NVIDIA's verified skills catalog (https://github.com/NVIDIA/skills) ships
NVIDIA-signed skills for CUDA-X, AIQ, cuOpt, cuPyNumeric, DeepStream, NeMo,
NemoClaw and the Skill Card Generator — each bundle carrying a detached
`skill.oms.sig` signature, a governance `skill-card.md`, and `evals/`. The
sync pipeline drops any skill missing those artifacts before publishing.
Changes:
- tools/skills_hub.py: add NVIDIA/skills to GitHubSource.DEFAULT_TAPS so
it lights up in `hermes skills browse`, `hermes skills search <q>`, the
twice-daily skills-index build, and the docs-site Skills Hub page
(https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/skills) automatically.
- tools/skills_guard.py: add NVIDIA/skills to TRUSTED_REPOS so installs
resolve to trust_level="trusted" (looser install policy than community).
- website/scripts/extract-skills.py: map the `github` source id to a
friendly "NVIDIA" pill label for the docs hub page.
- website/src/pages/skills/index.tsx: register the NVIDIA pill (green
#76b900) and slot it into SOURCE_ORDER after HuggingFace.
- website/docs/user-guide/features/skills.md (+ zh-Hans i18n): document
the new default tap and the expanded trusted-repos list.
- tests/tools/test_skills_guard.py: assert NVIDIA/skills resolves to
"trusted" (including the skills-sh-wrapped form).
- tests/tools/test_skills_hub.py: invariant — every TRUSTED_REPOS entry
must be reachable via GitHubSource.DEFAULT_TAPS (prevents future
trusted repos from being declared but never browseable).
Validation:
- Live GitHub fetch: `src.fetch('NVIDIA/skills/skills/aiq-deploy')` pulled
17 files including SKILL.md (13 KB), skill-card.md, skill.oms.sig, and
the full references/ + evals/ tree. trust_level="trusted".
- Live inspect resolved name, description, and trust correctly.
- All 193 existing skills_guard + skills_hub tests still pass.
PR #33748 grew the live skills index from ~2k skills to ~69k, which made
the previous build-time bundling strategy untenable: the skills page's
JS chunk was about to balloon from ~1MB to ~35MB. Initial page load
on mobile became unusable, search lagged on every keystroke against the
68k-item array, and JSON.parse blocked the main thread at startup.
Three changes:
1. extract-skills.py writes skills.json + skills-meta.json into
website/static/api/ instead of website/src/data/. Static-served by
Vercel as /docs/api/skills.json (gzipped on the wire), same CDN that
already serves skills-index.json.
2. skills/index.tsx drops the static import and fetches both files in
parallel on mount. Loading state shows '…' for the count; failures
surface a small error pill instead of blanking the page.
3. Search is debounced 150ms and runs against a precomputed lowercase
haystack stamped onto each row at load time. Before: array-join +
toLowerCase per row per keystroke on a 68k array. After: single
.includes() per row, deferred until typing settles.
Validation:
| | before | after |
|---|---|---|
| skills.json location | src/data/ (bundled) | static/api/ (CDN) |
| Largest JS chunk | would be ~35MB at 68k skills | 659 KB |
| Initial page render | wait for full parse | immediate, fetch async |
| Per-keystroke filter | join+lowercase x 68k rows | single includes x 68k rows |
| Debounce | none | 150ms |
Built locally for both en and zh-Hans locales; the 34MB skills.json now
lives in build/api/ and is served separately rather than inlined into
the page's bundle.
skills.json and skills-meta.json added to .gitignore — they were already
build artifacts, but the gitignore only listed skills-index.json before.
Layered safety so the Skills Hub at /docs/skills stays in sync without
silent rot. Three pieces:
1. build_skills_index.py — refuses to ship a degenerate index.
EXPECTED_FLOORS per source (skills.sh ≥100, lobehub ≥100, clawhub ≥50,
official ≥50, github ≥30, browse-sh ≥50) and MIN_TOTAL=1500. Any source
collapsing to zero (the silent OpenAI breakage that hid for weeks) now
fails the workflow loud — broken index never reaches the live site.
