@ax-llm/ax 21.0.13 → 22.0.0

package/skills/ax-refine.md

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+---
+name: ax-refine
+description: Use this skill when writing or reviewing Ax bestOfN/refine code, reward functions, thresholds, native sample selection, serial attempts, generated advice, and attempt diagnostics.
+version: "22.0.0"
+---
+
+# Ax Refine And BestOfN
+
+Use `bestOfN(...)` when you can score complete outputs independently. Use `refine(...)` when failed rounds should produce feedback that changes the next attempt.
+
+## Breaking Migration
+
+Treat this as a breaking API change:
+
+- Do not generate `addAssert(...)` or `addStreamingAssert(...)`; they are removed.
+- Use schema validation for shape and field validity.
+- Use `bestOfN(...)` for complete-candidate selection.
+- Use `refine(...)` for retry rounds with generated feedback.
+- Use `addStreamingGuard(...)` only for fail-fast streaming safety.
+
+## APIs
+
+```typescript
+import { bestOfN, refine } from '@ax-llm/ax';
+
+const selected = bestOfN(program, {
+  n: 4,
+  threshold: 0.8,
+  rewardFn: ({ input, prediction, traces, chatLog }) => score(prediction),
+});
+
+const improved = refine(program, {
+  rounds: 3,
+  samplesPerRound: 2,
+  threshold: 0.85,
+  rewardDescription: 'Prefer complete, grounded, concise answers.',
+  rewardFn: ({ prediction }) => score(prediction),
+});
+```
+
+Rules:
+
+- `forward(...)` returns the selected prediction.
+- `streamingForward(...)` is unsupported; score complete outputs instead.
+- `getUsage()` aggregates usage across attempts.
+- `getTraces()` and `getChatLog()` return the selected attempt's diagnostics.
+- `getAttempts()` returns all attempt metadata, including reward, errors, and advice application.
+
+## Reward Functions
+
+Reward functions return a number. Higher is better. A `threshold` marks a good-enough candidate and can stop serial attempts early.
+
+```typescript
+const rewardFn = ({ prediction }) => {
+  const exact = prediction.answer === 'Paris' ? 1 : 0;
+  const concise = prediction.answer.length < 80 ? 0.2 : 0;
+  return exact + concise;
+};
+```
+
+Use serial strategy when the reward needs traces, chat logs, tools, or full flow behavior.
+
+## Strategies
+
+- `strategy: "auto"` uses native samples for `AxGen` and serial attempts for composite programs.
+- `strategy: "native-samples"` uses `sampleCount` and a reward-backed `resultPicker`; candidate context includes outputs, not full per-candidate traces.
+- `strategy: "serial"` runs isolated full-program attempts with fresh memory/session IDs.
+
+## Refine Advice
+
+`refine(...)` generates advice after a below-threshold round. Advice is appended temporarily to matching `kind: "instruction"` components exposed by `getOptimizableComponents()` and applied through `applyOptimizedComponents()`.
+
+Rules:
+
+- Original instruction values are restored in `finally`, on success and error.
+- Programs without instruction components continue as best-of-N rounds and mark `adviceApplied: false`.
+- Do not add DSPy-style `hint_` signature fields; Ax uses instruction-component advice.
+
+## Streaming
+
+Do not use `refine(...)` for streaming. For partial-output safety, use `addStreamingGuard(fieldName, fn, message?)` on `AxGen`. Guards fail fast with `AxStreamingGuardError`; they do not retry, refine, or feed correction text back to the model.

package/skills/ax-signature.md

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 ---
 name: ax-signature
 description: This skill helps an LLM generate correct DSPy signature code using @ax-llm/ax. Use when the user asks about signatures, s(), f(), field types, string syntax, fluent builder API, validation constraints, or type-safe inputs/outputs.
-version: "21.0.13"
+version: "22.0.0"
 ---
 
