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Kermt Pretrain Scratch

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Pretrain a fresh KERMT model from scratch on a user-provided corpus. Builds a new vocabulary from the corpus, instantiates the model architecture from defaults, and launches pretrain_ddp.py inside the kermt container (detached for long runs). Unlike kermt-continue-pretrain, no starting checkpoint is loaded — the model is randomly initialized.
— the description by NVIDIA

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This skill orchestrates the end-to-end pretraining of a KERMT model from scratch. Unlike continuing an existing model, this process initializes the model randomly and builds a new vocabulary directly from the user-provided corpus. It is a computationally intensive workflow designed for domain-specific chemistry research where existing checkpoints are insufficient. The skill handles data validation, vocabulary generation, and the launch of distributed training within a containerized environment.

What it does

  • Validates the user-provided SMILES corpus for pretraining compatibility.
  • Generates a fresh vocabulary based on the provided dataset.
  • Configures model architecture using default settings.
  • Launches a detached distributed training process using the KERMT container.
  • Provides a detailed run manifest for reproducibility and tracking.
  • Offers monitoring guidance for long-running training sessions.

When to use it

  • When you need to train a model on a custom chemistry domain not covered by released checkpoints.
  • When you require a full end-to-end reproduction of a pretraining configuration.
  • When you have sufficient compute resources for a multi-day training job.

Advantages

  • Enables complete control over the model's training data and vocabulary.
  • Supports multiple pretraining objectives including vocab, cmim, and hybrid modes.
  • Ensures reproducibility through detailed manifest generation and command replay.
  • Automates complex containerized orchestration for distributed training.

Usage examples

“Pretrain a new KERMT model from scratch using my_corpus.csv with the hybrid objective.”
The agent validates the CSV, builds a fresh vocabulary, estimates the required compute time, and launches the training process in a detached container.
“Start a scratch pretraining run on my_data.csv and log to wandb.”
The agent initiates the pretraining workflow, configuring the environment for Weights & Biases logging and providing the run directory for monitoring.

Install

  1. Download the skill as a ZIP:

    https://mp-staging.autogineer.com/agent-skills/nvidia/kermt-pretrain-scratch/download
  2. Unzip it into the cross-client skills folder of your project:

    mkdir -p .agents/skills && unzip kermt-pretrain-scratch.zip -d .agents/skills

Documentation by NVIDIA

kermt-pretrain-scratch

Pretrain a brand-new KERMT model from scratch on a user-provided corpus. Useful when you want to retrain a model on a custom chemistry domain rather than extending one of the released checkpoints. Significantly more expensive than kermt-continue-pretrain — no warm start, so the loss curves need to descend from scratch over many epochs.

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/.

Hardware requirements

Same as kermt-continue-pretrain:

  • GPUs: 1–N CUDA-capable. The runner auto-detects via torch.cuda.device_count(); --gpus 0,2 overrides. Single-GPU fallback: --batch_size 32 --save_interval 500. Multi-GPU keeps defaults (--batch_size 256 etc.). Note: --gpus N uses torch.cuda indexing, which can differ from nvidia-smi's display order on multi-GPU hosts (PCI bus vs. CUDA enumeration). To target a specific physical GPU, set CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES before invoking, or run python -c "import torch; print([torch.cuda.get_device_name(i) for i in range(torch.cuda.device_count())])" to confirm which device you're picking.

  • VRAM: the default --batch-size 256 is sized for A100-class hardware (80 GB VRAM). On smaller GPUs, downscale to avoid OOM:

    GPU classVRAMSuggested --batch-size
    L4, T4, V100 16 GB16–24 GB32–64
    A100 40 GB, L40, A4040–48 GB128
    A100 80 GB, H100, H20080 GB256 (default)

    These are rough starting points — pass --batch-size N to override.

  • Disk: tens of GB for shards + vocab + checkpoints, scaled by epochs.

  • Wall time: this is the big difference. Pretraining from scratch on an 11M-mol corpus at 100 epochs typically takes days even on a multi-GPU box. The skill prints an estimate before launching; confirm with the user.

When to invoke

  • User wants to train a new model on a custom corpus (e.g. domain-specific chemistry that the released ckpts don't cover).

