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running-cluster-experiments from chgagne/claude-skills-research is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add chgagne/claude-skills-research/running-cluster-experiments@git:20260812.12926b4Pins git:20260812.12926b4 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
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- SKILL.md skill
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- chgagne/claude-skills-research
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- git:20260812.12926b4, committed Aug 12, 2026
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- MIT
Use when planning, budgeting, submitting or resuming a multi-job experiment campaign on a Slurm/HPC cluster — sizing walltime, shaping jobs and arrays, deciding what to submit first, or after a job hit its walltime, produced no results, silently ran the wrong configuration, or got the wrong number of GPUs.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Running Cluster Experiments ## Overview This is the **methodology** of experiment campaigns on shared clusters. For the mechanics — MFA, account strings, gres names, quotas, partitions, rsync flags — **REQUIRED BACKGROUND: use `using-drac-clusters`.** **Core principle: a scheduler will kill your job at an arbitrary point, and a cluster will hand you less than you asked for. Design for both, or your allocation buys nothing.** Every rule below is a consequence. The expensive failures are never "the code crashed". They are: the job ran perfectly and wrote nothing; the job ran a different experiment than its name says; the allocation was spent before the first useful instruction. ## Never compute on a login node — use an interactive allocation Login nodes are shared by hundreds of people and staff kill offenders. `squeue`, `ls`, `sacct`, `diskusage_report`, editing, `sbatch`, file transfer: fine. **Anything that loops over data, parses a large file, trains, plots, or runs for more than a few seconds: not fine** — including "just this once to check something", and including work you started before realising how big it was. …
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How to install
mdr add chgagne/claude-skills-research/running-cluster-experiments@sha256:7f78fbb87bcf190dThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260812.12926b4, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, all committed on Aug 12, 2026.
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Source
chgagne/claude-skills-research · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-16 · branch main
API
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