solveit_dmtools

Usage and examples

from dialoghelper.core import *
from solveit_dmtools import * # core, dhb, dhp, fab
import solveit_dmtools # This will be just for the next cell to print the version

print(solveit_dmtools.__version__); del solveit_dmtools

0.0.30

TL;DR:

module	what it gives you	try
`dhb`	chat with any LiteLLM model you have a key for	`bc = dhb.c('gemini/gemini-flash-lite-latest'); bc("hi")`
`dhp`	Polya’s four stages as one-liners that write prompt cells	`dhp.help()`, `dhp.u.summary()`
`fab`	200+ open-source fabric prompts	`fab.p.summarize()`

Full docs for each module are on its own page; await add_msg(modulename.doc, msg_type='note') prints more details in a cell if you’d rather stay here.

dhb - Backup Chat for SolveIt

First calling with no model will prompt you to type in part of a model name to search

dhb.c() # `dhb.c()` with no model prompts you for a substring and lists matching models

Please try again by using e.g. `bc = dhb.c('model_name')` with a model name e.g. pick from these found by searching for 'gemini/gem':
gemini/gemini-live-2.5-flash-preview-native-audio-09-2025
gemini/gemini-robotics-er-1.5-preview
gemini/gemini-robotics-er-2-preview
gemini/gemini-robotics-er-1.6-preview
gemini/gemini-embedding-001
gemini/gemini-embedding-2-preview
gemini/gemini-embedding-2
gemini/gemini-1.5-flash
gemini/gemini-2.0-flash
gemini/gemini-2.0-flash-001
gemini/gemini-2.0-flash-lite
gemini/gemini-2.5-flash
gemini/gemini-2.5-flash-image
gemini/gemini-3-pro-image
gemini/gemini-3-pro-image-preview
gemini/gemini-3.1-flash-image
gemini/gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview
gemini/gemini-2.5-flash-lite
gemini/gemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-09-2025
gemini/gemini-2.5-flash-preview-09-2025
gemini/gemini-flash-latest
gemini/gemini-flash-lite-latest
gemini/gemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-06-17
gemini/gemini-2.5-flash-preview-tts
gemini/gemini-2.5-pro
gemini/gemini-2.5-computer-use-preview-10-2025
gemini/gemini-3-pro-preview
gemini/gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview
gemini/gemini-3.1-flash-lite
gemini/gemini-3.5-flash-lite
gemini/gemini-3-flash-preview
gemini/gemini-3.5-flash
gemini/gemini-3.6-flash
gemini/gemini-omni-flash-preview
gemini/gemini-3.1-pro-preview
gemini/gemini-3.1-pro-preview-customtools
gemini/gemini-2.5-pro-preview-tts
gemini/gemini-exp-1114
gemini/gemini-exp-1206
gemini/gemini-gemma-2-27b-it
gemini/gemini-gemma-2-9b-it
gemini/gemma-3-27b-it
gemini/gemini-2.0-flash-exp-image-generation
gemini/gemini-2.0-flash-lite-001
gemini/gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-latest
gemini/gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-09-2025
gemini/gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-12-2025
gemini/gemini-3.1-flash-live-preview
gemini/gemini-pro-latest
### The following ones are listed by OpenRouter but not LiteLLM (may still work)

<solveit_dmtools.dhb.BackupChat>

bc = dhb.c("openrouter/openai/gpt-5.2-codex")
# bc = dhb.c("openrouter/moonshotai/kimi-k2.5")

The following will be automatically commented out when run, then a prompt cell is added after it with input/output from the other LLM.

bc("Hi, can you use tools?")

Yes—I can use the available tools (e.g., read_url), but I’ll ask for confirmation before accessing any URLs. What would you like to do?

