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axolotl from orchestra-research/ai-research-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add orchestra-research/ai-research-skills/axolotl@v1.0.0

Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: orchestra-research/ai-research-skills
Path: 03-fine-tuning/axolotl/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 5
Latest version: v1.0.0, committed Nov 20, 2025
First version recorded: Nov 6, 2025
Size: 4,797 bytes
Repository stars: 13,718
License: MIT

Expert guidance for fine-tuning LLMs with Axolotl - YAML configs, 100+ models, LoRA/QLoRA, DPO/KTO/ORPO/GRPO, multimodal support.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Axolotl Skill

Comprehensive assistance with axolotl development, generated from official documentation.

## When to Use This Skill

This skill should be triggered when:
- Working with axolotl
- Asking about axolotl features or APIs
- Implementing axolotl solutions
- Debugging axolotl code
- Learning axolotl best practices

## Quick Reference

### Common Patterns

**Pattern 1:** To validate that acceptable data transfer speeds exist for your training job, running NCCL Tests can help pinpoint bottlenecks, for example:

```
./build/all_reduce_perf -b 8 -e 128M -f 2 -g 3
```

**Pattern 2:** Configure your model to use FSDP in the Axolotl yaml. For example:

```
fsdp_version: 2
fsdp_config:
  offload_params: true
  state_dict_type: FULL_STATE_DICT
  auto_wrap_policy: TRANSFORMER_BASED_WRAP
  transformer_layer_cls_to_wrap: LlamaDecoderLayer
  reshard_after_forward: true
```

**Pattern 3:** The context_parallel_size should be a divisor of the total number of GPUs. For example:

```
context_parallel_size
```
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add orchestra-research/ai-research-skills/axolotl@sha256:9273d534cd6a0661

The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_mdxmuj5fzentm2to.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_mdxmuj5fzentm2to)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Nov 6, 2025 and Nov 20, 2025, about one every 4 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
v1.0.0 latest	2025-11-20	0a9ded4	4,797 B	A	view · diff
v1.0.0	2025-11-20	72c8b2c	4,797 B	A	view · diff
v1.0.0	2025-11-20	f38509b	4,796 B	A	view · diff
v1.0.0	2025-11-19	bd4461f	4,795 B	A	view · diff
v1.0.0	2025-11-06	218945a	4,858 B	A	view

Audit of the latest version

A 17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.

pass: Frontmatter block present
pass: Frontmatter declares a name
pass: Frontmatter declares a description
pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (4797 bytes)
pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
pass: No credential-shaped string
pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
pass: No text hidden with inline styles
pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
pass: No link to a raw IP address
pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

orchestra-research/ai-research-skills · 13,718 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-11 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_mdxmuj5fzentm2to
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=orchestra-research/ai-research-skills/axolotl
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/9273d534cd6a06612b18418f2cd98f63d1ac9bb780eda511a91800dee48f1dda

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.

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