Practical overview
When it fits
Use the repository when you need Nemotron-specific training materials, model-use guidance or application examples, and select the section based on whether you are composing pipeline stages, following a full recipe, deploying a model or building an application.
Who it is for
- Developers preparing or fine-tuning Nemotron models.
- Practitioners looking for guidance on model deployment or inference.
- Teams exploring application examples involving RAG, agents or tool use.
- Claude Code users who want the repository’s nemotron-customize skill to assemble a pipeline configuration.
Documented uses
- Find modular steps for data preparation, training, evaluation and related pipeline stages.
- Follow a complete training recipe from raw data through model training.
- Consult model-specific cookbooks for deployment and inference.
- Study end-to-end examples when building applications with Nemotron models.
- Generate YAML configuration for a pipeline using the Claude Code plugin.
Requirements & limits
The repository is public and identifies its license as Apache 2.0. The README lists Python 3.10+ as a requirement. The documented Claude Code plugin requires installation and must be invoked from the repository root.
- Training recipes are Python packages with configurations, scripts and evaluation; usage cookbooks are Jupyter notebooks; use-case examples are notebooks and scripts.
- The repository distinguishes training and evaluation building blocks from model deployment and application examples.
- Cookbooks cover different model sizes and deployment contexts, including resource-constrained environments and multi-GPU deployments.
- The nemotron-customize plugin emits pipeline YAML and checks artifact wiring; its documented role is configuration generation, not pipeline execution.
Check current requirements in the official documentation. Source-based guidance does not mean OpenViST has run or independently tested this project.
Prepare a pipeline configuration with nemotron-customize
Use the repository’s Claude Code skill to plan a Nemotron steps pipeline and generate its YAML configuration.
Before you start
- A Nemotron repository checkout containing pyproject.toml and src/nemotron/steps/ at its root.
- Claude Code and the nemotron-customize plugin, installed using the repository’s documented marketplace commands.
Steps
Add the NVIDIA/Nemotron marketplace in Claude Code with
/plugin marketplace add NVIDIA/Nemotron.Install the plugin with
/plugin install nemotron-customize@nvidia-nemotron.Start Claude Code from the Nemotron checkout root, then invoke
/nemotron-customize.Use the skill to plan the step DAG and artifact wiring and emit the requested pipeline YAML configuration.
Expected outcome
A planned pipeline and YAML configuration files for the requested workflow.
Guide limitations
- The skill must run from the repository root; invoking it from a subdirectory causes file reads to fail.
- The plugin marketplace installs only nemotron-customize; other folders under skills are not loaded as plugins.
- The documented skill creates configuration; this guide does not cover running the pipeline.
Sources & review
Source record details
- Source availability
- Active
- Sources checked
- 14 October 2026
- Original website title
- NVIDIA-NeMo/Nemotron · Official homepage title · retained in its source language

