# physicsnemo-discover

An NVIDIA skill that finds the right model, datapipe or example in PhysicsNeMo for a SciML task. It points at files and writes no code.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 1900 installs · ★ 3735
- Author: NVIDIA
- 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/physicsnemo-discover/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/physicsnemo-discover

## What it does

Ask it what to use in PhysicsNeMo and you get a menu instead of one answer: model families that fit your data shape, datapipes for your format, and a couple of examples to fork. Everything comes from the repository as it is now. The skill reads `__init__.py` exports, example `README.md` files, `docs/*.rst` and `pyproject.toml` each turn, then verifies every absolute path with `ls -d` before citing it. Class names and folders move, so a memorised list would rot.

Models and datapipes are treated as separate axes. The example comes last, described as one instantiation of those choices. Anything under `physicsnemo/experimental/` gets an API-may-change warning. Outside SciML (reinforcement learning, classical control, general CV) the skill abstains and names alternative libraries rather than pointing at a neighbouring example that does not fit.

With no local clone on the path, it shallow-clones `https://github.com/NVIDIA/physicsnemo` into a temp directory once and treats it as read-only. Installation, environment setup and training loops are out of scope — the skill will not start writing code unless you ask for it directly. When the domain or data shape is unclear it asks up to three concrete questions first, and data shape drives most of the choice.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

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

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add NVIDIA/skills --skill physicsnemo-discover -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add NVIDIA/skills --skill physicsnemo-discover -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install NVIDIA/skills physicsnemo-discover
```

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

### Gemini CLI

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

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/NVIDIA/skills --path skills/physicsnemo-discover
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add NVIDIA/skills --skill physicsnemo-discover -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/physicsnemo-discover/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- pick a model family that matches your data shape
- find a datapipe for your dataset format
- get a forkable example that ties the pieces together
- check whether PhysicsNeMo covers a given task at all
- confirm current class paths instead of relying on memory

## Example prompts
- Find a PhysicsNeMo model and datapipe for surrogate modelling on a regular grid
- Which examples fit forecasting of physical fields over time?
- Show downscaling candidates on a lat-lon sphere and where to start reading

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

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---
name: physicsnemo-discover
description: Official NVIDIA-authored guidance for navigating PhysicsNeMo — pick the model, datapipe, or example for a SciML/AI4Science task (surrogates, forecasting, downscaling, physics-informed, inverse, generative). Points at existing files via live repo search; never writes code. Do NOT use for installation or environment setup, training-loop or other code authoring/scaffolding, contributor/CI/packaging questions, repo-specific questions in physicsnemo-sym/-cfd/-curator, or general (non-physics) ML/PyTorch.
license: Apache-2.0
metadata:
  author: NVIDIA <agent-skills@nvidia.com>
  tags:
    - physicsnemo
    - sciml
    - ai4science
    - discovery
    - routing
---

# PhysicsNeMo Discoverability

Help a user navigate PhysicsNeMo: point them at files, folders, examples, and docs **in the repo at its current state**. Never write training code; never cite a path from memory.

## Core principle

PhysicsNeMo evolves — classes get renamed, examples move, `experimental/` graduates. Any static list of class names and paths rots, so **discover, don't remember**: enumerate from the live repo every turn.

PhysicsNeMo is **composable**: each solution is a product (model family × datapipe × training strategy × config). An example is one reference instantiation of that product, not a prescription. Surface the **axes** and the **menu along each axis**, then cite examples as concrete starting points to fork and recombine.

## What a correct answer satisfies

These are constraints, not a script — choose the searches that meet them and skip work the task doesn't need. Search patterns per axis live in `references/RECIPES.md`.

- **Live-grounded.** Every class, path, and example you name was read or globbed *this turn*. `__init__.py` proves what is *exported*, not what files exist — Glob `physicsnemo/models/<family>/*.py` before naming a sibling implementation file. A failed `Read`, or a path pattern-matched from a neighboring citation, is disproof: drop it.
- **Verified before emit.** Every absolute path you plan to cite survives one `Bash ls -d <path1> <path2> …` round-trip *before* you write the response. Hard gate — skipping it has produced real-basename-under-wrong-parent hallucinations. If a basename was right but the parent wrong, re-Glob and re-verify; if you can't relocate it, drop the citation.
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