Agent skill

Nemo Curator

by Luciole-Studio in Luciole-Studio/Misaka-Agent

Curate LLM training data: dedupe, filter, PII redaction. An agent skill from Luciole-Studio/Misaka-Agent.

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Install Nemo Curator

skills CLI
$ npx skills add Luciole-Studio/Misaka-Agent --skill nemo-curator -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install Luciole-Studio/Misaka-Agent nemo-curator --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Luciole-Studio/Misaka-Agent.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/misaka/core/skills/assets/optional/mlops/nemo-curator .claude/skills/nemo-curator && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

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Facts

Skill name
nemo-curator
GitHub stars
171
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~2.6k tokens
SKILL.md length
465 words
Files
3 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
77
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Curate LLM training data: dedupe, filter, PII redaction. An agent skill from Luciole-Studio/Misaka-Agent.

  • Works in 4 steps: Quality filtering → Deduplication → PII redaction → …
  • Tasks that involve Data cleaning
  • SKILL.md covers When to use NeMo Curator, Quick start, Data curation pipeline and GPU acceleration, plus 8 more sections
  • Calls uv

What it does

Nemo Curator is an agent skill from Luciole-Studio/Misaka-Agent. Curate LLM training data: dedupe, filter, PII redaction.

Its SKILL.md is about 2.6k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 3 other files, including reference files (for example `references/deduplication.md` and `references/filtering.md`).

It sits in Data & Analytics, covering Data cleaning and MLOps. The repository describes itself as: A multi-agent research system for the humanities and social sciences. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Data cleaning
  • Tasks that involve MLOps

Example prompts

  • “/nemo-curator”

Requirements

  • Python 3

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Quality filtering
  2. Deduplication
  3. PII redaction
  4. Classifier filtering

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 3bcf7a3. 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

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • uv

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

  • Network

    Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

    • github.com
    • docs.nvidia.com

    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

Nemo Curator loads about 2.6k tokens when it runs, and up to ~3.7k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 17 tokens; SKILL.md has 465 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~17
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2.6k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~3.7k

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

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

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); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from Luciole-Studio/Misaka-Agent at commit 3bcf7a3, republished under its MIT licence (© Luciole-Studio). 465 words, ~2,592 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/nemo-curator/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 2 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
nemo-curator
description
Curate LLM training data: dedupe, filter, PII redaction.
version
1.0.1
author
Orchestra Research
license
MIT
dependencies
nemo-curator, cudf, dask, rapids
platforms
linux, macos

NeMo Curator - GPU-Accelerated Data Curation

NVIDIA's toolkit for preparing high-quality training data for LLMs.

When to use NeMo Curator

Use NeMo Curator when:

  • Preparing LLM training data from web scrapes (Common Crawl)
  • Need fast deduplication (16× faster than CPU)
  • Curating multi-modal datasets (text, images, video, audio)
  • Filtering low-quality or toxic content
  • Scaling data processing across GPU cluster

Performance:

  • 16× faster fuzzy deduplication (8TB RedPajama v2)
  • 40% lower TCO vs CPU alternatives
  • Near-linear scaling across GPU nodes

Use alternatives instead:

  • datatrove: CPU-based, open-source data processing
  • dolma: Allen AI's data toolkit
  • Ray Data: General ML data processing (no curation focus)

Quick start

Installation
bash
# NeMo Curator 1.x installs with uv. Extras use hyphens (PyPI-normalized):
#   text-cuda12 / text-cpu (and image/video/audio/math variants), or `all`.

# Text curation (CUDA 12)
uv pip install "nemo-curator[text-cuda12]"

# All modalities
uv pip install "nemo-curator[all]"

# CPU-only text (slower)
uv pip install "nemo-curator[text-cpu]"
Basic text curation pipeline

Major version rewrite (1.x): NeMo Curator was rewritten around a Ray-based pipeline/stage architecture. The old DocumentDataset + nemo_curator.modules.* / ScoreFilter / Modify call-the-object-on-a-dataset API from 0.x is gone. In 1.x you compose ProcessingStages into a Pipeline and run it with an executor. The exact stage/import surface differs per modality — treat the examples in this skill below as conceptual (0.x-style) and follow the current quickstart and text guide for the exact 1.x APIs rather than copying imports verbatim.

Shape of a 1.x pipeline (from the upstream quickstart):

python
from nemo_curator.pipeline import Pipeline
from nemo_curator.stages.base import ProcessingStage
from nemo_curator.stages.resources import Resources
from nemo_curator.backends.xenna import XennaExecutor
from nemo_curator.core.client import RayClient

# 1. Define/compose stages (load -> filter -> dedupe -> classify -> write).
#    Each stage declares its own Resources (CPU cores, GPU memory, replicas).
pipeline = Pipeline(name="curation", stages=[...])

