When editing a persona in Gumshoe, you’ll see the option to regenerate prompts. This feature allows Gumshoe to refresh the set of AI-generated prompts associated with that persona.

Prompts are the questions Gumshoe uses to query AI models during a report. They’re designed to reflect how someone like your selected persona would search or ask questions in real life. Regenerating prompts ensures that the questions tied to your persona stay relevant, updated, and aligned with your business focus.

Why Would I Regenerate Prompts?

You might want to regenerate prompts if:

• You’ve edited or refined the persona description as you create a report, and want to be sure the prompts on the next page will match the new details.
• You have run the report once, edited the Personas, and now want to regenerate prompts to match the new Personas.

Options When Regenerating Prompts

When editing a persona, you’ll see three choices:

• Regenerate (but keep custom prompts):
  Gumshoe will refresh the default prompts while preserving any custom prompts you’ve manually added.
• Regenerate all:
  Gumshoe will replace all existing prompts for that persona with a new set. This is useful when you want to start fresh.
• Do nothing:
  Keeps your current prompts exactly as they are.

Best Practices for regenerating Prompts

Only regenerate your prompts if you have made significant changes to a Persona.

If you’ve added custom prompts that are important to your reporting, choose “Regenerate (but keep custom prompts)”. This gives you updated AI-driven prompts while keeping the questions you care about most intact.