dspy

dspy is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from graniet/kheish. It costs 32 tokens per session (3,890 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of dspy, Apache-2.0.

A framework for building AI applications with modular, declarative programs instead of manually writing every prompt. RAG means retrieving relevant documents before asking a language model to respond.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build and optimize RAG systems, agents, classifiers, and other AI pipelines with reusable components and more systematic prompt improvement.
Why use it?
It helps developers organize multi-step language-model systems and improve their prompts using data and evaluation rather than repeated guesswork.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to build and optimize RAG systems, agents, classifiers, and other…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/graniet/kheish/dspy
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add graniet/kheish --skill dspy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/graniet/kheish

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,890 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 80% 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 $0.00032 $0.03890
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.01945
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00778
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00389

Measured 7d ago against content hash 4779335bf46d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dspy 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

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

80% identical to dspy — 41 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.

skills/mlops/research/dspy/SKILL.md · 618 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 618 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Kheish Compatibility

This skill is repo-local and stays inactive until explicitly activated.

When the original instructions refer to legacy tool names, use these Kheish mappings:

  • terminal => bash
  • web_extract => web_fetch, plus web_search when discovery is needed
  • search_files => grep_search and glob_search
  • browser_* tools require a browser-capable surfaced tool or MCP; if none is available, use the closest available surface and say so explicitly

When the instructions mention local helper files, resolve them from ${KHEISH_SKILL_DIR}.

DSPy: Declarative Language Model Programming

When to Use This Skill

Use DSPy when you need to:

  • Build complex AI systems with multiple components and workflows
  • Program LMs declaratively instead of manual prompt engineering
  • Optimize prompts automatically using data-driven methods
  • Create modular AI pipelines that are maintainable and portable
  • Improve model outputs systematically with optimizers
  • Build RAG systems, agents, or classifiers with better reliability

GitHub Stars: 22,000+ | Created By: Stanford NLP

Installation

# Stable release
pip install dspy

# Latest development version
pip install git+https://github.com/stanfordnlp/dspy.git

# With specific LM providers
pip install dspy[openai]        # OpenAI
pip install dspy[anthropic]     # Anthropic Claude
pip install dspy[all]           # All providers

Quick Start

Basic Example: Question Answering

import dspy

# Configure your language model
lm = dspy.Claude(model="claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929")
dspy.settings.configure(lm=lm)

# Define a signature (input → output)
class QA(dspy.Signature):
    """Answer questions with short factual answers."""
    question = dspy.InputField()
    answer = dspy.OutputField(desc="often between 1 and 5 words")

# Create a module
qa = dspy.Predict(QA)

# Use it
response = qa(question="What is the capital of France?")
print(response.answer)  # "Paris"

Read the full file on GitHub · 618 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. 7d ago First seen · 618 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 4779335bf46d

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dspy is a skill published in the GitHub repository graniet/kheish (227 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 3,890 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 80% identical to dspy, differing in 41 lines, and is treated as a copy.