Prompt Governance
The organizational practice of managing, versioning, reviewing, and controlling which prompts are used in production AI systems — treating prompts like the critical business assets they are. Most companies have no prompt governance: prompts get edited ad hoc, nobody knows why a change was made, and there's no rollback when something breaks. Good governance means prompts are version-controlled, reviewed before deployment, and auditable.
In practice
Your company has 12 people writing system prompts for different Claude tools. Two are inconsistent with brand voice, one makes promises Claude can't keep, and nobody knows which version is in production. Prompt governance is the process — reviews, version control, approval workflows — that keeps prompts consistent, safe, and up to date across your organization.
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