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
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.
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. 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-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.
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 agentskill-card.md— skill identity and governance cardskill.oms.sig— detached OMS signature (verifiable againstnv-agent-root-cert.pem)- A Tier-3 evaluation dataset — accepted at
evals/evals.json,evals/*.json,eval/*.json, orbenchmark/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-*, cuopt-*, cupynumeric-*, dali-*,
│ │ # deepstream-*, digital-health-*, dynamo-*,
│ │ # earth2studio-*, 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-* (10 skills), nemotron-*,
│ │ # physicsnemo-*, rag-*, skill-card-generator,
│ │ # 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
├── 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, author verify
│ └── scripts/ # regenerate-readme.sh, build-plugins.py,
│ # manual-components.yml (temp Physical AI catalog
│ # exception, removed after Computex 2026),
│ # marketplace/metadata.json (skill metadata sidecar)
├── nv-agent-root-cert.pem # Trust anchor for OMS signature verification
├── skills.sh.json # Skills.sh marketplace grouping config
├── 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 synced to this repo daily. Products only appear under skills/ after the sync pipeline confirms each skill carries:
skill.oms.sig— detached OMS-format signature (verifiable againstnv-agent-root-cert.pem)skill-card.md— skill identity and governance card- A Tier-3 evaluation dataset — accepted at
evals/evals.json,evals/*.json,eval/*.json, orbenchmark/evals.json
When evaluation runs produce a BENCHMARK.md, it ships alongside the skill so consumers can see verifiable benchmark uplift data.
Standards & Compatibility
This repository adheres to the Agent Skills specification:
- Skills are portable directories with a
SKILL.mdfile at their root. - Metadata uses YAML frontmatter with required
nameanddescriptionfields. - Skills follow a progressive disclosure model — lightweight metadata loads at startup, full instructions load on activation.
- Validate your skill using the
skills-refreference library.
License
This project is dual-licensed under the Apache License 2.0 and Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).