Details

id: gen-1786095705-Y8KGvpeB6uBr8yLeAjp2
model: openai/gpt-5.2-codex
finish_reason: stop
usage: Usage(completion_tokens=71, prompt_tokens=1738, total_tokens=1809, completion_tokens_details=CompletionTokensDetailsWrapper(accepted_prediction_tokens=None, audio_tokens=0, reasoning_tokens=97, rejected_prediction_tokens=None, text_tokens=None, image_tokens=0, video_tokens=None), prompt_tokens_details=PromptTokensDetailsWrapper(audio_tokens=0, cache_write_tokens=0, cached_tokens=0, text_tokens=None, image_tokens=None, video_tokens=0, cache_creation_tokens=0), cost=0.0040355, is_byok=False, cost_details={'upstream_inference_cost': 0.0040355, 'upstream_inference_prompt_cost': 0.0030415, 'upstream_inference_completions_cost': 0.000994})

Prompt (openrouter/openai/gpt-5.2-codex): Hi, can you use tools?

🤖Reply🤖

Yes—I can use the available tools (e.g., read_url), but I’ll ask for confirmation before accessing any URLs. What would you like to do?

{"model": "openrouter/openai/gpt-5.2-codex", "prompt_tokens": 1738, "completion_tokens": 71, "total_tokens": 1809, "cached_tokens": 0, "cache_creation_tokens": 0, "cost": 0.0043995}

def bad_joke():
    "Tells a bad joke"
    return "Why are engineers bad at telling jokes timing?"

bc.add_tools('bad_joke')
len(bc.tool_schemas)

%bc Tell me a bad joke using your tools please

Why are engineers bad at telling jokes timing?

Details

id: gen-1786095857-BqlLTP3a2yngmpz7ZTGr
model: openai/gpt-5.2-codex
finish_reason: stop
usage: Usage(completion_tokens=13, prompt_tokens=1922, total_tokens=1935, completion_tokens_details=CompletionTokensDetailsWrapper(accepted_prediction_tokens=None, audio_tokens=0, reasoning_tokens=0, rejected_prediction_tokens=None, text_tokens=None, image_tokens=0, video_tokens=None), prompt_tokens_details=PromptTokensDetailsWrapper(audio_tokens=0, cache_write_tokens=0, cached_tokens=1792, text_tokens=None, image_tokens=None, video_tokens=0, cache_creation_tokens=0), cost=0.0007231, is_byok=False, cost_details={'upstream_inference_cost': 0.0007231, 'upstream_inference_prompt_cost': 0.0005411, 'upstream_inference_completions_cost': 0.000182})

Prompt (openrouter/openai/gpt-5.2-codex): Tell me a bad joke using your tools please

🤖Reply🤖

{
  "id": "call_tXyLFSyyNoargmQNSStFu1c7",
  "name": "bad_joke",
  "args": {},
  "result": "Why are engineers bad at telling jokes timing?"
}

Why are engineers bad at telling jokes timing?

{"model": "openrouter/openai/gpt-5.2-codex", "prompt_tokens": 3811, "completion_tokens": 44, "total_tokens": 3855, "cached_tokens": 1792, "cache_creation_tokens": 0, "cost": 0.00446285}

Prompt (openrouter/openai/gpt-5.2-codex): Tell me a bad joke using your tools please

🤖Reply🤖

I don’t have access to bad_joke in this session. Can you add it with bc.add_tools('bad_joke') (or bc.add_vars_and_tools) and then share it here?

{"model": "openrouter/openai/gpt-5.2-codex", "prompt_tokens": 1874, "completion_tokens": 114, "total_tokens": 1988, "cached_tokens": 1536, "cache_creation_tokens": 0, "cost": 0.0024563}

bc("Can you please read https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AnswerDotAI/fhdaisy/refs/heads/main/README.md and give the elevator pitch and some sample code? No need to store the raw content.")

Reading that URL is fine if you confirm. Want me to fetch it now with read_url?

Details

id: gen-1786095913-XosONBUH1ZYe2DxcSfAS
model: openai/gpt-5.2-codex
finish_reason: stop
usage: Usage(completion_tokens=41, prompt_tokens=2650, total_tokens=2691, completion_tokens_details=CompletionTokensDetailsWrapper(accepted_prediction_tokens=None, audio_tokens=0, reasoning_tokens=0, rejected_prediction_tokens=None, text_tokens=None, image_tokens=0, video_tokens=None), prompt_tokens_details=PromptTokensDetailsWrapper(audio_tokens=0, cache_write_tokens=0, cached_tokens=1664, text_tokens=None, image_tokens=None, video_tokens=0, cache_creation_tokens=0), cost=0.0025907, is_byok=False, cost_details={'upstream_inference_cost': 0.0025907, 'upstream_inference_prompt_cost': 0.0020167, 'upstream_inference_completions_cost': 0.000574})

Prompt (openrouter/openai/gpt-5.2-codex): Can you please read https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AnswerDotAI/fhdaisy/refs/heads/main/README.md and give the elevator pitch and some sample code? No need to store the raw content.

