Popular Coding & Development Skills
Code generation, GitHub workflows, testing, reviews, and front-end development.
Coding skills help agents move from suggesting snippets to completing repeatable development work. This collection covers repository operations, debugging, test generation, code review, documentation, and front-end workflows. Rankings favor skills with clear tooling requirements and public source material, so you can understand what will run before adding it to your environment.
- Review pull requests and issues
- Debug failing builds
- Generate tests and documentation
- Automate repository maintenance
Top Coding & Development Skills
Ranked by their position in the current overall directory snapshot.
Jobs To Be Done
Uncover customer jobs, pains, and gains in a structured JTBD format. Use when clarifying unmet needs, repositioning a product, or improving discovery and messaging.
Lean Ux Canvas
Guide teams through Lean UX Canvas v2. Use when framing a business problem, surfacing assumptions, and defining what to learn next.
Opportunity Solution Tree
Build an Opportunity Solution Tree from outcomes to opportunities, solutions, and tests. Use when a stakeholder request needs problem framing before you decide what to build.
Organic Growth Advisor
Identify which organic growth path to pursue — new segments, geographies, channels, or products. Use when diagnosing where a growth constraint lives and which McKinsey growth level to act on next.
Pol Probe
Define a Proof of Life probe to test a risky hypothesis cheaply. Use when you need harsh truth before building real product.
Pol Probe Advisor
Select the right Proof of Life (PoL) probe based on hypothesis, risk, and resources. Use this to match the validation method to the real learning goal, not tooling comfort.
Positioning Statement
Create a Geoffrey Moore-style positioning statement. Use when clarifying who you serve, what problem you solve, your category, and why you're different from alternatives.
Positioning Workshop
Run a positioning workshop that surfaces target customer, unmet need, category, benefits, and differentiation. Use when your product messaging feels fuzzy, generic, or misaligned.
Medtech Model Evidence Export
Exports sanitized metadata, parameters, reproducibility details, quality metrics, and optional review artifacts from Medical AI inference runs or evidence packs to MLflow. Use after inference, including NV-Generate runs; not for live training tracking, model registration, or clinical use.
Paidf Auto Labeling
Use when a user needs to get started with PAIDF Auto-Labeling, plan a scenario, run or debug a shipped cookbook, author prompts or cookbooks, migrate a pipeline, or configure a stage. Confirm critical inputs (data path, output path, endpoints) and ask when any are missing. This is a router: read the matching reference instead of inventing a workflow.
Accelerated Computing Cudf
Official NVIDIA-authored guidance for NVIDIA cuDF GPU DataFrames, pandas acceleration, dask-cuDF, ETL, joins, groupby, CSV/Parquet I/O, nullable semantics, and multi-GPU DataFrame workloads.
Amc Run Rtsp Calibration
Calibrate a new dataset from live RTSP camera streams via the AutoMagicCalib REST API. Use when the user provides RTSP URLs or asks to calibrate live cameras; VIOS records clips, AMC ingests them, then runs calibration.
Amc Run Sample Calibration
Run end-to-end calibration on the shipped sample dataset (sdg_08_2_sample_data_010926.zip) against a running AMC microservice. Use when user says 'test sample dataset', 'run sample calibration', 'verify AMC install', or 'launch and test'.
Cudaq Guide
CUDA-Q onboarding guide for installation, test programs, GPU simulation, QPU hardware, and quantum applications.
Cuopt Multi Objective Exploration
Trace, complete, and interpret the Pareto frontier across competing objectives using repeated single-objective cuOpt solves (weighted-sum and ε-constraint).
Cuopt Numerical Optimization Api
LP, MILP, and QP (beta) with cuOpt — Python, C, and CLI. Use when the user is solving LP, MILP, or QP with any cuOpt interface.
Cuopt Numerical Optimization Formulation
LP, MILP, QP — concepts, problem-text parsing, and formulation patterns (parameters, constraints, decisions, objective). Concepts only; no API.
Cuopt Routing Api Python
Vehicle routing (VRP, TSP, PDP) with cuOpt — Python API only. Use when the user is building or solving routing in Python.
