dspy-signature-designer

dspy-signature-designer is a skill for Claude Code from OmidZamani/dspy-skills. It costs 35 tokens per session (1,838 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design helper for DSPy signatures. DSPy is a Python framework for building language-model programs, and a signature describes the inputs and outputs a module should use.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design inline or class-based signatures, input and output fields, type hints, and structured schemas for DSPy modules.
Why use it?
It helps define structured, type-checked inputs and outputs instead of passing loosely described text between modules.

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 design inline or class-based signatures, input and output fields, type hints, and structured schemas for DSPy modules.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/omidzamani/dspy-skills/dspy-signature-designer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add OmidZamani/dspy-skills --skill dspy-signature-designer
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 1,838 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 $0.01838
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00919
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00368
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00184

Measured 12d ago against content hash 30693dbd8ec4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dspy-signature-designer 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-signature-designer/SKILL.md · 282 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 282 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

DSPy Signature Designer

Goal

Design clear, type-safe signatures that define what your DSPy modules should do.

When to Use

  • Defining new DSPy modules
  • Need structured/validated outputs
  • Complex input/output relationships
  • Multi-field responses

Inputs

Input Type Description
task_description str What the module should do
input_fields list Required inputs
output_fields list Expected outputs
type_constraints dict Type hints for fields

Outputs

Output Type Description
signature dspy.Signature Type-safe signature class

Workflow

Inline Signatures (Simple)

import dspy

# Basic
qa = dspy.Predict("question -> answer")

# With types
classify = dspy.Predict("sentence -> sentiment: bool")

# Multiple fields
rag = dspy.ChainOfThought("context: list[str], question: str -> answer: str")

Class-based Signatures (Complex)

from typing import Literal, Optional
import dspy

class EmotionClassifier(dspy.Signature):
    """Classify the emotion expressed in the text."""
    
    text: str = dspy.InputField(desc="The text to analyze")
    emotion: Literal['joy', 'sadness', 'anger', 'fear', 'surprise'] = dspy.OutputField()
    confidence: float = dspy.OutputField(desc="Confidence score 0-1")

Type Hints Reference

from typing import Literal, Optional, List
from pydantic import BaseModel

# Basic types
field: str = dspy.InputField()
field: int = dspy.OutputField()
field: float = dspy.OutputField()
field: bool = dspy.OutputField()

# Collections
field: list[str] = dspy.InputField()
field: List[int] = dspy.OutputField()

# Optional
field: Optional[str] = dspy.OutputField()

# Constrained
field: Literal['a', 'b', 'c'] = dspy.OutputField()

# Pydantic models
class Person(BaseModel):
    name: str
    age: int

field: Person = dspy.OutputField()

Production Examples

Summarization

Read the full file on GitHub · 282 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 · 282 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 30693dbd8ec4

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dspy-signature-designer 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 1,838 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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