research-axolotl

research-axolotl is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from GrayCodeAI/starling. It costs 49 tokens per session (1,121 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of axolotl, MIT.

A guide to fine-tuning language models with Axolotl, a tool for configuring and running model training. It covers YAML settings, LoRA and QLoRA, preference-training methods, distributed training, and multimodal models.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to configure or debug Axolotl training, select supported training methods, prepare multi-GPU jobs, and work with text or multimodal models.
Why use it?
It helps translate a training goal into an Axolotl configuration and points out constraints such as GPU layout and parallel-training settings.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the starling plugin — 54 skills shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/graycodeai/starling/research-axolotl
Any agent
npx skills add GrayCodeAI/starling --skill research-axolotl
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GrayCodeAI/starling

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install starling, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 54 skills.

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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,121 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 94% 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 $0.00049 $0.01121
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00561
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00224
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00112

Measured 4d ago against content hash 6b8594fd8b7d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-axolotl 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 4d 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

94% identical to axolotl — 11 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.

categories/ai-ml/research-axolotl/SKILL.md · 156 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 156 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Axolotl Skill

Comprehensive assistance with axolotl development, generated from official documentation.

When to Use This Skill

This skill should be triggered when:

  • Working with axolotl
  • Asking about axolotl features or APIs
  • Implementing axolotl solutions
  • Debugging axolotl code
  • Learning axolotl best practices

Quick Reference

Common Patterns

Pattern 1: To validate that acceptable data transfer speeds exist for your training job, running NCCL Tests can help pinpoint bottlenecks, for example:

./build/all_reduce_perf -b 8 -e 128M -f 2 -g 3

Pattern 2: Configure your model to use FSDP in the Axolotl yaml. For example:

fsdp_version: 2
fsdp_config:
  offload_params: true
  state_dict_type: FULL_STATE_DICT
  auto_wrap_policy: TRANSFORMER_BASED_WRAP
  transformer_layer_cls_to_wrap: LlamaDecoderLayer
  reshard_after_forward: true

Pattern 3: The context_parallel_size should be a divisor of the total number of GPUs. For example:

context_parallel_size

Pattern 4: For example: - With 8 GPUs and no sequence parallelism: 8 different batches processed per step - With 8 GPUs and context_parallel_size=4: Only 2 different batches processed per step (each split across 4 GPUs) - If your per-GPU micro_batch_size is 2, the global batch size decreases from 16 to 4

context_parallel_size=4

Pattern 5: Setting save_compressed: true in your configuration enables saving models in a compressed format, which: - Reduces disk space usage by approximately 40% - Maintains compatibility with vLLM for accelerated inference - Maintains compatibility with llmcompressor for further optimization (example: quantization)

save_compressed: true

Pattern 6: Note It is not necessary to place your integration in the integrations folder. It can be in any location, so long as it’s installed in a package in your python env. See this repo for an example: https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/diff-transformer

integrations

Read the full file on GitHub · 156 lines

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. 4d ago First seen · 156 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 6b8594fd8b7d

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research-axolotl is a skill published in the GitHub repository GrayCodeAI/starling (2 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 1,121 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 94% identical to axolotl, differing in 11 lines, and is treated as a copy.