OpenAI is turning off saved prompts on November 30. There is no export, so copy yours out.

Nate Smith — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 19:55:32 +0000

If your code calls the Responses API with prompt: { id: "pmpt_..." }, that stops working on November 30. OpenAI's deprecations page lists v1/prompts and reusable prompt objects for shutdown that day.

A few things I'd want to know if this were my app:

There is no export. As far as I can tell the API can't read a saved prompt back either. The text only lives in the dashboard, so copy it out by hand before the 30th.
Once the text is in your code and you send it as instructions, it is not remembered between turns. If you chain with previous_response_id, send it every time.
The model was saved on the prompt. Now you set it on the request.
OpenAI's own Agents SDK example (prompt-id.ts) still uses a prompt id. If you copied it, that needs changing too.

Why I'd do it this week: when Assistants shut down in August, someone on OpenAI's forum lost their help bot's instructions. They had been typed into the dashboard by a person who had left, and nothing was in version control. They only got them back because an old tracing log happened to have a copy.

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OpenAI is turning off saved prompts on November 30. There is no export, so copy yours out.