fine-tuning-with-trl

fine-tuning-with-trl is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from davila7/claude-code-templates. It costs 69 tokens per session (3,079 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of trl-fine-tuning, MIT.

A Hugging Face library for adapting language models with supervised training or reinforcement learning. It includes methods such as SFT, which learns from example answers, DPO, which learns from preferred answers, and PPO or GRPO, which learn from rewards.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to teach a model to follow instructions, match human preferences, improve task-specific behavior, or train a reward model from feedback.
Why use it?
It puts common language-model training methods in one toolkit instead of requiring separate implementations for instruction tuning and preference alignment.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to teach a model to follow instructions, match human preferences, improve task-specific behavior, or train a reward model from feedback.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/davila7/claude-code-templates/post-training-trl-fine-tuning
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 · 30,576 stars · on GitHub · aitmpl.com

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add davila7/claude-code-templates --skill post-training-trl-fine-tuning
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/davila7/claude-code-templates

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,079 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
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Origin 78% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

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Fable 5.1 $0.00069 $0.03079
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.01540
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00616
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00308

Measured 7d ago against content hash d68f78ad7416, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fine-tuning-with-trl 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 7d 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

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Origin

This is a copy

78% identical to trl-fine-tuning — 89 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-trl-fine-tuning/SKILL.md · 456 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 456 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

TRL - Transformer Reinforcement Learning

Quick start

TRL provides post-training methods for aligning language models with human preferences.

Installation:

pip install trl transformers datasets peft accelerate

Supervised Fine-Tuning (instruction tuning):

from trl import SFTTrainer

trainer = SFTTrainer(
    model="Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B",
    train_dataset=dataset,  # Prompt-completion pairs
)
trainer.train()

DPO (align with preferences):

from trl import DPOTrainer, DPOConfig

config = DPOConfig(output_dir="model-dpo", beta=0.1)
trainer = DPOTrainer(
    model=model,
    args=config,
    train_dataset=preference_dataset,  # chosen/rejected pairs
    processing_class=tokenizer
)
trainer.train()

Common workflows

Workflow 1: Full RLHF pipeline (SFT → Reward Model → PPO)

Complete pipeline from base model to human-aligned model.

Copy this checklist:

RLHF Training:
- [ ] Step 1: Supervised fine-tuning (SFT)
- [ ] Step 2: Train reward model
- [ ] Step 3: PPO reinforcement learning
- [ ] Step 4: Evaluate aligned model

Step 1: Supervised fine-tuning

Train base model on instruction-following data:

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
from trl import SFTTrainer, SFTConfig
from datasets import load_dataset

# Load model
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B")
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B")

# Load instruction dataset
dataset = load_dataset("trl-lib/Capybara", split="train")

# Configure training
training_args = SFTConfig(
    output_dir="Qwen2.5-0.5B-SFT",
    per_device_train_batch_size=4,
    num_train_epochs=1,
    learning_rate=2e-5,
    logging_steps=10,
    save_strategy="epoch"
)

# Train
trainer = SFTTrainer(
    model=model,
    args=training_args,
    train_dataset=dataset,
    tokenizer=tokenizer
)
trainer.train()
trainer.save_model()

Step 2: Train reward model

Train model to predict human preferences:

Read the full file on GitHub · 456 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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

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fine-tuning-with-trl is a skill published in the GitHub repository davila7/claude-code-templates (30,576 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 3,079 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 78% identical to trl-fine-tuning, differing in 89 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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