2. extract-skills.py + the React page — visible freshness signal.
Sidecar website/src/data/skills-meta.json carries the index's
generated_at timestamp, plus per-source counts. Skills Hub renders a
'Catalog refreshed N hours ago · auto-rebuilt twice daily' line under
the hero copy. If the cron stalls, users see the staleness immediately.
3. .github/workflows/skills-index-freshness.yml — watchdog cron.
Every 4 hours, fetches the live /docs/api/skills-index.json, validates
shape, checks age (>26h is stale), checks the same per-source floors,
and opens (or appends to) a GitHub issue when anything is off. The
issue is title-prefixed [skills-index-watchdog] so subsequent failures
append a comment instead of spamming new issues.
Net effect:
- A silent regression like 'OpenAI tap moved its skills' now fails the
build instead of shipping a quietly broken catalog.
- A stuck cron (like the landingpage breakage that ran red for weeks) now
files an issue within 4 hours.
- Users see how fresh the catalog is on the page itself.
Test plan:
- Local: built skills-meta.json from the live index → 'Catalog refreshed
N minutes ago' rendered correctly in the static HTML.
- Probe logic dry-run against the live index: total=2456, all 6 sources
above floor, age 0.1h — issues=NONE.
- Triggered skills-index.yml manually; both jobs green, deploy-site.yml
dispatch fired.
The Skills Hub page was stuck on a stale Feb 25 snapshot, showing only Built-in
+ Optional + Anthropic + LobeHub. The unified index already has 2078 skills
from skills.sh / ClawHub / LobeHub / GitHub taps / Claude Marketplace, and
BrowseShSource adds another ~330 — none of it was reaching the page.
Changes:
- website/scripts/extract-skills.py: read website/static/api/skills-index.json
(the unified multi-source catalog, rebuilt twice daily) as the canonical
external source. Keep the legacy skills/index-cache/ fallback for offline
builds. Add friendly per-source labels (skills.sh, ClawHub, browse.sh,
OpenAI, HuggingFace, Anthropic, LobeHub, etc.) and per-entry installCmd.
- website/src/pages/skills/index.tsx: add source pills + ordering for the 11
new sources; render installCmd from the index entry.
- website/scripts/prebuild.mjs: when no local skills-index.json exists, fetch
the live one from hermes-agent.nousresearch.com so local 'npm run build'
matches production without burning GitHub API quota.
- scripts/build_skills_index.py: crawl BrowseShSource so browse.sh entries
land in the unified index. Adjust source_order.
- tools/skills_hub.py: GitHubSource.DEFAULT_TAPS — openai/skills moved its
skills into skills/.curated/ and skills/.system/, so add both as explicit
taps (the listing code skips dotted dirs by design). Drop
VoltAgent/awesome-agent-skills (README-only, no SKILL.md files) and
MiniMax-AI/cli (singular skill, not a tap directory). Net effect: github
source jumps from 83 → 143 skills, with OpenAI properly included.
- .github/workflows/deploy-site.yml: build the unified index BEFORE running
extract-skills.py — previous order meant extract-skills always fell back
to the legacy cache. Drop the 'skip if file exists' guard; the file is
gitignored and must be rebuilt every deploy.
- .github/workflows/skills-index.yml: drop the broken 'deploy-with-index'
job (it cp'd 'landingpage/\*' which no longer exists, failing every cron
run since the landingpage move). Replace it with a workflow_dispatch
trigger of deploy-site.yml so the index refresh still reaches production
on schedule.
- website/docs/user-guide/features/skills.md: drop VoltAgent from the
default-taps doc list to match the code.
Before: 695 skills (Built-in 90, Optional 84, Anthropic 16, LobeHub 505).
After: 2168 skills across 9 source pills, including the 1212 skills.sh
entries the user expected to see.
Replace with for all literal-tuple
membership tests. Set lookup is O(1) vs O(n) for tuple — consistent
micro-optimization across the codebase.
