What are AI outline prompts?
When you load any longform AI template in the Article creator it uses a special outline prompt.
This prompt starts with the <ai_outline_prompts> tag.
Each tag refers to a part of the HTML outline tree and is what is used to create prompts sent to the AI model.
For example:
<ai_outline_prompts>
<prompt_h2>
<h2>%h2%</h2>
[write a short introductory paragraph about %h2% in language %language%.
Use html <p></p> tags. Don't use html attributes. Start with a paragraph.
The topic of the article is %keyword%.]
</prompt_h2>
<prompt_h2_no_children>
<h2>%h2%</h2>
[write an answer about %h2% in language %language%.
Use html <p></p> tags. Don't use html attributes. Start with a paragraph.
{Insert a html <ul><li> bullet list or a <ol><li> numbered list||||}.
The topic of the article is %keyword%.]
</prompt_h2_no_children>
<prompt_h3_no_children>
<h3>%h3%</h3>
[write an answer about %h2%, %h3% in language %language%.
Use html <p></p> tags. Don't use html attributes. Start with a paragraph.
{Insert a html <ul><li> bullet list or a <ol><li> numbered list||||}.
The topic of the article is %keyword%.]
</prompt_h3_no_children>
</ai_outline_prompts>
AI outlines are only written if the user macro contains a definition for %ai_outline%
The output of %ai_outline% should be something like this:
<h2> cat </h2>
<h3> food </h3>
<h2> dog <h2>
AI outline tags list
Given the example outline above, what appears inside the %h2%, %h3% macros inside the <ai_outline_prompts> tag?
<prompt_h2>
This is the prompt the AI will use when you have a h2/h3. This is called on the parent h2 only.
In the example above, you will have the macro,
%h2% = cat
<prompt_h2_no_children>
This is the prompt when you have just a h2 with no h3 etc children.
In the above outline, it will only pass the dog heading (as it doesn’t have any h3 under it)
%h2% = dog
<prompt_h3_no_children>
This is the prompt that is used when it gets to a h2 → h3. Called on the h3 child of a h2 parent.
This prompt section has the macros,
%h2% = cat
%h3% = food
You can use both %h2% %h3%, to write out to the AI that the content should be about ‘cat food’.