dspy-bootstrap-fewshot

dspy-bootstrap-fewshot is a skill for Claude Code from OmidZamani/dspy-skills. It costs 30 tokens per session (1,282 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A DSPy optimizer that automatically selects useful few-shot demonstrations, which are example inputs and answers shown to a language model.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you have about 10 to 50 labelled examples and want a teacher model to create or select demonstrations for a DSPy program.
Why use it?
It avoids choosing examples by hand and is designed for smaller labelled datasets and quicker optimization.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the dspy-skills plugin — 24 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when you have about 10 to 50 labelled examples and want a teacher model to create or select demonstrations for a DSPy program.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/omidzamani/dspy-skills/dspy-bootstrap-fewshot
Install

Getting it into your agent

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dspy-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 24 skills.

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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,282 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
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found 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 $0.00030 $0.01282
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00641
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00256
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00128

Measured 12d ago against content hash 8bf5efa33873, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dspy-bootstrap-fewshot 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (example.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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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.

skills/dspy-bootstrap-fewshot/SKILL.md · 177 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 177 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

DSPy Bootstrap Few-Shot Optimizer

Goal

Automatically generate and select optimal few-shot demonstrations for your DSPy program using a teacher model.

When to Use

  • You have 10-50 labeled examples
  • Manual example selection is tedious or suboptimal
  • You want demonstrations with reasoning traces
  • Quick optimization without extensive compute

Inputs

Input Type Description
program dspy.Module Your DSPy program to optimize
trainset list[dspy.Example] Training examples
metric callable Evaluation function
metric_threshold float Numerical threshold for accepting demos (optional)
max_bootstrapped_demos int Max teacher-generated demos (default: 4)
max_labeled_demos int Max direct labeled demos (default: 16)
max_rounds int Max bootstrapping attempts per example (default: 1)
teacher_settings dict Configuration for teacher model (optional)

Outputs

Output Type Description
compiled_program dspy.Module Optimized program with demos

Workflow

Phase 1: Setup

import dspy
from dspy.teleprompt import BootstrapFewShot

# Configure LMs
dspy.configure(lm=dspy.LM("openai/gpt-4o-mini"))

Phase 2: Define Program and Metric

class QA(dspy.Module):
    def __init__(self):
        self.generate = dspy.ChainOfThought("question -> answer")
    
    def forward(self, question):
        return self.generate(question=question)

def validate_answer(example, pred, trace=None):
    return example.answer.lower() in pred.answer.lower()

Phase 3: Compile

optimizer = BootstrapFewShot(
    metric=validate_answer,
    max_bootstrapped_demos=4,
    max_labeled_demos=4,
    teacher_settings={'lm': dspy.LM("openai/gpt-4o")}
)

compiled_qa = optimizer.compile(QA(), trainset=trainset)

Read the full file on GitHub · 177 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 12d ago First seen · 177 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 8bf5efa33873

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dspy-bootstrap-fewshot is a skill published in the GitHub repository OmidZamani/dspy-skills (123 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 1,282 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.