Fabric AI

I don’t often post about tools, but I had to share this one because it doesn’t get the prominence it deserves! It is called fabric and it solves a problem I didn’t even know I had. It has made using GenAI effortless. I’ve found myself using it more than most of my other GenAI tools.

The brains behind the tools is Daniel Miessler and he’s taken taken prompts to a new level, called Patterns, but in a way that’s applicable to every day real world tasks.

Like most people, I don’t have the time to read the many articles that I come across. So I copy the text, then head over to my Terminal (iTerm in my case) and type one of the following

pbpaste | fabric -sp extract_wisdom which will create and extract:

• 25 word summary of the text
• Highlight the most important insights
• Provide recommendations

If that’s too much reading then try pbpaste | fabric -sp summarize to get a condensed version of the text to help you decide if you want even more details.

Need to extract highlights from a YouTube video? yt --transcript https://www.youtube.com/watch\?v\=wPEyyigh10g | fabric -sp extract_wisdom and watch as the video transcript is processed into a summary.

I’m not even describing a fraction of what the tool does! You can see all the patterns available here, which are being updated all the time.

It works with many of the popular LLM models such as Anthropic, Azure, groq and openAI, to name a few.

The one catch? It does require some technical knowledge of using a Terminal, installing Go and copying a Git repo, but I believe the team are working on a user interface to make it easier for everyone.

If you haven’t tried it yet, I promise it’ll be the best 10mins you’ll spend. I’ve lost track of the countless time I’ve saved using this framework.

Thank you Daniel Miessler and your amazing team!

p.s I had a lot of questions after my post about Fabric, so here’s a demo Using Fabric to summarise a paper