# serverless-deploy

Turns a model or worker source into a working Runpod Serverless endpoint through MCP tools: picks the engine, sizes the GPU, provisions and proves it with one real job.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 2700 installs · ★ 47
- 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/serverless-deploy/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/serverless-deploy

## What it does

The skill takes a ready source — a HuggingFace repo, a ComfyUI workflow, a Hub release, a container image, a GGUF repo, a Civitai asset or a community template — and carries it to a queue-backed Serverless endpoint. The steps stay the same: read the source, choose the engine and hardware, provision, warm, run one real job, hand back the URL with a `curl`, and state what is billing.

The engine follows from the modality and the weight format, not from a default. `*.safetensors` and `*.bin` go to vLLM or SGLang, `*.gguf` goes to llama.cpp or Ollama, since vLLM will not load that file. Diffusion work goes to ComfyUI, transcription to a Whisper-family worker, embeddings to a dedicated embeddings worker. GPU size comes from the model's real metadata rather than a guess. Creating an endpoint is billable: the skill states the hourly cost of the GPU class before creating it, and the smoke job costs money too.

Under the hood it works through Runpod MCP tools: reading the GPU catalog with prices and live stock, creating a template and an endpoint, staging large weights on a network volume, checking worker health and logs, submitting a job and waiting for it, then deleting everything it created. Code-first Python deploys with the runpod-flash dev loop are out of scope here.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

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

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

### Codex

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

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

### Cursor

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

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install runpod/runpod-plugins-official serverless-deploy
```

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

### Gemini CLI

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

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

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add runpod/runpod-plugins-official --skill serverless-deploy -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/serverless-deploy/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- deploy an LLM from HuggingFace to a Serverless endpoint
- size the GPU from the model's real metadata
- prove a deploy with one real job
- pick the engine that matches the weight format
- tear down the endpoint, template and network volume after a test

## Example prompts
- deploy this model to Runpod Serverless and give me the URL
- turn my ComfyUI workflow into an endpoint and run one job
- delete the endpoint and template you created

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

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---
name: serverless-deploy
description: 'Bring any source (a HuggingFace repo, a ComfyUI workflow, a Hub release, a custom container
  image, a GGUF repo, a Civitai asset, or a community template) to a proven Runpod Serverless endpoint:
  pick the engine for the modality and model format, size the GPU from the model''s real metadata, provision,
  warm, prove it with one real job, and hand back the URL with what it bills. Deploys an existing source
  through the Runpod MCP tools; code-first Python deploys (the Flash dev loop) are out of scope. Use when
  the user wants a model or worker served on Runpod Serverless, whatever the modality: text generation,
  speech-to-text or text-to-speech, image or video generation, embeddings, document processing, or their
  own handler image.'
metadata:
  author: runpod
  version: "1.8.0" # x-release-please-version
  concepts: [serverless-endpoint, serverless-handler, worker, job, gpu-pool, gpu-availability, hub-repo, template, network-volume, endpoint-release, flashboot, registry-credential, volume-cache]
license: Apache-2.0
---

# Serverless deploy

You take *any* deployable source and turn it into a working, queue-backed Serverless endpoint that you have proven with one real job, and you leave the user knowing exactly what now exists and what it bills. The steps never change: read the source, decide the engine and the hardware, provision, warm, smoke-test one real job, hand back the URL and a `curl`, state what is billing. Tear down only when the user framed the deploy as a throwaway test or asks for cleanup.
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