Install
npx skills add amd/skills --skill quark-install
Runs the open skills CLI and installs the skill for your agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor …). Alternatively copy the skill folder into .claude/skills/ or upload it in Claude.ai under Settings → Skills.
As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-official
/plugin install amd-skills@amd-skills
This skill is part of the plugin “amd-skills”. In Claude Code the plugin installs it together with the plugin’s other skills, commands and hooks.
What does the quark-install skill do?
Description from the SKILL.md in the source repository.
Questions about quark-install
What does the quark-install skill do?
Installs or verifies AMD Quark and ensures the selected Python environment has an accelerator-matched PyTorch. Applies to "install Quark", "set up Quark", "pip install amd-quark", Quark dependency or import failures, ModuleNotFoundError for quark, and Quark kernel compiler errors. Defaults to GPU and requires explicit confirmation before CPU mode. Covers PyPI universal, exactly matched native, local-wheel, and local-source installs. Does not handle standalone PyTorch requests, ONNX Runtime-only setup, or quantization.
How do I install quark-install?
In a terminal: npx skills add amd/skills --skill quark-install. The skills CLI asks which agents to install it for. In Claude.ai you can upload the skill folder as a ZIP under Settings → Skills.
Which agents can use quark-install?
Skills use the open SKILL.md format, which Claude Code, Claude.ai, the Claude API, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI and other agents support.
Is quark-install safe to use?
Our automatic check found patterns worth a look (see “Check”). That is not proof of anything bad – read the SKILL.md and scripts before installing.
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Answers questions about what rocprofiler-systems configuration options exist and how to use them — e.g. "what hardware counters are available on my system", "what ROCm APIs can I trace", "what settings control sampling/output", "how do I persist my configuration" — by mapping the question to the right `rocprof-sys-avail` or `rocprof-sys-run --help=<topic>` command. Use when the user wants to discover or explore ROCPROFSYS_* settings, Timemory components, hardware counters, ROCm API tracing domains, or GPU metrics, rather than apply them. Do NOT use this for picking a starting --preset for a workload — that's `choosing-a-profiling-preset`.
Guides instrumentation with `rocprof-sys-instrument` - choosing runtime instrumentation vs binary rewrite (`-o`), including or excluding functions and modules with regex options, previewing what will be instrumented with a dry run (`--simulate`, `--dump-info`, `--print-*`), tuning granularity (`--min-instructions`, `--min-address-range`, `--instrument-loops`), rewriting libraries, and diagnosing why a function is missing from, or too numerous in, a trace. Use when the user asks about rocprof-sys-instrument, binary rewrite, instrumenting a shared library, function or module include/exclude regexes, dry runs, or the difference between a function and a module. Do NOT use to pick a `--preset` (use `choosing-a-profiling-preset`), to list settings, counters or ROCm domains (use `discovering-profiling-options`), or to attach to an already-running process (a separate tool, `rocprof-sys-attach`).
Serves an LLM on a supported AMD EPYC server CPU using vLLM with zentorch, in Docker, Podman, or conda. Use for "vLLM on CPU", "zentorch serving", or an EPYC CPU endpoint, including on a host that also has AMD Instinct GPUs. Detects the EPYC generation, validates the runtime, checks model support and RAM fit, sizes threads/KV/NUMA, confirms the plan, launches, and verifies the endpoint. Runs one instance on one socket and its memory. Reports and stops on failure; does not retry or debug. Use serving-llms-on-instinct when the endpoint should run on a GPU. Excludes multi-node, EPYC 4000, and pre-Zen4 EPYC without AVX-512.
Serves AI models on AMD Instinct GPU hardware using vLLM. Use this skill whenever the user wants to run, serve, deploy, start, host, or launch a language model on an AMD GPU, AMD Instinct, MI300X, MI325X, MI350X, or MI355X. Also use when the user mentions vLLM on ROCm, vLLM on AMD, serving on HBM, or asks how to get a model running on AMD data center hardware. Use when the user asks "run Qwen3", "serve DeepSeek", "start a vLLM endpoint", "get a model running on my AMD machine", or any similar phrasing. Handles the full flow: GPU detection, environment validation, vLLM configuration, launch, and health verification. Do not use for NVIDIA GPUs, consumer AMD GPUs (RX series, Radeon), Ryzen AI, NPU, MI250X, or MI100.
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Inspects and tunes the shared-vs-dedicated memory split on AMD Ryzen APUs with unified memory (UMA) so larger LLMs and image-gen models fit on the iGPU, or so reserved GPU memory is returned to the CPU. Use when the user mentions Ryzen AI, Strix Halo / Strix Point / Krackan / Phoenix / Hawk Point, Ryzen AI Max, gfx1150 / gfx1151 / gfx1152, integrated Radeon, iGPU memory, UMA Frame Buffer Size, AMD Variable Graphics Memory, VGM, GTT, GART, TTM, pages_limit, amd-ttm, amd-debug-tools, "shared GPU memory", "dedicated GPU memory", carve-out, "not enough VRAM", "out of VRAM", "GPU OOM", llama.cpp on iGPU, ROCm on APU; or asks how much memory the iGPU can use, how to give the iGPU more memory, how to balance memory between CPU and GPU on UMA, or how to change the BIOS UMA reservation. Read-only diagnostics work everywhere; tuning runs automatically on Linux via `amd-ttm` and prints guided BIOS steps on Windows. Do not use for discrete Radeon cards, Intel iGPUs, or Apple Silicon -- it is APU-only.
Recommends which rocprofiler-systems runtime profiling preset (balanced, trace-gpu, trace-hpc, sys-trace, workload-trace, etc.) to pass to `rocprof-sys-run --preset=<name>` or `rocprof-sys-sample --preset=<name>` based on the user's workload and profiling goal, and returns the ready-to-run command. Use when the user asks "which preset should I use", describes a workload (GPU kernel, MPI, OpenMP, AI/ML training, production overview) and wants profiling guidance, or invokes `rocprof-sys-run`/`rocprof-sys-sample` without picking a preset. Do NOT use for CMake build presets (`cmake --preset debug|release|ci`) used to configure/compile rocprofiler-systems itself — that is a build-configuration concern, not a profiling-run concern.
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