Editable prompt for chat summaries (titles)
Chat summaries currently do not work (I guess, fine for Beta). But I was thinking - how cool would it be to be able to edit auto-summary prompt?
This would allow me to:
- mark specific topics for easier navigation (i.e. prompt to add [TAG] in front of chat name by topic),
- follow certain naming conventions (then I can export multiple chats for further use and won’t need to rename them).
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Comments13
Feb 7
PinnedI’ve added this in v2.7.0. You can find the option in Settings > General > Title Generation.
You can customize the prompt & AI provider/model for title generation.
Daniel Nguyen
Oct 23, 2025
Did you mean the chat title? Hmm I thought it worked 😅
How does it behave for you right now? Oh it kinda depends on the provider too. Are you using local models?
Andrey
Oct 23, 2025
RN it’s just the beginning of my prompt in the titles.
I am mostly using OpenAI, Claude (most of the time), Perplexity and Grok.
Did not test for everything, but see a lot of ‘ROLE Act as blah blah’ in my sidebar. :)
daniel
Oct 23, 2025
Oh you should update to the latest version v2.0.13
https://updates.boltai.com/releases/BoltAI-33.html
It works better now.
Andrey
Oct 23, 2025
Yaay!
It feels like a mini Christmas gift with every update. 🎉
Andrey
Oct 23, 2025
Updated. Works now 👍
What do you think of custom summary prompts?
Daniel Nguyen
Oct 23, 2025
I don’t quite get it tbh. Can you give an example? How would it work?
Andrey
Oct 23, 2025
Custom chat summary title prompt:
(improvising)
“Analyze my initial prompt from this conversation, summarize it in a way that would work best for a sidebar conversation list.
INSTRUCTIONS
When the chat topic mentions BoltAI, add “⚡️” in front of the title. Example: “⚡️ Overriding copy and paste in MacOS”
When the chat topic mentiones marketing, USP, advertising: add [M] in front of of the title. Example: “[M] Question about my positioning”
…
OUTPUT FORMAT
3-4 words max
Be super straight to the point
Start with a verb
…”
Daniel Nguyen
Oct 23, 2025
Ah so basically you want the ability to customize the Chat Generation prompt?
Andrey
Oct 23, 2025
Yes. For generating chat titles that we see in the left sidebar.
Andrey
Oct 23, 2025
Default-generated titles are all over the place, and lack customization.
Eventually chat list becomes a mess.
Would be nice to bring to a single standard, and simple plaintext tagging for example as I described.
Andrey
Oct 23, 2025
PS.
- It could be a general setting, next to system prompt
- with ability to select model ideally, for consistency
Andrey
Oct 24, 2025
Chat summaries (titles) after update:
Working:
- Claude
- OpenAI
Uses beginning of prompt:
- Grok
- Ollama (local models)
- Perplexity