skills
by NVIDIA
Agent Skills for NVIDIA products — install into Claude Code, Codex, and other coding agents to run Physical AI, robotics, simulation, CUDA, and RAG workflows end to end.
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Python
Added 7/22/2026
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Installation
# Add to your Claude Code skills
git clone https://github.com/NVIDIA/skillsGetting Started
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- What is an AI Skills Marketplace?Definitions, how marketplaces work, and how to choose between them in 2026.
- Getting Started with AI SkillsFirst-time install walkthrough for Claude Code, Codex CLI, and ChatGPT.
Security ReportVerified
Last scanned: 7/22/2026
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Official, NVIDIA-verified Agent Skills for Claude Code, Codex, and other coding agents.
📖 Docs: docs.nvidia.com/skills · 📺 Livestream: From Vulnerable to Verified · 📝 Blog: NVIDIA Verified Agent Skills: Capability Governance for AI Agents
Skills are portable instruction sets that teach AI agents how to use NVIDIA software optimally: Physical AI and robotics workflows, simulation, CUDA-X libraries, RAG and AI Blueprints, and platform tools. This repository is a catalog: skills are maintained in their respective product repos, and mirrored here daily via an automated sync pipeline. Skills are being added continuously, so check back for updates. We are building this infrastructure in the open, and contributions are welcome. See the Roadmap for what is planned next.
Quickstart
Install NVIDIA skills with the default skills CLI flow:
npx skills add nvidia/skills
The CLI runs through npx and prompts you to choose a skill and install destination. You do not need to clone this repo or copy skill folders by hand.
Requires a current
skillsCLI (v1.5.16 or newer). Installing vianpx skills@latest add nvidia/skillsalways uses the latest. On older CLIs (v1.5.15 and earlier), skills may install but not appear in Claude Code — see Troubleshooting.
The skill is available the next time your agent loads skills and encounters a relevant task. For example, ask your agent to "solve a linear programming problem with cuOpt" and the skill guides it through the cuOpt Python API. In Claude Code, run /reload-skills to load newly installed skills in your current session.
Install One Skill Without Prompts
Use this when you already know the skill name and want to skip prompts.
npx skills add nvidia/skills --skill cuopt-numerical-optimization-api --yes
Replace cuopt-numerical-optimization-api with any skill name from the Skill Catalog.
Install for a Specific Agent
Use --agent to target a specific AI coding agent. Initially, we'll support common client targets, expanding the list over time. For the full list of clients supported by the spec, see the skills CLI Supported Agents table.
Claude Code
npx skills add nvidia/skills --skill cuopt-numerical-optimization-api --agent claude-code
Codex
npx skills add nvidia/skills --skill cuopt-numerical-optimization-api --agent codex
Cortex
npx skills add nvidia/skills --skill cuopt-numerical-optimization-api --agent cortex
Cursor
npx skills add nvidia/skills --skill cuopt-numerical-optimization-api --agent cursor
Kiro
npx skills add nvidia/skills --skill cuopt-numerical-optimization-api --agent kiro-cli
Use --agent more than once to install the same skill into multiple agents.
npx skills add nvidia/skills \
--skill cuopt-numerical-optimization-api \
--agent claude-code \
--agent codex \
--agent cursor \
--agent kiro-cli
Keep Skills Up to Date
New skills land continuously, and existing ones are revised, renamed, or consolidated as the catalog evolves. Refresh what you have installed with:
npx skills update
Run it interactively and the CLI also flags skills that were removed or merged upstream (for example, when several skills are consolidated into one) and offers to remove the stale local copies. Use npx skills list to see what is installed and npx skills check to preview what is out of date first.
Browse the Catalog
Use this when you want to see available NVIDIA skills before installing anything.
npx skills add nvidia/skills --list
For non-interactive installs, global installs, agent-specific installs, updates, removals, and fallback manual copying, see Advanced installation.
