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A prompt that's slow only inside repositories is usually running expensive Git status work on every redraw — profile it, isolate repository scale, cache safely.
Installing Starship, a fast, shell-agnostic prompt that works identically across Bash, Zsh, and fish, and configuring which information it shows.
A colorful prompt showing git branch and exit code is not a separate program — it is a string the shell re-evaluates before every command.
A prompt showing broken characters or startup errors after a theme update — how to isolate whether it's a font, config, or version issue.