Show HN: Dakora – OSS tool to manage LLM prompts without redeploys

3•bogdan_pi•1h ago

Ever get lost in all the prompts in your project? I did. Hardcoding them works fine for POCs and small apps, but once you have dozens it turns into “prompt hell”: giant strings in code, every tweak needs a redeploy, and changes are hard to track.

So I built Dakora — a small open source tool that:

- Stores prompts in a central vault (files under git)

- Lets you edit them in a simple UI playground

- Syncs them into your app without redeploys.

- Works with Python out of the box (pip install dakora)

Curious how others are managing prompts in production. Feedback welcome.

GH: https://github.com/bogdan-pistol/dakora

Comments

_mla•1h ago

This looks interesting. But curious — why wouldn’t I just stick prompts in YAML or JSON and call it a day? Isn’t that simpler than adding another tool?

bogdan_pi•1h ago

Yeah, that’s how I started as well. But as soon as I had dozens of prompts, some hundreds of lines long with specific formatting and dozens of input parameters, it turned into a constant struggle to maintain.

On top of that, I had non-dev teammates responsible for tweaking prompts. For them, touching the project code added risk and complexity.

Dakora is just a simple UI on top of proven mechanics. You still have plain files under git, but with a cleaner repository of prompts and some guardrails.

Curious what would it take for you to consider a tool like this?

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