At a glance
| Assistant | Best built-in option | Saved-prompt list? |
|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | Projects with instructions | No |
| Claude | Projects with instructions, or skills | No |
| Gemini | Skills, used with “/” in a chat | Closest: skills |
| Microsoft 365 Copilot | Save prompt, in the Prompt Gallery | Yes (work or school) |
Menu names below are from each assistant's help center as of October 2026. These features change often, so a label may differ slightly in your version.
How to save prompts in ChatGPT
ChatGPT has no list of saved prompts. These are the two built-in places to keep instructions you want to reuse.
Custom instructions: for every chat
- Open Settings, then Personalization.
- Turn on customization and write your instructions.
These apply to every conversation, so use them for preferences like tone, format, or your role, not for one-off task prompts.
Projects: for one area of work
- In the sidebar, choose New project and give it a name.
- Open the project's menu, choose Project settings, and add instructions.
- Start chats inside the project to use them.
Project instructions apply only to chats in that project. That makes projects a good fit for a recurring job, such as a weekly report, with its own files and context.
What about custom GPTs? OpenAI has stopped new custom GPTs on personal plans and plans to retire them. Don't start a new prompt collection there. Business and Enterprise workspaces also have Skills for packaging repeatable instructions.
How to save prompts in Claude
Claude also has no saved-prompts list. Use one of these three options.
Instructions for Claude: for every chat
- Click your initials in the lower left and open Settings.
- Fill in Instructions for Claude.
Projects: for one area of work
- Open Projects in the sidebar and choose New project.
- Choose Set project instructions and paste your prompt.
- Start chats inside the project to use it.
Skills: for repeatable workflows
Skills package instructions, and optionally files, that Claude loads automatically when they're relevant. Find them under Customize, then Skills. Code execution needs to be turned on. Skills suit multi-step workflows better than short prompts you want to paste on demand.
How to save prompts in Gemini
Gemini's skills are the closest built-in thing to saved prompts: reusable instructions you can call up by name in any chat.
Skills: call a prompt with “/”
- In the sidebar, open Settings, then Skills.
- Choose Create manually, add a name, description, and your prompt as the instructions, then click Create.
- In any chat, type
/and pick the skill. Gemini can also apply active skills on its own when they fit.
Skills work without a paid plan but need a personal Google Account, and Keep Activity must be on. They're rolling out gradually, and work and school accounts aren't supported yet.
Instructions for Gemini: for every chat
Formerly called Saved info. Open Settings & help, then Personal Intelligence, then Instructions for Gemini, and add your preferences.
What about Gems? Google is converting Gems to skills, starting in November 2026 for personal accounts. Existing Gems are converted automatically, so create new reusable prompts as skills.
How to save prompts in Microsoft Copilot
Save prompt: Microsoft 365 Copilot at work or school
This is the only true saved-prompts list among the four.
- Run the prompt in Copilot Chat.
- Hover over your prompt, select the bookmark icon, and choose Save prompt. You can rename it.
- Find it later in the Prompt Gallery, under Your prompts.
You can share a saved prompt with a Teams team. You can't edit a saved prompt; to change one, remove it and save the new version.
Custom instructions and notebooks
In Copilot Chat, open Settings and more (…), then Chat settings, Personalization, and Custom instructions. Copilot Notebooks also take their own instructions, which apply inside that notebook.
The free consumer Copilot app remembers preferences through Memory, but we couldn't find a documented way to save prompts in it.
What built-in options can't do
Built-in features are good for standing instructions: how you like answers formatted, who you are, what a project is about. They're a weaker fit for a library of task prompts you reuse:
- They don't travel. A ChatGPT project or a Gemini skill only works in that assistant. If you use more than one, you end up keeping copies of the same prompt in several places.
- They change under you. In 2026 alone, both custom GPTs and Gems were scheduled for retirement and replaced with something new.
- They're hard to browse. Apart from Copilot's saved prompts, they're designed around a few long-lived instructions, not dozens of short prompts you want to search, tag, and compare.
- Blanks are manual. To reuse a prompt with different details, you edit it by hand every time.
- Results live elsewhere. The output a prompt produced stays in the chat, not next to the prompt.
Keep one library for every assistant
A simple approach is to use the built-in features for standing instructions and keep your task prompts in one library that works everywhere. For how to name, tag, and template them, see how to organize AI prompts.
PrompX is built for this. Save a prompt once, add {{variables}} for the parts that change, and insert it into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini from the Chrome side panel. It's one shortcut away in any app with ⌘⇧Space on Mac and on the PrompX keyboard on iPhone. Select text on any web page to save it as a prompt, with the title and tags written for you.