inference-engineer

inference-engineer is a skill for Claude Code from Rockielab/rockie-claude. It costs 159 tokens per session (7,056 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A deployment guide that turns a trained or open-source machine-learning model into an online service that software can call.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to host models, create APIs for apps or agents, serve requests for customers, or reproduce a research project on a small graphics processor.
Why use it?
It helps researchers choose suitable computer hardware and model-serving software, then package the model behind a standard API with access controls.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents; positional $N argument.

Part of the rockie-claude plugin — 29 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to host models, create APIs for apps or agents, serve requests for customers, or reproduce a research project on a small graphics processor.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rockielab/rockie-claude/inference-engineer
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.

Any agent
npx skills add Rockielab/rockie-claude --skill inference-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Rockielab/rockie-claude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install rockie-claude, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 29 skills, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 159 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,056 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.
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 $0.00159 $0.07056
Opus 5 $0.00079 $0.03528
Sonnet 5 $0.00032 $0.01411
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00706

Measured 10d ago against content hash 62ae8834a2a9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

inference-engineer 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 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (runtime/monitor_contract.py, test_skill_auth_contract.py), 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

project-harness/skills/inference-engineer/SKILL.md · 346 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 346 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

inference-engineer

The packaging skill that turns "here is a model" into "here is an API your agent can call." Companion to /autoresearch (Rockie's R&D half): autoresearch produces models and findings, inference-engineer operates them.

When to invoke

  • Explicit: /inference-engineer <model-url-or-HF-repo> (URL optional; agent will ask for it).
  • Intent-triggered: any user message expressing one of —
    • "I want to host / serve / deploy / productize / run inference on / get an API for / make available "
    • "I trained / fine-tuned a model — what do I do with it?"
    • "How do I serve this for my agent / app / customers / a batch of N requests?"
    • "Reproduce paper / blog / GitHub repo X on a small GPU"
  • Cascade entry from sub-skills: the eval / kernel / gateway sub-skills can call back here to re-provision when a user asks to swap hardware or change serving config.

The two researcher motivations this skill serves

  1. "I found a model — productize it." A researcher has a HF repo / GitHub repo / paper-with-code link. They want to host it themselves (cost, privacy, latency, customization). They need: right hardware, right serving stack, an API, MCP exposure to their chat agent, quality + cost numbers.
  2. "I trained a model — now what?" Autoresearch produced a checkpoint. The researcher wants to share it, evaluate it head-to-head against the baseline, or wire it into a downstream agent. They need the same productization path but starting from local weights instead of a public repo.

Both routes converge on the same 8-step orchestration below.

If this skill needs Rockie-managed training, eval, synthetic-data, or other GPU job execution outside POST /api/inference/loads, route that work through /experiment and its embedded budget-term-sheet approval gate. Do not introduce raw /api/jobs/submit calls here.

Read this before doing anything

The skill reasons from a checked-in research corpus, not from re-Googling. Before step 1 of any run, read all of:

Read the full file on GitHub · 346 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. 10d ago First seen · 346 lines · 159 tokens per session scan A 62ae8834a2a9

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inference-engineer is a skill published in the GitHub repository Rockielab/rockie-claude (21 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 159 tokens to every session and 7,056 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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