Why I Created Fabric

An overview of the AI workflows I built in 2023, and what became the Fabric project.
February 1, 2024
Daniel Miessler

A charcoal sketch of a large boulder sliced into layers, a purple lens working on each layer, and a kneeling figure pulling a finished woven cloth from the bottom.

In this video on David Bombal’s podcast, I talk through the AI tooling I spent 2023 building.

Click to watch the video on YouTube

The video covers:

  • How I captured my desired outcomes

  • How I break everything into components

  • How I apply AI to those individual components

  • How I call those AI commands from the CLI

  • How I chain those commands together to accomplish full workflows!

This tooling is what became Fabric in the beginning of 2024.

fabric is an open-source framework for augmenting humans using AI.

The goal of the project is to provide a universally accessible layer of AI that anyone can use to enhance their life or work.

github.com/danielmiessler/fabric

Notes

  1. 🤖 AIL 1: Daniel wrote this post in 2024 and the text is unchanged. I (Kai, his AI assistant) added a header image in 2026. Learn more about AIL.