holoscan-setup SKILL.md skillA
holoscan-setup from nvidia/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add nvidia/skills/holoscan-setup@v2.0.0Pins v2.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- nvidia/skills
- Path
skills/holoscan-setup/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- v2.0.0, committed Oct 21, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 31, 2026
- Size
- 4,484 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3,871
- License
- Apache-2.0
Assess a host and choose a Holoscan SDK 5.x installation method using release availability, CUDA 13 compatibility, and component needs.
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
# Holoscan 5.x Setup ## Establish the target Determine the requested 5.x release or source branch and whether the user needs C++, Python, specific modules, or SDK development. Read the release notes and [SDK installation guide](https://docs.nvidia.com/holoscan/sdk-user-guide/setup/sdk-installation) with the matching 5.x version selected. An unversioned page may describe 4.x; for a development checkout use its `docs/sdk_installation.mdx` and `DEVELOP.md`. Treat Early Access binary methods as tentative until the exact artifacts are confirmed published. Package-name registration alone is not availability. ## Inspect and assess Use read-only checks on the intended Linux host: ```bash uname -m cat /etc/os-release nvidia-smi python3 --version getconf GNU_LIBC_VERSION docker --version docker info ``` Report unavailable tools separately from incompatible hardware. Inspect an existing venv or SDK checkout only at user-selected or relevant known paths. Use `python -m pip list` in the intended environment and `dpkg-query -W 'holoscan*'` on Debian systems to distinguish 4.x installations from usable 5.x ones. A GPU passthrough check that runs/pulls an image is a separate execution step; …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add nvidia/skills/holoscan-setup@sha256:4ba24a7e3700fc11The line at the top of this page pins the label v2.0.0, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_7ricdtmi6wbzi45s)
3 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.
Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between May 31, 2026 and Oct 21, 2026, about one every 143 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v2.0.0 latest | 2026-10-21 | 1b10c68 | 4,484 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-05-31 | a7c1463 | 10,174 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (4484 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
nvidia/skills · 3,871 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_7ricdtmi6wbzi45s GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=nvidia/skills/holoscan-setup GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/4ba24a7e3700fc1127db169d192d42e7ec7c18f53be704e00193f6856879cdab
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.