qad

qad is a Physics, mathematics & simulation skill for AI agents, published by NVIDIA in the Model-Optimizer repository on GitHub. Skillspace rates qad D (55/100) and it passed the safety scan; the rating is based on static analysis only.

Run explicitly requested ModelOpt Quantization-Aware Distillation (QAD) on Slurm through Megatron Bridge to recover a measured BF16-to-PTQ accuracy gap. Use only when the user explicitly asks for QAD, including its topology, data preparation, Slurm launch, resume, checkpoint export, or recovery decisions.

Grade
D
Quality
55 / 100
Safety
Passed
GitHub stars
3,797

Unproven: rated by static analysis only, not yet compared head-to-head.

Our two independent classifiers differ on this skill's category, so treat the placement as provisional.

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Our review

Architecture
84 / 100
Maturity
Basic: a single SKILL.md
Security scan
Low-risk patterns
License
Not declared. Check the repository before reusing it.

What the scanner flagged

  • mentions secrets in text

Not checked yet

  • Category is a classifier prediction; no model has read this skill yet
  • Not judged on the rubric yet (not a contender in its category)
  • No blind task eval yet
  • Scope (portable / vendor / repo-internal) not assessed; only the top of each category is read for scope
  • Sibling files (scripts, references) not fetched; security scan covers SKILL.md only

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