Kermt Embed
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The kermt-embed skill provides a structured, containerized workflow for generating per-molecule embeddings from KERMT model checkpoints. It manages the entire pipeline, including system validation, data preparation, checkpoint verification, and execution. The skill supports both custom checkpoints and the automatic, consent-based download of pretrained NVIDIA KERMT models. It outputs standardized .npy embedding files for four distinct readouts, along with canonical SMILES and validity metadata, ensuring consistent results for downstream chemical analysis.
What it does
- Validates system requirements and container environment for embedding extraction.
- Automates the download and verification of pretrained KERMT model bundles.
- Cleans and prepares input SMILES data from CSV files for model processing.
- Executes embedding extraction on a single GPU using specified or default checkpoints.
- Generates standardized .npy embedding arrays and metadata for molecular analysis.
- Provides replayable run manifests for reproducibility.
When to use it
- When you need to generate numerical vector representations for a set of molecules.
- When you want to use a pretrained KERMT model to featurize chemical data.
- When you have a custom encoder-bearing KERMT checkpoint and need to extract embeddings from it.
- When you require a reproducible, containerized pipeline for molecular embedding tasks.
Advantages
- Ensures consistent environment configuration via containerization.
- Automates complex multi-step validation of checkpoints and input data.
- Provides clear, standardized output formats for downstream integration.
- Includes built-in safety checks for model downloads and hardware compatibility.
Usage examples
- “Extract embeddings for the molecules in my_molecules.csv using the default pretrained model.”
- The agent will prompt for consent to download the NV-KERMT-70M-v2 model, validate the CSV, and generate embedding files in a new run directory.
- “Run embedding extraction on molecules.csv using my local checkpoint at /path/to/model.pt.”
- The agent validates the local checkpoint and input CSV, then executes the extraction workflow using the provided model file.
Install
Download the skill as a ZIP:
https://mp-staging.autogineer.com/agent-skills/nvidia/kermt-embed/downloadUnzip it into the cross-client skills folder of your project:
mkdir -p .agents/skills && unzip kermt-embed.zip -d .agents/skills
Documentation by NVIDIA
kermt-embed
Extract per-molecule embeddings from any encoder-bearing KERMT checkpoint.
The skill is the workflow orchestrator: validate ckpt, validate CSV, clean
SMILES, launch the runner blocking, return the per-readout .npy files.
Skill and runtime paths
Set SKILL_DIR to the absolute path of this installed skill directory. Export
KERMT_REPO as the absolute path to the KERMT checkout used for model
execution. The bundled container helper mounts that checkout at
/workspace and this skill at /skill (read-only). Commands inside
the container use /skill/scripts/; defaults are bundled in config/.
See Released models for checkpoint bundle requirements.
Downloads and local outputs
The optional released-model branch reads config/released_model.json for the
Hugging Face repository, pinned revision, and filenames. The bundled
scripts/fetch_released_model.py downloads the model bundle over HTTPS into
the host directory the user selects. Public models work without credentials;
if HF_TOKEN is set, the container helper forwards it for Hugging Face
authentication. Prepared data, logs, and workflow results go into the chosen
run directory.
Hardware requirements
GPUs: 1 (single-GPU).
VRAM: ≥ 4 GB for the default
batch_size 64.Disk: depends on output size — roughly a few MB per 1k molecules at
hidden 800per readout, so ~10–20 MB per 1k molecules across the 4 readouts. Plus a smallcanonical_smiles.npy+validity.npyper run.Driver / CUDA: any host supporting CUDA 12.6.
Inputs
Required:
--csv <path>— SMILES CSV. First column issmiles; other columns are ignored (no targets needed).
Checkpoint (optional — defaults to the released model if omitted):
--ckpt <path>— any encoder-bearing checkpoint. Grover_base, cmim, hybrid, and finetuned ckpts are all accepted. The validator only refuses ckpts with no encoder. If omitted, the skill offers to download the released pretrained hybrid model nvidia/NV-KERMT-70M-v2 and embed with it — see "Resolve & validate the checkpoint" (workflow step 3).--pretrained-release— explicit opt-in to use the released model without the interactive prompt (for non-interactive / agent runs). Mutually exclusive with--ckpt.--model-dir <dir>— where to save the downloaded bundle (default$KERMT_REPO/models/NV-KERMT-70M-v2/). An already-complete bundle there is reused, not re-downloaded.
