Stop Prompting From Scratch: Introducing Muse Vault

Every morning I open Muse and rewrite the same prompt I've already written a hundred times.
“Give me a briefing: overnight news in growth marketing, my calendar today, top 3 priorities based on what's due.”
Dozens of times. Each one from scratch. Each one slightly worse than the last. Same story for inbox triage, meeting follow-ups, and the deep-research workflow I run before big decisions.
What it is
Muse Vault is a free gallery of 98 battle-tested Muse templates: system prompts, skills, crons, and workflows. Each one is something I actually use — or built because somebody needed it. Not teasers. Not “enter your email for the real version.” The whole thing is the real version.
Find a template, copy it, paste it into MuThree I’d save if the house were on fire: Second-in-Command (the chief-of-staff prompt that runs my mornings), Content Repurposer (one rough input → X thread + LinkedIn post + newsletter section), and Salary Negotiation Prep (roleplays the negotiation and hands you the actual sentences — the thing I wish I’d had years ago).
It’s built to grow past me
I seeded the vault, but the point is it outgrows me. There’s a submission form on the site — if you’ve built a prompt, skill, or workflow you reach for weekly, submit it. Every submission is reviewed by a human (me, mostly), every published template credits its author by name, and trending plus ratings float the best stuff to the top on merit.
Why free
Because the value compounds when everyone shares. Twenty years watching open-source communities and creator economies taught me the same lesson: the people who give away the good stuff end up with the biggest rooms.
If one template saves you ten minutes a week, that’s eight hours a year. Multiply that across everyone who visits. That’s the math I’m optimizing for.
Go steal everything
Muse Vault is live now — all 98 templates, free, no account. Find one you’ll actually use. Then tell me what to build next — the request queue is open, and the most-wanted templates ship first.
se, follow the install steps. Most install in under a minute.
Why now
The idea came from watching the Grok community package shareable bot templates — a simple idea that spread because it was obviously useful. Muse needed the same thing: the prompts, skills, and workflows that make an AI assistant actually useful, packaged so anyone can steal them.
And yes — the name changed twice to get here. It started as Muse Templates, went through PromptVault, and landed on Muse Vault. Two renames in one night. The final one stuck because it’s honest about what it is: a vault. Shelf your best work, pull it down whenever you need it.
What’s inside
Two ways to browse, because people think two ways.
By format — the shape of the thing: system prompts (full instruction sets, like my chief-of-staff Second-in-Command), skills (repeatable capabilities like inbox triage), crons (recurring automations — the 7 AM briefing, the Friday weekly review), and workflows (multi-step processes like deep research with confidence grading).
By track — the part of your life it serves:
- Work (36) — inbox triage, meeting follow-ups, decision memos
- Money (16) — spending tracker, invoice chaser, subscription audit
- Career (6) — resume tailor, interview prep, salary negotiation scripts
- Create (18) — content repurposer, podcast show notes
- Home & Life (18) — wedding planner, moving checklist, maintenance scheduler
- Health & Family (4) — workout programmer, bedtime story builder
I’m a growth operator. I live inside Muse the way a carpenter lives inside a workshop — it’s my second-in-command for everything from campaign post-mortems to bedtime stories for my kids. And every morning I was rebuilding my tools instead of reaching for them off the shelf.
So I built the shelf. It’s called Muse Vault.
A note from the author
Thanks for reading. If this sparked something — a question, a disagreement, a project idea — I want to hear it.
The fastest way to reach me is steve@stevepeeleii.com, or say hello through the contact page.
— Steve Peele II