Cupynumeric Install
Install and verify cuPyNumeric for Python — requirements, commands, verification. Source builds are out of scope.
Cupynumeric Migration Readiness
Pre-migration readiness assessor for porting NumPy to cuPyNumeric. Use BEFORE substantial porting work begins when the user asks whether code will scale on GPU, whether they should migrate to cuPyNumeric, which NumPy patterns transfer cleanly, what must be refactored before porting, or mentions pre-port assessment, scaling analysis, or refactor planning. Inspect the user's source code, look up NumPy usage, cross-reference the cuPyNumeric API support manifest, and distinguish distributed-scaling-friendly patterns from blockers such as unsupported APIs, scalar synchronization, host round-trips, Python/object-heavy control flow, shape/data-dependent branching, and in-place mutation hazards. Produce a verdict of READY, LIGHT REFACTOR, SIGNIFICANT REFACTOR, or NOT RECOMMENDED, with concrete refactor pointers.
Dali Dynamic Mode
DALI imperative dynamic mode (`nvidia.dali.experimental.dynamic`, ndd): use when working on ndd code or migrating pipelines; skip pipeline-only tasks.
Data Designer
Use when the user wants to create a dataset, generate synthetic data, or build a data generation pipeline.
Deepstream Run Mv3dt
Run and operate the DeepStream Multi-View 3D Tracking reference app, also known as MV3DT. Use when the user asks to set up prerequisites, run shipped MV3DT samples, run Multi-View 3D Tracking on custom synchronized MP4 datasets, import camera calibration, delegate missing calibration to AutoMagicCalib, inspect OSD or BEV visualization, consume MV3DT Kafka metadata, or clean up MV3DT run state in the DeepStream MV3DT app directory.
Dicom Series Preflight
Used for header-only preflight of one DICOM series folder before conversion or inference. Not for de-identification or clinical clearance.
Dicom Series To Volume
Used for converting one CT DICOM series folder to a HU NIfTI volume with affine evidence. Not for multi-frame DICOM or clinical use.
Digital Health Clinical Asr Build
Stage 2 of the Clinical ASR Flywheel. Use when curating clinical terms, tagging IPA, and synthesizing a NeMo manifest. NOT for scoring (use /digital-health-clinical-asr-eval).
Digital Health Clinical Asr Eval
Stage 3 of Clinical ASR Flywheel. Score a NeMo manifest, produce the five-section KER leaderboard (by-ipa_source diagnostic). Not for ASR auth (/riva-asr).
Digital Health Clinical Asr Finetune
Stage 4 of the Clinical ASR Flywheel. Use when priority KER is above 0.3 to run stock NeMo SFT on Parakeet TDT v2 and offline cycle N+1 re-eval. NOT for generic word boosting (use /finetune-asr).
Digital Health Clinical Asr Setup
Stage 1 of Clinical ASR Flywheel. Use when bootstrapping a cycle: NVCF+MW disclosure, NVIDIA_API_KEY check, deps install, TTS+ASR smoke test.
Doca Argp
Use this skill for hands-on DOCA Arg Parser CLI work on a shipped sample or new DOCA-using app — adding / removing / renaming flags; wiring `doca_argp_init` → register params → `doca_argp_start` → `doca_argp_destroy` in order; picking a parameter type from the full public enum (`DOCA_ARGP_TYPE_STRING`, `_INT`, `_BOOLEAN`, `_DEVICE`, `_DEVICE_REP`, `_DOUBLE` — six values, not three); preserving the standard `--device` / `--representor` / `--json` (`-j`; real flag is `--json`, NOT `--json-config`) / `--sdk-log-level` surface; or debugging `DOCA_ERROR_BAD_STATE` / `INVALID_VALUE` / `NOT_SUPPORTED` / `IO_FAILED` from `doca_argp_*`. Trigger on implicit phrasings: "add a custom flag to a DOCA sample", "should I use getopt here", "BAD_STATE registering a new param", "my JSON config key is rejected", or "my sample's --json is ignored". Refuse and route elsewhere for variadic-flag / subcommand / shell-completion features, DOCA Core context, or DOCA Log internals.
