What is eda_tool_setup?

A setup workflow for CVDP or ACE-RTL hardware-design runs. EDA tools are software used to design, simulate, synthesize, and check electronic circuits.

Use it to configure EDA software and licenses for native CVDP or ACE-RTL runs and classify setup-related failures.

It helps prepare required simulators, synthesis tools, coverage tools, and licenses before treating tool failures as environment problems.

eda_tool_setup — Skill by NVlabs

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/nvlabs/ace-rtl/eda_tool_setup

Any agent

npx skills add NVlabs/ACE-RTL --skill eda_tool_setup

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NVlabs/ACE-RTL

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 790 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.

Origin unknown 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5	$0.00037	$0.00790
Opus 5	$0.00018	$0.00395
Sonnet 5	$0.00007	$0.00158
Haiku 4.5	$0.00004	$0.00079

Measured 3d ago against content hash 146bbe4a44b0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

eda_tool_setup 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 3d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/setup_eda_env.example.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/eda_tool_setup/SKILL.md · 91 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

Read it on GitHub

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.

scripts/setup_eda_env.example.sh 1.9 KB runs code

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.

3d ago First seen · 91 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 146bbe4a44b0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

eda_tool_setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository NVlabs/ACE-RTL (24 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 790 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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