templates.md

Templates

Templates let you save reusable prompts with named variables. They're stored as plain text files in ~/.config/bedrock-cli/templates/.

Creating a template

Write a text file, optionally with YAML frontmatter:

---
description: Review a code diff for issues
variables:
  - name: Diff
    required: true
  - name: Focus
    default: security and bugs
defaultModel: sonnet
---
Review this code change with a focus on {{.Focus}}:

{{.Diff}}

Be specific. Cite line numbers where you can. Suggest concrete fixes.

Save it:

bedrock-cli template create code-review --file code-review.txt

Frontmatter fields

Field	Type	Description
description	string	Short description shown in template list
variables	array	Variable definitions (see below)
defaultModel	string	Model alias or ID to use for this template

Variable definition

variables:
  - name: Topic       # variable name, used as {{.Topic}} in the body
    required: true    # error if not provided
  - name: Style
    default: technical  # used if --var Style=... is not provided

Running a template

bedrock-cli template run code-review --var Diff="$(git diff)" --var Focus=performance

The --model flag overrides the template's defaultModel.

Variables in the body

Templates use Go's text/template syntax:

{{.VarName}}           # insert a variable
{{if .VarName}} ... {{end}}   # conditional

Listing templates

bedrock-cli template list
bedrock-cli template list --json

Built-in example templates

The repo ships four example templates in templates/. Import them all at once:

for f in templates/*.txt; do
  name=$(basename "$f" .txt)
  bedrock-cli template create "$name" --file "$f"
done

Available:

• code-review - review a git diff with configurable focus area
• commit-message - generate a conventional commit message from a diff
• explain - explain a concept at a senior-engineer level
• summarize - summarize long text in a configurable length