Optional:
--batch-size N— override the configured default (64).--gpus 0— single GPU id (default 0).--from-prepare <dir>— skip the prepare step and reuse an existingprepare_data.jsonin<dir>.
Workflow
Let $KERMT_REPO be the path to your kermt repo checkout.
Pre-flight: container + system probe.
"$SKILL_DIR/scripts/kermt_container.sh" check_systemCompute run directory.
RUN_DIR=$KERMT_REPO/runs/embed_$(date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H-%M-%SZ)Resolve & validate the checkpoint.
Resolve — only if
--ckptwas omitted. Default to the released pretrained hybrid model nvidia/NV-KERMT-70M-v2:Consent gate. Unless
--pretrained-releasewas passed, ask the user: "No checkpoint given — download the released model nvidia/NV-KERMT-70M-v2 (NVIDIA Open Model License, https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NV-KERMT-70M-v2) and embed with it? [y/N]". Never download without an explicit yes (or--pretrained-release). If both--ckptand--pretrained-releaseare given, abort — they conflict.Save location. Default
$KERMT_REPO/models/NV-KERMT-70M-v2/; honor--model-dir <dir>if given. An already-complete bundle is reused.Download (foreground; ~282 MB on first fetch):
"$SKILL_DIR/scripts/kermt_container.sh" run --model-dir <save-dir> -- \ "python /skill/scripts/fetch_released_model.py --out /model"Parse the JSON; abort on
ok: false(surfaceerrors). On success set<user-ckpt> = <save-dir>/kermt_contrastive_v2.0.pt.
Validate the resolved (or user-provided) ckpt:
"$SKILL_DIR/scripts/kermt_container.sh" run --ckpt <user-ckpt> -- \ "python /skill/scripts/check_checkpoint.py --mode embed --ckpt /ckpt"Parse JSON. Abort on
ok: false. The validator only refuses encoder-less ckpts (rare).Validate the data.
"$SKILL_DIR/scripts/kermt_container.sh" run --data <user-csv> -- \ "python /skill/scripts/check_data.py --mode embed --csv /data/<basename>"Prepare the data (clean-only — no features step).
"$SKILL_DIR/scripts/kermt_container.sh" run --data <user-csv> --run-dir $RUN_DIR -- \ "python /skill/scripts/prepare_data.py --mode embed \\ --csv /data/<basename> --out /runs/data"Outputs land at
$RUN_DIR/data/prepare_data.jsonwith a singleclean_csvpath.task/extract_embeddings.pyfeaturizes from SMILES on the fly.Launch the runner (blocking).
"$SKILL_DIR/scripts/kermt_container.sh" run \\ --ckpt <user-ckpt> --run-dir $RUN_DIR -- \\ "python /skill/scripts/run_extract_embeddings.py \\ --ckpt /ckpt \\ --prepare-manifest /runs/data/prepare_data.json \\ --out /runs \\ [--gpus 0 --batch-size N]"Report to the user.
Embeddings directory:
$RUN_DIR/out/atom_from_atom.npy,bond_from_atom.npy,atom_from_bond.npy,bond_from_bond.npy(the 4 standard readouts; each shape(N_rows, hidden_size))metadata.pkl— pickle of a dict containingcanonical_smiles(RDKit-canonicalized SMILES per row),valid(boolean per-row: did RDKit parse it), plus other run metadata.
Manifest:
$RUN_DIR/run.jsonLog:
$RUN_DIR/logs/embed.log
Hard rules
Never download the released model without consent. When
--ckptis omitted, downloadnvidia/NV-KERMT-70M-v2only after an explicit user "yes" or an explicit--pretrained-releaseflag.--ckptand--pretrained-releaseare mutually exclusive.Never modify the user's ckpt. The runner reads-only via
task/extract_embeddings.py's--checkpoint <path>flag.Arch comes from the ckpt. No
--hidden-sizeflag etc. on this runner;task/extract_embeddings.pyreads arch from the ckpt's saved_args.