 # Ax Signature Reference

package/skills/ax-learn.md

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----
-name: ax-learn
-description: This skill helps an LLM generate correct AxLearn code using @ax-llm/ax. Use when the user asks about self-improving agents, trace-backed learning, feedback-aware updates, or AxLearn modes.
-version: "21.0.13"
----
-
-# AxLearn Codegen Rules (@ax-llm/ax)
-
-Use this skill to generate `AxLearn` code that matches the current API.
-
-## Core Model
-
-- `AxLearn` wraps an `AxGen`.
-- `teacher` is for judging, synthesis, and reflection.
-- `runtimeAI` is the model being improved.
-- `forward()` and `streamingForward()` are inference-time APIs and auto-log traces when tracing is enabled.
-- `optimize()` is offline learning.
-- `applyUpdate()` is a bounded update API for `continuous` and `playbook` modes.
-- `ready()` should be awaited before assuming checkpoints have been restored.
-- `improvement` is the score delta from the previous/restored state.
-
-## Required Inputs
-
-- Always provide `name`.
-- Always provide `storage`.
-- Always provide `teacher`.
-- Always provide `runtimeAI` if you call `optimize()` or `applyUpdate()`.
-
-## Modes
-
-- `batch`: offline prompt learning only.
-- `continuous`: offline optimization plus bounded feedback-aware `applyUpdate(...)`.
-- `playbook`: structured context/playbook learning plus `applyUpdate(...)`.
-
-## Preferred Construction
-
-```typescript
-import {
-  AxLearn,
-  ax,
-  ai,
-  type AxCheckpoint,
-  type AxStorage,
-  type AxTrace,
-} from '@ax-llm/ax';
-
-const storage: AxStorage = {
-  save: async (_name, _item) => {
-    // persist trace/checkpoint
-  },
-  load: async (_name, _query) => {
-    // return traces/checkpoints
-    return [];
-  },
-};
-
-const teacher = ai({
-  name: 'openai',
-  apiKey: process.env.OPENAI_APIKEY!,
-});
-
-const runtimeAI = ai({
-  name: 'openai',
-  apiKey: process.env.OPENAI_APIKEY!,
-});
-
-const gen = ax(`
-  customerQuery:string "User message" ->
-  supportReply:string "Agent reply"
-`);
-
-const agent = new AxLearn(gen, {
-  name: 'support-bot-v1',
-  storage,
-  teacher,
-  runtimeAI,
-  mode: 'continuous',
-  budget: 12,
-  examples: [
-    {
-      customerQuery: 'Where is my order?',
-      supportReply: 'Your order is in transit and should arrive in 2 days.',
-    },
-    {
-      customerQuery: 'I need a refund.',
-      supportReply: 'I can help with that. Please share your order number.',
-    },
-  ],
-  generateExamples: false,
-});
-
-await agent.ready();
-```
-
-## Runtime Pattern
-
-```typescript
-const prediction = await agent.forward(runtimeAI, {
-  customerQuery: 'My package is late.',
-});
-
-const traces = await agent.getTraces({ limit: 1 });
-if (traces[0]) {
-  await agent.addFeedback(traces[0].id, {
-    score: 0,
-    label: 'needs-empathy',
-    comment: 'Acknowledge the frustration more directly.',
-  });
-}
-```
-
-## Offline Optimization
-
-```typescript
-const result = await agent.optimize({
-  // Optional overrides
-  budget: 20,
-});
-
-console.log(result.mode);
-console.log(result.score);
-console.log(result.improvement);
-console.log(result.checkpointVersion);
-```
-
-`result.improvement` is the gain relative to the prior/restored score.
-
-## Continuous Update
-
-Use `applyUpdate(...)` only in `continuous` or `playbook` mode.
-
-- In `continuous` mode, `example` may be input-only.
-- `prediction` is the observed runtime output being critiqued.
-- If `example` includes expected output fields, that expected-output row stays eligible for scored optimization.
-- The observed `prediction` row is feedback/reflection context, not a scored train/validation row by itself.
-- Feedback-bearing scored examples should stay in the training pool when non-feedback rows can fill validation.
-- In `playbook` mode, `getInstruction()` returns the active composed prompt.
-
-```typescript
-const update = await agent.applyUpdate({
-  example: {
-    customerQuery: 'My package is late.',
-  },
