model-merging

model-merging is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OpenLAIR/dr-claw. It costs 73 tokens per session (3,685 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A guide to merging several fine-tuned language models into one model without training it again from scratch. It covers mergekit methods such as SLERP, TIES-Merging, and DARE.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to blend capabilities such as mathematics, coding, and chat, or to test specialized model variants quickly.
Why use it?
It lets you experiment with combining model skills without paying for another full training run.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it to blend capabilities such as mathematics, coding, and chat, or…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/openlair/dr-claw/model-merging
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 OpenLAIR/dr-claw --skill model-merging
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OpenLAIR/dr-claw

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,685 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 unknown 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 $0.00073 $0.03685
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.01843
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00737
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00368

Measured 3d ago against content hash 39bcead42b69, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

model-merging 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 3d 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.

skills/emerging-techniques/model-merging/SKILL.md · 540 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

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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. 3d ago First seen · 540 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A 39bcead42b69

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model-merging is a skill published in the GitHub repository OpenLAIR/dr-claw (1,058 stars, last pushed yesterday), with no licence file. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 3,685 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-03.

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