NVIDIA Agent Skills
Official, NVIDIA-verified Agent Skills for Claude Code, Codex, and other coding agents.
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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/skillsThe 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 --yesReplace 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-codeCodex
npx skills add nvidia/skills --skill cuopt-numerical-optimization-api --agent codexSnowflake CoCo
npx skills add nvidia/skills --skill cuopt-numerical-optimization-api --agent cortexCursor
npx skills add nvidia/skills --skill cuopt-numerical-optimization-api --agent cursorKiro
npx skills add nvidia/skills --skill cuopt-numerical-optimization-api --agent kiro-cliUse --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-cliKeep 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 updateRun 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 --listFor non-interactive installs, global installs, agent-specific installs, updates, removals, and fallback manual copying, see Advanced installation.
Skill Catalog
<!-- skills-table-start -->| 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-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, doca-verbs, doca-argus, doca-dms, doca-firefly, doca-urom-svc, doca-bench, doca-bench-extension, doca-caps, doca-comm-channel-admin, doca-dpa-hl-tracer, doca-flow-dpa-perf, doca-flow-grpc-server, doca-flow-perf, doca-flow-tune, doca-gpunetio-ib-write-bw, doca-gpunetio-ib-write-lat, doca-pcc-counters, doca-sha-offload-engine, doca-socket-relay, doca-spcx-cc, doca-telemetry-utils |
| Dynamo | NVIDIA Dynamo deployment bring-up on Kubernetes — pick and deploy recipes, start router modes, validate disagg NIXL/UCX/NCCL interconnect, and triage day-2 failures. | dynamo-interconnect-check, dynamo-recipe-runner, dynamo-router-starter, dynamo-troubleshoot |
| Earth2Studio | Open-source deep-learning framework for exploring, building and deploying AI weather/climate workflows. | earth2studio-create-datasource, earth2studio-create-diagnostic, earth2studio-create-prognostic, earth2studio-data-fetch, earth2studio-deterministic-forecast, earth2studio-discover, earth2studio-install |
| Holoscan SDK | Install and set up the Holoscan SDK on any platform (container, Debian, Python, Conda, or source). | [holoscan-install-debian](skills/holoscan-install-deb |
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