-  prediction,
-  feedback: {
-    score: 0,
-    label: 'needs-empathy',
-    comment: 'Acknowledge the frustration more directly.',
-  },
-});
-```
-
-## Playbook Mode
-
-- Use `mode: 'playbook'` when the learned artifact should be structured guidance, not just an instruction tweak.
-- Playbook checkpoints restore through `ready()`.
-- `applyUpdate(...)` in playbook mode performs an online structured update.
-- `getInstruction()` should be treated as the active composed runtime prompt, even before optimization if the base prompt lives in the signature description.
-- `artifact.playbookSummary` should match the persisted checkpoint `state.artifactSummary`.
-
-## How Learning Data Is Used
-
-- `examples` and usable traces become scored optimization rows.
-- Feedback stored with `addFeedback(...)` becomes reflection feedback for later optimization.
-- In continuous updates, `example + prediction + feedback` is used as an observed feedback event.
-- Input-only update examples are useful for reflection, but they are not promoted into scored examples unless expected outputs are present.
-
-## Important Options
-
-```typescript
-const agent = new AxLearn(gen, {
-  name: 'agent-id',
-  storage,
-  teacher,
-  runtimeAI,
-  mode: 'batch', // 'batch' | 'continuous' | 'playbook'
-  budget: 20,
-  metric: async ({ prediction, example }) => {
-    return prediction.supportReply === example.supportReply ? 1 : 0;
-  },
-  criteria: 'accuracy and tone',
-  judgeOptions: {},
-  examples: [],
-  useTraces: true,
-  generateExamples: false,
-  synthCount: 20,
-  validationSplit: 0.2,
-  continuousOptions: {
-    feedbackWindowSize: 25,
-    maxRecentTraces: 100,
-    updateBudget: 4,
-  },
-  playbookOptions: {
-    maxEpochs: 2,
-  },
-  onTrace: (trace) => {
-    console.log(trace.id);
-  },
-  onProgress: (progress) => {
-    console.log(progress.round, progress.score);
-  },
-});
-```
-
-## Result Shape
-
-```typescript
-type AxLearnResult = {
-  mode: 'batch' | 'continuous' | 'playbook';
-  score: number;
-  improvement: number;
-  checkpointVersion: number;
-  stats: {
-    trainingExamples: number;
-    validationExamples: number;
-    feedbackExamples: number;
-    durationMs: number;
-    mode: 'batch' | 'continuous' | 'playbook';
-  };
-  state?: {
-    mode: 'batch' | 'continuous' | 'playbook';
-    instruction?: string;
-    baseInstruction?: string;
-    score?: number;
-    continuous?: {
-      feedbackTraceCount?: number;
-      lastUpdateAt?: string;
-    };
-    playbook?: Record<string, unknown>;
-    artifactSummary?: Record<string, unknown>;
-  };
-  artifact?: {
-    playbook?: Record<string, unknown>;
-    playbookSummary?: {
-      feedbackEvents: number;
-      historyBatches: number;
-      bulletCount: number;
-      updatedAt?: string;
-    };
-    lastUpdateAt?: string;
-    feedbackExamples?: number;
-  };
-};
-```
-
-## Storage Notes
-
-- `AxStorage.save(name, item)` receives either a trace or checkpoint.
-- `AxStorage.load(name, query)` should return arrays of traces or checkpoints.
-- Checkpoints may be returned unsorted. `AxLearn` restores the newest one client-side.
-
-## Do This
-
-- Use `runtimeAI` explicitly.
-- Await `ready()` before relying on restored state.
-- Run `optimize()` off the hot path.
-- Use `continuous` mode when you want bounded feedback-aware updates.
-- Use `playbook` mode when you want persistent structured guidance.
-- Pass the real observed model output as `prediction` in `applyUpdate(...)`.
-- Treat `getInstruction()` in playbook mode as the live composed prompt, not just the raw base instruction.
-
-## Avoid This
-
-- Do not assume `teacher` is the optimized runtime model.
-- Do not call `applyUpdate()` in `batch` mode.
-- Do not claim feedback affects learning unless you are storing it with `addFeedback(...)` or passing it to `applyUpdate(...)`.
-- Do not assume checkpoints load synchronously in the constructor.
-- Do not treat `prediction` as the gold answer in continuous updates.