install-vllm

install-vllm is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cohere-ai/vllm-skills. It costs 63 tokens per session (2,489 once invoked), scanned C, original, Apache-2.0.

A setup workflow for creating a Python environment and installing vLLM in editable mode for NVIDIA CUDA GPUs. Editable mode uses the local source checkout, so code changes are available without reinstalling the package.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating a uv virtual environment, selecting a vLLM wheel, and installing the current repository for development.
Why use it?
It handles the environment setup and helps choose the matching precompiled vLLM binaries for the current branch and machine.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex ✓ vendor

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

Good fit Creating a uv virtual environment, selecting a vLLM wheel, and installing the current repository for development.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cohere-ai/vllm-skills/install-vllm
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 cohere-ai/vllm-skills --skill install-vllm
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cohere-ai/vllm-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,489 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 findings. 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 $0.00063 $0.02489
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.01244
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00498
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00249

Measured 12d ago against content hash e3f3b7467a89, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

install-vllm scanned grade C with 2 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 12d 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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

command -v uv || (echo "uv not found — install via: curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh" && exit 1)

Makes network callslowCapability

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

command -v uv || (echo "uv not found — install via: curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh" && exit 1)
skills/install-vllm/SKILL.md · 207 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 207 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Install vLLM (NVIDIA CUDA)

All installs are editable (-e .) from the current vLLM repo checkout.

Prerequisites

Verify uv is installed before proceeding:

command -v uv || (echo "uv not found — install via: curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh" && exit 1)

Step 1: Create and activate the environment

Run from the root of the vLLM repo:

uv venv --python 3.12 --seed --managed-python
source .venv/bin/activate

Step 2: Choose the precompiled wheel

Always prompt the user for which precompiled wheel to use, unless they have already specified one. The precompiled wheel determines which C++/CUDA binaries are loaded at runtime. Using the wrong wheel (e.g. a nightly from the branch tip when you need the stable release) can cause silent correctness regressions. The Python source code comes from the editable checkout regardless of which wheel is chosen.

2a) Detect the current branch and infer the default version

BRANCH=$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)   # e.g. "v0.19.0-branch" or "main"
CPU_ARCH=$(uname -m)                         # x86_64 or aarch64

Map branch names to release versions:

  • v<X>.<Y>.<Z>-branch → release <X>.<Y>.<Z> (e.g. v0.19.0-branch0.19.0)
  • main or any other branch → no matching release; default to the branch-tip nightly wheel

2b) Prompt the user for which wheel to use

Always show the user these options and wait for their answer before proceeding. Do not assume a default — the user must explicitly choose:

  1. Branch-tip nightly — built from the latest commit on the current branch. Uses VLLM_USE_PRECOMPILED=1 (auto-resolved from the branch).
  2. Matching stable release — the GitHub release wheel for the version that matches the branch (if one exists). Uses VLLM_PRECOMPILED_WHEEL_LOCATION.
  3. Specific release — a user-specified version (e.g. "use the v0.18.2 wheel"). Uses VLLM_PRECOMPILED_WHEEL_LOCATION.

Include the detected branch name and inferred version in the prompt so the user has full context.

Read the full file on GitHub · 207 lines

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. 12d ago First seen · 207 lines · 63 tokens per session scan C e3f3b7467a89

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install-vllm is a skill published in the GitHub repository cohere-ai/vllm-skills (6 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 2,489 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, 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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