# Discourse AI Summary Cache

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-ai-summary-cache/304763
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** ai, ai-summarize
**Created:** [April 20, 2024, 11:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-ai-summary-cache/304763 "2024-04-20T23:16:06Z")
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### Author: ![anon82911141](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@anon82911141](https://meta.discourse.org/u/anon82911141)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2024, 11:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-ai-summary-cache/304763/1 "2024-04-20T23:16:07Z")

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Hi there,

Haven’t seen a solid nor concrete response to do with this question - are the Discourse AI summaries cached somewhere so that the forum doesn’t unnecessarily keep requesting summaries when there have been no changes to the post, topic or reply?

Thanks.

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2024, 1:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-ai-summary-cache/304763/2 "2024-04-21T01:08:44Z")

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Yes, summaries are cached

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### Author: ![merefield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/merefield/32/176214_2.png) [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2024, 7:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-ai-summary-cache/304763/3 "2024-04-21T07:55:41Z")

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In my plugin:

> [@Discourse AI Topic Summary robot](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-ai-topic-summary-automated-summaries-and-smart-tagging/256711/1):
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> information_sourceSummary Uses a remote AI language model to prepare and post a summary of a topic.hammer_and_wrenchRepository Link [GitHub - merefield/discourse-ai-topic-summary: Uses a remote AI language model to prepare and post a summary of a Topic · GitHub](https://github.com/merefield/discourse-ai-topic-summary)open_bookInstall Guide [How to install plugins in Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/install-plugins-in-discourse/19157)heartSponsorship Please consider becoming an ongoing [sponsor of my open source work](https://github.com/sponsors/merefield) at a level that suits your or your organisation’s resources and ne…

Summaries are only updated every x Posts governed by a setting `ai_topic_summary_enabled_post_interval_rerun`

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2024, 7:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-ai-summary-cache/304763/4 "2024-05-21T07:55:42Z")

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