at <https://github.com/langfuse/langfuse-docs/issues>.