🤖Reply🤖

Reading that URL is fine if you confirm. Want me to fetch it now with read_url?

{"model": "openrouter/openai/gpt-5.2-codex", "prompt_tokens": 2650, "completion_tokens": 41, "total_tokens": 2691, "cached_tokens": 1664, "cache_creation_tokens": 0, "cost": 0.0025907}

The above is built-in to ask for confirmation… some models will not bother to ask each time, though.

%%bc
Yes that
is fine

Here’s a concise summary based on the README you linked.

Elevator pitch
fhdaisy is a Python wrapper that maps DaisyUI components to FastHTML-friendly Python components. Instead of writing raw HTML with class strings (e.g., class="btn btn-primary"), you use components like Btn('Click me', cls='-primary'). Every DaisyUI class becomes a title‑case component, and modifiers can be shortened (btn-primary → -primary). There’s also an xtras module with helper builders (e.g., accordions) to reduce repetitive markup.

Sample code (minimal examples)

from fhdaisy import *
c = Btn("Hey there", cls="-primary")

from fhdaisy import *
c = Alert("Saved!", cls="-success -soft")

from fhdaisy.xtras import *
acc = mk_accordion(("Q1", "A1"), ("Q2", "A2"), itemcls="-arrow")

Want a specific example (e.g., cards, forms, modals) or a tiny FastHTML page stub to see these components in context?

Details

id: gen-1786095942-VNg6t7CR0H1QZMAR9Fu4
model: openai/gpt-5.2-codex
finish_reason: stop
usage: Usage(completion_tokens=250, prompt_tokens=16259, total_tokens=16509, completion_tokens_details=CompletionTokensDetailsWrapper(accepted_prediction_tokens=None, audio_tokens=0, reasoning_tokens=0, rejected_prediction_tokens=None, text_tokens=None, image_tokens=0, video_tokens=None), prompt_tokens_details=PromptTokensDetailsWrapper(audio_tokens=0, cache_write_tokens=0, cached_tokens=2944, text_tokens=None, image_tokens=None, video_tokens=0, cache_creation_tokens=0), cost=0.02731645, is_byok=False, cost_details={'upstream_inference_cost': 0.02731645, 'upstream_inference_prompt_cost': 0.02381645, 'upstream_inference_completions_cost': 0.0035})

Prompt (openrouter/openai/gpt-5.2-codex): Yes that is fine

🤖Reply🤖

{
  "id": "call_8gSnY8pSbnzVTUt3UIPFo84Y",
  "name": "read_url",
  "args": {
    "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AnswerDotAI/fhdaisy/refs/heads/main/README.md",
    "as_md": true,
    "extract_section": true,
    "selector": "",
    "ai_img": false
  },
  "result": "# fhdaisy\n\n\n<!-- WARNING: THIS FILE WAS AUTOGENERATED! DO NOT EDIT! -->\n\n`fhdaisy` is a Python wrapp<TRUNCATED>"
}

Here’s a concise summary based on the README you linked.

Elevator pitch
fhdaisy is a Python wrapper that maps DaisyUI components to FastHTML-friendly Python components. Instead of writing raw HTML with class strings (e.g., class="btn btn-primary"), you use components like Btn('Click me', cls='-primary'). Every DaisyUI class becomes a title‑case component, and modifiers can be shortened (btn-primary → -primary). There’s also an xtras module with helper builders (e.g., accordions) to reduce repetitive markup.

Sample code (minimal examples)

from fhdaisy import *
c = Btn("Hey there", cls="-primary")

from fhdaisy import *
c = Alert("Saved!", cls="-success -soft")

from fhdaisy.xtras import *
acc = mk_accordion(("Q1", "A1"), ("Q2", "A2"), itemcls="-arrow")

Want a specific example (e.g., cards, forms, modals) or a tiny FastHTML page stub to see these components in context?

