# endpoint-ops

A skill for an existing Runpod Serverless endpoint: finds why jobs queue up or workers die, and changes a setting only when you authorize it.

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- Author: runpod
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/runpod/runpod-plugins-official/tree/HEAD/plugins/runpod/skills/endpoint-ops/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/endpoint-ops

## What it does

The skill reads the endpoint before it does anything: config, health, worker list, logs. Diagnosis stays read-only. Ask only why something is slow or stuck, and it stops there.

Updates go through PATCH, which sets the central rule. Only the fields you authorized travel in the body; everything else is left alone. GPU selection is the exception: `gpu.pools` and `gpu.excludedTypes` are one setting, so a PATCH with `pools` but no `excludedTypes` wipes the exclusions. Touch one, send both. A PATCH response is not a read, so the skill reads the config first for the before value and again afterward for the after value.

It runs on Runpod MCP tools. A stuck queue gets split into three causes: a worker limit (say, `workers.max` lowered by idleness), no capacity for the selected GPU, or a crash loop. For the last one it reads worker logs with `source=system` — a container that dies before the handler starts can still report RUNNING or INITIALIZING while the job sits queued.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add runpod/runpod-plugins-official --skill endpoint-ops -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/endpoint-ops/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/endpoint-ops/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add runpod/runpod-plugins-official --skill endpoint-ops -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/endpoint-ops/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add runpod/runpod-plugins-official --skill endpoint-ops -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/endpoint-ops/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install runpod/runpod-plugins-official endpoint-ops
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/endpoint-ops/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add runpod/runpod-plugins-official --skill endpoint-ops -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/runpod/runpod-plugins-official --path plugins/runpod/skills/endpoint-ops
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/endpoint-ops/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add runpod/runpod-plugins-official --skill endpoint-ops -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/runpod/runpod-plugins-official/tree/HEAD/plugins/runpod/skills/endpoint-ops/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- find out why jobs sit in `IN_QUEUE`
- tell a GPU capacity shortage from a worker limit
- pull the failing line out of a worker log
- raise idle timeout so warm workers stay warm
- lock an endpoint to one GPU type

## Example prompts
- look at my endpoint and tell me why jobs are queuing
- workers keep restarting — read their logs and name the cause
- raise the idle timeout on this endpoint, leave everything else alone

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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```text
---
name: endpoint-ops
description: 'Operate a Serverless endpoint that already exists: diagnose queued jobs and dying workers,
  tune scaling, idle timeout and FlashBoot safely, pin the GPU selection, and manage the queue (cancel
  a job, purge). Read-only by default; changes only the exact setting the user authorized, with a read
  before and after. Use when the user has an endpoint and asks why it is slow, stuck or failing, or wants
  one of its settings changed through the Runpod MCP tools.'
metadata:
  author: runpod
  version: "1.8.0" # x-release-please-version
  concepts: [serverless-endpoint, endpoint-autoscaling, worker, job, flashboot, gpu-pool, log-stream, endpoint-release, volume-cache]
license: Apache-2.0
---

# Endpoint ops

You operate a Serverless endpoint that already exists. Everything starts by reading its current state (the endpoint config, its health, its workers, its logs) before you say anything or change anything. Diagnosis is always read-only. You change a setting only when the user asked for a change, and then only the exact setting agreed.

One property of the Runpod update path drives the central rule here: an endpoint update is a PATCH. Only the fields present in the body change and omitted fields are left untouched, so you send exactly the setting you were asked to change and nothing else. The one exception is the GPU selection: `gpu.pools` and `gpu.excludedTypes` are a single selection, so a PATCH that sends `pools` without `excludedTypes` clears the exclusions. When you touch either, send both. What the PATCH does not give you is proof: its own response is not a read. Read the config first for the before value, and read it back afterward for the after value.

## Required capabilities

Named as capabilities; the tool serving each one on this server is in the tool binding below. This skill reads before it mutates, and mutates only what the user authorized.

- List and inspect endpoints: resolve "which endpoint" and read the full current config.
- Read endpoint health and list workers: the stuck-queue / dying-worker evidence.
- Read a worker's logs: the crash / model-load failure line.
- Read GPU stock per data center, with the CUDA versions that have capacity: is a stuck queue a capacity problem?
- Update an endpoint (worker min/max, idle timeout, scaler, FlashBoot, disk, env): the gated tune.
- Pin GPUs / set GPU count: the pool plus `excludedTypes` selection and `gpu.count`; `set-endpoint-gpus` builds it and preserves the other settings.
- Read release history: which build the workers are running.
- Cancel one job; purge the queue. These are the queue-management actions, each gated.
- Submit and poll a job to re-verify after a change.
```
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