vlm-ocr-alice SKILL.md skillA
vlm-ocr-alice from scdenney/open-science-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add scdenney/open-science-skills/vlm-ocr-alice@git:20261018.b6541ffPins git:20261018.b6541ff in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- scdenney/open-science-skills
- Path
plugin/skills/vlm-ocr-alice/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261018.b6541ff, committed Oct 18, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 17, 2026
- Size
- 12,585 bytes
- Repository stars
- 69
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Runs the GPU part of a vlm-ocr pipeline on Leiden University's ALICE cluster. Decides whether a corpus needs ALICE, picks a GPU partition for the model, sets up storage, a pinned vLLM environment and offline weights, ships code and scans, runs a gate job and chained bulk jobs with the bundled SLURM template, and brings the page records home for post-processing. Use with vlm-ocr when OCRing scans on ALICE or deciding whether to.
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
# VLM-OCR on ALICE ## Instructions This skill pairs with `vlm-ocr`, which holds the method: `triage`, `evaluate`, `run`, `clean`. This skill covers where and how the GPU work runs on ALICE, Leiden University's SLURM cluster, and the failure modes met in a production run there (October 2026: about 36,600 pages of Korean textbooks with Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8 on vLLM 0.19). Partition names, limits and paths below were checked on 17 Oct 2026; confirm them live before submitting (`sinfo -s`), and use the ALICE wiki and helpdesk (helpdesk@alice.leidenuniv.nl) for anything account-related. The bundled `scripts/serve_and_ocr.slurm` starts vLLM on the job's GPUs, runs `vlm-ocr`'s `scripts/ocr_client.py` over a manifest, and stops vLLM. Copy both into the deployment's `code/` directory. ### 1. Decide whether the corpus needs ALICE - **Measure first.** `vlm-ocr` `triage` §3 gives pages per hour for the shortlisted models on the machine you have. Divide the corpus page count by it and add about 30 % for retries. …
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How to install
mdr add scdenney/open-science-skills/vlm-ocr-alice@sha256:2e872c094b1be08bThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261018.b6541ff, 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 3 versions of this file, between Oct 17, 2026 and Oct 18, 2026, more than one a day.
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| git:20261018.b6541ff latest | 2026-10-18 | b6541ff | 12,585 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261017.4336785 | 2026-10-17 | 4336785 | 11,681 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261017.725ef79 | 2026-10-17 | 725ef79 | 10,261 B | A | view |
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Source
scdenney/open-science-skills · 69 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
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