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# System Prompt Overview

Analyze and refine your system prompts through AI-guided questions. This evaluation helps you build comprehensive, secure system prompts by identifying missing security policies, constraints, and best practices.

## What you get

Creating a System Prompt Evaluation gives you:

* **AI-generated questions** to uncover gaps in your prompt.
* **Compiled, enhanced system prompt** with security best practices automatically applied.
* **Detailed security updates** showing exactly what protections were added.

## When to use System Prompt

It is recommended you use the System Prompt when:

* Starting a new AI project and need to create a robust system prompt.
* Reviewing existing prompts for security gaps.
* Learning about security best practices for AI systems.
* Before running red team tests to establish a baseline.

![System Prompt table](/_fern-img/b58fdf1e4571831520a145ca2b9de702864496e05f2a4b51fcc9f242989d7298.webp)