Introduction

Promptster is a lightweight CLI that runs alongside your AI coding tool during a technical assessment. It captures a record of your session — the prompts you write, the changes the AI makes, the commands you run, and the decisions you explain — so the hiring team can evaluate how you work, not just the code you submit. You install one binary, redeem a key, and work normally. Everything else happens in the background.

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You’re judged on how you use AI, not whether you use it

Final code output is a weak signal on its own. Two candidates can ship the same diff through completely different processes — one who understood every line and verified it, one who pasted whatever the model produced. Promptster gives the hiring team the evidence trail to tell those apart: how you decompose a problem, what you verify, where you push back on the AI, and why you made the tradeoffs you did. Use AI as much or as little as you like. There’s no penalty for leaning on it heavily and no bonus for avoiding it. The signal is judgment — the quality of your direction and your verification.

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What the experience is like

You work the way you normally would: The CLI captures telemetry quietly while you work — you don’t interact with it between those steps. The one habit worth building is explaining your decisions: a sentence on why you chose an approach is one of the highest-signal things a reviewer sees.

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Key concepts

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What is and isn’t recorded

Promptster only records activity inside your assessment workspace and your AI coding tool. It does not record keystrokes, screen contents, your clipboard, browser activity, environment variables, or files outside the workspace. See Privacy & Data for the complete list, including the optional authorship-timing layer you can decline at consent.

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