nvca-chart-release

A release procedure for moving NVIDIA Cloud Functions (NVCF) Operator changes from the main code repository into the packaged Helm chart used for self-managed installations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when changing the operator, agent, chart, or image references, then vendor, lint, render, validate, and publish the `helm-nvca-operator` chart.
Why use it?
It provides a defined path for keeping source code, packaged deployment files, image versions, and the self-managed deployment in sync.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nvidia/nvcf/nvca-chart-release
Any agent
npx skills add NVIDIA/nvcf --skill nvca-chart-release
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvcf

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,005 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00061 $0.01005
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00502
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00201
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00101

Measured 2d ago against content hash fae474ff0103, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

nvca-chart-release 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 2d 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.

ai-tooling/dev/skills/nvca-chart-release/SKILL.md · 105 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 105 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

NVCA Operator Chart Release Workflow

Propagates Helm chart changes through the native monorepo paths:

Component Path Purpose
NVCA source src/compute-plane-services/nvca Operator and agent source plus source chart at deployments/nvca-operator/
Vendored chart deploy/helm/nvca-operator Vendors the source chart, applies self-managed defaults, publishes helm-nvca-operator
Self-managed stack deploy/stacks/self-managed Control-plane Helmfile deployment and environment defaults

Workflow

  1. Make source changes in src/compute-plane-services/nvca when operator, agent, or source chart behavior changes. Test them there.

  2. Vendor from the monorepo source chart at src/compute-plane-services/nvca/deployments/nvca-operator/.

  3. Set the version inputs, either in the environment or in deploy/helm/nvca-operator/.env:

    NVCA_OPERATOR_VERSION=<operator-image-tag>
    NVCA_VERSION=<agent-image-tag>
    NVCA_SHARED_STORAGE_IMAGE_TAG=<shared-storage-tag>
    
  4. Vendor and validate from deploy/helm/nvca-operator:

    make vendor-chart
    make lint
    make template
    make validate
    
  5. If the chart is tested against a local self-managed control plane, render stack-aware values and install from this chart subtree:

    make render-values-from-stack stack_repo=../../../deploy/stacks/self-managed stack_env=local
    make install-from-stack stack_repo=../../../deploy/stacks/self-managed stack_env=local
    

    Use additional_values=override.yml for one-off validation. Do not edit the stack just to test this chart.

CI and Release

Umbrella CI is declared in tools/ci/subproject-validations.yaml with subproject id nvca-operator. Do not add a chart-local .gitlab-ci.yml.

Validate the same chart path CI uses:

tools/ci/validate-helm-chart deploy/helm/nvca-operator/nvca-operator \
  -f tools/ci/helm-validate-values/nvca-operator.yaml

Read the full file on GitHub · 105 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. 2d ago First seen · 105 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A fae474ff0103

Subscribe to this mod's changes

nvca-chart-release is a skill published in the GitHub repository NVIDIA/nvcf (202 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 1,005 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.