first-run-setup SKILL.md skillA

first-run-setup from nebius/nebius-physical-ai is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add nebius/nebius-physical-ai/first-run-setup@git:20261029.fe9128e

Pins git:20261029.fe9128e in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
nebius/nebius-physical-ai
Path
skills/workflows/first-run-setup/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
10
Latest version
git:20261029.fe9128e, committed Oct 29, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 17, 2026
Size
11,266 bytes
Repository stars
106
License
Apache-2.0

Use on a fresh machine or a new Nebius project to get from zero to a first verified result — an ordered, gated path through install, configure, credential preflight, cheapest-proof workload, then cluster provisioning, with an explicit stop condition at every step.

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

# First run: zero to a verified result

The failure mode this skill exists to prevent is spending an hour provisioning a
GPU cluster and discovering at stage three that a credential did not have exact
artifact access. Each step below has a **gate**: a command whose success is the
precondition for the next step. Do not skip ahead because a later step looks more
interesting.

Escalate through the cheapest tier that can prove the thing you need. Most
first-run questions are answered before any GPU is involved.

## Step 1 — Install and prove the CLI runs

```bash
python3 -m venv npa/.venv
npa/.venv/bin/pip install -e "npa[dev]"
npa/.venv/bin/npa --version
```

**Gate:** `npa --version` and `npa --help` both succeed. They must work with no
Nebius, Hugging Face, NGC, Kubernetes, or S3 credentials at all. If they do not,
the problem is the install, not your cloud setup.

Python 3.11+ is required. Terraform 1.x must be on `PATH` for anything managed
(`npa cluster up`, `npa agent fresh-setup`); `pip install -e npa` does not install
it. On Windows, work inside WSL2 — the cloud paths assume POSIX.

Use `npa/.venv/bin/python` and `npa/.venv/bin/npa` explicitly for repo validation
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add nebius/nebius-physical-ai/first-run-setup@sha256:d860ccee7986c1a6

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261029.fe9128e, 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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Versions

The registry has recorded 10 versions of this file, between Aug 17, 2026 and Oct 29, 2026, about one every 8 days.

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Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (11266 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

GitHub

nebius/nebius-physical-ai · 106 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_se4xuh3giabs6opy
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=nebius/nebius-physical-ai/first-run-setup
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d860ccee7986c1a698bd697403ca9b4e2407577436ac7f002d6b2086b59b8704

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