diff --git a/api/chat.py b/api/chat.py
index 03a2f53..e34a175 100644
--- a/api/chat.py
+++ b/api/chat.py
@@ -27,6 +27,10 @@ ENCODER = tiktoken.get_encoding("cl100k_base")
 
 DEBUG_PRINT = True
 
+def set_debug_print(val: bool):
+    global DEBUG_PRINT
+    DEBUG_PRINT = val
+
 # --------------------------------- prompt code --------------------------------
 
 
@@ -187,10 +191,10 @@ def talk_to_robot(index, query: str, history: List[Dict[str, str]], k: int = STA
     yield from (json.dumps(block) for block in talk_to_robot_internal(index, query, history, k, log))
 
 # wayyy simplified api
-def talk_to_robot_simple(index, query: str):
+def talk_to_robot_simple(index, query: str, log: Callable = print):
     res = {'response': ''}
 
-    for block in talk_to_robot_internal(index, query, []):
+    for block in talk_to_robot_internal(index, query, [], log = log):
         if block['state'] == 'loading' and block['phase'] == 'semantic' and 'citations' in block:
             citations = {}
             for i, c in enumerate(block['citations']):
diff --git a/api/prompteng/prompteng.py b/api/prompteng/prompteng.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0bb069c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/api/prompteng/prompteng.py
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+import sys
+from pathlib import Path
+sys.path = [str(Path(__file__).parent.parent)] + sys.path
+from env import PINECONE_INDEX
+
+from chat import talk_to_robot_simple, set_debug_print
+
+set_debug_print(False)
+print(talk_to_robot_simple(PINECONE_INDEX, 'Hello.', log = lambda x: None))
diff --git a/api/prompteng/readme.md b/api/prompteng/readme.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e82e8b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/api/prompteng/readme.md
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+```bash
+pipenv run python3 prompteng/prompteng.py
+```