skills

Name: skills
Author: NVIDIA

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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.

2,990stars

347forks

Python

Installation

# Add to your Claude Code skills
git clone https://github.com/NVIDIA/skills

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Security ReportVerified

Last scanned: 7/22/2026

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README.md

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 2,990 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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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 skills CLI (v1.5.16 or newer). Installing via npx skills@latest add nvidia/skills always 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

Snowflake CoCo

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`
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-rtsp-calibration`, `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-run-mv3dt`, `deepstream-sop`, `rtvi-cv-customize-model`, `rtvi-cv-scaffold-vss-service`, `rtvi-vlm-customize-model`
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`](ski