is it possible to pass prompt variables?

[kuatroka]

let's say I got a .txt file that contains my prompt below and I want to use llm to pass this file as prompt but it contains a dynamic variable entries. Is it possible to pass it too? Tanks

PROMPT

<purpose>
Clean the given text content based on instructions and example-input-output.
The text will be descriptions of company names and not always in a good shape.
You might need to remove bad characters
</purpose>

<instructions>
   <instruction> Remove characters that pollute the reading experience like /, //, @, \, ", etc  </instruction>
   <instruction>Respond only with a list of objects with keys: 'original' and 'cleaned' without code highliting</instruction>
   <instruction>Start output with "[" and end with "]"</instruction>
</instructions>



<example-input-output1>
"PERSONAL FINANCIAL CONSULTANTS INC /ADV" : "PERSONAL FINANCIAL CONSULTANTS INC"

</example-input-output1>

<example-input-output4>
"GOFEN & GLOSSBERG LLC /IL/" : "GOFEN & GLOSSBERG LLC"
</example-input-output4>

<example-input-output4>
"TRUSTCO BANK CORP N Y" : "TRUSTCO BANK CORP"
</example-input-output4>

<content>
{{entries}}
</content>

[stuartcw]

I would use a small python program to use the above file as a Jinja2 template and populate the content entries from the program. Then use the output file as the prompt to pass to llm.

[Muguett-DBY]

LLM has built-in template parameters. Put your XML inside a YAML prompt block and change {{entries}} to $entries. A shortened cleanup.yaml would be:

prompt: |
  <purpose>
  Clean company names. Return only a JSON list of objects with
  "original" and "cleaned" keys, without Markdown fences.
  </purpose>
  <content>
  $entries
  </content>

Then pass the value with -p:

llm -t cleanup.yaml -p entries 'PERSONAL FINANCIAL CONSULTANTS INC /ADV'

You can keep all your original XML instructions and examples; indent them under prompt: | in the same way. LLM uses $name placeholders here.

For a file of entries, replace $entries with $input, then in Bash:

llm -t cleanup.yaml < entries.txt