Prompts to Try

Here are some effective prompts to get the most out of Monk.

Project Deployment

These prompts help you deploy and run your projects:

@monk run this project - Deploys your project with default settings
@monk deploy this project - Equivalent to “run this project”
@monk run this project locally - Runs your project on your local machine
@monk run this project on a 2 node cluster on GCP - Deploys to a specific cloud provider with custom configuration
@monk run this project, use netlify for hosting the frontend - Deploys with specific hosting provider for frontend
@monk build this project - Builds the project without deployment

These prompts help you understand your project:

@monk what is this project about? - Gets an overview of the project
@monk what are components of this project? - Lists the components that make up the project

These prompts help you monitor your deployment:

@monk show me the logs of the database - Shows logs from your database service
@monk show me deployment logs - Shows logs from the deployment process
@monk check logs and see if everything is fine - Analyzes logs for potential issues
@monk how much resources is redis using? - Checks resource usage for a specific service
@monk what's running? - Lists all currently running services

These prompts help you manage your infrastructure:

These prompts help you access your services:

@monk open frontend in browser - Opens the frontend interface in your browser
@monk open preview in browser - Opens a preview version in your browser
@monk give me shell to my service - Provides shell access to a specific service