  • User wants to reproduce a pretrain config end-to-end without depending on a released ckpt.

For continuing an existing released ckpt, use kermt-continue-pretrain. For adding a cMIM decoder to an encoder-only grover_base ckpt, use kermt-add-cmim-pretrain.

Inputs

Required:

  • --csv <path> — the pretrain corpus CSV with a smiles column. Single file by convention; multi-file corpora deferred. Use --val-csv for a separate validation set.

  • --pretrain-target-mode {vocab|cmim|hybrid} — which pretrain objective to use. No default — must be set explicitly so the user makes an informed choice:

    • vocab — original GROVER-style atom + bond vocab prediction (encoder-only output, lightweight).

    • cmim — contrastive + SMILES reconstruction objective. Requires building a SMILES vocab from the corpus.

    • hybrid — both vocab and contrastive objectives jointly (the state-of-the-art config from the KERMT manuscript).

Optional:

  • --val-csv <path> — separate validation CSV. Without it, prepare_data auto-splits the input by --val-frac 0.1 (random shuffle with --seed).

  • Training-hyperparameter overrides: --epochs N / --batch-size N / --init-lr F / --max-lr F / --final-lr F / --warmup-epochs F / --weight-decay F / --dropout F / --save-interval N / --seed N. Anything not given is filled from config/defaults_pretrain.json.

  • --vocab-loss-weight F (hybrid only) / --latent-dim N / --contrastive-temperature F (cmim and hybrid only).

  • --wandb-project NAME / --wandb-run-name NAME — optional Weights & Biases logging. When --wandb-project is set, rank 0 logs train/val losses; the run name is honored only alongside a project. Off by default.

  • --gpus 0,2 — restrict to a GPU subset.

Workflow

Let $KERMT_REPO be the path to your kermt repo checkout.

  1. Pre-flight: ensure container + system probe (same as kermt-continue-pretrain step 1). Refuse to proceed if check_system reports gaps.

  2. Compute run directory.

    RUN_DIR=$KERMT_REPO/runs/pretrain-scratch_$(date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H-%M-%SZ)
  3. Validate the corpus (no ckpt to validate, so this is the only input check):

    "$SKILL_DIR/scripts/kermt_container.sh" run --data <user-csv> -- \
        "python /skill/scripts/check_data.py --mode pretrain --csv /data/<basename>"

    Abort on ok: false.

  4. Prepare the data — no vocab pass-through (we want fresh vocab from corpus):

    "$SKILL_DIR/scripts/kermt_container.sh" run --data <user-csv> --run-dir $RUN_DIR -- \
        "python /skill/scripts/prepare_data.py --mode pretrain \\
             --csv /data/<basename> --out /runs/data \\
             [--val-csv /data/<val-basename>] [--val-frac 0.1] [--seed 0]"

    Outputs land at $RUN_DIR/data/prepare_data.json with vocab_source: "built_fresh".

  5. Estimate runtime + warn loudly. This is critical for pretrain-from-scratch:

    • "Pretraining from scratch is days-scale even on multi-GPU; the released KERMT checkpoints were each trained on millions of molecules for hundreds of GPU-hours. If you mainly want to leverage existing knowledge for a downstream task, consider kermt-continue-pretrain from a released ckpt instead, which converges in hours instead of days."

    • Show the corpus size × epochs × GPU count → estimated wall time.

    • Ask for explicit confirmation unless --yes was given.

  6. Launch the runner detached.

    "$SKILL_DIR/scripts/kermt_container.sh" run_detached \\
        --name kermt-pretrain-scratch-<ts> \\
        --run-dir $RUN_DIR -- \\
        "python /skill/scripts/run_pretrain_local.py \\
             --from-scratch --pretrain-target-mode <vocab|cmim|hybrid> \\
             --prepare-manifest /runs/data/prepare_data.json \\
             --out /runs \\
             [--epochs N --batch-size N ...]"

    Note: NO --ckpt flag (the runner refuses if both --from-scratch and --ckpt are given). The runner uses the arch group from config/defaults_pretrain.json to size the model.

