14.8.2.26 ‘:prologue’ ..................... The value of the ‘prologue’ header argument will be prepended to the code block body before execution. For example, ‘:prologue "reset"’ may be used to reset a gnuplot session before execution of a particular code block, or the following configuration may be used to do this for all gnuplot code blocks. Also see epilogue. (add-to-list 'org-babel-default-header-args:gnuplot '((:prologue . "reset")))