vllm-ascend-workspace: Skill for Claude Code

.agents/skills/ascend-memory-profiling/SKILL.md

ascend-memory-profiling is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from maoxx241/vllm-ascend-workspace. It costs 110 tokens per session (4,208 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A memory-analysis workflow for Ascend NPU devices running vLLM, a system for serving language models. It breaks HBM, the device's high-bandwidth memory, into components such as model weights, KV cache, communication buffers, activations, and runtime use.

In plain words
What is it for?
Investigating memory usage, checking it against theoretical expectations, and comparing memory consumption across vLLM configurations. It is not for general performance-timing analysis or simply starting a service.
Why use it?
It shows what is consuming device memory and ties each reported value to its source.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

This is maoxx241/vllm-ascend-workspace's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on vllm-ascend-workspace itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything vllm-ascend-workspace configures →

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python3 .agents/skills/vllm-ascend-serving/scripts/serve_start.py \.

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to maoxx241/vllm-ascend-workspace. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/maoxx241/vllm-ascend-workspace/main/.agents/skills/ascend-memory-profiling/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/maoxx241/vllm-ascend-workspace

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 110 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,208 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00110 $0.04208
Opus 5 $0.00055 $0.02104
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00842
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00421

Measured 6d ago against content hash 519d25f9a82d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ascend-memory-profiling 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 6d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 5 executable files (scripts/_common.py, scripts/mem_analyze.py, scripts/mem_collect.py, …), 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.

.agents/skills/ascend-memory-profiling/SKILL.md · 290 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 290 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ascend Memory Profiling

Collect and analyze HBM memory usage on Ascend NPU devices running vLLM serving workloads. Produces a structured breakdown of memory by component, with every value traceable to its data source.

Remote substrate rule: use .remote-dev remote tools for ad hoc remote read/edit/bash/search/patch work around memory profiling setup and output inspection. Use this skill for the domain HBM workflow and keep its scripts as the compatibility backend for managed VAWS sessions.

Use this skill when

  • the user asks to profile or analyze GPU/NPU memory (显存) usage
  • the user wants to understand what consumes HBM in a vLLM serving scenario
  • the user asks "权重/KV cache/HCCL/激活各占多少显存"
  • the user wants to verify memory allocation against theoretical expectations
  • the user asks to compare memory usage across different configurations

Do not use this skill when

  • the task is performance profiling (kernel timing, bubble analysis, step/layer/operator breakdown, cross-rank diagnosis) → use ascend-profiling-analysis (consumes an ascend-profiling-collection manifest or a remote profile root)
  • the task is starting/stopping a service without memory analysis → use vllm-ascend-serving
  • the task involves non-Ascend hardware
  • the task is offline (non-serving) inference only

Data source priority

Priority Source Role Trustworthiness
P0 msprof --application wrapping Full component breakdown (APP, HCCL, RUNTIME, SLOG) Highest -- sees memory torch cannot manage
P1 npu-smi info Static baseline + phased delta High -- hardware-level
P2 vLLM startup logs Weights, KV cache, num_gpu_blocks Medium-high -- application-reported
P3 safetensors file headers Tensor shapes, dtypes, byte sizes (byte-accurate); component classification and shard strategy are rule-based inference High for byte sizes; medium for per-device attribution
P4 Model config.json Theoretical weight calculation (fallback) Reference only

Read the full file on GitHub · 290 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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. 6d ago Changed · +8 lines 519d25f9a82d
  2. 10d ago First seen · 282 lines · 110 tokens per session scan A b0f7896bedaf

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ascend-memory-profiling is a skill published in the GitHub repository maoxx241/vllm-ascend-workspace (36 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 110 tokens to every session and 4,208 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-30.

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