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
This feature isnβt yet available on discourse.org hosting
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
-
Go to
Admin
βPlugins
βAI
βSettings
tab and make sureDiscourse AI enabled
,AI summarization enabled
, andAI summary gists enabled
are checked -
Switch to the
Personas
tab and edit theSummarizer (short form)
persona to use your LLM as theDefault language model
, and ensure the persona is enabled. -
(optional) Increase
ai_summary_backfill_maximum_topics_per_hour
to backfill gists for older topics, and control how far back to backfill viaai_summary_backfill_topic_max_age_days
.
Last edited by @awesomerobot 2025-04-29T16:53:23Z
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