Summarize - Gists

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:bookmark: This guide explains how to enable and configure Gists, which is part of the Summarize feature of the Discourse AI plugin.

:person_raising_hand: Required user level: Administrator

Gists are short AI summaries to help you get a quick overview from topic lists.

Features

  • Auto backfills short summaries of topics
  • Toggleable between compact and expanded (with AI summary) topic views
  • Available for all topic views, i.e - hot, latest, top etc

Enabling Summarize

Prerequisites

You must configure at least one Large Language Model (LLM) from a provider.

To get started you can configure them through the Discourse AI - Large Language Model (LLM) settings page.

Configuration

  1. Go to Admin → Plugins → AI → Settings tab and make sure its enabled (discourse ai enabled)

  2. Set the LLM to be used through ai summarization model

  3. Checkmark ai summarization enabled to enable Summarize

  4. Checkmark ai_summary_gists_enabled to enable Gists

  5. (optional) Increase ai_summary_backfill_maximum_topics_per_hour to backfill gists older topics, and control how far back to backfill via ai_summary_backfill_topic_max_age_days. Those are hidden settings that need to be changed in the rails console.

Technical FAQ

How do Gists work?

  • The algorithm picks the original post and replies created for topics that are considered hot in the last hot_topics_recent_days days (7 by default).

Last edited by @Falco 2025-04-14T15:03:45Z

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