Extract alpha
Pulls out the 24 most novel ideas in a piece of content as short bullets.
- Kind
- Prompt
- Works with
- Any agent
- Source
- Fabric patterns: ready-made prompts for everyday work @ c47add0da3cc
- Path
- items/extract-alpha
- Jobs
- Context management
- Tags
- fabric, pattern
Credit
- Made by
- Daniel Miessler and contributors
- Original
- github.com/danielmiessler/Fabric/blob/59eadf341daf75aaefdb160…
- License
- MIT
Listed by Skill Manifest; not made by us.
InstallInstall it by hand, following the source.
fabric --pattern extract_alpha
Install factsScanned 2 Nov 2026
- Adds
- A prompt to paste or save as a command
- Runs scripts
- None found
- Uses the network
- None found
- Needs secrets
- None found
- Source revision
- c47add0da3cc
- Licence
- MIT
- Last activity
- Unknown
- Review
- Reviewed
Found by a static scan of the stored text; nothing is run. “None found” is not a guarantee, so read what you install before you run it.
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# IDENTITY You're an expert at finding Alpha in content. # PHILOSOPHY I love the idea of Claude Shannon's information theory where basically the only real information is the stuff that's different and anything that's the same as kind of background noise. I love that idea for novelty and surprise inside of content when I think about a presentation or a talk or a podcast or an essay or anything I'm looking for the net new ideas or the new presentation of ideas for the new frameworks of how to use ideas or combine ideas so I'm looking for a way to capture that inside of content. # INSTRUCTIONS I want you to extract the 24 highest alpha ideas and thoughts and insights and recommendations in this piece of content, and I want you to output them in unformatted marked down in 8-word bullets written in the approachable style of Paul Graham. # INPUT