NVIDIA Agent Skills

Official, NVIDIA-verified skills for AI agents.

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Skills are portable instruction sets that teach AI agents how to use NVIDIA software optimally, including CUDA-X libraries, 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

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

Getting Help & Contributing

Where to file an issue depends on what's broken:

• Skill content issues (a specific skill has a bug, missing functionality, or incorrect content) — file in the source repo for that product, using the per-product table below.
• Catalog issues (catalog README errors, sync workflow problems, distribution channels, signing/verification flow, docs in this repo) — file here using the catalog issue templates: Bug Report, Feature Request, or Documentation Request or Correction.
• Questions or general discussion — use Discussions. The issue tracker is reserved for bug reports, feature proposals with a design, and documentation issues.
• Security vulnerabilities — follow the disclosure process in SECURITY.md; do not open a public issue.

Per-product source repo links:

For issues with this catalog repo itself (README, structure, listing a new product): open an issue here.

Verifying Skills

Every published skill ships with a detached OMS signature (skill.oms.sig). The sync pipeline drops any skill missing the required artifacts before publishing, so every skill in the catalog carries:

• SKILL.md — the skill instructions consumed by the agent
• skill-card.md — skill identity and governance card
• skill.oms.sig — detached OMS signature (verifiable against nv-agent-root-cert.pem)
• A Tier-3 evaluation dataset — accepted at evals/evals.json, evals/*.json, eval/*.json, or benchmark/evals.json
• BENCHMARK.md — generated benchmark report capturing verifiable uplift data

Verify a skill against the NVIDIA trust anchor nv-agent-root-cert.pem:

pip install model-signing
model_signing verify certificate SKILL_DIR \
  --signature SKILL_DIR/skill.oms.sig \
  --certificate_chain nv-agent-root-cert.pem \
  --ignore_unsigned_files

A successful verification confirms that the skill contents have not been modified since signing by NVIDIA.

See Verify Signed Agent Skills for signature layout, the trust pipeline, and policy options.

Roadmap

• ✅ Public skills catalog with NVIDIA-verified skills across multiple products
• ✅ Automated sync pipeline with skills mirrored from product repos daily
• ✅ Security scanning for all published skills covering instruction safety and supply-chain integrity
• ✅ Skills signing so every published skill carries a verifiable NVIDIA signature
• ✅ Skills universal evaluation criteria and task-specific criteria
• ✅ Skill Card with machine-readable metadata for identity, provenance, quality, and behavioral boundaries
• ✅ Sync-time compliance gates — signature drift detection and missing-artifact enforcement
• ✅ Syndication to external marketplaces — Skills.sh, Codex plugin, Claude Code plugin, ClawHub, Hermes Hub
• 🔲 Syndication to additional MCP hubs and partner channels

Repository Structure

NVIDIA/skills/
├── skills/                      # NVIDIA-verified skills (count grows continuously),
│   │                              synced from upstream product repos
│   ├── README.md                 # Browser-facing install guidance
│   ├── <product-prefix>-*/       # Flat layout — one dir per skill, product-prefixed
│   │                               # e.g. aiq-*, cufolio, cuopt-*, cupynumeric-*,
│   │                               # dali-*, deepstream-*, dicom-*, digital-health-*,
│   │                               # dynamo-*, earth2studio-*, holoscan-*, hsb-*,
│   │                               # jetson-*, launch-nemo-rl, mcore-*,
│   │                               # nemo-automodel-*, nemo-data-designer-plugin,
│   │                               # nemo-evaluator-plugin, nemo-mbridge-* (20 skills),
│   │                               # nemo-retriever, nemo-rl-* (4 skills),
│   │                               # nemoclaw-user-guide, nemotron-*, nemotron-speech,
│   │                               # nv-* (medical AI), physicsnemo-*, rag-*,
│   │                               # skill-card-generator, tao-*, tilegym-*,
│   │                               # vss-* (15 skills), accelerated-computing-cudf,
│   │                               # cudaq-guide
│   ├── omniverse-*/              # Physical AI — manually staged (see manual-components.yml)
│   └── physical-ai-*/            # Physical AI — manually staged
├── components.d/                # Product registry — one file per component, teams onboard here
│   ├── README.md                 # Schema and onboarding instructions
│   └── <product>.yml             # one file per registered product

_…[view the full README on GitHub](https://github.com/NVIDIA/skills)._