nvca-self-managed-install

nvca-self-managed-install is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from NVIDIA/nvcf. It costs 55 tokens per session (656 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A deployment guide for installing and validating the NVCA Operator Helm chart against a self-managed NVCF control plane. Helm charts are packages that describe how Kubernetes applications are installed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to render values from the stack, inspect generated settings, install or upgrade the operator, apply one-off overrides, and preserve cluster or account identity.
Why use it?
It keeps chart testing separate from the full stack configuration and derives image and account settings from the self-managed control-plane setup.

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-self-managed-install
Any agent
npx skills add NVIDIA/nvcf --skill nvca-self-managed-install
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvcf

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 656 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 $0.00055 $0.00656
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00328
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00131
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00066

Measured 4d ago against content hash 9d9d56afc42c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

nvca-self-managed-install 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 4d 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-self-managed-install/SKILL.md · 72 lines

What it actually says

NVCA Self-Managed Install

Use deploy/helm/nvca-operator as the install surface for NVCA Operator chart validation. Do not add NVCA back into the stack Helmfile just to test this chart.

Source of Truth

  • Control-plane deployment: deploy/stacks/self-managed
  • NVCA chart and install workflow: deploy/helm/nvca-operator
  • NVCA source images and source chart: src/compute-plane-services/nvca
  • Cluster prerequisites: use the public nvcf-self-managed-prerequisite skill
  • Full stack install and teardown: use the public nvcf-self-managed-installation skill

Preferred Workflow

Run from deploy/helm/nvca-operator:

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

Inspect the generated file under bin/, then install or upgrade:

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

Optional Inputs

  • additional_values=override.yml for one-off overrides
  • NCA_ID=<value> to set the primary account ID explicitly
  • CLUSTER_NAME=<value> and CLUSTER_ID=<value> to preserve or pin cluster identity
  • IMAGE_PULL_SECRET_NAME=<secret> to attach a pre-created image pull secret

Existing Release Reuse

If nvca-operator is already installed in the nvca-operator namespace, the render helper reuses current release values first, then overlays repository paths derived from the stack environment file. Use this to preserve cluster IDs and operator settings during upgrades.

Safety

Before creating, deleting, or reusing local k3d clusters, read the local-dev safety guidance in .cursor/skills/nvcf-self-hosted-local-dev/SKILL.md from the repo root. Do not delete clusters or Helm releases without explicit user approval.

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. 4d ago First seen · 72 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 9d9d56afc42c

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nvca-self-managed-install is a skill published in the GitHub repository NVIDIA/nvcf (202 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 656 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.

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