Agent skill · NVIDIA
nemo-rl-brev-etiquette
Brev instance operating guidance for NeMo-RL agents working in /home/ubuntu/RL with limited workspace disk, a larger /ephemeral volume, and optional /home/ubuntu/RL/.env secrets. Use when running nemo-rl-auto-research campaigns, experiments, training jobs, model or dataset downloads, shared cache-heavy commands, log-producing runs, checkpoint generation, W&B or Hugging Face authenticated workflows, or any workflow that may create large files on Brev.
What it needs
About 3k tokens when loaded.
What this skill does
Brev Etiquette Operate as though /home/ubuntu/RL is the source checkout and /ephemeral is the working storage for generated experiment state. Keep the repo small, reproducible, and easy to inspect. Move bulky run outputs to /ephemeral before launching anything expensive. Storage Rules Keep code edits, small config changes, committed experiment hypotheses, and concise reproducibility records under /home/ubuntu/RL. Put generated experiment assets under /ephemeral, including checkpoints, run logs, Ray temp directories, W&B offline files, profiler traces, evaluation dumps, rollout samples, and per-experiment artifacts. Keep reusable caches under one shared /ephemeral cache root per user, not under each experiment. This includes Hugging Face models, dataset caches, PyTorch caches, Triton caches, uv caches, and pip caches. Before a campaign or long run, check capacity with df -h /home/ubuntu/RL /ephemeral and avoid starting if /ephemeral is missing or nearly full. Create a campaign root such as /ephemeral/nemo-rl/${USER:-ubuntu}/nemo-rl-auto-research/<campaign> and use one subdirectory per experiment. Do not leave large files, cache directories, or generated outputs in the git checkout. If a tool defaults to the repo, override its output/cache path before running it. Environment Secrets Treat /home/ubuntu/RL/.env as the local secret store. It may contain keys such as WANDBAPIKEY, HFTOKEN, or HUGGINGFACEHUBTOKEN. Before any run that may need external auth, load /home/ubuntu/RL/.env when it exists. Never print, cat, log, commit, or summarize secret values. If /home/ubuntu/RL/.env is absent, or a required key is still unset after loading it, remind the user to add the needed key to that file before launching authenticated work. Auto-Research Pattern When using nemo-rl-auto-research, keep the git ledger in the repo and heavy evidence on /ephemeral. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
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