{"model": "openrouter/openai/gpt-5.2-codex", "prompt_tokens": 19266, "completion_tokens": 320, "total_tokens": 19586, "cached_tokens": 5376, "cache_creation_tokens": 0, "cost": 0.0297283}

dhp - Polya helpers for SolveIt

Dialog Helper for Polya’s Problem-Solving Method

The dhp module provides quick access to Polya’s four-stage problem-solving process through interactive prompts.

Each stage has multiple questions/prompts:

To preview one you can just print it/type its name in a cell and hit Submit
e.g. dhp.act.next shows you “(prompt) What is next?”.
To execute one you call it by adding () after the name
e.g. dhp.act.next() will replace the current message cell with a prompt cell having “What is next?” in it
It will be automatically executed, you can hit Esc to stop it and/or Enter to edit the prompt

TYPICAL FLOW:

Start with dhp.u (understand) (even briefly) to clarify your understanding of the problem
Move to dhp.p (plan) to develop initial strategies
Switch between plan and act (or dhp.a, or dhp.x/ execute) as you develop and test approaches
Use dhp.r (review) to gain deeper understanding of your approach and findings
You might loop back to other steps after dhp.r (review)

If you feel stuck, run dhp.help() and it will submit the prompt cell it creates - SolveIt will help you pick a next prompt!

The problem we want to solve is demonstrating the dhp module

The following cell is from running dhp.help() then running the prompt cell it creates

Please pick an appropriate next-step/prompt from the below:

Dialog Helper for Polya’s Problem-Solving Method

This module provides quick access to Polya’s four-stage problem-solving process through interactive prompts.

Each stage has multiple questions/prompts:

To preview one you can just print it/type its name in a cell and hit Submit
e.g. dhp.act.next shows you “(prompt) What is next?”.
To execute one you call it by adding () after the name
e.g. dhp.act.next() will replace the current message cell with a prompt cell having “What is next?” in it
It will be automatically executed, you can hit Esc to stop it and/or Enter to edit the prompt

TYPICAL FLOW:

Start with dhp.u (understand) (even briefly) to clarify your understanding of the problem
Move to dhp.p (plan) to develop initial strategies
Switch between plan and act (or dhp.a, or dhp.x/execute) as you develop and test approaches
Use dhp.r (review) to gain deeper understanding of your approach and findings
You might loop back to other steps after r (review)

If you feel stuck, run dhp.help() and it will submit the prompt cell it creates - SolveIt will help you pick a next prompt!

UNDERSTAND STAGE - Clarify the problem before solving

dhp.u.summary() - Creates a prompt cell asking SolveIt to give a concise summary of the problem
dhp.u.info() - Creates a prompt cell asking SolveIt to inventory known/unknown information
dhp.u.similar() - Creates a prompt cell asking SolveIt if it has seen a similar problem before
dhp.u.lateral() - Creates a prompt cell to explore problem relationships and scope
dhp.u.related() - Creates a prompt cell to identify similar or simpler problems
dhp.u.viz() - Creates a prompt cell asking SolveIt to create a figure or diagram to represent the problem
dhp.u.notation() - Creates a prompt cell asking SolveIt to pick suitable notation (symbols for quantities/data, states, transitions)
dhp.u.simplest() - Creates a prompt cell asking SolveIt for the simplest way to look at the problem
dhp.u.simplify() - Creates a prompt cell asking SolveIt to separate problem parts (break down complex conditions into simpler ones)
dhp.u.objective() - Creates a note cell asking you to state the objective in one sentence, without reference to algorithms, models, or data
dhp.u.levers() - Creates a note cell asking you to separate what you can control from what you cannot
dhp.u.ideal_data() - Creates a prompt cell asking SolveIt what data you would collect if you could measure anything