Common errors
prepare_data manifest is missing required output 'clean_csv'→ prepare ran with--skip-cleanbut no source CSV given. Re-run prepare without it.--gpus '0,1' is single-GPU only→ pass a single id.
Replayability
$(jq -r .cmd_replay $RUN_DIR/run.json)If ok_to_replay: false (dirty kermt repo worktree at launch time), pin
the commit via repo.commit and git checkout it first.
Files
- ATTRIBUTION.mdAdded by AutoGineer829 B
- BENCHMARK.md7.6 KiB
- LICENSELicence file added by AutoGineer11.2 KiB
- SKILL.md7.5 KiB
- config/defaults_embed.json718 B
- config/released_model.json398 B
- evals/evals.json6.8 KiB
- references/released-models.md1.6 KiB
- scripts/_utils.pyScript14.1 KiB
- scripts/check_checkpoint.pyScript20.1 KiB
- scripts/check_data.pyScript11.9 KiB
- scripts/fetch_released_model.pyScript7.9 KiB
- scripts/kermt_container.shScript18.9 KiB
- scripts/prepare_data.pyScript36.5 KiB
- scripts/run_extract_embeddings.pyScript8.8 KiB
- skill-card.md4.2 KiB
- skill.oms.sig6.8 KiB
scripts/check_data.py
#!/usr/bin/env python3
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (c) 2025 NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES. All rights reserved.
# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
"""Validate a CSV input for a given KERMT agent workflow.
Mode-dispatched. Emits a single JSON object to stdout that the calling skill
parses to decide whether to proceed (`ok: true`) or surface a structured error
back to the user (`ok: false` with `errors[]`). The JSON shape is stable
across modes; only the contract for what counts as `ok` differs per mode.
Modes
-----
pretrain Pretrain corpus CSV. Requires a `smiles` column. Other columns
are ignored. Label columns are not required (and not expected).
finetune Labeled CSV for a downstream task. Requires `smiles` plus
>=1 numeric target column. Target columns are specified via
`--targets <col1> <col2> ...`. If `--targets` is omitted, the
validator auto-detects numeric non-smiles columns and reports
them; the skill will then prompt the user to confirm or refine.
inference CSV to run predictions on. Requires `smiles`. Target columns are
not required (and not expected — predictions are written out).
embed CSV to extract embeddings from. Requires `smiles` only.
SMILES validation
-----------------
By default the validator samples up to 20 SMILES (first 10 + last 10) and
checks each one parses with RDKit. Pass `--strict-rdkit` to parse every
SMILES (slow on large corpora). A SMILES is considered "invalid" if RDKit
returns `None` from `MolFromSmiles(smi, sanitize=True)` — empty / null
rows are counted separately.
Duplicate-SMILES detection is always full (cheap).
Output (stdout)
---------------
{
"ok": true | false,
"mode": str,
"csv_path": str,
"num_rows": int,
"num_columns": int,
"columns": [str, ...],
"has_smiles_column": bool,
"smiles_column_name": str | null, // actual header used (may differ in case)
"num_blank_smiles": int,
"num_invalid_smiles": int, // among the parsed sample
"smiles_check_method": "sampled" | "full",
"smiles_check_count": int,
"num_duplicate_smiles": int,
"target_columns": [str, ...], // populated only for finetune mode
"num_missing_per_target": { col: int, ... },
"auto_detected_targets": [str, ...], // when --targets is omitted in finetune mode
"errors": [str, ...],
"warnings": [str, ...]
}
Exit code: 0 on `ok: true`, 1 on `ok: false`. Loader exceptions are caught
and surfaced into `errors[]` with `ok: false` (still exit 1).
CLI
---
check_data.py --mode <mode> --csv <path>
[--targets <col1> <col2> ...] # finetune only
[--strict-rdkit] # full SMILES parse
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import argparse
import json
import sys
import traceback
from pathlib import Path
from typing import Any
import pandas as pd
CANONICAL_SMILES_COLUMN = "smiles"
SMILES_SAMPLE_PER_END = 10 # how many SMILES from head + how many from tail to sample
def _find_smiles_column(columns: list[str]) -> str | None:
"""Return the actual column header matching 'smiles' case-insensitively, or None."""
for c in columns:
if c.lower() == CANONICAL_SMILES_COLUMN:
return c
return None
def _parse_smiles_sample(smiles_values: list[str], full: bool) -> tuple[int, int, str]:
"""Run RDKit MolFromSmiles on a sample or all of the SMILES. Returns
(num_parsed, num_invalid, method)."""
