nemotron-retrieval-recipes

nemotron-retrieval-recipes is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from NVIDIA-NeMo/Nemotron. It costs 36 tokens per session (2,425 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for using public Nemotron recipes for search systems. These recipes cover embedding, which turns text into searchable numeric representations, and reranking, which improves the order of search results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan, debug, tune, evaluate, export, or deploy Nemotron embedding and reranking recipes. It also helps produce preview, execution, and run-report commands.
Why use it?
It helps match retrieval problems to the right recipe and gives current commands and configurations from the available checkout, reducing guesswork and unsafe launches.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: $skill-name invocation.

Good fit Use it to plan, debug, tune, evaluate, export, or deploy Nemotron embedding and reranking recipes. It also helps produce preview, execution, and run-report commands.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nvidia-nemo/nemotron/nemotron-retrieval-recipes
About the project

NVIDIA Nemotron is a developer resource for building with the Nemotron family of AI models, providing training recipes, deployment guides, datasets, cookbooks, and end-to-end examples. It is intended for developers and researchers training, customizing, deploying, or applying Nemotron models to agentic AI use cases. Its catalogue add-ons include a Claude Code plugin that guides users through Nemotron customization steps.

NVIDIA-NeMo/Nemotron · 2,043 stars · on GitHub · docs.nvidia.com

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 NVIDIA-NeMo/Nemotron --skill nemotron-retrieval-recipes
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/Nemotron

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,425 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to medium

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 →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 57
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 87
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00036 $0.02425
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.01213
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00485
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00243

Measured 12d ago against content hash 5a4c2b4d1663, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

nemotron-retrieval-recipes 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 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.

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.

skills/nemotron-retrieval-recipes/SKILL.md · 143 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 143 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Nemotron Retrieval Recipes

Invocation: $nemotron-retrieval-recipes.

Purpose

Use this skill to work with public Nemotron embedding and reranking retrieval recipes in a source checkout or installed package. Prefer the current checkout over memory, because the recipe CLI, configs, containers, and output paths are actively changing. Treat each recipe family as available only after its recipe directory and matching CLI files are present.

This is a public product skill, not contributor-only guidance. Its value over static docs is to make an agent route the user's retrieval failure to the right recipe family, reconcile docs with the current checkout, avoid accidental long-running launches, preserve secrets, and return concrete preview/execution/run-report commands.

Use it only for tasks tied to the public Nemotron embed or rerank recipe flow. If the request is unrelated retrieval theory, generic vector database selection, generic benchmark advice, or non-recipe Docker/Slurm/NIM troubleshooting, stop with a short scope note and do not inspect recipe files in that turn.

Security Notes

Use Bash for repo-scoped inspection, help, dry-run, and user-approved execution commands. Do not run API, GPU, Docker, Slurm, NIM, or other long-running work unless the user explicitly asks for it. Before Stage 0 SDG for either family, confirm the user's data-governance policy permits sending corpus content to the configured inference endpoints; otherwise use an approved private or air-gapped path. Never run broad environment dumps or commands that expose secret values. Prefer dotlist overrides and config review over editing recipe defaults.

Source Priority

Resolve conflicts in this order:

  1. Current checkout recipe, CLI, config, and source files.
  2. Bundled references in this skill.
  3. User-provided docs or saved snippets.
  4. Memory.

For runnable commands, treat the current checkout as authoritative. If a required recipe directory, CLI command, config, or env profile is missing, report the blocker instead of guessing.

Read the full file on GitHub · 143 lines

Files

What ships with it

10 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. 12d ago First seen · 143 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 5a4c2b4d1663

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nemotron-retrieval-recipes is a skill published in the GitHub repository NVIDIA-NeMo/Nemotron (2,043 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 2,425 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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