# llm-finetuning

Guides the end-to-end open-weights fine-tuning lifecycle with mandatory eval gating. Useful for LoRA, DPO, GRPO setups and quantized exports.

- plugin · `type=plugin` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor · ★ 41729
- Author: Seth Hobson
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/wshobson/agents/tree/HEAD/plugins/llm-finetuning
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/plugins/llm-finetuning

## What it does

The plugin structures the entire lifecycle for fine-tuning open-weights models. It covers LoRA and QLoRA SFT, preference optimization methods like DPO, ORPO, or KTO, reinforcement learning with GRPO/RLVR, and vision SFT.

The workflow enforces an eval-first approach. It requires creating the evaluation harness before selecting a method, preparing datasets, or filtering checkpoints. Unsloth serves as the primary training tool, falling back to TRL when needed.

Completed runs export to quantized GGUF or FP8 formats. Without an evaluation harness ready, fine-tuning will not proceed.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

**Plugin marketplace**
In the agent chat (not a shell):
```text
/plugin marketplace add wshobson/agents
```
In the agent chat (not a shell):
```text
/plugin install llm-finetuning@claude-code-workflows
```

## When to use it
- Build an evaluation harness before starting fine-tuning
- Configure LoRA or QLoRA SFT using Unsloth
- Apply preference optimization using DPO, ORPO, or KTO
- Train reasoning models with GRPO/RLVR or vision SFT
- Export gated checkpoints to GGUF or FP8

## Example prompts
- Build an evaluation harness and prepare a QLoRA fine-tuning run with Unsloth
- Set up a preference tuning pipeline using DPO on the curated dataset
- Evaluate the latest checkpoints and export the final model to GGUF

## Source text · llm-finetuning · MIT

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Eval-gated LLM fine-tuning lifecycle (LoRA/QLoRA, DPO, GRPO/RLVR, vision SFT, quantized export). Use when fine-tuning an open-weights model end-to-end: building the eval harness first, selecting method and model, preparing data, training with Unsloth or TRL, gating checkpoints, and exporting GGUF/FP8.
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© Seth Hobson · MIT · https://github.com/wshobson/agents/tree/HEAD/plugins/llm-finetuning

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