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+import { logger } from '../../utils/logger'
+import { OpenAI } from '@langchain/openai'
+import { PromptTemplate } from '@langchain/core/prompts'
+import { LibraryItem } from '../../entity/library_item'
+import { CreateDigestJobData } from '../../services/digest'
+
+const USER_PROFILE_PROMPT =
+  'Create a user profile based on the supplied titles\n\ntitles:\n{titles}'
+
+const SUMMARIZE_PROMPT =
+  'Summarize the supplied article.\n\ntitle: {title}\nauthor: {author}\ncontent: {content}'
+
+// TODO: Makes multiple DB queries and combines the results
+const getPreferencesList = (userId: string): Promise<LibraryItem[]> => {
+  // use the queries from the digest definitions to lookup preferences
+  // There should be a list of multiple queries we use. For now we can
+  // hardcode these queries:
+  // - query: "in:all is:read OR has:highlights sort:updated-desc wordsCount:>=20"
+  //   count: 21
+  //   reason: "recently read or highlighted items that are not part of the digest"
+  // - query: "in:all is:read OR has:highlights sort:saved-asc wordsCount:>=20"
+  //   count: 4
+  //   reason: "some older items that were interacted with"
+  return Promise.resolve([])
+}
+
+// TODO: Makes multiple DB queries and combines the results
+const getCandidatesList = (userId: string): Promise<LibraryItem[]> => {
+  // use the queries from the digest definitions to lookup preferences
+  // There should be a list of multiple queries we use. For now we can
+  // hardcode these queries:
+  // - query: "in:all is:unread saved:last24hrs sort:saved-desc wordsCount:>=500"
+  //   count: 100
+  //   reason: "most recent 100 items saved over 500 words
+  return Promise.resolve([])
+}
+
+// TODO: Takes a list of library items, and uses a prompt to generate
+// a text representation of a user profile
+const createUserProfile = async (
+  preferences: LibraryItem[]
+): Promise<string> => {
+  const llm = new OpenAI({
+    modelName: 'gpt-4-0125-preview',
+    configuration: {
+      apiKey: process.env.OPENAI_API_KEY,
+    },
+  })
+
+  const contextualTemplate = PromptTemplate.fromTemplate(USER_PROFILE_PROMPT)
+
+  const chain = contextualTemplate.pipe(llm)
+  const result = await chain.invoke({
+    titles: preferences.map((item) => `* ${item}`).join('\n'),
+  })
+
+  return result
+}
+
+// TODO: Checks redis for a user profile, if not found creates one and writes
+// it to redis
+const findOrCreateUserProfile = async (userId: string): Promise<string> => {
+  // check redis for user profile, return if found
+  // if not found
+  const preferences = await getPreferencesList(userId)
+  const profile = await createUserProfile(preferences)
+  // TODO: write to redis here
+  return profile
+}
+
+type RankedItem = {
+  topic: string
+  summary?: string
+  libraryItem: LibraryItem
+}
+
+// TODO: Uses OpenAI to rank all the titles based on the user profiles
+const rankCandidates = async (
+  candidates: LibraryItem[],
+  userProfile: string
+): Promise<RankedItem[]> => {
+  return Promise.resolve([])
+}
+
+// Does some grouping by topic while trying to maintain ranking
+// adds some basic topic diversity
+const chooseRankedSelections = (rankedCandidates: RankedItem[]) => {
+  const selected = []
+  const rankedTopics = []
+  const topicCount = {} as Record<string, number>
+
+  for (const item of rankedCandidates) {
+    if (selected.length >= 5) {
+      break
+    }
+
+    topicCount[item.topic] = (topicCount[item.topic] || 0) + 1
+
+    if (topicCount[item.topic] <= 2) {
+      selected.push(item)
+      if (rankedTopics.indexOf(item.topic) === -1) {
+        rankedTopics.push(item.topic)
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  console.log('rankedTopics: ', rankedTopics)
+  console.log('finalSelections: ', selected)
+
+  const finalSelections = []
+
+  for (const topic of rankedTopics) {
+    const matches = selected.filter((item) => item.topic == topic)
+    finalSelections.push(...matches)
+  }
+
+  console.log('finalSelections: ', finalSelections)
+
+  return finalSelections
+}
+
+// TODO: we could paralleize this step sending all the ranked candidates to openAI at once
+const summarizeItems = async (
+  rankedCandidates: RankedItem[]
+): Promise<RankedItem[]> => {
+  const llm = new OpenAI({
+    modelName: 'gpt-4-0125-preview',
+    configuration: {
+      apiKey: process.env.OPENAI_API_KEY,
+    },
+  })
+
+  for (const item of rankedCandidates) {
+    const contextualTemplate = PromptTemplate.fromTemplate(SUMMARIZE_PROMPT)
+
+    const chain = contextualTemplate.pipe(llm)
+    const summary = await chain.invoke({
+      title: item.libraryItem.title,
+      author: item.libraryItem.author ?? '',
+      content: item.libraryItem.readableContent, // markdown content
+    })
+    item.summary = summary
+  }
+
+  return rankedCandidates
+}
+
+// TODO: write the digest to redis here
+const writeDigest = (userId: string, selections: RankedItem[]) => {}
+
+export const CreateDigestJob = async (jobData: CreateDigestJobData) => {
+  try {
+    const candidates = await getCandidatesList(jobData.userId)
+    const userProfile = await findOrCreateUserProfile(jobData.userId)
+    const rankedCandidates = await rankCandidates(candidates, userProfile)
+    const selections = chooseRankedSelections(rankedCandidates)
+
+    const summaries = await summarizeItems(selections)
+
+    // TODO: we should have a QA step here that does some
+    // basic checks to make sure the summaries are good.
+
+    writeDigest(jobData.userId, summaries)
+  } catch (err) {
+    console.log('error creating summary: ', err)
+  }
+}