608 instances fixed via `ruff --fix --unsafe-fixes`, 0 remaining.
133 files, +626/-626 (net zero).
The Skills Hub at /skills had cards that, when expanded, showed only the
one-line description, tags, author, version, and an install command. For
the 163 bundled and optional skills shipped with the repo, this was thinner
than the data we already have on disk.
Three changes, all under website/:
1. extract-skills.py now pulls four extra fields per local skill:
- 'overview' — first non-heading body paragraph from SKILL.md (stripped
of admonitions/code fences, capped at ~500 chars at a sentence boundary)
- 'envVars' / 'commands' — from the prerequisites: block in frontmatter
- 'license' — from the top-level frontmatter
- 'docsPath' — slug to the per-skill /docs/user-guide/skills/.../* page,
computed with the same logic as generate-skill-docs.py
162 of 163 local skills get a non-empty overview automatically. The
remaining one (media/heartmula) has only headings/code in its body and
falls through to the description.
2. Skill TS interface + SkillCard expanded-panel render the new fields:
- Overview paragraph at the top of the panel
- Prerequisites box (env vars + required commands) when frontmatter
declares them
- License row alongside author/version
- 'View full documentation →' link to the per-skill docs page
Search now covers the overview text too, so users can find skills by
matching content from inside SKILL.md, not just the one-line description.
3. styles.module.css gains six new classes (overviewBlock, detailLabel,
overviewText, prereqBlock/Row/Kind/List/Item, docsLink) styled to match
the existing dark panel aesthetic.
External / community skills (Anthropic, LobeHub, Claude Marketplace cached
indexes) keep the old behavior — overview is empty, no prereqs, no docsPath.
Validation: 'npm run build' clean (exit 0); broken-link count unchanged at
155 baseline; all 163 generated docsPath values resolve to existing pages
under website/docs/user-guide/skills/.
Turns the existing 'all lints disabled' stance into 'exactly one lint
enabled' — PLW1514 (unspecified-encoding) catches bare open() /
read_text() / write_text() calls that default to locale encoding on
Windows (cp1252), silently corrupting non-ASCII content.
Changes:
1. pyproject.toml
- Migrate [tool.ruff] top-level select → [tool.ruff.lint].select
(deprecated config location, ruff was warning on every run)
- Add preview = true (PLW1514 is a preview rule in ruff 0.15.x)
- select = ['PLW1514'] (exactly one rule, deliberately minimal)
- per-file-ignores exempt tests/, plugins/, skills/, optional-skills/ —
those have their own conventions or intentionally exercise edge cases
2. website/scripts/extract-skills.py
- Fix 3 remaining bare opens (website/ was excluded from the main
sweep but needed for ruff check . to go green)
3. tests/test_lint_config.py (new, 5 tests)
- Guards against accidental rule removal. If someone deletes PLW1514
from the select list or disables preview mode, these tests fail
with a loud message explaining why the rule exists.
Paired with a companion commit (held locally for now, pending a token
with workflow scope) that adds a blocking ruff step to .github/workflows/
lint.yml. Without that companion commit, ruff is configured correctly
but nothing in CI enforces it yet — the advisory PR comment will still
surface new PLW1514 violations though, so authors see them.
Verified: ruff check . → exit 0, 0 violations across the repo.
Test suite: 90 passed, 14 skipped, 0 failed.
skills/feeds/ only contained a category-marker DESCRIPTION.md with no
actual skills in it. Removing the directory and the 'feeds' -> 'Feeds'
display-label mapping in website/scripts/extract-skills.py (the only
other reference in the repo).
Adds a Skills Hub page to the documentation site with browsable/searchable catalog of all skills (built-in, optional, and community from cached hub indexes).
- Python extraction script (website/scripts/extract-skills.py) parses SKILL.md frontmatter and hub index caches into skills.json
- React page (website/src/pages/skills/) with search, category filtering, source filtering, and expandable skill cards
- CI workflow updated to run extraction before Docusaurus build
- Deploy trigger expanded to include skills/ and optional-skills/ changes
Authored by @IAvecilla
