Areno Develop Kernel

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Changes touch areno/accel
• A runtime kernel boundary and require forward
• Benchmark validation

Example prompts

• “/areno-develop-kernel”

Requirements

• Python 3

Workflow steps

7 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1Locate Python wrapper, extension registration, C++/CUDA source, engine layer, and model call site.
2. 2Add a small PyTorch reference and shape/dtype assertions.
3. 3Implement forward and backward before using it in training.
4. 4Test representative shapes, boundary shapes, supported non-contiguous layouts, finite output, and gradients.
5. 5Validate TP/sequence-parallel local shapes and CUDA graph capture/replay.
6. 6After pulling a branch that changes areno/accel, rebuild remotely with pip install -e . --no-deps --no-build-isolation. Do not reinstall…
7. 7Benchmark only after correctness. Read references/kernel-checklist.md.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit ce35e0d. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  Ships 2 files in scripts/ (Python), which the agent can run.

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • python
  • pip

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use pip, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Areno Develop Kernel loads about 498 tokens when it runs, and up to ~664 if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 72 tokens; SKILL.md has 173 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~72

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~498

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~664

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from inclusionAI/AReno at commit ce35e0d, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© inclusionAI). 173 words, ~498 tokens.

name

areno-develop-kernel

description

Develop, optimize, debug, and validate an AReno CUDA, Triton, fused, attention, convolution, routing, or MoE operator. Use when changes touch areno/accel or a runtime kernel boundary and require forward, backward, dtype, layout, CUDA graph, or benchmark validation.

python .agents/skills/areno-develop-kernel/scripts/check_operator.py \
  --reference package.module:reference --candidate package.module:candidate \
  --shape 8,16 --dtype float32 --device cuda

python .agents/skills/areno-develop-kernel/scripts/benchmark_operator.py \
  --callable package.module:candidate --shape 8,16 --dtype float16 --device cuda

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Files

SKILL.md and 4 other files (scripts, references) in .agents/skills/areno-develop-kernel of inclusionAI/AReno.

• SKILL.md
• agents/openai.yaml
• references/kernel-checklist.md
• scripts/benchmark_operator.py
• scripts/check_operator.py

Open the folder on GitHubat commit ce35e0d