> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.snowbell.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.
# 3.1 Create a prompt
### Step 1: Navigate to Prompts
Click "Prompts" in the left sidebar after choosing your project.
### Step 2: Create a New Prompt
1. Click on the `Create new prompt` button.
2. **Give it a Name:** Choose a descriptive name for your prompt.
3. **(Optional) Add Details:** Provide a short description.
4. **Set the Stage:** Write a system instruction to guide the AI's initial response.
### Step 3: Craft Your Prompt
**Structure:** A prompt contains a system instruction & user message.
1. The `System instruction` set the role and goal and high level context.
2. The `user message` will specify the details such as input data format, output format instructions, rules and tones.
3. The `user message` supports `variables`. **Variables** incorporate custom variables
surrounded by double curly braces, like `{{ customized_type }}
`.
* Variables act as placeholders for values you'll provide later. When using the prompt,
provide the specific value you want to insert for the variable.
* When running an experiment, the variables will be automatically inserted from
your query set.
### Step 4: Try out the prompt in Playground
1. Choose API, model and parameters.
2. Fill the variables with test values. The variables will be incorporated into the “user message” and you can review the message in the “Input Preview” box.
3. Click `Run` button.
