NVIDIA/skills is a catalogue of portable instruction sets that teach coding agents how to use NVIDIA software for robotics, simulation, CUDA, retrieval-augmented generation, and related workflows. Developers install these skills in agents such as Claude Code or Codex, while the catalogue mirrors skills maintained in separate NVIDIA product repositories.
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.
npx skills add NVIDIA/skills --skill jetson-build-sourcegit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NVIDIA/skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/nvidia/skills/jetson-build-source)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nvidia/skills/jetson-build-source"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nvidia/skills/jetson-build-source/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nvidia/skills/jetson-build-source"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nvidia/skills/jetson-build-source.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- Socket pass
- Snyk pass
- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 1 finding, 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 Privilege Escalation · line 398 Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.Fix: Avoid sudo/root unless strictly required. Prefer least-privilege patterns. If elevation is needed, document the justification and scope.
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00043 | $0.05118 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00017 | $0.02047 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00009 | $0.01024 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00512 |
Grade B, and why
jetson-build-source scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 2mo 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.
Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation
A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.
| `host package missing: <pkg>` | `flex`/`bison`/`libssl-dev` refuse; others warn. | `sudo apt install <pkg>` per [`references/upstream-recipe.md`](references/upstream-recipe.md). | How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 412 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Build BSP Source
Purpose
Rebuild the kernel-side artifacts (DTBs, OOT modules, in-tree
modules, kernel Image) implied by changes under
<source.root_path>/bsp_sources/, and write a manifest that
/jetson-promote-image reads to stage those outputs into the BSP
image. The skill never writes into <bsp_image.root_path> itself.
Prerequisites
- Active target-platform profile with
bsp_image:andsource.toolchain:resolved (run/jetson-init-imageand/jetson-init-sourcefirst). <source.root_path>/bsp_sources/populated with the kernel-side checkout layout/jetson-init-sourcematerializes.<bsp_image.root_path>/Linux_for_Tegra/source/kernel_src_build_env.shpresent (extracted frompublic_sources.tbz2).- Host packages:
flex,bison,libssl-dev(hard);git,build-essential,bc,zstd(warn-only). - Cross-toolchain at
${source.toolchain}gccresolvable on disk.
Overview
This skill is the Build stage of the workflow — see
../../context/bsp-customization-workflow.md
for where it sits in the Setup → Customize → Build → Deploy pipeline
and what triggers it. The skill takes source-side customization
commits, rebuilds the implied artifacts, and records which were
rebuilt in a manifest. Outputs stay in-tree under
<source.root_path>/bsp_sources/;
jetson-promote-image reads the
manifest at Deploy to copy each rebuilt artifact into the matching
path under <bsp_image.root_path>/Linux_for_Tegra/.
Overlay-only edits (nvpmodel.conf, nvfancontrol.conf, BPMP DTB)
skip Build — customize-* stages them directly to the overlay
tracker; BPMP DTB uses the dtc decompile → edit → recompile loop in
../../references/bsp-customization-bpmp-dtb.md.
Custom-overlay slot ownership. Kernel-DT customizations from
every customize-* skill collect into a single composite
tegra<soc>-<carrier-id-sku>+<module-id>-xxxx-custom.dts per
active target — see
../../references/bsp-customization-kernel-dtb.md
for the filename / location / append protocol. This skill is the
sole owner of the composite's per-dir Makefile registration
(dtbo-y += <name>.dtbo) and the carrier flash conf's
OVERLAY_DTB_FILE+= line (the "Register composite custom overlay" step).
What ships with it
9 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.
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.
- 2mo ago First seen · 412 lines · 43 tokens per session scan B 3322a4e01002
jetson-build-source is a skill published in the GitHub repository NVIDIA/skills (3,873 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 5,118 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.
jetson-build-source compared with skills from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| jetson-build-sourceNVIDIA/skills | Skill | 3.9k | yesterday | Apache-2.0 | B | 43 | Claude Code |
| desktop-and-local-ipc-securitymakifbaysal/tasktrooper | Skill | 120 | 16d ago | Apache-2.0 | A | 78 | Claude Code, Codex |
| spark-environment-setupwshobson/agents | Skill | 42k | yesterday | MIT | A | 76 | Claude Code |
| spark-training-gotchaswshobson/agents | Skill | 42k | yesterday | MIT | A | 63 | Claude Code |
| technical-troubleshootingstrands-agents/samples | Skill | 925 | yesterday | Apache-2.0 | A | 38 | Claude Code |
| screen-mockup-htmlmakifbaysal/tasktrooper | Skill | 120 | 16d ago | Apache-2.0 | A | 63 | Claude Code, Codex |
| responsive-layoutmakifbaysal/tasktrooper | Skill | 120 | 16d ago | Apache-2.0 | A | 35 | Claude Code, Codex |