flash

A local development tool for running functions on Runpod’s rented GPUs or CPUs, with automatic reloading and live logs, then deploying them as an endpoint.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to develop, reload, inspect logs, and deploy functions that need GPU or CPU computing on Runpod.
Why use it?
It lets you test code on remote hardware while working locally, so you do not have to set up and manage the runtime by hand.

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/runpod/runpod-plugins-official/flash
Any agent
npx skills add runpod/runpod-plugins-official --skill flash
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/runpod/runpod-plugins-official

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,470 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 2 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 $0.00076 $0.03470
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.01735
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00694
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00347

Measured 2d ago against content hash 8d7582f2a6ec, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

flash scanned grade B with 2 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (evals/fixtures/dev-loop/main.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.

Sends data to an external URLmediumData exfiltration

A POST to an outside endpoint may be telemetry or may be exfiltration; either way the mod talks to somewhere, and you should know where.

curl -s "$URL/main/predict" -d '{"data": {...}}' # dispatches to the remote worker

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -s "$URL/main/predict" -d '{"data": {...}}' # dispatches to the remote worker
plugins/runpod/skills/flash/SKILL.md · 231 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 231 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Runpod Flash

Write code locally, iterate with flash dev — it runs your functions on remote Runpod GPUs/CPUs with hot-reload and live worker logs — then flash deploy to ship. Endpoint handles provisioning.

runpod-flash releases on its own cadence, so flash --help and flash <command> --help are authoritative for the command surface — this skill is the mental model, the decision rules, and the gotchas that help output does not carry. Confirm the installed version with pip show runpod-flash before concluding a subcommand or flag is unavailable.

Worked examples first for anything multi-step. Flash appears in verified end-to-end paths — 03 variant B (whisper endpoint via flash) and 08 (fine-tune → serve); the full index is runpod/golden-paths/README.md. Open the matching path before planning a deploy — it carries the ordering and the cost cleanup this skill only summarizes.

Load on demand — this skill keeps the mental model + gotchas inline; details live in reference/:

Need Read
Install, auth, flash init, and the full flash command list reference/setup-and-cli.md
Endpoint(...) constructor params, NetworkVolume/PodTemplate/EndpointJob, GPU & CPU enum tables reference/api.md
Worked patterns — choosing a model, warm-worker model loading, CPU→GPU pipeline, parallel calls reference/patterns.md

Quick start: uv tool install runpod-flashflash login (or export RUNPOD_API_KEY=...) → flash init my-projectflash dev. Details in reference/setup-and-cli.md.

Dev vs Deploy

  • flash deviterate. Local server at :8888, but your decorated functions execute on remote GPU/CPU workers. Hot-reloads on save and streams the worker's logs live to the terminal. No build/upload/deploy wait — use this the whole time you develop.
  • flash deployship. Builds an artifact and deploys a stable endpoint. Slow (build + upload + provision); only do this once the code works under flash dev.

Read the full file on GitHub · 231 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. 2d ago First seen · 231 lines · 76 tokens per session scan B 8d7582f2a6ec

Subscribe to this mod's changes

flash is a skill published in the GitHub repository runpod/runpod-plugins-official (44 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 3,470 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (sends data to an external url, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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