profile-model

A workflow for measuring the runtime cost of one TensorRT-Model-Connect model and producing evidence at the right level. TensorRT is NVIDIA's system for running optimized machine-learning models.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to profile a model, compare a code change with a matching test, check a model against a reference performance matrix, or document an optimized implementation's qualification.
Why use it?
It separates quick performance diagnosis from local comparisons, release checks, and formal qualification, so exploratory timings are not mistaken for release evidence.

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/tensorrt-model-connect/profile-model
Any agent
npx skills add NVIDIA/TensorRT-Model-Connect --skill profile-model
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NVIDIA/TensorRT-Model-Connect

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,413 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 $0.00047 $0.01413
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00707
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00283
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00141

Measured 2d ago against content hash c84b25ff46b6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

profile-model 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.

plugins/trtmc-agent-skills/skills/profile-model/SKILL.md · 196 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 196 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Profile Model

Decide The Evidence Level

Choose one path before running:

Question Entry point Claim boundary
Where is one model spending time? tools/trtmc_profile.py diagnostic
Does a code change improve one owned workload? profiler plus matching model testcase local comparison
Is a model release-ready against its reference? tools/perf_matrix.py release matrix
Does an optimized implementation qualify? model-owned qualification producer exact profile/target

Profiler output is not automatically release or qualification evidence.

Preconditions And Provenance

Use the supported GPU/TensorRT environment and record:

git rev-parse HEAD
nvidia-smi --query-gpu=name,uuid,driver_version,pstate,power.draw \
  --format=csv,noheader
python3 -c "import tensorrt as trt; print(trt.__version__)"
test -x ./build/trtmc
test -x ./build/trtmc-bench

Record the exact model revision, bundle SHA-256, native or optimized runtime path, effective config, target, warmups, timed iterations, inputs, token/sample counts, timing boundary, synchronization policy, and reference environment. Without those, label results exploratory.

If a team container is required:

./scripts/bootstrap_workspace.sh --id <team-id> \
  --branch "$(git branch --show-current)" --detach

Correctness Before Timing

Select the owning model-first workload or E2E testcase and prove it passes before making performance claims:

PYTHONPATH=python:. python3 tools/trtmc_validate.py \
  <model> <workload> \
  --bundle <bundle.bundle> \
  --output <validation-artifacts>

Do not time a candidate with a failed, skipped, or unrun comparison. Preserve the same model revision and workload when moving to profiling.

Quick Single-Model Diagnosis

PYTHONPATH=python:. python3 tools/trtmc_profile.py \
  --model <model> \
  --bundle <bundle.bundle> \
  --prompt "<owned-testcase-prompt>" \
  --max-new-tokens <N> \
  --warmup 3 \
  --iterations 10 \
  --dtype float16 \
  --trtmc-binary ./build/trtmc \
  --hf-python <python> \
  --json \
  --output-dir <profile-dir>

Read the full file on GitHub · 196 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 2d ago First seen · 196 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A c84b25ff46b6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

profile-model is a skill published in the GitHub repository NVIDIA/TensorRT-Model-Connect (188 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 1,413 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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