axolotl

axolotl is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from RedWoodOG/Hermes-Desktop. It costs 47 tokens per session (1,151 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

Expert guidance for fine-tuning language models with Axolotl, a tool configured mainly through YAML files. It supports many models and training methods, including LoRA, DPO, and GRPO.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to configure supervised fine-tuning, preference training, reinforcement learning, or multimodal model training with Axolotl.
Why use it?
It helps manage varied model-training setups through repeatable configuration instead of assembling every option manually.

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 configure supervised fine-tuning, preference training, reinforcement learning, or multimodal model training with Axolotl.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/redwoodog/hermes-desktop/axolotl
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 RedWoodOG/Hermes-Desktop --skill axolotl
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/RedWoodOG/Hermes-Desktop

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,151 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 $0.00047 $0.01151
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00575
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00230
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00115

Measured 9d ago against content hash 369e19f19ba6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 9d 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/mlops/training/axolotl/SKILL.md · 162 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 9d ago First seen · 162 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 369e19f19ba6

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axolotl is a skill published in the GitHub repository RedWoodOG/Hermes-Desktop (178 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 1,151 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 2026-09-03.

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