Use AI to be notified of potential solutions on topics

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Was reading over this topic about AI based moderation - Experiments with AI based moderation on Discourse Meta - and wonder if a similar setup could be used to receive notifications/chat messages when a topic has a potential solution added to it?

Marking solutions can be very time consuming - and finding ways to make it easier for moderators/admins to identify these potential solutions could help greatly.

I imagine a situation where it detects one of two scenarios:

  • Someone confirming there is a solution - (“This answer was exactly what I was looking for”, “This helped me solve my problem” etc.)
  • Actually understanding the question/discussion and recognizing when a solution has been given
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I think the only feature we are missing here is a change to the created/edited automation trigger:

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There is no way now to exclude solved topics, so this could end up triggering on a topic that was already solved. Except for that all the primitives are in place.

Do you have Gemini Flash 2.5 or maybe GPT 4.1 Mini configured, either would be able to do a reasonable job at this task?

The process is:

  1. Define a custom tool that sends the message to the group
  2. Define a persona that defines the behavior
  3. Define an automation that looks at the posts (triage posts using ai persona)
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