SG 2 P Wiz

Style Guide to Prompt Wizard — Quick Start Guide

Starting the app

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Double-click start.bat

A small console window will appear briefly — this is normal. After a few seconds your browser will open automatically at http://localhost:5001.
To stop the app, close the console window titled SG 2 P Wiz.

Two ways to use it

Tier 1 — BYOK

With your own API key

Upload your style guide file. The app extracts the rules automatically and formats them into a finished prompt for your CAT tool.

Requires: an API key from OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter, Azure, or any compatible provider.

Tier 2 — Free

No API key needed

Get a meta-prompt you paste into ChatGPT, Claude.ai, or Gemini along with your style guide file. They do the work.

Requires: nothing. A free ChatGPT / Claude / Gemini account is enough.

Tier 1 — Step by step

1
Enter your API credentials Base URL (leave blank for standard OpenAI), Model Name (e.g. gpt-4o), and your API Key. The key is used only for this request and never saved.
2
Choose Output Language & Target CAT Tool Output language is the language the extracted rules will be written in. CAT tool determines the format of the final prompt.
3
Upload your style guide & click Extract Rules PDF, DOCX, or TXT, up to 5 MB. The AI reads the file and returns a structured list of rules. Human escalation steps are automatically removed.
4
Review & edit the extracted rules Read through the output. Correct anything the AI missed or misread before generating the prompt.
5
Click Generate Prompt The AI formats the reviewed rules into a finished, ready-to-paste prompt for your chosen CAT tool.
6
Copy the prompt into your CAT tool See the table below for where to paste it. You can also re-generate for a different CAT tool without re-uploading the file.

Where to paste the prompt in each CAT tool

CAT Tool Where to paste
Trados Studio Project Settings → Language Pairs → [your pair] → AdaptiveMT or OpenAI plugin → System Prompt field
CafeTran Espresso Edit → Preferences → MT → your engine → System instructions field
Smartcat Workspace AI settings → Custom Prompt / AI Action field. The prompt uses Smartcat variable syntax automatically.
memoQ memoQ's built-in AI has no custom prompt field. The app will give you the prompt text plus a note on how to use it via Custom.MT or memoQ Globalese as a bridge. Read the note before proceeding.
Other / Generic Any tool that accepts a freeform system instruction. Paste into the system prompt or custom instruction field.

Privacy

Your data stays yours. This app runs entirely on your computer. The only outbound connection is the request you trigger yourself to the AI provider whose URL and key you supply. Your style guide file is processed in memory and never saved. Your API key is never written to disk or logged anywhere.