vllm-deploy-simple

vllm-deploy-simple is a skill for Claude Code from vllm-project/vllm-skills. It costs 29 tokens per session (1,725 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A setup guide for installing vLLM, a tool that runs language models on your own hardware and provides an OpenAI-compatible API. It detects available hardware, starts a model server, and tests that the API works.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to deploy a simple language model with NVIDIA or AMD GPUs, Google TPUs, or a CPU, then test the server with an API request.
Why use it?
It removes the guesswork from choosing the installation setup and checking whether the server is working. It can also isolate the installation in a Python virtual environment.

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 deploy a simple language model with NVIDIA or AMD GPUs, Google TPUs, or a CPU, then test the server with an API request.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vllm-project/vllm-skills/vllm-deploy-simple
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 vllm-project/vllm-skills --skill vllm-deploy-simple
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 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,725 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00029 $0.01725
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00863
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00345
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00172

Measured 10d ago against content hash 62c8ec91412d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vllm-deploy-simple scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 1 executable file (scripts/quickstart.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.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

- curl (for API testing)
plugins/vllm-skills/skills/vllm-deploy-simple/SKILL.md · 195 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 195 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

vLLM Simple Deployment

A simple skill to quickly install vLLM, start a server, and validate the OpenAI-compatible API.

What this skill does

This skill provides a streamlined workflow to:

  • Detect hardware backend (NVIDIA CUDA, AMD ROCm, Google TPU, or CPU)
  • Install vLLM with appropriate backend support
  • Start the vLLM server with configurable model and port
  • Test the OpenAI-compatible API endpoint
  • Validate the deployment is working correctly
  • Support virtual environment isolation

Prerequisites

  • Python 3.10+
  • GPU (NVIDIA CUDA, AMD ROCm) (recommended) or TPU or CPU
  • pip or uv package manager
  • curl (for API testing)
  • Virtual environment (optional but recommended)

Usage

Create a venv

If user did not specify the venv path or asked to deploy in the current environment, create a venv using uv with python 3.12 in the current folder. If uv not found, make a folder in this path and use python to create a virtual environment.

Run the complete workflow (suggested)

If user did not specify the venv path, model, or port, use default options:

# Default deployment options (--venv "." --model "Qwen/Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct" --port 8000 --gpu_memory_utilization 0.8)
scripts/quickstart.sh

Or with custom options:

# Use custom virtual environment
scripts/quickstart.sh --venv /path/to/venv

# Use custom model and port
scripts/quickstart.sh --model "Qwen/Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct" --port 8000

# Use custom GPU memory utilization
scripts/quickstart.sh --gpu_memory_utilization 0.6

# Combine all options
scripts/quickstart.sh --venv /path/to/venv --model "Qwen/Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct" --port 8000 --gpu_memory_utilization 0.8

This will:

  1. Activate the virtual environment (if specified)
  2. Detect hardware backend (CUDA/ROCm/TPU/CPU)
  3. Install vLLM with appropriate backend support
  4. Start the vLLM server in the background
  5. Wait for the server to be ready
  6. Test the API with a sample request
  7. Display the server status

Run individual commands (for step-by-step usage or troubleshooting)

Read the full file on GitHub · 195 lines

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.

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 · 195 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 62c8ec91412d

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vllm-deploy-simple is a skill published in the GitHub repository vllm-project/vllm-skills (98 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 1,725 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (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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