dspy SKILL.md skillA
dspy from magnus919/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add magnus919/agent-skills/dspy@v1.1.0Pins v1.1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- magnus919/agent-skills
- Path
dspy/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- v1.1.0, committed Sep 2, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 9, 2026
- Size
- 7,879 bytes
- Repository stars
- 140
- License
- MIT
Optimize and build programmatic prompt systems with Stanford DSPy. Signatures, modules (Predict, ChainOfThought, ReAct), optimizer/teleprompter selection, compilation, caching, evaluation. Use when doing programmatic prompt optimization or building compiled prompt programs. Do not use this skill for unrelated requests; route to the nearest named specialist.
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
# DSPy Expert Skill
DSPy is a **compiler for prompt programs**, not a chain or RAG framework. You write Python programs with typed signatures and DSPy optimizes the prompts automatically.
> **⚠️ DSPy is NOT a chain framework.** It does not use `prompt | model | parser`. It does not have LCEL. DSPy operates at a different layer: you define a program with Python control flow and typed signatures, then the *compiler* optimizes the prompts against a metric. If you reach for DSPy expecting LangChain-style composition, you are reaching for the wrong tool.
Think of it as PyTorch for LMs — you define the architecture, the compiler tunes the weights (prompts).
## Core Paradigm
> Read this first. It is the most important thing to understand about DSPy.
```python
import dspy
# 1. Configure the LM
lm = dspy.LM("openai/gpt-4o-mini")
dspy.configure(lm=lm)
# 2. Define a signature (input/output schema)
class QASignature(dspy.Signature):
"""Answer questions concisely."""
question: str = dspy.InputField()
answer: str = dspy.OutputField()
# 3. Build a program using modules
qa = dspy.ChainOfThought(QASignature)
# 4. Compile against a metric
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add magnus919/agent-skills/dspy@sha256:3ee9a82a13ffb81aThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.1.0, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jul 9, 2026 and Sep 2, 2026, about one every 27 days.
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| v1.1.0 latest | 2026-09-02 | 035e58d | 7,879 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1.0 | 2026-07-09 | 6c193ae | 7,820 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.3 | 2026-07-09 | 9504667 | 7,615 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (7879 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
magnus919/agent-skills · 140 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_vnpayxjfhizcon7x GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=magnus919/agent-skills/dspy GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3ee9a82a13ffb81a27893eb5989debed1b9d3aa7fb3effa5e01b077c240b8912
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