Prompt governance is version control for behavior. Without it, “the model changed” becomes an unanswerable question.

Environments and promotion

Keep sandbox prompts separate from production. Promotion should require review and a short changelog.

Ownership and naming

Every template needs an owner, a risk tier, and a searchable name. Otherwise teams fork silently.

Testing before rollout

Run regression prompts against golden outputs when changing instructions or models.

Treat prompts like release artifacts.

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