// Use before creating, editing, or deciding whether to update any AI coding agent skill in this repository, including corrections to existing skill behavior, references, or routing.
Use when selecting, configuring, composing, or troubleshooting NeMo Agent Toolkit agents and control-flow components, including ReAct, tool-calling, ReWOO, reasoning, router, sequential, parallel, and sub-agent patterns.
Use when designing, configuring, running, or troubleshooting NeMo Agent Toolkit evaluations, datasets, evaluator selection, ATIF surfaces, quality gates, custom evaluators, and `nat eval`.
Use when installing or configuring NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit, verifying the `nat` CLI, setting up optional extras, or creating a first hello-world workflow.
Use when serving NeMo Agent Toolkit workflows, exposing workflows through FastAPI, configuring MCP clients or servers, or troubleshooting transport and server setup.
Use when configuring or running NeMo Agent Toolkit optimization with `nat optimize`, including Optuna parameter tuning, prompt evolution, optimizer sizing, output interpretation, and optimizer datasets.
Use when fixing NeMo Agent Toolkit documentation path-check failures, especially failed `ci/scripts/path_checks.py` output, slash-delimited text mistaken for paths, relative path references, Markdown code escaping, and path-check allowlist decisions.
| name | skill-evolution |
| description | Use before creating, editing, or deciding whether to update any AI coding agent skill in this repository, including corrections to existing skill behavior, references, or routing. |
| author | NVIDIA Corporation and Affiliates |
| license | Apache-2.0 |
Use this skill before creating, editing, or deciding whether to update any AI coding agent skill in this repository.
Update a skill when any of the following happens:
_type, or installation instruction is stale.Do not update skills for one-off user preferences, temporary local environment quirks, or speculative guidance that was not validated.
SKILL.md concise and task-oriented.references/ directory.AGENTS.md when a new skill is added or task routing changes.Use the flat skills layout:
skills/
nat-installation/
SKILL.md
references/
nat-workflow-creation/
SKILL.md
references/
Each skill folder must contain one SKILL.md with frontmatter:
---
name: skill-name
description: Use when ...
author: NVIDIA Corporation and Affiliates
license: Apache-2.0
---
Use author and license frontmatter instead of long license headers in SKILL.md files.
Use specific names that describe the task surface. Avoid catch-all folders that hide routing information.
nat only for technical identifiers such as the CLI, package name, Python namespace, paths, and environment variables.