  7. Report to the user. Always include all of the following — do not omit the TensorBoard line under output-length pressure:

    • Container name + id

    • $RUN_DIR/run.json (the manifest with workflow: pretrain-scratch, from_scratch: true, vocab_check: null, arch from defaults, full cmd_replay)

    • Log file: $RUN_DIR/logs/pretrain_ddp.log

    • TensorBoard: $RUN_DIR/logs/tb (open with tensorboard --logdir $RUN_DIR/logs/tb)

    • Suggest kermt-monitor <RUN_DIR> for progress.

Hard rules

  • Never accept a --ckpt flag. From-scratch is exclusive with input ckpt — the runner enforces this; the skill should too.

  • Never silently default --pretrain-target-mode. This is a significant architectural choice (vocab = lightweight, hybrid = SOTA). Prompt the user if not given on the CLI.

  • Strong warning before launching. From-scratch pretrain is the most expensive workflow. The user needs to know what they're committing to.

Common errors

  • --pretrain-target-mode is required when --from-scratch is set → user forgot the mode flag. Prompt.

  • --from-scratch is incompatible with --ckpt → user provided both; ask which one they meant.

  • defaults_pretrain.json has no arch group → repo state issue (should never happen on a fresh clone); points the user at running kermt-setup again.

What's in the manifest after a from-scratch run

Same reproducibility fields as continue-pretrain (repo.commit, kermt_image, cmd_replay, args_applied), plus:

  • workflow: "pretrain-scratch"

  • from_scratch: true

  • inputs.ckpt: null

  • ckpt_symlink: null

  • vocab_check: null (not verified — vocab built from corpus is authoritative for from-scratch)

  • arch: the values pulled from config/defaults_pretrain.json's arch group (with any future CLI overrides applied).

Replayability

Same as continue-pretrain: cmd_replay is a copy-pasteable command. If ok_to_replay: false, the kermt repo working tree was dirty at launch time — check repo.commit and git checkout it first.

Files

scripts/_utils.py

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (c) 2025 NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES. All rights reserved.
# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0

"""Shared utilities for the agent scripts.

Kept intentionally small — only logic that appears (or would otherwise be
duplicated) in two or more `scripts/*.py` modules. Each script
maintains its own primary CLI + main flow.
"""
from __future__ import annotations

import argparse
from collections import Counter
import json
import os
import pickle
import re
import shlex
import subprocess
import sys
from pathlib import Path
from typing import Any


# Conventional pretrain vocab filename stems. Used by prepare_data.py +
# upgrade_to_hybrid.py + the README "Released models" bundling docs +
# the test helpers. Centralized here so a future rename only touches one
# spot.
PRETRAIN_VOCAB_STEMS = {
    "atom":   "pretrain_atom_vocab",
    "bond":   "pretrain_bond_vocab",
    "smiles": "pretrain_smiles_vocab",
}


def resolve_kermt_repo() -> Path:
    """Find the runtime checkout independently of the installed skill location.

    An explicit KERMT_REPO takes precedence. In a repository checkout, walking
    up from this helper or the working directory also supports local use.
    """
    explicit = os.environ.get("KERMT_REPO")
    if explicit:
        candidates = [Path(explicit).expanduser().resolve()]
    else:
        candidates = []
        for start in (Path(__file__).resolve().parent, Path.cwd()):
            candidates.extend((start, *start.parents))
    for candidate in candidates:
        if (candidate / "main.py").is_file() and (candidate / "kermt").is_dir():
            return candidate
    raise FileNotFoundError(
        "KERMT checkout not found. Set KERMT_REPO to the checkout containing "
        "main.py and kermt/; the installed skill directory is separate."
    )


def load_json(path: Path, *, name: str) -> dict[str, Any]:
    """Load a JSON file with consistent error messages.

    `name` is a human-readable label for the document (e.g. "prepare_data.json")
    so the error tells the user which schema we expected at that path.
    """
    if not path.is_file():
        raise FileNotFoundError(f"{name} not found at {path}")
    try:
        return json.loads(path.read_text())
    except json.JSONDecodeError as exc:
        raise ValueError(f"{name} at {path} is not valid JSON: {exc}") from exc


def count_vocab_entries(vocab_path: Path) -> int:
    """Return the number of entries in a KERMT vocab file.

