Comment Stripping¶

HTML comments are stripped before any other processing stage.

Automatic Stripping¶

Comments are removed during PM.parse:

<!-- This comment will be removed -->
---
title: My Prompt
---
Content here. <!-- This too -->

After parsing:

parsed = PM.parse(source)
parsed.content  #=> "\nContent here. \n"

Multiline comments are fully removed:

<!--
This entire block
is removed
-->
---
title: Example
---
Visible content.

Comments before the YAML front-matter are stripped first, so the metadata parser sees clean input:

<!-- Editor note: draft version -->
---
title: My Prompt
---
Content

The comment stripping method is available as a standalone utility:

PM.strip_comments("Hello <!-- removed --> World")
#=> "Hello  World"

Editor notes -- Leave comments for prompt authors that don't appear in the rendered output
Disabled sections -- Temporarily comment out parts of a prompt
Documentation -- Annotate prompt files without affecting the AI input