vllm-xpu-run

vllm-xpu-run is a skill for Claude Code from intel/gpu-ai-skills. It costs 129 tokens per session (3,058 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Instructions for serving a Hugging Face machine-learning model on an Intel GPU with vLLM-XPU. vLLM provides an OpenAI-compatible API, meaning applications can call the model through a commonly used interface.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check whether a model architecture is supported on Intel XPU, launch the vLLM server, inspect a model’s configuration, and handle implementation or attention-setting fallbacks.
Why use it?
It explains the required container image and command format, how to check current Intel GPU model support, and what to do when a model is not explicitly listed.

Skill for Claude Code ✓ vendor

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the intel-gpu-ai-skills plugin — 21 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to check whether a model architecture is supported on Intel XPU, launch the vLLM server, inspect a model’s configuration, and handle implementation or attention-setting fallbacks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/intel/gpu-ai-skills/vllm-xpu-run
About the project

Intel GPU AI Skills is a collection of agent skills for setting up, running, benchmarking, and profiling Hugging Face models on Intel GPUs. It supports workflows involving PyTorch, vLLM-XPU, SGLang-XPU, llama.cpp-SYCL, and migration from CUDA to XPU. The catalogue contains the project's skills, instructions, agent, and plugin.

intel/gpu-ai-skills · 21 stars · on GitHub

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 intel/gpu-ai-skills --skill vllm-xpu-run
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/intel/gpu-ai-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install intel-gpu-ai-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills, 1 agent.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin vllm-xpu-run/plugin install vllm-xpu-run after adding the marketplace above.

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Per session 129 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,058 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 6 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Privilege Escalation · line 52
    Potential security issue detected. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Review the flagged content for security risks. Ensure no credentials, secrets, or sensitive data are exposed.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 75
    Potential security issue detected. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Review the flagged content for security risks. Ensure no credentials, secrets, or sensitive data are exposed.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 184
    Potential security issue detected. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Review the flagged content for security risks. Ensure no credentials, secrets, or sensitive data are exposed.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 72
    Potential security issue detected. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Review the flagged content for security risks. Ensure no credentials, secrets, or sensitive data are exposed.
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 71
    Docker image references without a specific tag (:latest is implicit) or digest (@sha256:...) can be silently replaced by a malicious image.
    Fix: Pin the image: image:tag or image@sha256:abc123
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 95
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00129 $0.03058
Opus 5 $0.00064 $0.01529
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00612
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00306

Measured 5d ago against content hash 6924e9305c89, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vllm-xpu-run 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 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/emit_launch.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.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

curl -s http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions \
plugins/intel-gpu-ai-skills/skills/vllm-xpu-run/SKILL.md · 231 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 231 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

vllm-xpu-run

Use the official upstream vllm/vllm-openai-xpu:latest image.

Upstream vLLM has a first-class XPU backend. The CLI is identical to the CUDA build (vllm serve <model>); device is detected from torch.xpu.is_available(). There is no --device xpu flag.

The official image already sets ENTRYPOINT ["vllm", "serve"]. Pass the model id and serve flags directly after the image name. Do not append another vllm serve: that produces vllm serve vllm serve <model> and the container exits with code 2.

Current supported models and architectures

When the user asks which models vLLM supports on Intel XPU, fetch the current upstream page at request time:

https://docs.vllm.ai/en/stable/models/hardware_supported_models/xpu/

Do not answer from memory and do not copy a static model list into this skill. Report both the explicitly listed Model rows and the Architecture column, because the recommended model table is not an exhaustive checkpoint allowlist.

For a specific unlisted Hugging Face model, read its current config.json and compare every value in architectures with the live page's Architecture column. Report the evidence precisely:

  • Exact model row → explicitly documented on the fetched page.
  • Architecture match only → the architecture is documented on XPU, but this exact checkpoint is not explicitly validated by the page; perform a generation smoke test before claiming full support.
  • Neither matches → not documented by the current XPU page; this is not proof of impossibility.

Include the source URL and retrieval date in the answer. If the page cannot be fetched, report that failure and offer to retry rather than substituting a remembered list. Do not infer XPU support merely from general vLLM, CUDA, or Transformers support.

CUDA → XPU cheat sheet

CUDA convention XPU convention
vllm/vllm-openai:latest vllm/vllm-openai-xpu:latest
--gpus all --device /dev/dri + -v /dev/dri/by-path:/dev/dri/by-path:ro + --ipc=host
--dtype auto --dtype bfloat16 (explicit)
CUDA graphs default --enforce-eager
--tensor-parallel-size N same; pin N XPUs in ZE_AFFINITY_MASK

Read the full file on GitHub · 231 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 5d ago Changed 6924e9305c89
  2. 10d ago First seen · 231 lines · 129 tokens per session scan A 7310adc54c8a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

vllm-xpu-run is a skill published in the GitHub repository intel/gpu-ai-skills (21 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 129 tokens to every session and 3,058 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-30.

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