Agent skill · runpod
runpod-templates
Runpod's official prebuilt pod templates (ComfyUI, PyTorch, and others): what each image ships, which ports and paths it uses, how to pick one, how to pin a version, and what is missing on first boot. Use when a task says "run <X> on a pod" and an official template already covers it, instead of building an image — and when a user needs help with or wants to fix something about a Runpod template they are already running (won't boot, can't reach the UI, missing models, wrong CUDA line, broken ComfyUI workflow metadata on imported workflows): start here and route onward. Deploy with runpodctl or runpod-mcp; end-to-end walkthroughs live in the runpod router's golden paths.
What it needs
About 5k tokens when loaded.
What this skill does
Official Runpod templates Prefer an official template over building an image. Runpod maintains prebuilt images for common workloads; deploying one is a create + poll, with no SSH install step. This skill is the reference for what those images actually are. It does not manage infrastructure — deploy with runpod-mcp (if connected) or runpodctl. Terms — "template" vs the Hub Two different products share the word "Hub", and conflating them derails discovery: Term What it is Runs as Discover with --- --- --- --- Pod template (this skill) A saved pod config — image + ports + disk + env. The official ones appear on Console Hub template pages (console.runpod.io/hub/template/<id>) a pod runpodctl template list --type official / template search · REST GET /v2/catalog/templates Hub repo / listing A packaged serverless worker (e.g. runpod-workers/worker-comfyui) with a handler, deployed as an endpoint serverless runpodctl hub list / hub search · MCP list-hub-repos / deploy-hub-repo Same word, disjoint catalogs: hub search comfyui returns only the serverless worker and none of the official ComfyUI pod templates, and template search returns no Hub repos. In the REST v2 catalog, pod vs serverless templates are told apart by each entry's serverless flag. What "official" means, and how to find them A template is Runpod-maintained when it reports isRunpod: true. Anything else in search results is community-published: usable, but not covered by this skill and not version-guaranteed. template get returns the template's readme — the description maintained alongside the image, and the authoritative answer when it disagrees with this skill. Take image tags, ports, and env from these commands, not from these files: the templates ship on their own release train and move faster than this repo. The reference files record the shape and the gotchas, which is the expensive part to rediscover. ⚠️ runpodctl hub ... is not how you find pod templates — see Terms. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills runpod/runpod-templates