# jetson-init-target

Authors a new NVIDIA Jetson target-platform profile and updates the active target pointer. Useful when configuring a devkit or custom carrier board from scratch.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 1100 installs · ★ 3735
- Author: Jetson Team
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/NVIDIA/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/jetson-init-target/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/jetson-init-target

## What it does

This skill writes a new `target-platform/<name>.yaml` file and updates `target-platform/active_target.yml`. Its scope covers only the `reference_devkit:` and `custom_carrier:` blocks. Sibling skills handle other sections: `jetson-init-image` manages BSP images, while `jetson-init-source` handles source code.

Execution follows `bsp-platforms-catalogue.md` and `platform_template.yaml`. The skill groups hardware by chip families and guides you through selecting a baseline product and flash configuration. Field prompts rely on sentinel markers: required fields prompt for input, while `<DERIVED>` fields fill programmatically.

The workflow authors new profiles from scratch. It does not switch active pointers among already configured targets. If your profile already exists, run `jetson-set-target` instead.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add NVIDIA/skills --skill jetson-init-target -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add NVIDIA/skills --skill jetson-init-target -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add NVIDIA/skills --skill jetson-init-target -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install NVIDIA/skills jetson-init-target
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/jetson-init-target/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add NVIDIA/skills --skill jetson-init-target -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/NVIDIA/skills --path skills/jetson-init-target
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add NVIDIA/skills --skill jetson-init-target -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/NVIDIA/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/jetson-init-target/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- author a new target-platform profile YAML for NVIDIA Jetson
- pick a baseline reference devkit and flash config from the BSP catalogue
- add custom carrier board hardware parameters to the target profile
- update the active_target.yml pointer to the new profile

## Example prompts
- Author a new target platform profile for Jetson AGX Orin 64GB
- Create a target-platform profile with a custom carrier board
- Run jetson-init-target to configure a baseline Jetson devkit

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

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```text
---
name: jetson-init-target
description: >-
  Author a new Jetson target-platform profile (reference_devkit +
  optional custom_carrier) and update the active pointer. Use to
  create a target; not for switching existing profiles.
version: 0.0.1
license: "Apache-2.0"
metadata:
  data-classification: public
  author: "Jetson Team"
  tags:
    - target-platform
    - configuration
    - meta
  domain: meta
---

# Initialize Target Platform

## Overview

This skill **authors** a new target-platform profile YAML — the
write-side of the contract in
[`../../context/target-platform-contract.md`](../../context/target-platform-contract.md). It uses
[`../../references/bsp-platforms-catalogue.md`](../../references/bsp-platforms-catalogue.md)
as the canonical product / flash-config catalogue and
[`../../references/platform_template.yaml`](../../references/platform_template.yaml)
as the field schema.

Flow is linear: pick a reference product + flash config, then
**optionally** add custom-carrier details. The two contract cases —
reference-only vs reference + custom carrier — are distinguished only
by whether the user provides custom-carrier details; there is no
up-front mode prompt.

**Scope is `reference_devkit:` and `custom_carrier:` only.** Sibling
skills own the other blocks: `bsp_image:` →
[`jetson-init-image`](../jetson-init-image/SKILL.md); `source:` →
[`jetson-init-source`](../jetson-init-source/SKILL.md); `documents:` →
[`jetson-link-docs`](../jetson-link-docs/SKILL.md).

Outputs: a new `target-platform/<name>.yaml` and (by default) an
updated `active_target.yml` pointing at it. To switch among
already-authored profiles, use sibling `jetson-set-target`.

## When to invoke

- The user asks to create / author / add a new target platform profile.
- A downstream skill refused with "no active target" **and**
  `target-platform/` contains no profile YAML files yet (otherwise
  prefer `jetson-set-target`).
- The user wants a target whose profile does not yet exist on disk.

## Procedure

### Quick-start prefill mapping

Follow the shared
[`quick_start_prefill` contract](../../context/bsp-customization-workflow.md#quick_start_prefill-contract).
This skill consumes:

- `quick_start_prefill.target.active_platform` as the selected catalogue
  row when it resolves to exactly one product.
- `quick_start_prefill.target.custom_carrier` as the custom-carrier
  intent.

If `active_platform` resolves to one catalogue row, use it directly. Do
not re-ask reference-product or flash-config questions; use the row's
default flash config unless the prefill names a catalogue variant. Ask
only when the prefill is missing, invalid, ambiguous, or names an unknown
variant.

### How the skill consumes the template

Load
[`../../references/platform_template.yaml`](../../references/platform_template.yaml)
once at skill startup and treat it as the schema for prompted blocks.
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