# Import here so the script can still surface a clean JSON error if RDKit
# is unavailable in the host env.
try:
from rdkit import Chem
from rdkit import RDLogger
RDLogger.DisableLog("rdApp.*") # suppress per-mol parse warnings
except ImportError as exc:
raise RuntimeError(
f"RDKit is not importable in this environment: {exc}. "
"Run check_data.py inside the kermt container."
) from exc
if full or len(smiles_values) <= 2 * SMILES_SAMPLE_PER_END:
sample = smiles_values
method = "full"
else:
sample = smiles_values[:SMILES_SAMPLE_PER_END] + smiles_values[-SMILES_SAMPLE_PER_END:]
method = "sampled"
invalid = 0
parsed = 0
for smi in sample:
if not smi: # already counted as blank elsewhere
continue
parsed += 1
mol = Chem.MolFromSmiles(smi, sanitize=True)
if mol is None:
invalid += 1
return parsed, invalid, method
def _autodetect_target_columns(df: pd.DataFrame, smiles_col: str) -> list[str]:
"""Pick columns that look like numeric targets. A column qualifies if it
is (a) not the smiles column and (b) >=80% of non-null values convert to float.
Heuristic only — returned for the skill to prompt the user to confirm."""
candidates: list[str] = []
for col in df.columns:
if col == smiles_col:
continue
ser = df[col].dropna()
if len(ser) == 0:
continue
try:
converted = pd.to_numeric(ser, errors="coerce")
except (TypeError, ValueError):
continue
if converted.notna().sum() / max(len(ser), 1) >= 0.8:
candidates.append(col)
return candidates
def validate(mode: str, csv_path: str, targets: list[str] | None, strict_rdkit: bool) -> dict[str, Any]:
result: dict[str, Any] = {
"ok": False,
"mode": mode,
"csv_path": csv_path,
"num_rows": 0,
"num_columns": 0,
"columns": [],
"has_smiles_column": False,
"smiles_column_name": None,
"num_blank_smiles": 0,
"num_invalid_smiles": 0,
"smiles_check_method": "sampled",
"smiles_check_count": 0,
"num_duplicate_smiles": 0,
"target_columns": [],
"num_missing_per_target": {},
"auto_detected_targets": [],
"errors": [],
"warnings": [],
}
# 1. Read the CSV.
path = Path(csv_path)
if not path.is_file():
result["errors"].append(f"CSV not found: {csv_path}")
return result
try:
df = pd.read_csv(path)
except pd.errors.EmptyDataError:
result["errors"].append(f"CSV is empty (no header): {csv_path}")
return result
except Exception as exc: # noqa: BLE001
result["errors"].append(f"failed to read CSV {csv_path}: {type(exc).__name__}: {exc}")
return result
result["num_rows"] = int(len(df))
result["num_columns"] = int(len(df.columns))
result["columns"] = [str(c) for c in df.columns]
# 2. Locate the SMILES column.
smiles_col = _find_smiles_column(result["columns"])
if smiles_col is None:
result["errors"].append(
f"no column named 'smiles' (case-insensitive) found in CSV. "
f"Available columns: {result['columns']}"
)
return result
result["has_smiles_column"] = True
result["smiles_column_name"] = smiles_col
if smiles_col != CANONICAL_SMILES_COLUMN:
result["warnings"].append(
f"SMILES column is named '{smiles_col}' but downstream code expects '{CANONICAL_SMILES_COLUMN}' "
f"(lowercase). Rename the column to '{CANONICAL_SMILES_COLUMN}' before running the workflow."
