dspy-finetune-bootstrap

dspy-finetune-bootstrap is a skill for Claude Code from OmidZamani/dspy-skills. It costs 35 tokens per session (1,825 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for fine-tuning a DSPy program, which is a Python program for building language-model applications, so its behavior can be captured in model weights. It uses a stronger teacher program and training examples to produce a smaller or more efficient model.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to distill a DSPy program, train it with examples and an optional evaluation measure, and save the resulting program and model path for deployment.
Why use it?
It can help reduce model-serving costs or improve response speed when a working DSPy program already exists.

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 to distill a DSPy program, train it with examples and an optional evaluation measure, and save the resulting program and model path for deployment.

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

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add OmidZamani/dspy-skills --skill dspy-finetune-bootstrap
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 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,825 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 $0.00035 $0.01825
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00912
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00365
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00183

Measured 12d ago against content hash 4a6866192006, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dspy-finetune-bootstrap 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.

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.

skills/dspy-finetune-bootstrap/SKILL.md · 254 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 254 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

DSPy BootstrapFinetune Optimizer

Goal

Distill a DSPy program into fine-tuned model weights for efficient production deployment.

When to Use

  • You have a working DSPy program with a large model
  • Need to reduce inference costs
  • Want faster responses (smaller model)
  • Deploying to resource-constrained environments

Inputs

Input Type Description
program dspy.Module Teacher program to distill
trainset list[dspy.Example] Training examples
metric callable Validation metric (optional)
train_kwargs dict Training hyperparameters

Outputs

Output Type Description
finetuned_program dspy.Module Program with fine-tuned weights
model_path str Path to saved model

Workflow

Phase 1: Prepare Teacher Program

import dspy

# Configure with strong teacher model
dspy.configure(lm=dspy.LM("openai/gpt-4o"))

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

Phase 2: Configure Fine-Tuning

Assign the LM directly to predictors before fine-tuning:

import dspy
from dspy.teleprompt import BootstrapFinetune

optimizer = BootstrapFinetune(
    metric=lambda gold, pred, trace=None: gold.answer.lower() in pred.answer.lower(),
    train_kwargs={
        'learning_rate': 5e-5,
        'num_train_epochs': 3,
        'per_device_train_batch_size': 4,
        'warmup_ratio': 0.1
    }
)

Phase 3: Fine-tune Student Model

teacher = TeacherQA()
teacher.set_lm(dspy.settings.lm)
finetuned = optimizer.compile(teacher, trainset=trainset)

Phase 4: Deploy

# Save the fine-tuned model (saves state-only by default)
finetuned.save("finetuned_qa_model.json")

# Load and use (must recreate architecture first)
loaded = TeacherQA()
loaded.load("finetuned_qa_model.json")
result = loaded(question="What is machine learning?")

Read the full file on GitHub · 254 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 · 254 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 4a6866192006

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dspy-finetune-bootstrap is a skill published in the GitHub repository OmidZamani/dspy-skills (123 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 1,825 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.

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