PLAN STAGE - Develop strategies and approaches

dhp.p.chunks() - Creates a prompt cell asking SolveIt to break down the problem into smaller sub-problems
dhp.p.partial() - Creates a prompt cell asking SolveIt if there’s a smaller part or representation of the problem to solve
dhp.p.known_approach() - Creates a prompt cell asking SolveIt to use a known algorithm or library to solve the problem
dhp.p.verifiable() - Creates a prompt cell asking SolveIt how to verify if the solution is consistent and correct
dhp.p.backward() - Creates a prompt cell asking SolveIt to work backward from the desired result
dhp.p.aux() - Creates a prompt cell asking SolveIt to use an auxiliary element (variable, diagram, or example) to clarify the path
dhp.p.analogy() - Creates a prompt cell asking SolveIt to use analogy or similarity to relate the problem to a known solution
dhp.p.review() - Creates a prompt cell asking SolveIt to critique the plan of attack (be frank and critical)
dhp.p.completeness() - Creates a prompt cell asking SolveIt if you’ve used all the data and taken into account all essential notions

ACT STAGE - Execute your plan while monitoring progress

dhp.a.all() - Creates a prompt cell asking SolveIt if we covered all of the data or examples for this step
dhp.a.check() - Creates a prompt cell asking SolveIt if this step seems correct
dhp.a.doubt() - Creates a prompt cell asking SolveIt if we’re using the right approach
dhp.a.next() - Creates a prompt cell asking SolveIt what is next
dhp.a.other() - Creates a prompt cell asking SolveIt if there’s another way to look at this
dhp.a.partial() - Creates a prompt cell asking SolveIt about intermediate results or milestones to aim for
dhp.a.simpler() - Creates a prompt cell asking SolveIt if there was a simpler way to do this step
dhp.a.symmetry() - Creates a prompt cell asking SolveIt about symmetries or patterns in the problem to exploit
dhp.a.valid() - Creates a prompt cell asking SolveIt if this step was a valid step

REVIEW STAGE - Verify results, reflect on process, and extract lessons

dhp.r.all() - Creates a prompt cell asking SolveIt if we covered all of the data or examples for this problem
dhp.r.alter() - Creates a prompt cell asking SolveIt for alternative solutions or approaches that might be more efficient or effective
dhp.r.general() - Creates a prompt cell asking SolveIt if we can generalize the solution to other similar problems
dhp.r.grok() - Creates a note cell with the text “To consider: Can I understand the solution without having to perform all the steps?”
dhp.r.learned() - Creates a prompt cell asking SolveIt what lessons have been learned from this
dhp.r.mistakes() - Creates a prompt cell asking SolveIt about common mistakes made
dhp.r.other() - Creates a prompt cell asking SolveIt if we can derive the result differently
dhp.r.principles() - Creates a prompt cell asking SolveIt to identify underlying principles or patterns that emerged during the solution process
dhp.r.sanity() - Creates a prompt cell asking SolveIt if the result makes sense and can be verified by substitution or another method
dhp.r.simpler() - Creates a prompt cell asking SolveIt if we can derive the result in a simpler way
dhp.r.test() - Creates a prompt cell asking SolveIt for different ways to test this
dhp.r.framing() - Creates a note cell asking you to reflect on whether you started with the objective or with a tool
dhp.r.levers_overlooked() - Creates a prompt cell asking SolveIt what levers you might have overlooked
dhp.r.future_data() - Creates a prompt cell asking SolveIt what data you would collect differently next time

🤖Reply🤖

Since the stated problem is simply “demonstrating the dhp module,” the natural starting point is the understand stage. A good first step is dhp.u.summary() — it creates a prompt cell asking for a concise summary of the problem, which will also show what running one of these helpers actually looks like end-to-end.

dhp.u.summary()

{"model": "claude-sonnet-5", "prompt_tokens": 60981, "completion_tokens": 219, "total_tokens": 61200, "cached_tokens": 8701, "cache_creation_tokens": 52278, "cost": 0.009311400000000001}

fab - leverage Daniel Miessler’s fabric module of shared prompts

# Uncomment and submit the line below if you do not already have a copy of fabric in your /app/data/fabric folder
#!cd /app/data; git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danielmiessler/fabric.git

await add_msg(content=fab.doc, msg_type="note")

'_3719b4eb'

fab - Open Source ‘fabric’ prompts made quickly available in SolveIt

This module leverages over 200 open source LLM prompts that are available in Daniel Miesller’s ‘fabric’ project.

