What is kernel-cute-specialist?

A specialist for writing GPU kernels with the CuTe DSL, a programming language interface for describing optimized NVIDIA GPU computations. It targets NVIDIA GPUs from Ampere through Blackwell and is separate from Triton.

Use it to write or optimize CuTe kernels with CuTe’s decorators and CUTLASS CuTe libraries.

It helps when the requested kernel must use CuTe and its specific programming model rather than raw CUDA or Triton.

How NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM configures Claude Code

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Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 167 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.

When invoked 2,041 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin unknown No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00167	$0.02041
Opus 5.5	$0.00067	$0.00816
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00033	$0.00408
Haiku 4.5	$0.00017	$0.00204

Measured 17d ago against content hash 55afc893d63d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kernel-cute-specialist scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 17d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/agents/kernel-cute-specialist.md · 186 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

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Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

17d ago Changed · +30 lines · +15 tokens per session 55afc893d63d
2mo ago First seen · 156 lines · 152 tokens per session scan A 5014d29007b0

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kernel-cute-specialist is an agent published in the GitHub repository NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM (15,021 stars, last pushed today), with no licence file. It adds 167 tokens to every session and 2,041 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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