awesome-chatgpt-prompts/CONTRIBUTING.md

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# 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](https://github.com/f/awesome-chatgpt-prompts/blob/main/README.md) 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`
- <b>Note:</b> 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
- [ ] Removed "Act as" from the title on CSV
Please ensure these requirements are met before submitting a pull request.