# 2. Run it with an executor (Ray-backed).
client = RayClient()
client.start()
pipeline.run(XennaExecutor())
client.stop()

The 0.x-style snippets in the sections that follow illustrate the concepts (quality filtering, exact/fuzzy/semantic dedup, PII redaction, classifier filtering). For runnable 1.x code, map each concept onto the corresponding stage from the modality guide.

Data curation pipeline

Stage 1: Quality filtering
python
from nemo_curator.filters import (
    WordCountFilter,
    RepeatedLinesFilter,
    UrlRatioFilter,
    NonAlphaNumericFilter
)

# Apply 30+ heuristic filters
from nemo_curator import ScoreFilter

# Word count filter
dataset = dataset.filter(WordCountFilter(min_words=50, max_words=100000))

# Remove repetitive content
dataset = dataset.filter(RepeatedLinesFilter(max_repeated_line_fraction=0.3))

# URL ratio filter
dataset = dataset.filter(UrlRatioFilter(max_url_ratio=0.2))
Stage 2: Deduplication

Exact deduplication:

python
from nemo_curator.modules import ExactDuplicates

# Remove exact duplicates
deduped = ExactDuplicates(id_field="id", text_field="text")(dataset)

Fuzzy deduplication (16× faster on GPU):

python
from nemo_curator.modules import FuzzyDuplicates

# MinHash + LSH deduplication
fuzzy_dedup = FuzzyDuplicates(
    id_field="id",
    text_field="text",
    num_hashes=260,      # MinHash parameters
    num_buckets=20,
    hash_method="md5"
)

deduped = fuzzy_dedup(dataset)

Semantic deduplication:

python
from nemo_curator.modules import SemanticDuplicates

# Embedding-based deduplication
semantic_dedup = SemanticDuplicates(
    id_field="id",
    text_field="text",
    embedding_model="sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2",
    threshold=0.8  # Cosine similarity threshold
)

deduped = semantic_dedup(dataset)
Stage 3: PII redaction
python
from nemo_curator.modules import Modify
from nemo_curator.modifiers import PIIRedactor

# Redact personally identifiable information
pii_redactor = PIIRedactor(
    supported_entities=["EMAIL_ADDRESS", "PHONE_NUMBER", "PERSON", "LOCATION"],
    anonymize_action="replace"  # or "redact"
)

redacted = Modify(pii_redactor)(dataset)
Stage 4: Classifier filtering
python
from nemo_curator.classifiers import QualityClassifier

# Quality classification
quality_clf = QualityClassifier(
    model_path="nvidia/quality-classifier-deberta",
    batch_size=256,
    device="cuda"
)

# Filter low-quality documents
high_quality = dataset.filter(lambda doc: quality_clf(doc["text"]) > 0.5)

GPU acceleration

GPU vs CPU performance
OperationCPU (16 cores)GPU (A100)Speedup
Fuzzy dedup (8TB)120 hours7.5 hours16×
Exact dedup (1TB)8 hours0.5 hours16×
Quality filtering2 hours0.2 hours10×
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Multi-GPU scaling
python
from nemo_curator import get_client
import dask_cuda

# Initialize GPU cluster
client = get_client(cluster_type="gpu", n_workers=8)

# Process with 8 GPUs
deduped = FuzzyDuplicates(...)(dataset)

Multi-modal curation

Image curation
python
from nemo_curator.image import (
    AestheticFilter,
    NSFWFilter,
    CLIPEmbedder
)

# Aesthetic scoring
aesthetic_filter = AestheticFilter(threshold=5.0)
filtered_images = aesthetic_filter(image_dataset)

# NSFW detection
nsfw_filter = NSFWFilter(threshold=0.9)
safe_images = nsfw_filter(filtered_images)

# Generate CLIP embeddings
clip_embedder = CLIPEmbedder(model="openai/clip-vit-base-patch32")
image_embeddings = clip_embedder(safe_images)
Video curation
python
from nemo_curator.video import (
    SceneDetector,
    ClipExtractor,
    InternVideo2Embedder
)