    Handles three layouts:
      - JSON with `{stoi: {token: idx}, ...}` (MolVocab.save_vocab default)
      - JSON as a raw `{token: idx}` dict (legacy / hand-edited)
      - Legacy MolVocab / SMILESVocab pickles, read as inert vocabulary state.

    The pickle reader accepts only the known vocabulary containers and their
    Counter/regex metadata. It cannot import arbitrary classes or run reducers
    supplied by the artifact, and it never falls back to an unrestricted loader.
    """
    if vocab_path.suffix == ".json":
        data = json.loads(vocab_path.read_text())
        if isinstance(data, dict) and "stoi" in data:
            return len(data["stoi"])
        if isinstance(data, dict):
            return len(data)
        raise ValueError(f"unsupported JSON vocab shape at {vocab_path}: {type(data).__name__}")

    with vocab_path.open("rb") as f:
        data = _VocabUnpickler(f).load()
    if isinstance(data, _VocabState) and isinstance(data.stoi, dict):
        return len(data.stoi)
    if isinstance(data, (dict, list, tuple)):
        return len(data)
    raise ValueError(f"could not count entries in {vocab_path}")


class _VocabState:
    """Data-only stand-in: counting tokens does not require tokenizer methods."""


class _VocabUnpickler(pickle.Unpickler):
    def find_class(self, module: str, name: str) -> Any:
        if module in {"kermt.data.torchvocab", "grover.data.torchvocab"} and name in {
            "TorchVocab", "MolVocab", "SMILESVocab",
        }:
            return _VocabState
        if (module, name) == ("collections", "Counter"):
            return Counter
        if (module, name) == ("re", "_compile"):
            return re.compile
        raise pickle.UnpicklingError(f"unsupported vocabulary object: {module}.{name}")


def load_checkpoint(path: Path | str) -> dict[str, Any]:
    """Read KERMT tensors and known metadata with PyTorch's restricted loader.

    Saved arguments use argparse.Namespace; finetuned checkpoints also contain
    numeric NumPy scaler arrays. Explicit globals cover those formats, including
    NumPy 1/2 module names, without accepting artifact-selected imports.
    """
    import numpy as np
    import torch

    multiarray = np._core.multiarray if hasattr(np, "_core") else np.core.multiarray
    allowed = [argparse.Namespace, np.ndarray, np.dtype]
    for module in ("numpy.core.multiarray", "numpy._core.multiarray"):
        allowed.extend([
            (multiarray._reconstruct, f"{module}._reconstruct"),
            (multiarray.scalar, f"{module}.scalar"),
        ])
    allowed.extend(type(np.dtype(name)) for name in (
        "bool", "int8", "int16", "int32", "int64", "uint8", "uint16", "uint32", "uint64",
        "float16", "float32", "float64",
    ))
    with torch.serialization.safe_globals(allowed):
        return torch.load(path, map_location="cpu", weights_only=True)


def runner_environment(repo: Path, *, wandb: bool = False) -> dict[str, str]:
    """Forward named runtime settings, keeping unrelated credentials out of jobs.

    W&B credentials/settings are included only for an explicitly enabled W&B
    run. Hugging Face authentication belongs to the separate download helper.
    """
    names = (
        "PATH", "HOME", "TMPDIR", "TEMP", "TMP", "LANG", "LC_ALL", "LC_CTYPE", "TZ",
        "LD_LIBRARY_PATH", "LIBRARY_PATH", "CUDA_HOME", "CUDA_PATH", "PYTHONPATH",
        "PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE", "PYTHONUNBUFFERED", "PYTHONWARNINGS",
        "CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES", "CUDA_DEVICE_ORDER", "CUDA_LAUNCH_BLOCKING", "NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES",
        "NVIDIA_DRIVER_CAPABILITIES", "CUBLAS_WORKSPACE_CONFIG", "OMP_NUM_THREADS",
        "MKL_NUM_THREADS", "OPENBLAS_NUM_THREADS", "NUMEXPR_NUM_THREADS",
        "PYTORCH_CUDA_ALLOC_CONF", "PYTORCH_ALLOC_CONF", "PYTORCH_NO_CUDA_MEMORY_CACHING",
        "TORCH_CPP_LOG_LEVEL", "TORCH_DISTRIBUTED_DEBUG", "NCCL_DEBUG", "NCCL_SOCKET_IFNAME",
        "NCCL_IB_DISABLE", "NCCL_P2P_DISABLE", "NCCL_SHM_DISABLE", "GLOO_SOCKET_IFNAME",
        "MASTER_ADDR", "MASTER_PORT",
        "KERMT_REPO", "KERMT_REPO_COMMIT", "KERMT_REPO_DIRTY",
        "SSL_CERT_FILE", "REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE",
    )
    if wandb:
        names += (
            "WANDB_API_KEY", "WANDB_BASE_URL", "WANDB_MODE", "WANDB_DIR", "WANDB_ENTITY",
            "WANDB_PROJECT", "WANDB_RUN_ID", "WANDB_RESUME", "WANDB_CACHE_DIR",
            "WANDB_CONFIG_DIR", "WANDB_DATA_DIR", "WANDB_DISABLED",
        )
    env = {name: value for name in names if (value := os.environ.get(name)) is not None}
    env["PYTHONPATH"] = os.pathsep.join(filter(None, (str(repo), env.get("PYTHONPATH"))))
    return env


