---
title: "AI system prompts"
description: "Write custom instructions for Metabot to match your organization’s tone, terminology, and conventions."
url: "https://www.metabase.com/docs/latest/ai/system-prompts"
version: "65"
---

# AI system prompts

> AI system prompts are only available on [Pro](https://www.metabase.com/product/pro) and [Enterprise](https://www.metabase.com/product/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](https://www.metabase.com/docs/latest/ai/metabot.md#inline-sql-editing)).

Like text cards on dashboards, prompts support [Markdown](https://www.metabase.com/docs/latest/dashboards/markdown.md).

## 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.

...
```

![System prompts](https://www.metabase.com/docs/latest/ai/images/pythia-oracle-of-delphi-response.png)

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](https://www.metabase.com/docs/latest/permissions/data.md) and [collection](https://www.metabase.com/docs/latest/permissions/collections.md) permissions still apply.

## Further reading

- [AI settings](https://www.metabase.com/docs/latest/ai/settings.md)
- [AI controls](https://www.metabase.com/docs/latest/ai/usage-controls.md)
- [AI customization](https://www.metabase.com/docs/latest/ai/customization.md)
- [Metabot](https://www.metabase.com/docs/latest/ai/metabot.md)