runpod-flash

runpod-flash is a skill for Claude Code from runpod/runpod-plugins-official. It costs 115 tokens per session (3,714 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A code-first way to build and deploy Python applications on Runpod's current SDK. It supports local development against remote GPUs or CPUs and distinguishes the current SDK from the older, separate runpod-flash API.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create Python Runpod applications, run them during development on remote hardware, deploy them, or maintain and migrate older runpod-flash projects.
Why use it?
Runpod projects may use incompatible SDK generations, so mixing their imports or commands can break a project. This helps identify the installed version and follow the matching development and deployment workflow.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the runpod plugin — 16 skills, 1 command, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to create Python Runpod applications, run them during development on remote hardware, deploy them, or maintain and migrate older runpod-flash projects.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install runpod, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 1 command, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 115 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,714 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 $0.00115 $0.03714
Opus 5.5 $0.00046 $0.01486
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00023 $0.00743
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00371

Measured yesterday against content hash 82cb5df16082, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

runpod-flash 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 yesterday.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 6 executable files (evals/fixtures/dev-loop/main.py, examples/api_model_service.py, examples/call_deployed.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.

plugins/runpod/skills/runpod-flash/SKILL.md · 223 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 223 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Runpod SDK apps (Flash)

For an explicit Dockerfile/template project request, use runpod-build-template. Do not replace that deliverable with Flash unless the user chooses its code-first workflow.

Write Python locally, run it on remote Runpod GPUs/CPUs with rp flash dev, then rp flash deploy to ship. Flash is part of the runpod package (2.0): one SDK, one rp CLI, one login. The standalone runpod-flash package is deprecated and gets no fixes after October 29, 2026.

rp --help and rp 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 before concluding a command or parameter is unavailable.

Which SDK is this project on?

Check before writing code. The two APIs do not mix.

You see Project is on Do
import runpod, runpod.App(...), @app.queue, rp flash ... Runpod SDK 2.0 This file + reference/
from runpod_flash import Endpoint, @Endpoint(...), flash dev, runpod-flash in deps Legacy runpod-flash reference/runpod-flash-legacy.md to maintain it, reference/migrate-from-runpod-flash.md to move it
A new project Runpod SDK 2.0 Start below

Write new code on the SDK. For an existing runpod-flash project, propose migrating and check its Known differences first; don't migrate silently.

If the SDK path fails on an SDK bug, runpod-flash is the fallback: a traceback inside runpod/apps/, a worker that crashes before your function runs, or the same code working on runpod-flash. Upgrade runpod first; the steps to check for a fix and fall back are in reference/runpod-flash-legacy.md.

Worked examples first for anything multi-step. Flash appears in end-to-end paths: 03 variant B (whisper endpoint), 07 (network-volume handoff) and 08 (fine-tune → serve); the full index is runpod/golden-paths/README.md. Runnable single-file apps live in examples/.

Read the full file on GitHub · 223 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. yesterday First seen · 223 lines · 115 tokens per session scan A 82cb5df16082

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runpod-flash is a skill published in the GitHub repository runpod/runpod-plugins-official (48 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 115 tokens to every session and 3,714 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-11-06.

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