def validate_vocab_file(vocab_path: Path, *, kind: str) -> None:
    """Verify a user-provided vocab file is loadable BEFORE copying it into a
    run directory. Raises ValueError on failure with a clear, user-facing message.

    `kind` is one of {"atom", "bond", "smiles"} — used only in the error message
    so the user knows which file is wrong.
    """
    if not vocab_path.is_file():
        raise FileNotFoundError(f"{kind} vocab file not found: {vocab_path}")
    try:
        n = count_vocab_entries(vocab_path)
    except Exception as exc:  # noqa: BLE001
        raise ValueError(
            f"{kind} vocab file {vocab_path} is not loadable as a KERMT vocab "
            f"({type(exc).__name__}: {exc}). Expected a MolVocab JSON or pickle "
            f"(or a SMILESVocab pickle for the smiles vocab)."
        ) from exc
    if n <= 0:
        raise ValueError(f"{kind} vocab file {vocab_path} contains zero entries")


# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Runner-shared helpers (run.json manifest fields)
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

def git_commit_with_env_override(repo: Path) -> tuple[str, bool]:
    """Returns (commit_sha, dirty_tree). Honors `KERMT_REPO_COMMIT` /
    `KERMT_REPO_DIRTY` env vars first — set by `scripts/kermt_container.sh`
    from the host before launching docker (necessary because `git -C /workspace`
    inside the container fails due to bind-mount ownership). Falls back to the
    in-container git probe when the env vars aren't set."""
    env_commit = os.environ.get("KERMT_REPO_COMMIT")
    if env_commit:
        env_dirty = os.environ.get("KERMT_REPO_DIRTY", "false").strip().lower() == "true"
        return env_commit, env_dirty
    try:
        sha = subprocess.run(
            ["git", "-C", str(repo), "rev-parse", "HEAD"],
            capture_output=True, text=True, check=True,
        ).stdout.strip()
        diff = subprocess.run(
            ["git", "-C", str(repo), "status", "--porcelain"],
            capture_output=True, text=True, check=True,
        )
        return sha, bool(diff.stdout.strip())
    except Exception:
        return "unknown", False


def docker_image_digest(tag: str) -> str | None:
    """Return the docker image's content-addressable Id (sha256:…) for the given
    tag, or None if docker isn't available / the image isn't local."""
    try:
        r = subprocess.run(
            ["docker", "image", "inspect", tag, "--format", "{{.Id}}"],
            capture_output=True, text=True,
        )
        if r.returncode == 0:
            return r.stdout.strip()
    except FileNotFoundError:
        pass
    return None


def format_cmd_replay(argv: list[str], *, env: dict[str, str] | None = None) -> str:
    """Render a copy-pasteable env-prefix + command for the cmd_replay manifest
    field. `env` is the set of environment variables to prefix (typically
    {CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES, WORLD_SIZE})."""
    env = env or {}
    env_prefix = [f"{k}={shlex.quote(str(v))}" for k, v in env.items()]
    quoted = " ".join(shlex.quote(a) for a in argv)
    return " ".join(env_prefix + [quoted])


