Starter Prompts

The PebbleChat landing page — the screen you see when you click PebbleChat in the sidebar with no active conversation — is more than a blank box waiting for your first message. It surfaces starter prompts that help you discover what PebbleChat is good at and jump back into recurring topics with a single click.

What you see

The landing page has three layers:

1. A personalised greeting — “What should we tackle, Aby?”
2. A short introduction — “Use a workspace prompt to discover something new, or jump back into a familiar topic from your recent conversations.”
3. Starter prompts — chips you can click to send a prepared prompt instantly
4. Familiar starting points — derived from your recent conversation history; click to start a new chat seeded with a topic you’ve explored before

Workspace starter prompts

The chips above the composer (“Next meeting”, “Recent email”, “Today priorities” in the screenshot) are workspace-managed. Your workspace admin curates them based on what your team most commonly does in PebbleChat.

When you click a chip, the prompt is sent immediately — same as if you’d typed it yourself and pressed Enter. The chip disappears, the conversation begins, and PebbleChat responds.

Why workspace prompts are powerful

• Onboarding — a new team member arrives, sees three perfectly tuned prompts for their team’s most common tasks, and gets to value within seconds
• Discoverability — capabilities that would otherwise require knowing exactly what to ask become visible
• Consistency — when everyone starts from the same prompt template, results are more comparable
• Best-practice nudge — admins can encode “the right way to ask” so users don’t have to figure it out by trial and error

If you find yourself typing the same long prompt repeatedly, ask your workspace admin to add it as a starter prompt. Other teammates will benefit from your distilled wisdom.

Familiar starting points

Below the composer, the Familiar starting points section shows topics derived from your recent conversation history. These aren’t curated by anyone — they’re computed automatically from what you’ve actually been working on lately.

This is great for:

• Resuming yesterday’s work without scrolling through the sidebar
• Spotting recurring themes you didn’t realise were recurring
• Quickly switching context between several active threads

When you click a Familiar starting point, PebbleChat starts a new conversation seeded with that topic — it doesn’t reopen the old conversation. Use the conversation sidebar if you want to continue an existing thread.

If you don’t have enough conversation history yet, this section shows a placeholder (“Your recent conversation topics will appear here once you have a bit more PebbleChat history.”). It populates as you use PebbleChat more.

How starter prompts work in practice

A common pattern in well-tuned PebbleAI workspaces:

1. Workspace admin creates 3–5 starter prompts for the team’s most common tasks
2. New users click them, get useful results immediately, and learn what PebbleChat is good at
3. As users develop their own patterns, the Familiar starting points section fills in with their personal recurring topics
4. The workspace admin reviews usage and refines the curated starter prompts based on what’s working

Customising starter prompts (admins only)

Workspace and organisation admins can edit the starter prompt set in the PebbleFlows workspace settings. The interface lets you:

• Add new starter prompts (text and the actual prompt that gets sent)
• Reorder existing ones
• Remove ones that aren’t useful
• Localise prompts for different workspace languages

Changes take effect immediately for all users in the workspace.

What if I don’t see starter prompts?

Possible reasons:

• Your workspace admin hasn’t configured any. Default behaviour is no starter prompts — they have to be set up. Ask your admin.
• You’re already in an active conversation. Starter prompts only appear on the landing page (no active conversation). Click New Chat to see them again.
• They’re disabled at the platform level. Some installs disable the starter prompt feature. Talk to your platform admin.

Tips

• Try every starter prompt at least once. Even ones that look unrelated to your work — they show you what PebbleChat is capable of in your specific deployment.
• Promote your best prompts. When a prompt of yours produces consistently great results, share it with your admin so they can add it to the workspace set.
• Use Familiar starting points as a memory aid. They’re often more useful than search for finding “that thing I was working on last Tuesday”.

Related

• Getting Started — overall PebbleChat orientation
• Conversations & History — the sidebar and how to find past conversations