skills

What it is

Official, NVIDIA-verified Agent Skills for Claude Code, Codex, and other coding agents. The repository acts as a catalog of skills, maintained in product repos and mirrored daily via an automated sync pipeline. Skills are continuously updated; contributions are welcome.

How it works

Skills are installed using the default skills CLI flow. The Quickstart shows installing via npx skills add nvidia/skills, which prompts for a skill and destination. There are options to install a single skill without prompts and to target a specific agent with --agent. Example commands are quoted exactly from the README:

npx skills add nvidia/skills

npx skills add nvidia/skills --skill cuopt-numerical-optimization-api --yes

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

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

npx skills update

npx skills list

npx skills check

npx skills add nvidia/skills --list

Install for a Specific Agent

Use --agent to target a specific AI coding agent. The README lists several agents with corresponding examples, such as Claude Code and Codex. The exact commands are quoted above.

Skill Catalog (highlights)

The catalog section lists products and their associated skills, e.g., CUDA-Q, cuOpt, cuDF, DeepStream, Holoscan, and many more, with multiple skill identifiers per product. The catalog is presented in a table format in the README.

Keeping skills up to date

The README indicates: "New skills land continuously, and existing ones are revised, renamed, or consolidated as the catalog evolves. Refresh what you have installed with:" followed by the update command shown above.