posttrainllm Recipes

Copy-paste workflows for using posttrainllm specialists outside the core CLI.

Recipe	Use it when
Function-calling distillation	You want to distill a small tool-calling specialist and score it with BFCL.
ScaleDown specialist	You want an extractive context-compression specialist.
smolagents specialist	You want a posttrainllm model behind a Hugging Face smolagents tool-calling agent.
Pydantic AI specialist	You want structured outputs from a posttrainllm-backed Pydantic AI agent.
Personal code specialist	You want a per-repo posttrainllm model wired into Continue.dev or Aider.
Character specialist	You want a free local NPC, persona, or brand-voice specialist recipe.
Eval gate (CI / pre-commit)	You want `posttrainllm eval-gate` to fail a merge when a specialist regresses, on your own Mac runner.