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axolotl

80 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try. Some of what it can do is expected: a research skill usually looks things up on the internet.

By KalarisLabs/research-agent-skills (GitHub) · research · 126 stars · scanned at commit 802bbea

Provides guidance for fine-tuning large language models with Axolotl, covering YAML training configs, LoRA and QLoRA, preference training with DPO, KTO, ORPO and GRPO, multimodal models, FSDP and multi-GPU setups, sequence (context) parallelism, NCCL bandwidth tests, dataset formats, compressed model saving for vLLM and llmcompressor, and custom integrations. Use when writing or debugging an Axolotl YAML config, choosing a dataset format for a fine-tuning run, setting up FSDP or context_paralle…

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'axolotl' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'axolotl' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named axolotl already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/KalarisLabs/research-agent-skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '802bbea44e551abac24d6856f83fc55149bbdba3' -- 'skills/axolotl' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/axolotl' ~/.agents/skills/'axolotl' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'axolotl' ~/.claude/skills/'axolotl' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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