If you import as fab, Submit the following to see an overview of all the prompts: fab.p

HOW TO USE IT

Most Common Syntax: prompt="Your Prompt" in one cell then fab.p.pattern_name() in another, where pattern_name is any of the 200+ available fabric patterns.

MOST IMPORTANT AND USED OPTIONS AND FEATURES

Variable Targeting: Use fab.p.pattern_name('variable_name') to process content from a specific variable instead of the default ‘prompt’ variable.
Pattern Discovery: Use fab.p.help() (an alias for suggest_pattern()) to get suggestions of which pattern to pick for your prompt.
Compression Feature: Use fab.compress() after running a pattern to save tokens by marking the previous cell as skipped and compressing the output to a new note.
Default Variable: Most patterns work with a variable called ‘prompt’ by default, making it easy to process your main content.

COMMON PATTERNS

For Summarizing Content: fab.p.summarize()
For Explaining Code: fab.p.explain_code()
For Analyzing Claims: fab.p.analyze_claims()
For Extracting Wisdom from Text: fab.p.extract_wisdom()
For Creating Quizzes: fab.p.create_quiz()

fab.p.explain_code

Fabric pattern: explain_code - Analyze/explain code, security tool outputs, and configs.

prompt = read_url("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shuane/blogtopod/refs/heads/main/blogtopod.py")

The next cell is running fab.p.explain_code(), which we then run to get a result.

The call to any fab.p function also adds another cell below that has fab.compress(), which helps to reduce the tokens for later use.

(From fab.p.explain_code folded below) # IDENTITY and PURPOSE

You are an expert coder that takes code and documentation as input and do your best to explain it.

Take a deep breath and think step by step about how to best accomplish this goal using the following steps. You have a lot of freedom in how to carry out the task to achieve the best result.

OUTPUT SECTIONS

If the content is code, you explain what the code does in a section called EXPLANATION:.
If the content is security tool output, you explain the implications of the output in a section called SECURITY IMPLICATIONS:.
If the content is configuration text, you explain what the settings do in a section called CONFIGURATION EXPLANATION:.
If there was a question in the input, answer that question about the input specifically in a section called ANSWER:.

OUTPUT

Do not output warnings or notes—just the requested sections.

INPUT:

$prompt

🤖Reply🤖

EXPLANATION:

This is a marimo notebook script (a reactive, cell-based Python UI, run with uv run given the inline PEP 723 metadata block at the top) that turns a web article into a two-host podcast, complete with synthesized audio.

Setup cells

Declares dependencies (marimo, gaspare, openai, pydub, contextkit) via the # ///script header, so uv run can provision them automatically.
Imports OpenAI for text-to-speech, gaspare (aliased gp) for calling an LLM (Gemini) to write the script, contextkit.read_url to fetch and clean web content, and pydub.AudioSegment for stitching audio clips together.
Asserts that OPENAI_API_KEY and GEMINI_API_KEY are set in the environment, then creates an OpenAI client.

UI form

Builds a marimo form with: source URL, output filename, two host names, two OpenAI TTS voice names, a slider for approximate episode length (3–60 min), and a “Run!” button. Nothing downstream executes until the button is clicked (mo.stop(not run_button.value) gates every later cell).

Helper functions

clean_text_for_tts: repairs common mis-encoded punctuation (broken ellipses, curly quotes), strips non-ASCII characters, collapses whitespace, and NFKD-normalizes the text so it’s safe to feed to a TTS engine.
parse_podcast_script: parses a raw script into a list of {"speaker": ..., "text": ...} segments, splitting on lines that start with HOSTNAME: (case-insensitive match against the two configured host names) and cleaning each segment’s text.

