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    Fabric

    graph TD
    A[Fabric Installation] --> B[Download Fabric]
    B --> C[Move to /home/r3dact3d/bin]
    C --> D[Verify Installation]
    D --> E[Setup Fabric]
    E --> F[Configure AI Vendors]
    F --> G[Configure Tools]
    G --> H[Download Patterns]
    H --> I[Set Up Helpers]
    I --> J[Run Example Commands]

    subgraph Install
        B
        C
        D
    end

    subgraph Setup
        E
        F
        G
        H
    end

    subgraph Helpers
        I
    end

    subgraph Examples
        J
    end

    click B "curl -L https://github.com/danielmiessler/fabric/releases/latest/download/fabric-linux-amd64 > fabric && chmod +x fabric && ./fabric --version"
    click C "cd && mkdir bin && mv fabric bin/ && fabric --help"
    click E "fabric --setup"
    click F "Enter 9 (Mistral)"
    click G "Enter 10 (Default AI Vendor and Model)"
    click H "Enter 18 (mistral-small-2409)"
    click I "sudo dnf install golang-bin && go install github.com/danielmiessler/fabric/plugins/tools/to_pdf@latest && sudo dnf install -y xclip xsel && alias pbcopy='xsel --clipboard --input' && alias pbpaste='xclip -selection clipboard -o'"
    click J "fabric -p enrich_blog_post -o /home/r3dact3d/working/foamy-stuff/dump.md --output-session -u https://r3dact3d.github.io --dry-run"

    Install

    • Fabric
      • Install on my Fedora 41 laptop
    $ curl -L https://github.com/danielmiessler/fabric/releases/latest/download/fabric-linux-amd64 > fabric && chmod +x fabric && ./fabric --version

    [!NOTE] I already have /home/r3dact3d/bin/ defined in my $PATH; so I also moved it there. You can also check your path:

    $ echo $PATH
/home/r3dact3d/.local/bin:/home/r3dact3d/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/var/lib/snapd/snap/bin

    Move it somewhere already listed

    $ cd
$ mkdir bin
$ mv fabric bin/
$ fabric --help

    Setup

    $ fabric --setup

Available plugins (please configure all required plugins)::

AI Vendors [at least one, required]

	[1]	OpenAI
	[2]	Ollama
	[3]	Azure
	[4]	Groq
	[5]	Gemini
	[6]	Anthropic
	[7]	SiliconCloud
	[8]	OpenRouter
	[9]	Mistral

Tools

	[10]	Default AI Vendor and Model [required]
	[11]	Patterns - Downloads patterns [required]
	[12]	YouTube - to grab video transcripts and comments
	[13]	Language - Default AI Vendor Output Language (configured)
	[14]	Jina AI Service - to grab a webpage as clean, LLM-friendly text (configured)

[Plugin Number] Enter the number of the plugin to setup (leave empty to skip):
9

[Mistral]

Enter your Mistral API KEY (leave empty to skip):
"***********************************Uni"

Enter your Mistral API BASE URL (leave empty for 'https://api.mistral.ai/v1' or type 'reset' to remove the value):


Available plugins (please configure all required plugins)::

AI Vendors [at least one, required]

	[1]	OpenAI
	[2]	Ollama
	[3]	Azure
	[4]	Groq
	[5]	Gemini
	[6]	Anthropic
	[7]	SiliconCloud
	[8]	OpenRouter
	[9]	Mistral (configured)

Tools

	[10]	Default AI Vendor and Model [required]
	[11]	Patterns - Downloads patterns [required]
	[12]	YouTube - to grab video transcripts and comments
	[13]	Language - Default AI Vendor Output Language (configured)
	[14]	Jina AI Service - to grab a webpage as clean, LLM-friendly text (configured)

[Plugin Number] Enter the number of the plugin to setup (leave empty to skip):
10

Available models:

Mistral

	[1]	ministral-3b-2410
	[2]	ministral-3b-latest
	[3]	ministral-8b-2410
	[4]	ministral-8b-latest
	[5]	open-mistral-7b
	[6]	mistral-tiny
	[7]	mistral-tiny-2312
	[8]	open-mistral-nemo
	[9]	open-mistral-nemo-2407
	[10]	mistral-tiny-2407
	[11]	mistral-tiny-latest
	[12]	open-mixtral-8x7b
	[13]	mistral-small
	[14]	mistral-small-2312
	[15]	open-mixtral-8x22b
	[16]	open-mixtral-8x22b-2404
	[17]	mistral-small-2402
	[18]	mistral-small-2409
	[19]	mistral-small-latest
	[20]	mistral-medium-2312
	[21]	mistral-medium
	[22]	mistral-medium-latest
	[23]	mistral-large-2402
	[24]	mistral-large-2407
	[25]	mistral-large-2411
	[26]	mistral-large-latest
	[27]	pixtral-large-2411
	[28]	pixtral-large-latest
	[29]	codestral-2405
	[30]	codestral-latest
	[31]	codestral-mamba-2407
	[32]	open-codestral-mamba
	[33]	codestral-mamba-latest
	[34]	pixtral-12b-2409
	[35]	pixtral-12b
	[36]	pixtral-12b-latest
	[37]	mistral-embed
	[38]	mistral-moderation-2411
	[39]	mistral-moderation-latest

