jev-align

jev-align is an experimental CLI from Sutro for building AI Functions with TypeSafe's Jev.

It finds uncertain examples, asks you to label them, and uses GEPA to improve the function. Use it in your application, keep learning from production examples, and share portable functions through ai-functions.dev.

Demo

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/81650587-e3f1-4655-8213-ed5f6e120e9a

Quick start

Requires Python 3.11 or newer.

uv tool install jev-align
export TYPESAFE_API_KEY="..." # Or use Vercel or Cloudflare below
export OPENAI_API_KEY="..." # or ANTHROPIC_API_KEY / GEMINI_API_KEY
jeva

Start the CLI with either jeva or jev-align.

Use pip install jev-align if you do not use uv. The guided setup discovers local CSV, Parquet, and JSONL files and includes three ready-to-run examples.

How it works

Each round:

1. Evaluates the configured dataset and measures uncertainty.
2. Selects ambiguous rows plus a random audit sample for you to label.
3. Uses your accumulated labels and optional rationales to run GEPA.
4. Shows the score, certainty change, and proposed definition diff.
5. Lets you accept, reject, rewind, or resume later.

The guided workflow asks you to review every label. Labels may be human-created, synthetic, imported, or agent-assisted; review them to the standard your use case requires. A higher training score never accepts a proposal automatically.

Task types

Configuration

The guided Advanced menu configures:

• 5, 10, 15, or 20 training annotations per round.
• An optional 20% held-out evaluation set.
• GEPA's metric-call budget for guided labeling, which defaults to 300.

By default, jev-align uses the first 1,000 rows—or the entire dataset when it is smaller—and lets you concatenate all fields or select specific columns.

Everything can also be configured with flags:

jeva optimize posts.csv \
  --question "Is the post related to aviation?" \
  --column title \
  --column text \
  --pool-size 1000

Use repeated --class "NAME=DESCRIPTION" options for multiclass or multilabel tasks, and repeated --score-level options for scoring tasks. Run jeva optimize --help for the complete flag reference.

Jev providers

Jev can run directly through TypeSafe AI, Vercel AI Gateway, or Cloudflare Workers AI. The guided setup detects configured providers and lets you choose.

# Vercel AI Gateway
export AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY="..."
jeva optimize data.csv --question "Is this relevant?" --column text \
  --backend vercel

# Cloudflare Workers AI
export CLOUDFLARE_ACCOUNT_ID="..."
export CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN="..."
jeva optimize data.csv --question "Is this relevant?" --column text \
  --backend cloudflare

These routes do not require a TYPESAFE_API_KEY. The chosen provider is saved with the AI Function, so later runtime calls use the same provider. GEPA's reflection model is configured separately.

Reflection models

GEPA's reflection model is separate from the JEV model evaluating your data. OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini models are detected automatically. Any LiteLLM provider—including Fireworks, local vLLM, and other OpenAI-compatible endpoints—can be supplied with --reflection-model provider/model.

export HOSTED_VLLM_API_BASE="http://localhost:8000/v1"
jeva optimize data.csv --question "Is this relevant?" --column text \
  --reflection-model "hosted_vllm/Qwen/Qwen3-8B"

Controls

• Arrow keys and Enter navigate menus.
• b returns to the previous label; /back leaves the rationale prompt.
• Space toggles choices in multilabel tasks.

Saved AI Functions

Browse, run, or resume functions saved on your computer:

jeva functions
jeva optimize --resume .jev-align/runs/<run-id>

Share on ai-functions.dev

ai-functions.dev is the public registry for AI Functions built with jev-align. Browse shared functions on the website and publish your own from the CLI.

To publish, open your saved functions:

jeva functions

Select a function, then choose Push to ai-functions.dev. If needed, jev-align walks you through GitHub login. You can name the function, add a description, review what will be public, and confirm the push. It will appear at ai-functions.dev/<github-user>/<function-name>.

A published function includes everything another person needs to run it or continue improving it:

• The accepted definition and input signature.
• The runtime backend and learning configuration.
• Labeled inputs, labels, splits, and optional rationales.

It does not contain unlabeled source rows, local dataset paths, API keys, reflection-provider credentials, or an unaccepted proposal. The registry is currently public, so do not publish labeled data you cannot share. Human review is encouraged for important tasks, but the registry does not claim or verify that every published annotation was created or reviewed by a person.

Anyone can pull a public function without signing in:

jeva pull github-user/function-name
jeva pull github-user/function-name --version 2

Pulling needs no login. It verifies the immutable artifact and creates a normal saved AI Function under .jev-align/runs/, ready to run or continue improving.

Owners can remove a function from discovery and future public pulls:

jeva unpublish github-user/function-name

Unpublishing is reversible: versions and annotations are retained, and pushing the function again restores it. It cannot revoke copies that were already downloaded.

Keep learning from production

Load an AI Function in your application and capture useful production examples:

from jev_align import AIFunction

is_aviation = AIFunction.load(
    ".jev-align/runs/<run-id>",
    capture=True,
)

prediction = is_aviation(
    title="Airport expansion",
    text="A new runway opens next year.",
)

Later, resume the AI Function and label the captured examples. GEPA uses that feedback to propose the next version:

jeva functions

Experimental squash mode

Squash is an intentionally dangerous, label-free demo that asks GEPA to reduce Jev's uncertainty on a fixed dataset. Lower uncertainty is not correctness: a run can succeed by confidently assigning every row the same answer.

Select squash under Advanced, or pass --squash:

jeva optimize posts.csv --squash \
  --question "Is the post related to aviation?" \
  --column title \
  --column text

It supports every task type, preserves configured labels or score levels, uses an automatic metric budget, and runs up to five search passes by default. The final definition still requires approval. Squash records no annotations and cannot be published.

Using a coding agent

See AGENTS.md for detailed setup, provider configuration, CLI operation, and development guidance for coding agents.

Affiliation

Sutro is not affiliated with TypeSafe AI, the makers of Jev.