Doca Bench
Run `doca_bench` (DOCA 2.7.0 or newer) to measure throughput, bulk latency, precision latency, or maximum bandwidth for RDMA, Compress, AES-GCM, SHA, DMA, EC, Ethernet, Comch, or GPUNetIO on a host or BlueField Arm. Use it to discover enabled benchmark libraries, capture a reproducible command/version/device/environment baseline, compare stable runs against a declared tolerance, or diagnose configuration, device-binding, workload-precondition, and measurement failures. Trigger for requests such as measuring BlueField compression speed, NIC RDMA throughput, crypto latency, or a pre-upgrade baseline. Do not use for application end-to-end timing, custom benchmark code, DOCA installation, or binary patches.
Doca Bench Extension
Use this skill when the operator is authoring, building, loading, or debugging a custom doca-bench plug-in — a versioned shared library with DOCA_EXPERIMENTAL-marked C entry points that doca-bench loads to measure a workload class its built-in modes do not cover, with doca_bench_cuda as the shipped reference exemplar. Trigger even when the user does not say "doca-bench-extension" or "doca_bench_cuda" — typical implicit phrasings include "no built-in doca-bench mode fits my workload", "how do I benchmark a CUDA GPUNetIO RX/TX kernel", "doca-bench cannot find or load my custom .so", "extension exported symbols do not match what the parent expects", "soversion mismatch after a DOCA upgrade", or "my GPU kernel hangs because stop_flag was never set". Refuse and route elsewhere for questions about which built-in doca-bench mode to pick, DOCA GPUNetIO programming semantics, CUDA toolkit installation, or contributor work on in-tree extensions — those belong to other skills.
Doca Caps
Use this skill when the user wants to invoke the read-only doca_caps CLI to ask what DOCA sees on this host — listing DOCA devices and PCIe addresses, listing representor devices, asking which DOCA libraries are available on the current OS, checking per-device per-library capabilities, scoping output to a specific PCIe address, or capturing a side-effect-free capability snapshot for a debug session or install smoke-test. Trigger even when the user does not explicitly mention "doca_caps" or "capabilities print tool" — typical implicit phrasings include "what does DOCA actually see on this box", "is my BlueField PF visible to DOCA", "is Flow available on my RHEL host", "enumerate VF representors for pf0", "doca_caps: command not found", or "empty output for RDMA, is the tool broken". Refuse and route elsewhere for DOCA installation, library-internal capability matrices (Flow pipe creation, RDMA verbs features), streaming telemetry / DTS, or modifying the shipped binary — those belong to other skills.
Doca Dma
Use this skill when the user is doing hands-on DOCA DMA programming — bringing up a doca_dma context, configuring the single doca_dma_task_memcpy task type, sizing buffers via the doca_dma_cap_task_memcpy_* queries, setting LOCAL_READ_ONLY / LOCAL_READ_WRITE permissions on source / destination doca_mmap regions (plus doca_mmap_export_* for cross-peer copies), driving the progress engine, or debugging DOCA_ERROR_* returns. Trigger even when the user does not explicitly mention "DOCA DMA" or "doca_mmap" — typical implicit phrasings include "memcpy host buffer to BlueField without using the CPU", "offload a bulk copy to the DPU", "copy returns NOT_PERMITTED on first submit", "buffer too big for one DMA task", "task submitted but no completion", or "scatter-gather copy between two memory regions". Refuse and route elsewhere for cross-network copies (DOCA RDMA), producer/consumer messaging (DOCA Comch), DOCA Core / progress-engine internals, or DOCA install — those belong to other skills.
Doca Erasure Coding
Use this skill when the user is doing hands-on DOCA Erasure Coding programming on a BlueField DPU, ConnectX NIC, or host — bringing up a doca_ec context, picking among the create / recover / update tasks, choosing matrix type / N / K / block size, querying doca_ec_cap_* before sizing, setting doca_mmap src/dst permissions, or debugging DOCA_ERROR_* returns from doca_ec_task_*. Trigger even when the user does not name "DOCA Erasure Coding" or "Reed-Solomon" — typical implicit phrasings include "one data block changed, how do I refresh parity without re-encoding", "a disk failed and 2 parity blocks are gone, can I rebuild", "RAID-6 resilience across 12 disks", "my doca_ec_task_create returns NOT_PERMITTED", or "is this N+K layout still recoverable". Refuse and route elsewhere for non-Reed-Solomon codes (fountain / LDPC / raptor), pure-replication designs, network FEC, or other DOCA accelerator libraries (SHA / Compress / AES-GCM / DMA) — those belong to other skills.
