npu-smi

npu-smi is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Ascend/agent-skills. It costs 65 tokens per session (2,331 once invoked), scanned A, original, MulanPSL-2.0.

A command reference for npu-smi, Huawei's tool for inspecting and managing Ascend NPU devices. It covers device health, temperature, power, memory, processes, firmware, virtualization, thresholds, operating modes, fans, and certificates.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to query Ascend NPU devices, inspect running processes and resources, configure supported settings, manage virtual NPUs, and handle firmware or certificates.
Why use it?
It gives developers and operators the commands needed to check device state and manage supported NPU settings. This is useful when diagnosing hardware or runtime issues.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it to query Ascend NPU devices, inspect running processes and resources, configure supported settings, manage virtual NPUs, and handle firmware or certificates.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ascend/agent-skills/npu-smi
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add Ascend/agent-skills --skill npu-smi
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Ascend/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,331 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00065 $0.02331
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.01166
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00466
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00233

Measured 7d ago against content hash d639ab8edc91, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

npu-smi 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 7d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/npu-health-check.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/npu-smi/SKILL.md · 214 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed MulanPSL-2.0

The repository is licensed MulanPSL-2.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

6 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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.

  1. 7d ago First seen · 214 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A d639ab8edc91

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npu-smi is a skill published in the GitHub repository Ascend/agent-skills (40 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MulanPSL-2.0. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 2,331 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 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 2026-09-03.

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