Prompter Dock Documentation
Technical specifications and hardware requirements.
System Requirements
Prompter Dock is designed for performance. Our bundled local AI engine is optimized to leverage modern hardware architecture for zero-latency response.
macOS Requirements
(Recommended)Apple M1, M2, M3, or M4 chip. (The app leverages Apple's Metal architecture for lightning-fast, zero-lag AI generation).
(Minimum)Quad-Core Intel Core i5 (2018 or newer). (Older dual-core Intel chips may experience slight delays during AI generation).
Windows Requirements
Installation & Setup
Getting started with Prompter Dock is straightforward. Choose between the standard Lite release or the fully autonomous Gold binary based on your machine's capabilities.
10-Day Unrestricted Trial
Every download of Prompter Dock triggers an automatic, hardware-bound 10-day trial period. During this time, the entire suite of AI tooling, personas, and category trees is fully unlocked. No credit card, account creation, or cloud sign-in is required to begin testing the application natively.
Activating Your License
Once you purchase a 6-month, 12-month, or Lifetime tier from our portal, you will be issued an encrypted alphanumeric License Key. To unlock your installation past the trial window:
- Launch the Prompter Dock background process.
- Click the tray/menu bar icon and navigate to Settings > License.
- Paste your key and select Activate.
History & Version Control
Prompter Dock automatically tracks every edit and generation pass you make. You can instantly rewind your prompt to a previous version if an AI refinement goes off-track or if you accidentally overwrite your work.
Accessing Prompt History
- Via Shortcut: With any prompt selected, press ⌘ + Shift + H (macOS) or Ctrl + Shift + H (Windows) to open the History Timeline.
- Via UI: Click the clock icon in the top-right corner of the Prompt Editor.
Intelligent Auto-Ranking
Gold Tier users benefit from native usage tracking. The algorithm anonymously tracks which prompts you invoke most frequently via the HUD or gallery.
Sorting Mechanisms
- Usage Frequency (Default): Automatically bubbles your most heavily utilized prompts to the top of your HUD search results.
- Manual Drag-and-Drop: Override the algorithm at any time by simply clicking and dragging a prompt card into a pinned position.
Launch on Startup
Prompter Dock can integrate directly into your OS boot sequence so your AI tools are always a keystroke away from the moment you log in.
To enable this feature, open Settings > General and toggle the Launch on Startup switch.
Enterprise MDM Deployment
For enterprise and team deployments, Prompter Dock supports headless, silent activation across your fleet. IT Administrators can automatically activate volume licenses using Mobile Device Management (MDM) platforms by deploying a standardized configuration file.
Configuration File Injection
Deploy a standard JSON configuration file containing your volume license credentials to the following system-level directories before the application is launched by the end-user:
macOS Path
/Library/Application Support/PrompterDock/enterprise.jsonWindows Path
C:\\ProgramData\\PrompterDock\\enterprise.jsonFile Structure (enterprise.json)
{
"email": "[email protected]",
"licenseKey": "PC-GOLD-XXXX-YYYY"
}Upon the first launch, Prompter Dock will detect this file, silently communicate with our activation servers, and verify the seat availability. If successful, the application will permanently unlock without any user intervention.
Global HUD Shortcuts
Prompter Dock runs stealthily in the background. It utilizes native OS APIs to listen for global keyboard hooks, summoning the Spotlight-style overlay instantly over any active application.
macOS Activation
Triggers the search HUD instantaneously across all fullscreen spaces and applications.
Windows Activation
Evokes the HUD layer without disrupting active application focus or cursor state.
AI Engine & Capabilities
The Gold tier of Prompter Dock integrates a localized, high-speed Large Language Model (LLM) running exclusively on your machine's hardware logic paths.
Local Offline Inference
Under the hood, Prompter Dock utilizes a quantized `.gguf` architecture of a cutting-edge local LLM engine. By utilizing Llama.cpp and Tauri processes, this logic model runs independently, guaranteeing that your raw thoughts, variables, and refined prompts never touch an external server or API.
Refinement & Persona Control
Writing complex prompts is friction-heavy. Input simple, fractured thoughts, and allow the engine to expand them into perfectly formatted Markdown logic.
Prompt Sequencing (Chains)
Automate tedious workflows by linking prompts together. The AI Engine supports dynamic execution chains, routing the logical output of one prompt directly into the context window of the next—all happening securely in system RAM.
Contextual Logic & AI Safety Limits
Highlight specific text sequences inside your prompt to dynamically trigger contextual logic, forcing the AI to apply hyper-specific constraints only to the highlighted subsets (Gold Version). To preserve system RAM and prevent VRAM exhaustion, a strict 150-word input safety limit is enforced for local refinement, complete with intelligent UI warnings.
Data Management & Workflows
Take administrative control with multi-select bulk deletion and instant native Markdown sharing. Seamlessly migrate libraries by extracting textual logic directly from .docx and Apple .pages documents. Plus, track inputs instantly with the real-time word count tracking indicator on the raw prompt view.