Doca Flow
Build and debug DOCA Flow applications on supported NVIDIA NICs/DPUs: define match/action pipes, initialize ports and representors, choose forwarding targets, validate pipes before hardware programming, read counters, match the Flow version to the installed DOCA release, and diagnose Flow API errors. Trigger on DOCA packet steering, classifier, representor, rule-matching, hairpin, or 5-tuple-to-queue questions even when "DOCA Flow" is not named. Route plain DPDK `rte_flow`, kernel TC, OVS, BFB bring-up, and DPU OS installation elsewhere. DPU OS installation is destructive and always requires explicit confirmation.
Doca Flow Perf
Use this skill when the user is measuring the host or DPU-CPU control-plane rate of a DOCA Flow pipeline with doca_flow_perf — picking a JSON policy from configs/, choosing the DPDK or DOCA backend, running the single-iteration smoke then the iterative eval loop, interpreting per-iteration CPU cycles and num_pushed / num_failed, or capturing the four-tuple (DOCA version, BlueField/firmware, JSON policy, worker/queue/burst config) that makes a Kops/sec number defensible. Trigger even when the user does not explicitly mention "doca-flow-perf" — typical implicit phrasings include "how many rules per second can my BlueField insert", "5-tuple hairpin rule rate", "Kops/sec for steering", "flow-perf number does not match release notes", "DPDK vs DOCA benchmark", or "rule-install variance too high". Refuse and route elsewhere for optimizing a live Flow app (doca-flow-tune), the DPA-offloaded path (doca-flow-dpa-perf), dataplane throughput or latency, or library-internal pipe semantics — those belong to other skills.
Doca Gpunetio
Use this skill when the user is doing hands-on DOCA GPUNetIO programming — wiring a CUDA kernel on an NVIDIA GPU to a doca-eth queue via doca_gpu_eth_rxq / doca_gpu_eth_txq, standing up the per-CUDA-device doca_gpu context, designing the persistent CUDA kernel that drains the GPU-visible queue, running the dual capability check (DOCA cap-query plus cudaGetDeviceProperties), registering cudaMalloc pools via doca_buf_arr_create_*, or debugging DOCA_ERROR_* returns from the GPUNetIO API. Trigger even when the user does not explicitly mention "DOCA GPUNetIO" or "persistent kernel" — typical implicit phrasings include "CUDA kernel reading packets directly from the NIC", "GPU-initiated networking on BlueField", "DOCA_ERROR_DRIVER on doca_gpu_create", "nvidia_peermem not loaded", "kernel-per-packet is too slow", or "which GPU supports GPU-side packet I/O". Refuse and route elsewhere for general CUDA programming, DOCA Ethernet queue bring-up, DOCA DPA, or DOCA install — those belong to other skills.
Doca Mgmt
Use this skill when the user is doing hands-on DOCA Management programming against BlueField / ConnectX devices — standing up a management or representor context (doca_mgmt_dev_ctx / doca_mgmt_dev_rep_ctx), querying device caps (data-direct, caps-general), toggling congestion-control global status, modifying diagnostics-data, setting ICM quotas, or issuing a raw firmware command via doca_mgmt_raw_cmd with the right scope (CONFIGURATION / DEBUG_READ_ONLY / DEBUG_WRITE / DEBUG_WRITE_FULL). Trigger even when the user does not say "DOCA Management" — typical implicit phrasings include "fleet tool that walks every BlueField and reads device state", "toggle data-direct on a VF", "set an ICM quota per representor", "send a raw firmware command from C", "DOCA_ERROR_IO_FAILED from raw_cmd", or "fwctl ioctl is failing". Refuse and route elsewhere for mlxconfig direct operation, BFB / firmware reflash, streaming telemetry, doca_caps CLI snapshots, or DOCA install itself — those belong to other skills.