def resolve_single_gpu(override: str | None, *, workflow: str) -> int:
    """Returns a single GPU id (int). The finetune/inference/embed workflows are
    single-GPU only; `--gpus '0,1'` or multi-id CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES is rejected
    with a workflow-specific error. (The pretrain runner has its own multi-GPU
    `_detect_gpus` helper — see run_pretrain_local.py.)"""
    if override is None:
        env_visible = os.environ.get("CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES", "").strip()
        if env_visible:
            ids = [g for g in env_visible.split(",") if g]
            if len(ids) > 1:
                raise ValueError(
                    f"CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES='{env_visible}' selects multiple GPUs but "
                    f"the {workflow} workflow is single-GPU only. Restrict to one id."
                )
            return int(ids[0])
        return 0
    parts = [p.strip() for p in override.split(",") if p.strip()]
    if len(parts) != 1:
        raise ValueError(
            f"--gpus '{override}' selects {len(parts)} GPUs; the {workflow} workflow is single-GPU only."
        )
    return int(parts[0])


def assert_prepare_manifest_basics(manifest: dict[str, Any], expected_mode: str) -> None:
    """Standard pre-check for a prepare_data.json before a runner consumes it:
    verify `mode` matches and `ok` is True. Raises ValueError with a consistent
    error message on either mismatch.

    Each runner is responsible for its own required-outputs check after this
    (those vary per-mode — e.g. pretrain wants train_dir/val_dir/atom_vocab/
    bond_vocab; finetune has the split-method branch; inference/embed want
    clean_csv)."""
    if manifest.get("mode") != expected_mode:
        raise ValueError(
            f"prepare_data manifest is mode='{manifest.get('mode')}', expected '{expected_mode}'. "
            f"Run `prepare_data.py --mode {expected_mode}` to produce a valid manifest."
        )
    if not manifest.get("ok"):
        raise ValueError(
            f"prepare_data manifest reports ok=False: {manifest.get('errors')}"
        )


def merge_default_into_applied(
    applied: dict[str, dict[str, Any]],
    args: argparse.Namespace,
    name: str,
    defaults_group: dict[str, Any],
) -> None:
    """Standard CLI-override / default-config merge for one hyperparameter.

    Mutates `applied` in place:
      - If the user passed `--<name>` on the CLI (so `getattr(args, name)` is
        not None), records `{"value": cli_val, "source": "user"}`.
      - Else if `name` is present in `defaults_group`, records
        `{"value": defaults_group[name], "source": "default-config"}`.
      - Else `applied[name]` is left absent — the runner's argv-builder skips
        the flag, and the downstream argparse default takes effect.

    `name` is the snake_case argparse dest (same form used as the dict key);
    argparse automatically converts CLI `--<name-with-hyphens>` to that dest,
    so `getattr(args, name, None)` is the correct CLI lookup."""
    cli_val = getattr(args, name, None)
    if cli_val is not None:
        applied[name] = {"value": cli_val, "source": "user"}
    elif name in defaults_group:
        applied[name] = {"value": defaults_group[name], "source": "default-config"}


def run_checkpoint_validator(ckpt: Path, *, mode: str, script_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
    """Invoke `check_checkpoint.py --mode <mode> --ckpt <path>` as a subprocess
    and return the parsed JSON. Raises RuntimeError on non-JSON output (e.g. the
    validator crashed before printing). `script_path` is the absolute path to
    `scripts/check_checkpoint.py` — passed in so this helper has no
    dependency on the caller's layout."""
    r = subprocess.run(
        [sys.executable, str(script_path), "--mode", mode, "--ckpt", str(ckpt)],
        capture_output=True, text=True,
    )
    try:
        return json.loads(r.stdout)
    except json.JSONDecodeError as exc:
        raise RuntimeError(
            f"check_checkpoint.py emitted non-JSON output (exit {r.returncode}). "
            f"stdout (first 200 chars): {r.stdout[:200]}\n"
            f"stderr (first 200 chars): {r.stderr[:200]}"
        ) from exc

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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NVIDIA (Official)
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NVIDIA/skills · skills/bionemo-kermt-pretrain-scratch · commit fce3cca
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