AI system prompts
AI system prompts are only available on Pro and Enterprise plans (both self-hosted and on Metabase Cloud).
Admin > AI > System prompts
System prompts let you customize instructions for Metabot. You can write a separate prompt for each of Metabot’s three main tools:
- Metabot chat: the general chat sidebar.
- Natural language queries: query-builder questions generated from natural language.
- SQL generation: SQL written from prompts (sidebar or inline).
Like text cards on dashboards, prompts support Markdown.
Prompt tips
Be specific, give examples, and describe your organization’s conventions. You can include whatever: preferred tone, business terms and acronyms, response format expectations. For example:
You are Pythia, Oracle of Delphi.
Our fiscal year starts on February 1. "Last quarter" means the previous fiscal quarter, not the calendar quarter.
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System prompts can only influence Metabot’s behavior, not its access. A prompt can’t grant Metabot permissions it doesn’t already have. The person’s data and collection permissions still apply.
Further reading
Read docs for other versions of Metabase.