Gists are currently only available on Meta and a handful of sites for testing
This guide explains how to enable and configure Gists, which is part of the Summarize feature of the Discourse AI plugin.
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.
- OpenAI
- Anthropic
- Azure OpenAI
- AWS Bedrock with Anthropic access
- HuggingFace Endpoints with Llama2-like model
- Self-Hosting an OpenSource LLM
- Google Gemini
- Cohere
Configuration
- Go to
Admin→Plugins→AI→Settingstab and make sure its enabled (discourse ai enabled) - Set the LLM to be used through
ai summarization model - Checkmark
ai summarization enabledto enable Summarize
Self-hosters will be required to configure the following
ai_summarization_discourse_service_api_endpointai_summarization_discourse_service_api_key
Technical FAQ
How do Gists work?
- The algorithm picks the original post and replies created for topics that are considered hot in the last 20 days by default.
Caveats
- Summary outputs may not be 100% accurate, so make sure to check any output carefully.
Last edited by @Saif 2025-03-25T18:59:14Z
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