Agent skill · nvidia
nemo-retriever-mcp
Use when a task needs to search or add documents through NeMo Retriever MCP.
What it needs
About 1k tokens when loaded.
What this skill does
NeMo Retriever MCP Use the NeMo Retriever MCP tools exposed under retriever instead of the retriever CLI. The server exposes MCP tools, not MCP resources. Do not call listmcpresources to discover documents or decide whether Retriever is available; an empty MCP resource list is expected. Workflow Use query to search documents already available to Retriever. Never ingest documents that are already searchable, including documents in a prebuilt index. Use ingestdocuments only when required documents are not yet searchable and server-readable paths are explicitly available. Do not assume that paths visible to the agent are also readable by the Retriever server. After ingestion completes, use query to retrieve evidence from the added documents. Start with topk=5 and format="hits". Request more only when the first successful response does not contain enough evidence to answer the task. Read evidence hits from the tool response and ground your answer in them. Preserve available document identifiers such as documentid, sourceid, or pdfbasename, along with page numbers, when the task requests citations or structured output. If query fails, inspect the error and retry with corrected parameters or a shorter equivalent query. If it still fails, report the error before using another retrieval method.
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills nvidia/nemo-retriever-mcp