---
title: ai-prompt-template
keywords:
  - Apache APISIX
  - API Gateway
  - Plugin
  - ai-prompt-template
description: This document contains information about the Apache APISIX ai-prompt-template Plugin.
---

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## Description

The `ai-prompt-template` plugin simplifies access to LLM providers, such as OpenAI and Anthropic, and their models by predefining the request format
using a template, which only allows users to pass customized values into template variables.

## Plugin Attributes

| **Field**                             | **Required** | **Type** | **Description**                                                                                                             |
| ------------------------------------- | ------------ | -------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `templates`                           | Yes          | Array    | An array of template objects                                                                                                |
| `templates.name`                      | Yes          | String   | Name of the template.                                                                                                       |
| `templates.template.model`            | Yes          | String   | Model of the AI Model, for example `gpt-4` or `gpt-3.5`. See your LLM provider API documentation for more available models. |
| `templates.template.messages.role`    | Yes          | String   | Role of the message (`system`, `user`, `assistant`)                                                                         |
| `templates.template.messages.content` | Yes          | String   | Content of the message.                                                                                                     |

## Example usage

Create a route with the `ai-prompt-template` plugin like so:

```shell
curl "http://127.0.0.1:9180/apisix/admin/routes/1" -X PUT \
  -H "X-API-KEY: ${ADMIN_API_KEY}" \
  -d '{
    "uri": "/v1/chat/completions",
    "upstream": {
      "type": "roundrobin",
      "nodes": {
        "api.openai.com:443": 1
      },
      "scheme": "https",
      "pass_host": "node"
    },
    "plugins": {
      "ai-prompt-template": {
        "templates": [
          {
            "name": "level of detail",
            "template": {
              "model": "gpt-4",
              "messages": [
                {
                  "role": "user",
                  "content": "Explain about {{ topic }} in {{ level }}."
                }
              ]
            }
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  }'
```

Now send a request:

```shell
curl http://127.0.0.1:9080/v1/chat/completions -i -XPOST  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{
  "template_name": "level of detail",
  "topic": "psychology",
  "level": "brief"
}' -H "Authorization: Bearer <your token here>"
```

Then the request body will be modified to something like this:

```json
{
  "model": "some model",
  "messages": [
    { "role": "user", "content": "Explain about psychology in brief." }
  ]
}
```