simpo-training

simpo-training is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from davila7/claude-code-templates. It costs 62 tokens per session (1,661 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of simpo, MIT.

A training method for adjusting a language model using pairs of preferred and rejected answers. SimPO compares those answers directly, so it does not need a separate reference model.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to align a language model with human or generated preferences, such as teaching it which answers are more helpful or better formatted.
Why use it?
It removes the extra model and setup required by DPO, making preference-based training simpler to run.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is output_dir: ./outputs/mistral-7b-simpo.

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About the project

Claude Code Templates is a command-line tool and catalogue for configuring Anthropic’s Claude Code with agents, commands, settings, hooks, integrations, skills, and project templates. Developers use it to browse and install reusable components for their coding workflows. The catalogue includes many of these Claude Code components.

davila7/claude-code-templates · 30,546 stars · on GitHub · aitmpl.com

Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/davila7/claude-code-templates
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/davila7/claude-code-templates/post-training-simpo

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,661 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 88% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00062 $0.01661
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00830
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00332
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00166

Measured 3d ago against content hash 2a74bd237885, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

simpo-training scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 3d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

88% identical to simpo — 10 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

cli-tool/components/skills/ai-research/post-training-simpo/SKILL.md · 220 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 220 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SimPO - Simple Preference Optimization

Quick start

SimPO is a reference-free preference optimization method that outperforms DPO without needing a reference model.

Installation:

# Create environment
conda create -n simpo python=3.10 && conda activate simpo

# Install PyTorch 2.2.2
# Visit: https://pytorch.org/get-started/locally/

# Install alignment-handbook
git clone https://github.com/huggingface/alignment-handbook.git
cd alignment-handbook
python -m pip install .

# Install Flash Attention 2
python -m pip install flash-attn --no-build-isolation

Training (Mistral 7B):

ACCELERATE_LOG_LEVEL=info accelerate launch \
  --config_file accelerate_configs/deepspeed_zero3.yaml \
  scripts/run_simpo.py \
  training_configs/mistral-7b-base-simpo.yaml

Common workflows

Workflow 1: Train from base model (Mistral 7B)

Config (mistral-7b-base-simpo.yaml):

# Model
model_name_or_path: mistralai/Mistral-7B-v0.1
torch_dtype: bfloat16

# Dataset
dataset_mixer:
  HuggingFaceH4/ultrafeedback_binarized: 1.0
dataset_splits:
  - train_prefs
  - test_prefs

# SimPO hyperparameters
beta: 2.0                  # Reward scaling (2.0-10.0)
gamma_beta_ratio: 0.5       # Target margin (0-1)
loss_type: sigmoid          # sigmoid or hinge
sft_weight: 0.0             # Optional SFT regularization

# Training
learning_rate: 5e-7         # Critical: 3e-7 to 1e-6
num_train_epochs: 1
per_device_train_batch_size: 1
gradient_accumulation_steps: 8

# Output
output_dir: ./outputs/mistral-7b-simpo

Launch training:

accelerate launch --config_file accelerate_configs/deepspeed_zero3.yaml \
  scripts/run_simpo.py training_configs/mistral-7b-base-simpo.yaml

Workflow 2: Fine-tune instruct model (Llama 3 8B)

Config (llama3-8b-instruct-simpo.yaml):

model_name_or_path: meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct

dataset_mixer:
  argilla/ultrafeedback-binarized-preferences-cleaned: 1.0

beta: 2.5
gamma_beta_ratio: 0.5
learning_rate: 5e-7
sft_weight: 0.1             # Add SFT loss to preserve capabilities

num_train_epochs: 1
per_device_train_batch_size: 2
gradient_accumulation_steps: 4
output_dir: ./outputs/llama3-8b-simpo

Read the full file on GitHub · 220 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 3d ago First seen · 220 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 2a74bd237885

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simpo-training is a skill published in the GitHub repository davila7/claude-code-templates (30,546 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 1,661 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 88% identical to simpo, differing in 10 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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