vllm-deploy-docker

vllm-deploy-docker is a skill for Claude Code from vllm-project/vllm-skills. It costs 35 tokens per session (2,493 once invoked), scanned B, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for running vLLM, software that serves language models, in Docker with NVIDIA GPU support. It uses vLLM’s OpenAI-compatible server interface.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run pre-built or source-built vLLM containers, mount the model cache, configure GPU access, handle Hugging Face tokens, and test the server with curl.
Why use it?
It provides a documented setup path for serving a model locally or on a server without assembling the deployment commands from scratch.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the vllm-skills plugin — 6 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to run pre-built or source-built vLLM containers, mount the model cache, configure GPU access, handle Hugging Face tokens, and test the server with curl.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vllm-project/vllm-skills/vllm-deploy-docker
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add vllm-project/vllm-skills --skill vllm-deploy-docker
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install vllm-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,493 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 2 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 $0.00035 $0.02493
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.01247
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00499
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00249

Measured 10d ago against content hash d78564b560a3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

vllm-deploy-docker 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 10d 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

sudo groupadd docker

Makes network callslowCapability

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

- Optional: `curl` for API tests
plugins/vllm-skills/skills/vllm-deploy-docker/SKILL.md · 208 lines

How it starts

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vLLM Docker Deployment

A Claude skill describing how to deploy vLLM with Docker using the official pre-built images or building the image from source supporting NVIDIA GPUs with CUDA. Instructions include NVIDIA CUDA support, example docker run and a minimal docker-compose snippet, recommended flags, and troubleshooting notes. For AMD, Intel, or other accelerators, please refer to the vLLM documentation for alternative deployment methods.

What this skill does

  • Deploy vLLM with docker using pre-built images (recommended for most users) or build from source for custom configurations
  • Provide example commands for running the OpenAI-compatible server with GPU access and mounted Hugging Face cache
  • Point to build-from-source instructions when a custom image or optional dependencies are needed
  • Explain common flags: --ipc=host, shared cache mounts, and HF_TOKEN handling

Prerequisites

  • Docker Engine installed (Docker 20.10+ recommended)
  • NVIDIA GPU(s) with appropriate drivers and CUDA toolkit installed
  • Optional: curl for API tests
  • A Hugging Face token if pulling private models or to avoid rate-limits: HF_TOKEN

Run a vLLM OpenAI-compatible server with GPU access, mounting the HF cache and forwarding port 8000:

docker run --rm --gpus all \
  -v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface \
  --env "HF_TOKEN=$HF_TOKEN" \
  -p 8000:8000 \
  --ipc=host \
  vllm/vllm-openai:latest \
  --model Qwen/Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct
  • --gpus all exposes all GPUs to the container. Adjust if you need specific GPUs.
  • --ipc=host or an appropriately large --shm-size is recommended so PyTorch and vLLM can share host shared memory.
  • Mounting ~/.cache/huggingface avoids re-downloading models inside the container.

Note: vLLM and this skill recommend using the latest Docker image (vllm/vllm-openai:latest). For legacy version images, you may refer to the Docker Hub image tags.

Read the full file on GitHub · 208 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 · 208 lines · 35 tokens per session scan B d78564b560a3

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vllm-deploy-docker is a skill published in the GitHub repository vllm-project/vllm-skills (98 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 2,493 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (asks for root, 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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