awesome-chatgpt-prompts/CONTRIBUTING.md

Contribution Guidelines

Before contributing to this repository, please ensure you are adhering to the following general guidelines. Further, if you are submitting a new prompt to the repository, be sure you are also following the prompt-specific guidelines. These checks will ensure that your contributions can be easily integrated into the main repository, without any headache for the owners.

General Guidelines

The following guidelines should be followed when making any open-source contributions:

• Contributions should be made via a pull request to the main repository from a personal fork.
• Pull requests should be accompanied by a descriptive title and detailed explanation.
• Submit all pull requests to the repository's main branch.
• Before submitting a pull request, ensure additions/edits are aligned with the overall repo organization.
• Be sure changes are compatible with the repository's license.
• In case of conflicts, provide helpful explanations regarding your proposed changes so that they can be approved by repo owners.

New Prompt Guidelines

To add a new prompt to this repository, a contributor should take the following steps (in their personal fork):

1. Create and test the new prompt.

   • See the README for guidance on how to write effective prompts.
   • Ensure prompts generate intended results and can be used by other users to replicate those results.

2. Add the prompt to README.md using the following markdown template:

   ## Prompt Title

   Contributed by: [@github_username](https://github.com/github_profile)

   > prompt content

   • Note: If your prompt was generated by ChatGPT, append <mark>Generated by ChatGPT</mark> to the "Contributed by" line.

3. Add the prompt to prompts.csv.

   • Put the prompt title in the act column, and the prompt itself in the prompt column.

4. Submit a pull request on the repository's main branch.

   • If possible, provide some documentation of how you tested your prompt and the kinds of results you received.
   • Be sure to include a detailed title and description.

New Prompt Checklist:

• I've confirmed the prompt works well
• I've added Contributed by: [@yourusername](https://github.com/yourusername)
• I've added to the README.md
• I've added to the prompts.csv
  • Escaped quotes by double-quoting them
  • No spaces after commas after double quotes. e.g. "act","prompt" not "act", "prompt"
  • Removed "Act as" from the title on CSV

Please ensure these requirements are met before submitting a pull request.