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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:

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:

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:

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