[Default]

Enter the index the name of your default model (leave empty to skip):
18

Enter model context length (leave empty to skip):


DEFAULT_VENDOR: Mistral
DEFAULT_MODEL: mistral-small-2409

Available plugins (please configure all required plugins)::

AI Vendors [at least one, required]

	[1]	OpenAI
	[2]	Ollama
	[3]	Azure
	[4]	Groq
	[5]	Gemini
	[6]	Anthropic
	[7]	SiliconCloud
	[8]	OpenRouter
	[9]	Mistral (configured)

Tools

	[10]	Default AI Vendor and Model [required] (configured)
	[11]	Patterns - Downloads patterns [required]
	[12]	YouTube - to grab video transcripts and comments
	[13]	Language - Default AI Vendor Output Language (configured)
	[14]	Jina AI Service - to grab a webpage as clean, LLM-friendly text (configured)

[Plugin Number] Enter the number of the plugin to setup (leave empty to skip):
11

[Patterns Loader]

Enter the default Git repository URL for the patterns (leave empty for 'https://github.com/danielmiessler/fabric.git' or type 'reset' to remove the value):


Enter the default folder in the Git repository where patterns are stored (leave empty for 'patterns' or type 'reset' to remove the value):

Downloading patterns and Populating /home/brthomps/.config/fabric/patterns..

    Helpers

    I also did the following to get the pre-reqs in place.

    $ sudo dnf install golang-bin
$ go install github.com/danielmiessler/fabric/plugins/tools/to_pdf@latest
$ sudo dnf install -y xclip xsel

    I also added the below to my .bashrc file

    alias pbcopy='xsel --clipboard --input'
alias pbpaste='xclip -selection clipboard -o'

    Examples

    Let's scrape my blog post landing page at https://r3dact3d.github.io and see what this pattern called enrich_blog_post returns from the Jina AI integrated tool. As the pattern name implies, it is designed to take a markdown blog site url and return enrichments to the code.

    In my example, the output is being saved in a new markdown file in my Foam directory that gets synced with GitHub.

    fabric -p enrich_blog_post -o /home/r3dact3d/working/foamy-stuff/dump.md -u https://r3dact3d.github.io

    As expected, the output is saved and recognized in my Foam workspace and provides the exact version of my blog landing page with a few enhancements recommended, that ultimately required me to troubleshoot and fix.

    In this example, I took the above and copied it to my clipboard with pbcopy and now I can use pbpaste like below too feed the input into another pattern called create-mermaid-visualization,

    pbpaste | fabric -p create-mermaid-visualization

    Again, the output ultimately needs to be tweaked, but I can see how this could be added to some people's workflows for visual notetaking or storytelling.

    graph TD;
    A[Scrape Blog Post] --> B[Jina AI - Tool];
    B --> C[enrich_blog_post - Pattern];
    C --> D[Markdown Blog Site URL];
    D --> E[Enrichments to Code];
    E --> F[New Markdown File];
    F --> G[Foam Directory];
    G --> H[GitHub Sync];

    subgraph Input
        direction TB;
        A;
        D;
    end

    subgraph Process
        direction TB;
        B;
        C;
    end

    subgraph Output
        direction TB;
        E;
        F;
        G;
        H;
    end
    $ cat feedback.md | fabric -sp create_summary
$ cat feedback.md | fabric -sp extract_core_message
$ fabric -p explain_docs -o gw-configure-authentication.md -u https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_ansible_automation_platform/2.5/html/access_management_and_authentication/gw-configure-authentication
$ cat feedback.md | fabric -sp create_formal_email

    More patterns to try

    More power comes when we start to chain these patterns together

    • analyze_logs
    • create_5_sentence_summary
    • humanize
    • create_formal_email
    • Uncle Duke

    Pattern Ideas

    Tip: you can use the summarize_pattern or summarize_prompt pattern on any pattern

    $ cd ~/.config/fabric/patterns/
$ cat summarize_prompt/system.md | fabric -sp summarize_pattern

    Prompt Prompts

    • summarize_prompt
    • suggest_pattern
    • create_pattern
    • improve_prompt

    [[Pattern Template]]

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