NVIDIA Agent Skills

Official, NVIDIA-verified skills for AI agents.

📖 Docs: docs.nvidia.com/skills  ·  📺 Livestream: From Vulnerable to Verified  ·  📝 Blog: NVIDIA Verified Agent Skills: Capability Governance for AI Agents

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Skills are portable instruction sets that teach AI agents how to use NVIDIA CUDA-X libraries, AI Blueprints, and platform tools correctly. This repository is a catalog: skills are maintained in their respective product repos and mirrored here daily via an automated sync pipeline. We are making NVIDIA skills available publicly and building this catalog in the open; see the Roadmap for what is planned next.

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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.

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.

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-python --yes

Replace cuopt-numerical-optimization-api-python with any skill name from the Skill Catalog.

Install for a Specific Agent

Use --agent to target a specific AI coding agent. These are common client targets; for the full list of supported clients, see the skills CLI Supported Agents table.

Claude Code

npx skills add nvidia/skills --skill cuopt-numerical-optimization-api-python --agent claude-code

Codex

npx skills add nvidia/skills --skill cuopt-numerical-optimization-api-python --agent codex

Cursor

npx skills add nvidia/skills --skill cuopt-numerical-optimization-api-python --agent cursor

Kiro

npx skills add nvidia/skills --skill cuopt-numerical-optimization-api-python --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-python \
  --agent claude-code \
  --agent codex \
  --agent cursor \
  --agent kiro-cli

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.

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Skill Catalog

Product	Description	Skills	Catalog	Source	Version
AIQ	NVIDIA AI-Q Blueprint - deploy local AI-Q services and run shallow or deep research workflows as agent skills.	2	skills/aiq-research/	Source	66b009e · 2026-05-27
cuOpt	GPU-accelerated optimization — vehicle routing, linear programming, quadratic programming, installation, server deployment, and developer tools.	6	skills/cuopt/	Source	d415bb6 · 2026-05-27

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Getting Help & Contributing

For skill-related issues, feature requests, new skill ideas, discussions, and contributions — use the source repo for the relevant product:

Product	Issues	Discussions	Contributing	Security
AIQ	Issues	Discussions	Contributing	Security
cuOpt	Issues	Discussions	Contributing	Security

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

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Verifying Skills

Every published skill ships with a detached OMS signature (skill.oms.sig). The sync pipeline drops any skill missing skill.oms.sig, skill-card.md, or evals.json before publishing, so anything in the catalog has all three artifacts.

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

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

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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
• 🔲 Compliance gates before external publication
• 🔲 Syndication to external marketplaces and MCP hubs

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Repository Structure

NVIDIA/skills/
├── skills/                      # Verified skills, mirrored daily from product repos
│   ├── README.md                 # Install guidance for people browsing this folder directly
│   ├── aiq-research/             # AIQ — deep/shallow research workflow
│   ├── aiq-deploy/               # AIQ — local service deployment
│   └── cuopt/                    # cuOpt skills (routing, optimization, server, install, …)
├── components.d/                # Product registry — one file per component, teams onboard here
│   ├── README.md                 # Schema and onboarding instructions
│   ├── aiq.yml
│   ├── cuopt.yml
│   └── …                         # one file per registered product
├── plugins/                     # Packaged plugin distributions
│   └── nvidia-skills/            # Curated NVIDIA skills bundle (Claude Code, Codex)
├── plugins.d/                   # Plugin build registry — config for `build-plugins.py`
│   ├── README.md
│   ├── _defaults.yml
│   └── nvidia-skills.yml
├── .claude-plugin/              # Claude Code marketplace metadata
│   └── marketplace.json
├── .agents/plugins/             # Agent marketplace metadata (other clients)
│   └── marketplace.json
├── docs/                        # Long-form documentation (published via Fern)
│   ├── README.md                 # How to build the docs locally
│   ├── index.mdx
│   ├── advanced-install.mdx
│   ├── agent-skill-trust-pipeline.mdx
│   ├── release-checklist.mdx
│   ├── scanning-agent-skills.mdx
│   ├── signing-agent-skills.mdx
│   └── skill-cards.mdx
├── fern/                        # Fern docs site configuration
├── .github/
│   ├── workflows/                # Sync pipeline, plugin validation, DCO check
│   └── scripts/                  # regenerate-readme.sh, build-plugins.py
├── nv-agent-root-cert.pem       # Trust anchor for OMS signature verification
├── CHANGELOG.md
├── CONTRIBUTING.md              # Contribution guidelines
├── SECURITY.md                  # Security reporting policy
├── CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md           # Community code of conduct
└── LICENSE                      # Apache 2.0 / CC BY 4.0

Skills are maintained in their respective product repos (see the Source column in the Skill Catalog) and automatically synced to this repo daily. Products only appear under skills/ after the sync pipeline confirms each skill carries skill.oms.sig, skill-card.md, and evals.json.

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Standards & Compatibility

This repository adheres to the Agent Skills specification:

• Skills are portable directories with a SKILL.md file at their root.
• Metadata uses YAML frontmatter with required name and description fields.
• Skills follow a progressive disclosure model — lightweight metadata loads at startup, full instructions load on activation.
• Validate your skill using the skills-ref reference library.

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License

This project is dual-licensed under the Apache License 2.0 and Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).