Sort lines semantically using llm-sort
This is a small plugin I made for Simon Willison's llm utility. You can do things like: cat names.txt | llm sort -q "Which one of these names is best for a pet seagull?" cat books.txt | llm sort -q "Which book is more related to basic vs. advanced CS topics?" I see a lot of potential marrying LLMs with classic UNIX interfaces.
Sort lines semantically using llm-sort launched on February 11, 2025 with 25 votes, #654 of 5,999 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
In plain words
llm-sort is a plugin for Simon Willison's llm utility that sorts lines of text based on semantic criteria provided by the user through natural language questions. Users can pipe text files into the tool with a query to organize items by custom logic—such as ranking names for a pet seagull or ordering books by complexity level. The plugin demonstrates how large language models can integrate with traditional Unix command-line workflows for text processing tasks.
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From the sources
Sort input lines semantically with llm. Contribute to vagos/llm-sort development by creating an account on GitHub.
LLM plugin for semantically sorting lines. Ranking techniques are based on this paper. llm install llm-sort Usage The plugin adds a new command, llm sort . This command has an interface similar to the GNU sort command, and sorts input lines based on some semantic ranking criteria. Lines can be provided via files or standard input. For example: # Sort lines from a file using the "sorting" method (default) llm sort --query " Which of these names is more suitable for a pet monkey? " names.txt # Read from standard input cat titles.txt | llm sort --query " Which book should I read to cook better? " # Use a different method, limit the output to the top 5 lines, and specify a custom model and…from github.com
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