gemma-trainer

gemma-trainer is a skill for Claude Code from skillmds/skillmd. It costs 65 tokens per session (1,982 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of gemma-trainer, MIT.

A workflow guide for training and adapting Google's Gemma language models on local computers. It covers dataset preparation, supervised fine-tuning, preference training, reward modelling, and converting models for other runtimes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare data, fine-tune Gemma with methods such as SFT, DPO, or RLHF, validate the result, and convert the trained model to GGUF or LiteRT.
Why use it?
It helps you choose a training method and configure memory-saving tools when the model may not fit comfortably in available hardware.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the agents-mcp plugin — 34 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to prepare data, fine-tune Gemma with methods such as SFT, DPO, or RLHF, validate the result, and convert the trained model to GGUF or LiteRT.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/skillmds/skillmd/gemma-trainer
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 skillmds/skillmd --skill gemma-trainer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/skillmds/skillmd

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agents-mcp, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 34 skills.

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Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,982 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00065 $0.01982
Opus 5.5 $0.00026 $0.00793
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00396
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00198

Measured 4d ago against content hash d73853f49622, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-23, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gemma-trainer 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 4d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 5 executable files (assets/dataset_prep.py, assets/distill_dataset.py, assets/dpo_train.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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to gemma-trainer — 2 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugins/agents-mcp/skills/gemma-trainer/SKILL.md · 168 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 168 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Gemma Training and Fine-Tuning Skill

1. Core Principles: Local Fine-Tuning Setup

When training locally, memory efficiency and execution speed are huge. Always guide the user to follow these best practices:

  • Prioritize Unsloth: For local single-GPU training, always recommend Unsloth. It supports Gemma 4 natively, uses up to 70% less memory, and is up to 2x faster than standard Hugging Face PEFT training.
  • Fall Back to TRL: For multi-GPU environments (using DDP/FSDP) or when Unsloth is unavailable, use Hugging Face TRL (SFTTrainer, DPOTrainer) coupled with PEFT and bitsandbytes (for QLoRA).
  • Always use QLoRA (4-bit Quantization): Crucial for fitting Gemma models (like Gemma 4 12B/31B) into consumer VRAM.
  • Manage Context Window & Max Length: Although Gemma 4 supports up to a 256K context window, recommend training with a context window of 2048 to 8192 tokens locally to prevent Out-Of-Memory (OOM) errors.

2. Choosing the Right Training Method

Help the user choose the correct workflow based on their goal:

  • Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT): Teaching new domains, specialized task instructions, or custom output structures.
    • Prerequisites: Raw text, instruction pairs, or chat logs.
    • Output: Adaptor trained on prompt/completion pairs.
  • Direct Preference Optimization (DPO): Aligning model style, behavior, tone, or safety with human preferences.
    • Prerequisites: A previously SFT-trained Gemma model and preferred pairwise datasets.
    • Output: Aligning model weights directly without a separate reward head.
  • Reward Modeling (RM): Training a scoring system to evaluate response quality.
    • Prerequisites: Binary preference pairwise datasets.
    • Output: A classification-style reward head on top of Gemma.

3. Dataset Preparation & Validation

Formatting issues are the #1 cause of poor training runs. Ensure you validate files using the utility script [assets/dataset_prep.py].

Gemma Chat Prompt Format

Read the full file on GitHub · 168 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 4d ago First seen · 168 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A d73853f49622

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gemma-trainer is a skill published in the GitHub repository skillmds/skillmd (1 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 1,982 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to gemma-trainer, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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