vllm-ascend-workspace: Skill for Codex

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vllm-ascend-distributed-debug is a skill for Codex from maoxx241/vllm-ascend-workspace. It costs 96 tokens per session (582 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A debugging workflow for distributed vLLM Ascend systems, where work is divided across multiple processes or machines. It examines rank-specific logs, topology, communication groups, and process progress.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to capture distributed failure evidence, analyze multi-rank behavior, test reduced configurations, and verify fixes on the original setup.
Why use it?
It helps diagnose startup failures, communication errors, and hangs that cannot be explained by looking at only one process's log.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

This is maoxx241/vllm-ascend-workspace's own configuration. It tells 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 →

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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
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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/maoxx241/vllm-ascend-workspace

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 96 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 582 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 $0.00096 $0.00582
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00291
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00116
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00058

Measured 10d ago against content hash 9c64352dd509, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vllm-ascend-distributed-debug 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 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/distributed_debug.py, tests/test_distributed_debug.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/vllm-ascend-distributed-debug/SKILL.md · 59 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 59 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

vLLM Ascend Distributed Debug

Build a falsifiable diagnosis from rank-aware evidence. Never infer a distributed root cause from one rank's log alone.

Workflow

  1. Create a case with scripts/distributed_debug.py init.
  2. Capture the exact failing topology, environment, process tree, endpoints, and reproduction command before changing parallelism.
  3. Add structured per-rank events with ingest. Keep raw rank logs and stack dumps in the case directories created by init.
  4. Run analyze to check rank identity, group membership, endpoint collisions, collective order, missing participants, entered-without-exit stalls, and cross-rank phase divergence.
  5. Form one or more falsifiable hypotheses from the report.
  6. Reduce one parallel dimension at a time. Record each reduced case separately.
  7. After a fix, rerun both the smallest reproducer and the original topology.

Entry point

scripts/distributed_debug.py provides:

  • init: validate the topology contract and create the complete evidence layout;
  • ingest: validate and append normalized rank events;
  • analyze: produce deterministic findings, per-rank last progress, and a Run Manifest-linked report.

Read only the reference needed for the current phase:

Boundaries

  • This skill owns failures whose explanation requires comparing ranks, groups, nodes, or distributed endpoints.
  • Correct outputs in eager mode with graph-only failure belong to vllm-ascend-graph-debug.
  • A failure reduced to one operator call belongs to ascend-operator-debug.
  • Kernel timing, throughput, and imbalance quantification belong to profiling or performance skills; do not load them until the distributed failure is stable and the user asks for that evidence.

Rules

  • Preserve raw evidence; normalize into new files rather than rewriting logs.
  • Treat missing ranks as missing evidence, not proof that those ranks crashed.
  • Treat a collective mismatch as confirmed only when group, sequence, operation, and participating ranks are explicit.
  • Redact secrets before storing environment snapshots.
  • Keep cases under .vaws-local/distributed-debug/.

Read the full file on GitHub · 59 lines

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. 10d ago First seen · 59 lines · 96 tokens per session scan A 9c64352dd509

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vllm-ascend-distributed-debug is a skill published in the GitHub repository maoxx241/vllm-ascend-workspace (36 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 96 tokens to every session and 582 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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