What it does

Yao Open Prompts is a Chinese-language prompt library covering work, study, content creation, marketing, and daily life. Each of the 117 prompts lives in a Markdown file with standardized YAML frontmatter (title, category, version, status, tags) and a clean Prompt section ready to copy. The project strips out tutorial fluff, screenshots, and HTML debris so you get only the reusable text.

The interesting bit

The project treats prompt curation like software maintenance: versioned files, a CHANGELOG.md, Python scripts for catalog generation and repo health checks, and a release checklist. There’s even a meta-prompt system (RTF framework) for generating better prompts. The English mirror (prompts-en/) keeps the same structure, suggesting the author thinks about distribution, not just collection.

Key highlights

• 117 prompts across 9 categories, heavily weighted toward content (50) and marketing (28)
• Frontmatter schema with status: active | draft | third-party-review for quality gating
• RTF meta-prompt system for structured prompt engineering
• 25 GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) marketing templates, notably specific
• Python scripts for catalog generation, webpage rebuild, and automated checks
• CC BY 4.0 licensing for content, MIT reserved for future code

Caveats

• Only 1 prompt in the programming category; developers building software will find this thin
• The “AI生活” (life) category has just 2 prompts, so “covers life scenarios” is technically true but barely
• Effectiveness claims are absent: no benchmarks, no model-specific testing notes, no “this worked on GPT-4” annotations

Verdict

Worth bookmarking if you write or market in Chinese and want battle-tested prompt scaffolding without the usual blogspam. Skip it if you’re hunting for deep technical prompts or English-first content—the mirror exists, but the project’s energy is clearly Sino-centric.