nvcf-explore-stack

nvcf-explore-stack is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from NVIDIA/nvcf. It costs 161 tokens per session (1,553 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to navigating the self-hosted NVIDIA Cloud Functions stack inside its monorepo. A monorepo is one repository containing multiple related projects and deployment files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to understand deployment order, trace a Helm release to its chart and image source, inspect dependencies, or choose the right follow-up skill before editing the stack.
Why use it?
It links deployments to their Helm charts, images, hooks, and dependencies so developers can find which component owns a change.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex ✓ vendor

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Use it to understand deployment order, trace a Helm release to its chart and image source, inspect dependencies, or choose the right follow-up skill before editing the stack.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nvidia/nvcf/nvcf-explore-stack
About the project

NVIDIA Cloud Functions is a platform for deploying, managing, and running GPU-based workloads such as inference, streaming, and batch processing, while routing requests to GPU worker clusters. Its monorepo contains the service code, deployment materials, documentation, examples, command-line tools, agent skills, and validation tools used to build and operate the platform.

NVIDIA/nvcf · 238 stars · on GitHub · docs.nvidia.com

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add NVIDIA/nvcf --skill nvcf-explore-stack
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvcf

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 161 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,553 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 $0.00161 $0.01553
Opus 5.5 $0.00064 $0.00621
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00032 $0.00311
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00155

Measured yesterday against content hash e26f9b6cc884, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

nvcf-explore-stack 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 yesterday.

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/nvcf-explore-stack/SKILL.md · 108 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 108 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

NVCF Explore Stack

Help a user or developer navigate the NVCF self-hosted stack inside the monorepo. Identify what a release is, what installs it, what it depends on, and which subtree owns the chart and the runtime image.

Instructions

This skill is for both NVCF users and NVCF developers. Users use it to understand stack dependencies, deployment order, and CI/CD migration questions. Developers use it to find the owning chart, source subtree, hook, or helmfile stage before making changes.

Use this skill long enough to answer the question, then hand off to the right execution skill. Always cite the source file path so the user can verify.

Required inputs

Read these from the monorepo root.

Authoritative (always read first when answering):

  • deploy/stacks/self-managed/helmfile.d/00-observability-infrastructure.yaml.gotmpl
  • deploy/stacks/self-managed/helmfile.d/01-dependencies.yaml.gotmpl
  • deploy/stacks/self-managed/helmfile.d/02-core.yaml.gotmpl
  • deploy/stacks/self-managed/helmfile.d/03-observability.yaml.gotmpl
  • deploy/stacks/observability/helmfile.d/01-observability.yaml.gotmpl
  • deploy/stacks/nvcf-compute-plane/helmfile.d/01-dependencies.yaml.gotmpl
  • deploy/stacks/nvcf-compute-plane/helmfile.d/02-nvca.yaml.gotmpl

Chart-level (when the chart is checked into the monorepo):

  • deploy/helm/<chart>/Chart.yaml
  • deploy/helm/<chart>/values.yaml

Common questions

What deploys X : Look up release X in the helmfile stage files. Return chart name, version, namespace, and which gotmpl file declares it. If the chart is checked in, also point at deploy/helm/<chart>/.

What does X depend on : Return the needs: chain for that release plus the stage gate it sits behind (control-plane stages 0 -> 1 -> 2 -> 3, then compute-plane). Include any profile, condition:, or component mode that gates whether X deploys at all.

What hooks run for X : Read the checked-in chart under deploy/helm/<chart>/ when available. Search its templates/ directory for Helm hook annotations, weights, hook events (pre-install / post-install), images used, and purpose. Cite the chart-relative template file path. If the chart is not checked in, cite its Helmfile chart reference and state that local templates are unavailable.

Read the full file on GitHub · 108 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. yesterday Changed · +1 lines e26f9b6cc884
  2. 13d ago Changed · +3 lines 64dae63cb250
  3. 24d ago Changed 848f0f7e1bc3
  4. 1mo ago Changed 3029461e358e
  5. 1mo ago First seen · 104 lines · 161 tokens per session scan A d0b5927fcd15

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nvcf-explore-stack is a skill published in the GitHub repository NVIDIA/nvcf (238 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 161 tokens to every session and 1,553 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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