Doca Pcc
Use this skill when the user is doing hands-on host-side DOCA PCC work to load a CUSTOM Programmable Congestion Control algorithm onto a BlueField DPU — creating per-port `doca_pcc` contexts, loading a `dpacc`-compiled `doca_pcc_app` onto the `doca_dev` for the RoCE-bearing port, parameterizing it, walking triple-axis capability discovery (DOCA cap-query + DPA-capable BlueField + firmware custom-PCC slot enabled), or debugging `DOCA_ERROR_*` from `doca_pcc_*`. Trigger even without explicit "DOCA PCC" phrasing — implicit forms include "loading my own congestion control onto a BF port", "DOCA_ERROR_NOT_PERMITTED on algorithm load", "DOCA_ERROR_DRIVER when I attach my custom algorithm", "my custom rate-update isn't affecting RoCE traffic", or "load succeeds but no on-wire change". Refuse and route elsewhere for DPA-side algorithm-body design, the `pcc_counters` CLI, default factory PCC in ConnectX firmware, or setting up the RDMA / RoCE traffic — those belong to other skills.
Doca Telemetry Exporter
Use this skill when the user is doing hands-on DOCA Telemetry Exporter programming on a host where DOCA is installed — defining a doca_telemetry_exporter_schema and event types, creating sources, picking a publish surface (typed events / opaque events / the metrics counter-gauge-histogram API / OTLP logs / NetFlow), walking the schema-then-source lifecycle, or debugging DOCA_ERROR_* failures from the exporter API. Trigger even when the user does not explicitly mention "DOCA Telemetry Exporter" or "doca_telemetry_exporter_*" — typical implicit phrasings include "publishing counters from my DOCA app", "BAD_STATE when I report an event", "consumer/DTS sees nothing but my report succeeded", "how do I export NetFlow/IPFIX records", or "should I link the exporter or the telemetry service". Refuse and route elsewhere for the receiving DOCA Telemetry Service (DTS), plain stdout logging via doca_log, or real-time event subscription back into the app via doca-comch — those belong to other skills.
Doca Version
Use this skill when the user is doing DOCA version handling — detecting the installed release, validating the four-way match across pkg-config doca-common, applications/VERSION, doca_caps --version, and bfver/mlnx-release on BlueField, reasoning about NGC container tags, looking up whether a capability is on the installed release, or diagnosing build-vs-runtime drift. Trigger even when the user does not explicitly say "DOCA version" or "four-way match" — typical implicit phrasings include "program built but does nothing on the wire", "undefined reference to a symbol the docs claim exists", "DOCA_ERROR_NOT_SUPPORTED at runtime", "counter didn't increment", "what does `latest` mean for this tag", or "is my LTS still supported". Refuse and route elsewhere for installing or choosing DOCA packages (doca-setup), per-library API/capability questions (matching library skill), the cross-library DOCA_ERROR_* taxonomy (doca-programming-guide), or the general debug ladder (doca-debug) — those belong to other skills.
Earth2studio Create Datasource
Create and validate Earth2Studio data source wrappers (DataSource, ForecastSource, DataFrameSource, ForecastFrameSource) from remote stores. Do NOT use for fetching data with existing sources, model inference, or installation tasks.
Earth2studio Create Diagnostic
Create Earth2Studio diagnostic model wrappers for single-step data transformations, including simple derived diagnostics, packaged AutoModel diagnostics, and generative or diffusion diagnostics. Do NOT use for prognostic time-stepping models, data sources, or installation.
Earth2studio Create Prognostic
Create Earth2Studio prognostic (time-stepping forecast) model wrappers. Do NOT use for diagnostic models, data sources, or installation.
Earth2studio Data Fetch
Fetch weather/climate data via Earth2Studio data sources for specific variables and times. Do NOT use for inference pipelines, model discovery, or installation.
Earth2studio Deterministic Forecast
Build deterministic forecast scripts with Earth2Studio (model, data source, IO, inference). Do NOT use for ensemble, diagnostics, data-only fetch, or install.
Holohub App Lifecycle
Use for non-failing HoloHub app work with ./holohub: scaffold, build, run, test, visual evidence, lint, and flow benchmarking.
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