README
POML: Prompt Orchestration Markup Language
POML (Prompt Orchestration Markup Language) is a novel markup language designed to bring structure, maintainability, and versatility to advanced prompt engineering for Large Language Models (LLMs). It addresses common challenges in prompt development, such as lack of structure, complex data integration, format sensitivity, and inadequate tooling. POML provides a systematic way to organize prompt components, integrate diverse data types seamlessly, and manage presentation variations, empowering developers to create more sophisticated and reliable LLM applications.
Demo Video
Key Features
- Structured Prompting Markup: Employs an HTML-like syntax with semantic components such as
<role>,<task>, and<example>to encourage modular design, enhancing prompt readability, reusability, and maintainability. - Comprehensive Data Handling: Incorporates specialized data components (e.g.,
<document>,<table>,<img>) that seamlessly embed or reference external data sources like text files, spreadsheets, and images, with customizable formatting options. - Decoupled Presentation Styling: Features a CSS-like styling system that separates content from presentation. This allows developers to modify styling (e.g., verbosity, syntax format) via
<stylesheet>definitions or inline attributes without altering core prompt logic, mitigating LLM format sensitivity. - Integrated Templating Engine: Includes a built-in templating engine with support for variables (
{{ }}), loops (for), conditionals (if), and variable definitions (<let>) for dynamically generating complex, data-driven prompts. - Rich Development Toolkit:
- IDE Extension (Visual Studio Code): Provides essential development aids like syntax highlighting, context-aware auto-completion, hover documentation, real-time previews, inline diagnostics for error checking, and integrated interactive testing.
- Software Development Kits (SDKs): Offers SDKs for Node.js (JavaScript/TypeScript) and Python for seamless integration into various application workflows and popular LLM frameworks.
Quick Start
Here's a very simple POML example. Please put it in a file named example.poml. Make sure it resides in the same directory as the photosynthesis_diagram.png image file.