Skip to main content
A Smart Template is a map of sections. Each section has this shape:

​
Prompt resolution (first-match-wins waterfall)

For each section, Telepatia picks the prompt in this order:
  1. systemPrompt — your own inline prompt (Custom Section).
  2. instructionSet.telepatiaPromptId — a curated Telepatia prompt (Telepatia Section — recommended).
  3. Generic fallback — no prompt; extraction is driven only by schema.instructions.
Prefer Telepatia Sections when one fits. Telepatia’s clinical team curates and updates the prompts behind each telepatiaPromptId. You get clinical quality without owning prompt-engineering. See the Telepatia Prompts catalog.
Sections run in parallel. A failed section does not block the others — it simply comes back with status: "failed" and an error message. Reference a curated prompt by id. Optionally pass values to tune behavior (see the catalog for available knobs).

​
Custom Section

Write your own prompt. Full control — and full ownership.
Use Custom Sections when:
  • The section isn’t covered by a Telepatia Prompt.
  • You need institution-specific phrasing or formatting.
  • You’re matching a proprietary EHR schema verbatim.
Finding yourself authoring the same Custom prompt across many templates? Reach out — it’s a candidate for becoming a Telepatia Prompt.

​
Generic fallback

If you provide neither systemPrompt nor instructionSet, Telepatia extracts the field best-effort from the transcript using only schema.instructions.
Use this only for simple, unambiguous fields. For anything clinical, prefer a Telepatia Section.

​
Mixing modes

You can mix Telepatia Sections, Custom Sections, and fallback Sections in the same Smart Template. Each section resolves independently.