NVIDIA

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 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.

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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.

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.

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Skill Catalog