vllm-deploy

vllm-deploy is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from chipi/agentic-ai-homelab. It costs 76 tokens per session (458 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guarded procedure for starting a local vLLM stack, which runs language models on a computer or server. It checks GPU use, Docker Compose configuration, and environment-file readiness before showing the deploy command.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when deploying or restarting the coder-next, autoresearch, or openwebui vLLM stacks.
Why use it?
It helps avoid taking a GPU already used by another application or starting a stack with broken configuration. The actual start or restart still requires explicit approval.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when deploying or restarting the coder-next, autoresearch, or openwebui vLLM stacks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/chipi/agentic-ai-homelab/vllm-deploy
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add chipi/agentic-ai-homelab --skill vllm-deploy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chipi/agentic-ai-homelab

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 458 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original 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 $0.00076 $0.00458
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.00229
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00092
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00046

Measured 9d ago against content hash a5a84bc25645, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vllm-deploy scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 9d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

`ssh dgx-llm-1 'curl -fsS http://127.0.0.1:<port>/health'` and confirm the mode
workstation/claude/skills/vllm-deploy/SKILL.md · 37 lines

What it actually says

vllm-deploy

Bring a vLLM stack up without stepping on the GPU or a broken config. Preflight is read-only; the deploy is shared-state and gated on explicit approval.

Preflight — do all of these first (read-only)

  1. GPU free? ssh dgx-llm-1 '~/bin/gpu-mode-swap.sh status --json'. If a compute app holds the GPU, or the other vLLM is already up, STOP — taking the GPU is a switch, which is gated (use the gpu-mode skill and get approval).
  2. Config valid? Run the compose-check skill on the stack (docker compose config -q → PASS / ENV-MISSING / FAIL).
  3. Env ready? If ENV-MISSING, cp .env.example .env and fill (HF_TOKEN) before deploying.

Deploy — SHARED-STATE, explicit approval each time

Only after preflight is clean and the operator says go. The stack owns the GPU; treat the DGX as production.

  • Prefer gpu-mode-swap.sh <code|research> — it sequences the swap (brings the right stack up and the other down) rather than a bare up.
  • Or, run from the stack dir in place (repo-root .env convention): docker compose up -d.
  • Never down -v, prune volumes, or restart a live stack without separate, explicit approval.

Verify

ssh dgx-llm-1 'curl -fsS http://127.0.0.1:<port>/health' and confirm the mode matches (gpu-mode check). Report the resulting mode + health.

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. 9d ago First seen · 37 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A a5a84bc25645

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vllm-deploy is a skill published in the GitHub repository chipi/agentic-ai-homelab (2 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 458 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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