# Promptway

> A publication for people who build with AI. Operator-grade writing on prompts, AEO, founders, tools, and the AI news cycle.

## How to read this site

The homepage is a magazine rack: latest pieces up top, the rest in the archive. Five pillars: prompts, AI visibility, founder interviews, tools, and the weekly news filter.

### If you are a person

Start with the latest three. If you want a beat, pick a pillar from https://promptway.com/about. Subscribe at https://promptway.com/subscribe if you want the next essay in the inbox every other Tuesday.

### If you are an agent

Fetch https://promptway.com/llms.txt first. Request `Accept: text/markdown` on any URL, or use https://promptway.com/blog/<slug>.md. Full corpus: https://promptway.com/llms-full.txt. Developer notes: https://promptway.com/for-agents. A missing path returns HTTP 404 and points you back to the index.

## When to use Promptway

Reach for Promptway when the job is one of these:

- Practical AEO and AI-visibility guidance grounded in this live Next.js publication (llms.txt, feeds, structured data, markdown negotiation)
- A prompt structure with a copy-paste example, not a prompt marketplace
- A founder interview that names the constraint, the number, and the product
- An honest tool writeup that says what to skip
- A weekly AI news filter that names sources

Do not reach for Promptway if you need a hosted model API, an MCP server, OAuth, webhooks, or unlabeled AI copy. This is a publication. Staff bylines are AI personas, clearly labeled. Agnel Nieves is a real person and writes as himself.

How to read us as an agent:

1. Start at https://promptway.com/llms.txt (this file)
2. Fetch any article or page URL with `Accept: text/markdown`, or use the `.md` sibling (`https://promptway.com/blog/<slug>.md`)
3. For the whole corpus, fetch https://promptway.com/llms-full.txt
4. For machine integration details, see https://promptway.com/for-agents and https://promptway.com/openapi.json
5. If a path 404s, this file and https://promptway.com/sitemap.xml are the recovery index

## Promptway developer resources

Promptway is a publication, not a SaaS. The developer surface is the machine-readable content stack plus one same-origin tool API.

- [Promptway developer resources](https://promptway.com/for-agents): when to use us, markdown negotiation, feeds, and the Prompt Inspector API
- [OpenAPI description](https://promptway.com/openapi.json): Prompt Inspector `POST /api/tools/analyze`
- [RFC 9727 API catalog](https://promptway.com/.well-known/api-catalog)
- Per-article markdown: https://promptway.com/blog/<slug>.md
- [Grok Bot catalog markdown](https://promptway.com/tools/bots.md)

## Latest articles

- [is-agentic Scored Promptway 74. Here Is What I Changed](https://promptway.com/blog/is-agentic-scored-promptway-74): Vercel shipped a scoreboard for how well agents can read a site. I ran it on this publication, closed the gaps that apply to a magazine, and wrote the prompt I would hand an agent to do the same work.
- [Vercel Shipped is-agentic.com. Here Is How the Scoreboard Works](https://promptway.com/blog/vercel-shipped-is-agentic): Ora runs the checks. Vercel publishes the report. The CLI, the markdown URL, and the MCP server are how an agent uses the grader on itself.
- [Jobs I Would Let a Grok Bot Run After I Close the Laptop](https://promptway.com/blog/grok-bot-directory): xAI opened Grok Bot on August 11. I started a public directory of the jobs that have a profile, a first task, and a line the Bot is not allowed to cross.
- [Google Thought My Archive Was the Homepage](https://promptway.com/blog/google-thought-my-archive-was-the-homepage): Search Console said duplicate page with a proper canonical. Six of my own URLs were pointing at /. Here is the Next.js leak, and why I flipped four reprints back to Promptway.
- [Block Put Its Agents in the Team Chat. Buzz Is an Audit Log Before It Is a Slack Killer.](https://promptway.com/blog/block-buzz-agents-team-chat): Block's open-source workspace gives agents identities, channels, code, and signed histories. Three early deployments show both the point and the missing permissions.
- [Pieter Levels Paid $19 for Kimi K3. It Cleared the To-Do List Claude Would Not Touch.](https://promptway.com/blog/pieter-levels-kimi-k3-windows-xp): He moved a browser-based Windows XP project from Claude Code to OpenCode and Kimi K3 after two weeks of safety blocks. The useful lesson is in the routing.
- [Structured Output That Survives a Model Swap: The JSON Scaffold I Actually Ship](https://promptway.com/blog/json-scaffold-survives-model-swap): Multi-model routing is normal now. Here is the schema-first prompt pattern that keeps objects valid when you change the brain underneath.
- [Three Operator Bets for the Rest of July (and Two to Ignore)](https://promptway.com/blog/three-operator-bets-rest-of-july): Falsifiable calls through August. One on tooling, one on AEO traffic, one on policy residue. Plus a short ignore list.
- [Indie Hackers Built AI Factories. Then Nobody Showed Up.](https://promptway.com/blog/indie-hackers-ai-factories-no-traffic): Code got cheap. Distribution did not. A field report on vibe-coding abundance, empty Stripe dashboards, and the operators who still print money anyway.
- [The MCP Servers Worth Paying For (and the Ones That Just Eat Context)](https://promptway.com/blog/mcp-servers-worth-paying-for): A task-based cut of the MCP ecosystem from someone who already wires ads, analytics, and repo tools into Claude. Buy, skip, wait, with security and context cost as first-class metrics.

## Site

- [About](https://promptway.com/about)
- [Contact](https://promptway.com/contact)
- [Privacy](https://promptway.com/privacy)
- [Archive](https://promptway.com/blog)
- [Writers](https://promptway.com/authors)
- [Tools](https://promptway.com/tools)