deep-learning SKILL.md skillA
deep-learning from ericrisco/rsc-harness is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ericrisco/rsc-harness/deep-learning@git:20260729.a707f94Pins git:20260729.a707f94 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ericrisco/rsc-harness
- Path
skills/deep-learning/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260729.a707f94, committed Jul 29, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 18, 2026
- Size
- 13,818 bytes
- Repository stars
- 236
- License
- MIT
Use when training or debugging a neural net in PyTorch — the forward/loss/backward/step loop and its silent bugs, mixed precision (AMP), AdamW/LR schedules, DDP/FSDP/ZeRO, checkpoints and seeds. NOT LoRA/QLoRA on a pretrained LLM (that is `finetuning`), NOT tabular sklearn/XGBoost (that is `machine-learning`), NOT tokenization or NLP metrics (that is `nlp`).
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
# deep-learning — train a neural net in PyTorch without the silent bugs
You own **training and understanding neural networks in PyTorch**: the loop, autograd, mixed
precision, optimizers/schedulers, multi-GPU, and the reproducibility/checkpoint hygiene that
separates a real result from a lucky one. Nets from scratch, vision, custom architectures — all
here. This is PyTorch-first by design: JAX and TensorFlow are real and fine, but the patterns,
APIs, and gotchas below are Torch's.
**Version reality (verify at author time).** Current stable is PyTorch **2.x** — ~**2.13** as of
mid-2026 (`pytorch.org/get-started`, releases move fast; don't hard-pin a minor). Everything below
is stable 2.x API. The one namespace shift to know: AMP now lives under `torch.amp`
(`torch.amp.GradScaler("cuda")`), not the old `torch.cuda.amp.*`.
## Am I in the right skill?
| You are doing… | Skill |
|---|---|
| Training/debugging a net in PyTorch (from scratch, vision, custom loop, AMP, multi-GPU) | **deep-learning (here)** |
| Adapting a *pretrained LLM* — LoRA/QLoRA, SFT, trl/peft | [`finetuning`](../finetuning/SKILL.md) |
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add ericrisco/rsc-harness/deep-learning@sha256:6af7f88047934b98The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260729.a707f94, 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_vqmg4g77huvohjrt)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Jul 18, 2026 and Jul 29, 2026, about one every 11 days.
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| git:20260729.a707f94 latest | 2026-07-29 | a707f94 | 13,818 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260718.2408919 | 2026-07-18 | 2408919 | 16,206 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 (13818 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
ericrisco/rsc-harness · 236 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_vqmg4g77huvohjrt GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ericrisco/rsc-harness/deep-learning GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/6af7f88047934b986e8ff8a7038c0438d5d260c479ae2c8af141c5081f97c66d
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.
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