# dspy-optimize-anything

Guides AI agents through GEPA reflective evolutionary search for code, prompts, configs, and text artifacts using diagnostic feedback.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 124
- Author: OmidZamani
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/OmidZamani/dspy-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/dspy-optimize-anything/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-06-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/dspy-optimize-anything

## What it does

This skill equips the agent with instructions for running `gepa.optimize_anything` in Python. It applies reflective evolutionary search to artifacts formatted as text, ranging from code kernels to system configurations. Without `gepa>=0.1.1,<0.2` installed in your environment, the optimization pipeline will fail immediately on import.

Search progress relies on an evaluator that returns both a numeric score and Actionable Side Information (ASI). The underlying proposer uses error traces, runtime telemetry, or images passed through `gepa.Image` to plan code modifications. The framework supports single-task discovery, multi-task tuning, dataset generalization, and seedless generation.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add OmidZamani/dspy-skills --skill dspy-optimize-anything -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/dspy-optimize-anything/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/dspy-optimize-anything/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add OmidZamani/dspy-skills --skill dspy-optimize-anything -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/dspy-optimize-anything/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add OmidZamani/dspy-skills --skill dspy-optimize-anything -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/dspy-optimize-anything/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install OmidZamani/dspy-skills dspy-optimize-anything
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/dspy-optimize-anything/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add OmidZamani/dspy-skills --skill dspy-optimize-anything -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/OmidZamani/dspy-skills --path skills/dspy-optimize-anything
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/dspy-optimize-anything/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add OmidZamani/dspy-skills --skill dspy-optimize-anything -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/OmidZamani/dspy-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/dspy-optimize-anything/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- discover algorithms and code implementations via evolutionary search
- tune agent architectures against train and validation datasets
- optimize vector graphics with multimodal feedback from vision models
- generate code without a seed candidate from natural language objectives

## Example prompts
- Write a gepa.optimize_anything script to optimize a bin-packing heuristic with runtime feedback.
- Set up an evaluator returning ASI error logs and run GEPAConfig with a limit of 100 metric calls.
- Create a seedless optimization script to generate a string reversing function.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: dspy-optimize-anything
version: "1.0.0"
dspy-compatibility: "3.2.1"
gepa-compatibility: "0.1.1"
tags: ["optimizer"]
requires-extras: ["gepa>=0.1.1,<0.2"]
description: Use for GEPA optimize_anything on text artifacts such as code, prompts, agent architectures, configs, and non-DSPy optimization targets.
allowed-tools:
  - Read
  - Write
  - Glob
  - Grep
---

# GEPA optimize_anything

## Goal

Optimize any artifact representable as text — code, prompts, agent architectures, vector graphics, configurations — using a single declarative API powered by GEPA's reflective evolutionary search.

## When to Use

- **Beyond prompt optimization** — optimizing code, configs, SVGs, scheduling policies, etc.
- **Single hard problems** — circle packing, kernel generation, algorithm discovery
- **Batch related problems** — CUDA kernels, code generation tasks with cross-transfer
- **Generalization** — agent skills, policies, or prompts that must transfer to unseen inputs
- When you can **express quality as a score** and provide **diagnostic feedback** (ASI)

## Inputs

| Input | Type | Description |
|-------|------|-------------|
| `seed_candidate` | `str \| dict[str, str] \| None` | Starting artifact text, or `None` for seedless mode |
| `evaluator` | `Callable` | Returns score (higher=better), optionally with ASI dict |
| `dataset` | `list \| None` | Training examples (for multi-task and generalization modes) |
| `valset` | `list \| None` | Validation set (for generalization mode) |
| `objective` | `str \| None` | Natural language description of what to optimize for |
| `background` | `str \| None` | Domain knowledge and constraints |
| `config` | `GEPAConfig \| None` | Engine, reflection, and tracking settings |

## Outputs

| Output | Type | Description |
|--------|------|-------------|
| `result.best_candidate` | `str \| dict` | Best optimized artifact |

## Workflow

### Phase 1: Install

```bash
pip install -U "gepa>=0.1.1,<0.2"
```

### Phase 2: Define Evaluator with ASI

The evaluator scores a candidate and returns Actionable Side Information (ASI) — diagnostic feedback that guides the LLM proposer during reflection.

**Simple evaluator (score only):**

```python
import gepa.optimize_anything as oa
from gepa.optimize_anything import EngineConfig, GEPAConfig

config = GEPAConfig(engine=EngineConfig(max_metric_calls=100))

def evaluate(candidate: str) -> float:
    score, diagnostic = run_my_system(candidate)
    oa.log(f"Error: {diagnostic}")  # captured as ASI
    return score
```

**Rich evaluator (score + structured ASI):**

```python
def evaluate(candidate: str) -> tuple[float, dict]:
    result = execute_code(candidate)
    return result.score, {
        "Error": result.stderr,
        "Output": result.stdout,
        "Runtime": f"{result.time_ms:.1f}ms",
    }
```
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