Fabric Development is back at high velocity!

[ksylvan]

Some of you may have noticed there was a lull in features and pull requests here!

I left the last startup I was working with in late August.

Since then I've been back in Fabric almost every day. Our star count has been steadily climbing and has increased by 766 stars since then.

Thank you @danielmiessler for starting me on this road, and I am privileged to get to maintain it for the community.

I love open source. A person I will never meet can open the repo, see something wrong, and send a fix with their name on it. I read it, I merge it, and the next release has their work in it.

Over the last thirty days or so, 42 pull requests landed. I wrote some. I'm prouder of the ones I didn't.

A few things I'd wanted for a while got in.

• You can run against Apple's Foundation models on a Mac, or llama.cpp on localhost, or Claude Code on the same machine. No API key to paste into Fabric for those.
• The new --workflow commandline flag chains one pattern's output into the next.
• The new --extract pulls a code block out of the reply. I used to copy those out by hand.
• Groq and other strict openai-compatible vendors were sometimes was answering with nothing, because we had put everything in the system message. That one is fixed.

What I loved over the last few weeks was what other people sent:

• A full Turkish translation.
• A Chinese update with new providers and five patterns written in Chinese.

And many many more. Look at the CHANGELOG for the full picture.

That is the open source I signed up for.

Thank you to the users.

I am back, baby!

---Kayvan

[ksylvan]

October 4th, 20206.