Runprompt
Shares rank 42 of 86 privilege escalation tools by recommenders
Runs .prompt files from the command line, so LLM calls can be chained in shell pipelines with less typing and more control. Critics note it falls back to string input when JSON fails to parse.
Runs .prompt files from the command line, so LLM calls can be chained in shell pipelines with less typing and more control. Critics note it falls back to string input when JSON fails to parse.
9 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 8
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 89%
Recommended in 3 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 8 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 8 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 3 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
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Why people recommend it
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Chains LLM calls in shell pipelines
“I love the idea of throwing LLM calls in a bash pipe”
Comment from 27 Nov 2025 in “Show HN: Runprompt – run .prompt files from the command line” “Less typing. More control over chaining prompts together. Reproducibility.”
Comment from 27 Nov 2025 in “Show HN: Runprompt – run .prompt files from the command line” Lighter than full agent stacks
“feels way more ergonomic than spinning up a whole agent stack”
Comment from 27 Nov 2025 in “Show HN: Runprompt – run .prompt files from the command line” “feel much less disempowering, while still giving you a productivity boost”
Comment from 18 Jan 2026 in “The thing that brought me joy” Simple, functional, not hyped
“Functional and useful, not trying to be "the next big thing"”
Comment from 27 Nov 2025 in “Show HN: Runprompt – run .prompt files from the command line” “Glad to see a post about enabling simple workflows!”
Comment from 27 Nov 2025 in “Show HN: Runprompt – run .prompt files from the command line”
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See all 86 privilege escalation tools, rankedWhat people said
9 of the 10 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“there's no a good way to run prompts on a schedule”
“feel much less disempowering, while still giving you a productivity boost”
“Less typing. More control over chaining prompts together. Reproducibility.”
“it defaults to string input if the JSON doesn't parse”
“feels way more ergonomic than spinning up a whole agent stack”
“I'm so happy that you made this!”
“I love the idea of throwing LLM calls in a bash pipe”
“Glad to see a post about enabling simple workflows!”
“Functional and useful, not trying to be "the next big thing"”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.