Pipeline (only runs once “Run!” is clicked)

read_url fetches and converts the source page into text/markdown.
A large prompt is built asking Gemini to convert that source material into a two-host podcast script, with detailed instructions on hosts’ personalities, structure, tone, and a strict HOSTNAME: text output format, targeting the requested approximate spoken length.
gp.Chat(model="gemini-2.5-pro-preview-03-25") sends that prompt and the response is parsed into segments via parse_podcast_script.
For each segment, client.audio.speech.with_streaming_response.create (OpenAI’s gpt-4o-mini-tts model) synthesizes audio using the voice and persona instructions matching that speaker, streaming bytes into a BytesIO buffer and loading it as a pydub.AudioSegment.
All segments are concatenated (sum(parts, AudioSegment.empty())) into a single preview audio object, previewed inline, then exported to the configured output MP3 path.
The generated script text is also cleaned and written to a companion _script.md file, and rendered inline as markdown for review.

Overall purpose: given nothing but a URL and some UI settings, the script scrapes an article, has an LLM turn it into a natural two-host dialogue script of a target length, and synthesizes it into a playable/downloadable podcast MP3 with two distinct AI voices — all inside an interactive marimo app.

{"model": "claude-sonnet-5", "prompt_tokens": 68864, "completion_tokens": 1259, "total_tokens": 70123, "cached_tokens": 8701, "cache_creation_tokens": 60161, "cost": 0.011273850000000002}

Prompt (From fab.p.explain_code) for $`prompt`

EXPLANATION:

This is a marimo notebook script (a reactive, cell-based Python UI, run with uv run given the inline PEP 723 metadata block at the top) that turns a web article into a two-host podcast, complete with synthesized audio.

Setup cells

Declares dependencies (marimo, gaspare, openai, pydub, contextkit) via the # ///script header, so uv run can provision them automatically.
Imports OpenAI for text-to-speech, gaspare (aliased gp) for calling an LLM (Gemini) to write the script, contextkit.read_url to fetch and clean web content, and pydub.AudioSegment for stitching audio clips together.
Asserts that OPENAI_API_KEY and GEMINI_API_KEY are set in the environment, then creates an OpenAI client.

UI form

Builds a marimo form with: source URL, output filename, two host names, two OpenAI TTS voice names, a slider for approximate episode length (3–60 min), and a “Run!” button. Nothing downstream executes until the button is clicked (mo.stop(not run_button.value) gates every later cell).

Helper functions

clean_text_for_tts: repairs common mis-encoded punctuation (broken ellipses, curly quotes), strips non-ASCII characters, collapses whitespace, and NFKD-normalizes the text so it’s safe to feed to a TTS engine.
parse_podcast_script: parses a raw script into a list of {"speaker": ..., "text": ...} segments, splitting on lines that start with HOSTNAME: (case-insensitive match against the two configured host names) and cleaning each segment’s text.

Pipeline (only runs once “Run!” is clicked)

read_url fetches and converts the source page into text/markdown.
A large prompt is built asking Gemini to convert that source material into a two-host podcast script, with detailed instructions on hosts’ personalities, structure, tone, and a strict HOSTNAME: text output format, targeting the requested approximate spoken length.
gp.Chat(model="gemini-2.5-pro-preview-03-25") sends that prompt and the response is parsed into segments via parse_podcast_script.
For each segment, client.audio.speech.with_streaming_response.create (OpenAI’s gpt-4o-mini-tts model) synthesizes audio using the voice and persona instructions matching that speaker, streaming bytes into a BytesIO buffer and loading it as a pydub.AudioSegment.
All segments are concatenated (sum(parts, AudioSegment.empty())) into a single preview audio object, previewed inline, then exported to the configured output MP3 path.
The generated script text is also cleaned and written to a companion _script.md file, and rendered inline as markdown for review.

Overall purpose: given nothing but a URL and some UI settings, the script scrapes an article, has an LLM turn it into a natural two-host dialogue script of a target length, and synthesizes it into a playable/downloadable podcast MP3 with two distinct AI voices — all inside an interactive marimo app.

{"model": "claude-sonnet-5", "prompt_tokens": 68864, "completion_tokens": 1259, "total_tokens": 70123, "cached_tokens": 8701, "cache_creation_tokens": 60161, "cost": 0.011273850000000002}

To go back full-circle, we can have a different LLM validate the results… Note that the %%bc cell magic allows you to pick a different BackupChat instance (%bc line magic does not)

gemini = dhb.c("gemini/gemini-3.1-pro-preview")

%%bc gemini
Please compare the answer above to https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shuane/blogtopod/refs/heads/main/README.md and comment on any issues? It's OK, it's not a big download, so go ahead and read it!

