From fe4d1170553c88e0c3707dfb52b42705dad04507 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: grencez <git@grencez.dev>
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2026 20:01:18 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] feat: add --prompt-file and --negative-prompt-file flags

as an alternative to passing long strings
to the --prompt and --negative-prompt flags.
---
 examples/common/common.cpp | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 45 insertions(+)

diff --git a/examples/common/common.cpp b/examples/common/common.cpp
index ad3f97a08..ba6ae67ff 100644
--- a/examples/common/common.cpp
+++ b/examples/common/common.cpp
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 #include <cstdlib>
 #include <ctime>
 #include <filesystem>
+#include <fstream>
 #include <iomanip>
 #include <iostream>
 #include <regex>
@@ -1415,6 +1416,42 @@ ArgOptions SDGenerationParams::get_options() {
         return 1;
     };
 
+    auto on_prompt_file_arg = [&](int argc, const char** argv, int index) {
+        if (++index >= argc) {
+            return -1;
+        }
+        const char* arg = argv[index];
+        std::ifstream f(arg, std::ios::binary);
+        try {
+            prompt = std::string(std::istreambuf_iterator<char>{f}, {});
+        } catch (const std::ios_base::failure&) {
+            f.setstate(std::ios_base::failbit);
+        }
+        if (f.fail()) {
+            LOG_ERROR("error: failed to read prompt file '%s'\n", arg);
+            return -1;
+        }
+        return 1;
+    };
+
+    auto on_negative_prompt_file_arg = [&](int argc, const char** argv, int index) {
+        if (++index >= argc) {
+            return -1;
+        }
+        const char* arg = argv[index];
+        std::ifstream f(arg, std::ios::binary);
+        try {
+            negative_prompt = std::string(std::istreambuf_iterator<char>{f}, {});
+        } catch (const std::ios_base::failure&) {
+            f.setstate(std::ios_base::failbit);
+        }
+        if (f.fail()) {
+            LOG_ERROR("error: failed to read negative prompt file '%s'\n", arg);
+            return -1;
+        }
+        return 1;
+    };
+
     options.manual_options = {
         {"-s",
          "--seed",
@@ -1478,6 +1515,14 @@ ArgOptions SDGenerationParams::get_options() {
          "--vae-relative-tile-size",
          "relative tile size for vae tiling, format [X]x[Y], in fraction of image size if < 1, in number of tiles per dim if >=1 (overrides --vae-tile-size)",
          on_relative_tile_size_arg},
+        {"",
+         "--prompt-file",
+         "path to the file containing the prompt to render",
+         on_prompt_file_arg},
+        {"",
+         "--negative-prompt-file",
+         "path to the file containing the negative prompt",
+         on_negative_prompt_file_arg},
 
     };