install-zymtrace-profiler

install-zymtrace-profiler is a skill for Claude Code from zystem-io/zymtrace-skills. It costs 200 tokens per session (4,097 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An installation guide for the zymtrace profiler, a service that records CPU and NVIDIA GPU performance data. It covers Kubernetes, Docker, and systemd-based installations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Installing the profiler on each Kubernetes node, in Docker, or as a system service; it covers CPU profiling and GPU profiling for CUDA 12 or newer.
Why use it?
It gives the profiler a standard setup and connects it to the zymtrace backend, which must already be installed to receive data.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the zymtrace plugin — 10 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Installing the profiler on each Kubernetes node, in Docker, or as a system service; it covers CPU profiling and GPU profiling for CUDA 12 or newer.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add zystem-io/zymtrace-skills
Claude Code
/plugin install zymtrace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install zymtrace, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 1 agent.

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Per session 200 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,097 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 $0.00200 $0.04097
Opus 5 $0.00100 $0.02048
Sonnet 5 $0.00040 $0.00819
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00410

Measured 11d ago against content hash 4bfa76e542fc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

install-zymtrace-profiler 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 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/verify-profiler.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.

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.

zymtrace/skills/install-zymtrace-profiler/SKILL.md · 254 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 254 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Install zymtrace Profiler

Helps the user install the zymtrace profiler agent — the low-overhead eBPF + CUDA profiler that runs on every node and ships profiles to the backend gateway.

The backend must be installed first (install-zymtrace-backend skill). Profiler agents have nowhere to send profiles otherwise.

Deep details (NVML library paths, PC sampling, env var reference, air-gapped image mirroring, framework metrics) live in ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/install-zymtrace-profiler/reference.md.

Greet the user (start here)

Open with a short welcome before any commands or questions:

👋 Thanks for installing the zymtrace profiler! It's a low-overhead agent (<1% CPU, ~256 MB RAM) that ships profiles to your backend.

Stuck? Reach out:

Tip — analyze GPU and CPU flamegraphs via MCP: once profiles start flowing, connect the zymtrace MCP to your agent (Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor) — see configure-zymtrace-mcp — and analyze GPU + CPU flamegraphs in natural language. Docs: https://docs.zymtrace.com/mcp

Here's the plan:

  1. Verify your tools and locate the backend gateway.
  2. Decide CPU-only vs CUDA (GPU) profiling.
  3. Install the DaemonSet (or Docker / binary).
  4. Verify the agent is reporting.

Ready when you are.

If the user has already specified Helm / GPU / target, skip the roadmap and dive in.

Sources of truth

Read the full file on GitHub · 254 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files 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. 11d ago First seen · 254 lines · 200 tokens per session scan A 4bfa76e542fc

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install-zymtrace-profiler is a skill published in the GitHub repository zystem-io/zymtrace-skills (5 stars, last pushed 27d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 200 tokens to every session and 4,097 once invoked, about $0.0010 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 2026-08-31.

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