# Summarize - Gists

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/summarize-gists/340269
**Category:** Site Management
**Tags:** how-to, ai, ai-summarize
**Created:** [December 4, 2024, 3:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/summarize-gists/340269 "2024-12-04T03:12:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![Saif](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/saif/32/318253_2.png) [@Saif](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Saif)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2024, 3:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/summarize-gists/340269/1 "2024-12-04T03:12:36Z")

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> 🔖 This guide explains how to enable and configure Gists, which is part of the [Summarize](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-ai-summarize/262711) feature of the [Discourse AI](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-ai/259214?slient=true) plugin.
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> 🙋 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](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-ai-large-language-model-llm-settings-page/319903).

### Configuration

1. Go to `Admin` → `Plugins` → `AI` → `Features` tab, select `Summarization`, and make sure `AI summarization enabled` and `AI summary gists enabled` are checked.

2. Switch to the `Agents` tab and edit the `Summarizer (short form)` agent to use your LLM as the `Default language model`, and ensure the agent is enabled.

3. (optional) Increase `ai_summary_backfill_maximum_topics_per_hour` to backfill gists for older topics, control how far back to backfill via `ai_summary_backfill_topic_max_age_days`, and set a minimum topic length for backfill via `ai_summary_backfill_minimum_word_count` (default: 200 words).

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### Author: ![Lilly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/lilly/32/575047_2.png) [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2026, 5:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/summarize-gists/340269/5 "2026-02-01T17:23:13Z")

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> [@Saif](#):
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> > 📝 This feature isn’t yet available on [discourse.org](http://discourse.org) hosting

why is this? is it enterprise-only? if so, the OP should be updated.

it seems to be working great for self-hosted forums.

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### Author: ![markschmucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/markschmucker/32/141599_2.png) [@markschmucker](https://meta.discourse.org/u/markschmucker)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2026, 10:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/summarize-gists/340269/6 "2026-02-06T22:19:44Z")

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Is there a way to make gists visible by default? Currently the default layout is “compact”. I was hoping for a setting at /admin/config/interface.