Skill Catalog
| Product | Description | Skills |
|---|---|---|
| AIQ | NVIDIA AI-Q Blueprint - deploy local AI-Q services and run shallow or deep research workflows as agent skills. | aiq-research, aiq-deploy |
| CUDA-Q | CUDA Quantum — onboarding guide for installation, test programs, GPU simulation, QPU hardware, and quantum applications. | cudaq-guide |
| cuDF | Official NVIDIA-authored guidance for NVIDIA cuDF GPU DataFrames, pandas acceleration, dask-cuDF, ETL, joins, groupby, CSV/Parquet I/O, nullable semantics, and multi-GPU DataFrame workloads. | accelerated-computing-cudf |
| cuFOLIO | GPU-accelerated Mean-CVaR portfolio optimization with NVIDIA cuOpt — CVaR optimization, efficient frontier, scenario generation, backtesting, and rebalancing. | cufolio |
| cuOpt | GPU-accelerated optimization — vehicle routing, linear programming, quadratic programming, installation, server deployment, and developer tools. | cuopt-install, cuopt-multi-objective-exploration, cuopt-numerical-optimization-api, cuopt-numerical-optimization-formulation, cuopt-routing-api-python, cuopt-server-api-python |
| cuPyNumeric | NumPy and SciPy on multi-node multi-GPU systems — skills to help with installing cuPyNumeric, migrating existing NumPy code, and doing parallel I/O | cupynumeric-hdf5, cupynumeric-install, cupynumeric-migration-readiness, cupynumeric-parallel-data-load |
| DALI | GPU-accelerated data loading and processing with NVIDIA DALI. | dali-dynamic-mode |
| Data Designer | Build declarative synthetic dataset generation pipelines with NeMo Data Designer. | data-designer |
| DeepStream | Agentic skills for guided DeepStream development. | amc-run-sample-calibration, amc-run-video-calibration, amc-setup-calibration-stack, deepstream-dev, deepstream-generate-pipeline, deepstream-import-vision-model, deepstream-profile-pipeline, deepstream-sop |
| Digital Health | Agent skills for the clinical ASR evaluation flywheel — term curation, synthetic clinical-speech benchmark generation, KER (Keyword Error Rate) scoring, and fine-tune guidance. | digital-health-clinical-asr-setup, digital-health-clinical-asr-build, digital-health-clinical-asr-eval, digital-health-clinical-asr-finetune |
| DOCA | Teach AI agents to use the NVIDIA DOCA SDK on BlueField DPUs and ConnectX NICs — setup, libraries, services, tools, deployment, and debugging. | doca-bare-metal-deployment, doca-bf3-deployment, doca-bf4-deployment, doca-collectx-deployment, doca-container-deployment, doca-debug, doca-hardware-safety, doca-programming-guide, doca-public-knowledge-map, doca-setup, doca-structured-tools-contract, doca-upgrade, doca-version, doca-aes-gcm, doca-argp, doca-comch, doca-common, doca-compress, doca-devemu, doca-dma, doca-dpa, doca-dpdk-bridge, doca-erasure-coding, doca-eth, doca-flow, doca-flow-dpa-provider, doca-gpi, doca-gpunetio, doca-mgmt, doca-pcc, doca-pcc-ztr-rttcc-algo, doca-rdma, doca-rdmi, doca-rmax, doca-sha, doca-sta, doca-telemetry, doca-telemetry-exporter, doca-urom, |
Frequently Asked Questions
What is skills?
skills is an open-source ai agents skill for AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, Codex CLI, and ChatGPT, built by NVIDIA. Agent Skills for NVIDIA products — install into Claude Code, Codex, and other coding agents to run Physical AI, robotics, simulation, CUDA, and RAG workflows end to end. It has 2,629 GitHub stars.
Is skills safe to use?
Yes. skills passed SkillsLLM's automated security scan — a dependency vulnerability audit plus prompt-injection heuristics — with no high-severity issues. You can read the full report in the Security Report section on this page.
How do I install skills?
Clone the repository with "git clone https://github.com/NVIDIA/skills" and add it to your Claude Code skills directory (see the Installation section above).
What programming language is skills written in?
skills is primarily written in Python. It is open-source under NVIDIA on GitHub, so you can review or fork the full source.
Are there alternatives to skills?
Yes. SkillsLLM lists many other AI Agents skills you can browse and compare side by side. Open the AI Agents category from the badge at the top of this page, or use the Related Skills and comparison links further down to weigh skills against similar tools.
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