DataDesigner AGENTS.md

Repository instructions for NVIDIA DataDesigner, a framework for declaring and generating artificial datasets. They explain its separate Python packages and the rules that keep configuration, generation, and validation properly separated.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when developing DataDesigner or working on its configuration, dataset generation, validation, package boundaries, or plugin system.
Why use it?
They help a coding agent preserve the project's design when changing code, and clarify that building datasets follows different guidance from developing the framework itself.

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Install

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AGENTS.md · 57 lines

How it starts

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AGENTS.md

This file is for agents developing DataDesigner — the codebase you are working in. If you are an agent helping a user build a dataset, use the data-designer skill and the product documentation instead.

DataDesigner is an NVIDIA NeMo framework for creating synthetic datasets from scratch. Users declare what their data should look like (columns, types, relationships, validation rules); the engine figures out how to generate it. Every change you make should preserve this "declare, don't orchestrate" contract.

The Layering Is Structural

The data_designer namespace is split across three installable packages that merge at runtime via PEP 420 implicit namespace packages (no top-level __init__.py).

Package Path Owns
data-designer-config packages/data-designer-config/ data_designer.config — column configs, model configs, sampler params, builder API, plugin system, lazy imports
data-designer-engine packages/data-designer-engine/ data_designer.engine — column generators, dataset builders, DAG execution, model facade, validators, sampling
data-designer packages/data-designer/ data_designer.interface — public DataDesigner class, results, errors; data_designer.cli — CLI entry point; data_designer.integrations

Dependency direction (left depends on right): interface → engine → config. Never import against this flow.

Core Concepts

  • Column — a named field in the output dataset, defined by a column config
  • Sampler — a built-in statistical generator (UUID, Category, Uniform, Gaussian, Person, DateTime, etc.)
  • Seed dataset — an existing dataset used as input for generation
  • Processor — a post-generation transformation applied to column values
  • Model — an LLM endpoint configured via ModelConfig and accessed through the model facade
  • Plugin — a user-supplied extension registered via entry points (custom column generators, validators, profilers)

Read the full file on GitHub · 57 lines

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