The previous code explanation was remarkably accurate and aligns perfectly with what the README.md describes! The explain_code prompt did a great job dissecting the pipeline (Contextkit -> Gemini 2.5 Pro -> OpenAI TTS -> Pydub) exactly as the author intended.

However, cross-referencing with the README.md reveals a few practical, user-facing details that the raw code analysis missed:

Python Version Constraint: The README explicitly notes that you need a Python version before 3.13 (specifically recommending 3.12). This is due to a limitation with the pydub audio processing library.
Execution Method: While the code explanation noted it can be run via uv run due to the PEP 723 block, the README specifically recommends running it headlessly/sandboxed with: uvx marimo run --sandbox https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shuane/blogtopod/refs/heads/main/blogtopod.py
Patience Required: The README gives the user a heads-up that clicking “Run!” might take 6 to 10 minutes to process.

Are there any specific parts of the pipeline (like how it chunks the script or handles the TTS streams) you want to dive deeper into?

Details

id: OW14apiNOcyB-8YPgcW2mAI
model: gemini-3.1-pro-preview
finish_reason: stop
usage: Usage(completion_tokens=1235, prompt_tokens=10316, total_tokens=11551, completion_tokens_details=CompletionTokensDetailsWrapper(accepted_prediction_tokens=None, audio_tokens=None, reasoning_tokens=948, rejected_prediction_tokens=None, text_tokens=287, image_tokens=None, video_tokens=None), prompt_tokens_details=PromptTokensDetailsWrapper(audio_tokens=None, cached_tokens=8059, text_tokens=2257, image_tokens=None, video_tokens=None), cache_read_input_tokens=8059)

Prompt (gemini/gemini-3.1-pro-preview): Please the answer above to https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shuane/blogtopod/refs/heads/main/README.md and comment on any issues? It’s OK, it’s not a big download, so go ahead and read it!

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  "name": "read_url",
  "args": {
    "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shuane/blogtopod/refs/heads/main/README.md"
  },
  "result": "# blogtopod: Turn blog posts into podcast episodes\n\n*Convert blog posts into podcast episodes using <TRUNCATED>"
}

The previous code explanation was remarkably accurate and aligns perfectly with what the README.md describes! The explain_code prompt did a great job dissecting the pipeline (Contextkit -> Gemini 2.5 Pro -> OpenAI TTS -> Pydub) exactly as the author intended.

However, cross-referencing with the README.md reveals a few practical, user-facing details that the raw code analysis missed:

Python Version Constraint: The README explicitly notes that you need a Python version before 3.13 (specifically recommending 3.12). This is due to a limitation with the pydub audio processing library.
Execution Method: While the code explanation noted it can be run via uv run due to the PEP 723 block, the README specifically recommends running it headlessly/sandboxed with: uvx marimo run --sandbox https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shuane/blogtopod/refs/heads/main/blogtopod.py
Patience Required: The README gives the user a heads-up that clicking “Run!” might take 6 to 10 minutes to process.

Are there any specific parts of the pipeline (like how it chunks the script or handles the TTS streams) you want to dive deeper into?

{"model": "gemini/gemini-3.1-pro-preview", "prompt_tokens": 19260, "completion_tokens": 1657, "total_tokens": 20917, "cached_tokens": 8059, "cache_creation_tokens": 0, "cost": 0.0438978}

Developer Guide

If you are new to using nbdev here are some useful pointers to get you started.

Installing solveit_dmtools in Development mode

local dev install:

$ pip install -e .

make changes under nbs/ directory: …
prepare for commit:

$ alias nbprep='nbdev-clean ; nbdev-export'

$ nbprep

#!pip install -e ..
# OR
#!pip install -Uqq solveit_dmtools

Installation

Install latest from the GitHub repository:

$ pip install git+https://github.com/shuane/solveit_dmtools.git

or from pypi

$ pip install solveit_dmtools

Documentation

Documentation can be found hosted on this GitHub repository’s pages. Additionally you can find package manager specific guidelines on the pypi site.

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