)
# 3. Blank-SMILES count + duplicate count + RDKit parse check.
smi_series = df[smiles_col].astype(str).fillna("").str.strip()
blank_mask = smi_series.eq("") | smi_series.str.lower().eq("nan")
result["num_blank_smiles"] = int(blank_mask.sum())
nonblank = smi_series[~blank_mask]
result["num_duplicate_smiles"] = int(len(nonblank) - nonblank.nunique())
if len(nonblank) == 0:
result["errors"].append("no non-blank SMILES found in the CSV")
return result
try:
parsed, invalid, method = _parse_smiles_sample(nonblank.tolist(), full=strict_rdkit)
except RuntimeError as exc:
result["errors"].append(str(exc))
return result
result["smiles_check_count"] = parsed
result["num_invalid_smiles"] = invalid
result["smiles_check_method"] = method
if invalid > 0:
scope = "all rows" if method == "full" else f"the {parsed} sampled rows"
result["errors"].append(
f"{invalid} out of {parsed} SMILES in {scope} failed to parse with RDKit. "
"Either pre-clean the CSV with scripts/clean_smiles.py or pass --strict-rdkit to see "
"the full count."
)
# 4. Target-column handling — finetune mode only.
if mode == "finetune":
if targets:
missing = [t for t in targets if t not in df.columns]
if missing:
result["errors"].append(
f"target column(s) not found in CSV: {missing}. "
f"Available columns: {result['columns']}"
)
else:
result["target_columns"] = list(targets)
for t in targets:
nan_count = int(df[t].isna().sum())
result["num_missing_per_target"][t] = nan_count
# Confirm numeric-ish.
nonnan = df[t].dropna()
converted = pd.to_numeric(nonnan, errors="coerce")
non_numeric_count = int(converted.isna().sum())
if non_numeric_count > 0:
result["warnings"].append(
f"target column '{t}' has {non_numeric_count} non-numeric value(s) "
f"that will be dropped by the finetune runner."
)
else:
# Auto-detect — surface candidates so the skill can prompt the user.
result["auto_detected_targets"] = _autodetect_target_columns(df, smiles_col)
if not result["auto_detected_targets"]:
result["errors"].append(
"no numeric non-smiles columns detected. finetune needs at least one target column; "
"specify it explicitly via --targets <col>."
)
else:
result["warnings"].append(
f"--targets was not specified; auto-detected candidate target columns "
f"{result['auto_detected_targets']}. The skill will prompt the user to confirm."
)
# 5. Small-corpus warning — only for pretrain (other modes can be tiny by design).
if mode == "pretrain" and result["num_rows"] < 100:
result["warnings"].append(
f"pretrain corpus is only {result['num_rows']} molecule(s). Pretraining typically "
f"needs orders of magnitude more — verify this is the intended input."
)
result["ok"] = not result["errors"]
return result
def main(argv: list[str] | None = None) -> int:
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Validate a CSV input for a KERMT agent workflow.")
parser.add_argument("--mode", required=True, choices=["pretrain", "finetune", "inference", "embed"])
parser.add_argument("--csv", required=True, help="Path to the input CSV")
parser.add_argument("--targets", nargs="+", default=None,
help="(finetune only) target column names. If omitted, the validator auto-detects "
"numeric non-smiles columns and reports them as candidates.")
parser.add_argument("--strict-rdkit", action="store_true",
help="Parse every SMILES with RDKit rather than sampling (slow on large CSVs).")
args = parser.parse_args(argv)
try:
result = validate(args.mode, args.csv, args.targets, args.strict_rdkit)
except Exception as exc: # noqa: BLE001
print(traceback.format_exc(), file=sys.stderr)
print(json.dumps({
"ok": False,
"mode": args.mode,
"csv_path": args.csv,
"errors": [f"unhandled exception in validator: {type(exc).__name__}: {exc}"],
"warnings": [],
}, indent=2))
return 1
print(json.dumps(result, indent=2))
return 0 if result["ok"] else 1
if __name__ == "__main__":
sys.exit(main())
Requirements and compatibility
Written for: Claude Code, OpenAI Codex
Works with: Claude Code, Claude apps, OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Kiro, OpenCode, Goose, Amp, Roo Code, JetBrains Junie, Factory Droid, Devin (ex-Windsurf), Mistral Vibe, OpenHands, Letta
“Works with” means the tool reads the open Agent Skills format; a skill written for one tool may use features others lack.
Needs: Needs Python
The author says: Requires docker, nvidia-container-toolkit, and a CUDA-capable NVIDIA GPU. Designed for Claude Code, Codex, and Nemotron.
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- Apache License 2.0 (redistribution allowed)
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