# Detect scenes
scene_detector = SceneDetector(threshold=27.0)
scenes = scene_detector(video_dataset)

# Extract clips
clip_extractor = ClipExtractor(min_duration=2.0, max_duration=10.0)
clips = clip_extractor(scenes)

# Generate embeddings
video_embedder = InternVideo2Embedder()
video_embeddings = video_embedder(clips)
Audio curation
python
from nemo_curator.audio import (
    ASRInference,
    WERFilter,
    DurationFilter
)

# ASR transcription
asr = ASRInference(model="nvidia/stt_en_fastconformer_hybrid_large_pc")
transcribed = asr(audio_dataset)

# Filter by WER (word error rate)
wer_filter = WERFilter(max_wer=0.3)
high_quality_audio = wer_filter(transcribed)

# Duration filtering
duration_filter = DurationFilter(min_duration=1.0, max_duration=30.0)
filtered_audio = duration_filter(high_quality_audio)

Common patterns

Web scrape curation (Common Crawl)
python
from nemo_curator import ScoreFilter, Modify
from nemo_curator.filters import *
from nemo_curator.modules import *
from nemo_curator.datasets import DocumentDataset

# Load Common Crawl data
dataset = DocumentDataset.read_parquet("common_crawl/*.parquet")

# Pipeline
pipeline = [
    # 1. Quality filtering
    WordCountFilter(min_words=100, max_words=50000),
    RepeatedLinesFilter(max_repeated_line_fraction=0.2),
    SymbolToWordRatioFilter(max_symbol_to_word_ratio=0.3),
    UrlRatioFilter(max_url_ratio=0.3),

    # 2. Language filtering
    LanguageIdentificationFilter(target_languages=["en"]),

    # 3. Deduplication
    ExactDuplicates(id_field="id", text_field="text"),
    FuzzyDuplicates(id_field="id", text_field="text", num_hashes=260),

    # 4. PII redaction
    PIIRedactor(),

    # 5. NSFW filtering
    NSFWClassifier(threshold=0.8)
]

# Execute
for stage in pipeline:
    dataset = stage(dataset)

# Save
dataset.to_parquet("curated_common_crawl/")
Distributed processing
python
from nemo_curator import get_client
from dask_cuda import LocalCUDACluster

# Multi-GPU cluster
cluster = LocalCUDACluster(n_workers=8)
client = get_client(cluster=cluster)

# Process large dataset
dataset = DocumentDataset.read_parquet("s3://large_dataset/*.parquet")
deduped = FuzzyDuplicates(...)(dataset)

# Cleanup
client.close()
cluster.close()

Performance benchmarks

Fuzzy deduplication (8TB RedPajama v2)
  • CPU (256 cores): 120 hours
  • GPU (8× A100): 7.5 hours
  • Speedup: 16×
Exact deduplication (1TB)
  • CPU (64 cores): 8 hours
  • GPU (4× A100): 0.5 hours
  • Speedup: 16×
Quality filtering (100GB)
  • CPU (32 cores): 2 hours
  • GPU (2× A100): 0.2 hours
  • Speedup: 10×

Cost comparison

CPU-based curation (AWS c5.18xlarge × 10):

  • Cost: $3.60/hour × 10 = $36/hour
  • Time for 8TB: 120 hours
  • Total: $4,320

GPU-based curation (AWS p4d.24xlarge × 2):

  • Cost: $32.77/hour × 2 = $65.54/hour
  • Time for 8TB: 7.5 hours
  • Total: $491.55

Savings: 89% reduction ($3,828 saved)

Supported data formats

  • Input: Parquet, JSONL, CSV
  • Output: Parquet (recommended), JSONL
  • WebDataset: TAR archives for multi-modal

Use cases

Production deployments:

  • NVIDIA used NeMo Curator to prepare Nemotron-4 training data
  • Open-source datasets curated: RedPajama v2, The Pile

References

Resources

© Luciole-Studio, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 2 other files (references) in misaka/core/skills/assets/optional/mlops/nemo-curator of Luciole-Studio/Misaka-Agent.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/deduplication.md
  • references/filtering.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 3bcf7a3

Used in 1 other repository

We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in Luciole-Studio/Misaka-Agent, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

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Questions about Nemo Curator

What does Nemo Curator do?

Curate LLM training data: dedupe, filter, PII redaction. An agent skill from Luciole-Studio/Misaka-Agent. Nemo Curator is an agent skill from Luciole-Studio/Misaka-Agent. Curate LLM training data: dedupe, filter, PII redaction.

When should I use Nemo Curator?

Nemo Curator fits situations like: tasks that involve Data cleaning; tasks that involve MLOps.

How do I install Nemo Curator in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add Luciole-Studio/Misaka-Agent --skill nemo-curator -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (misaka/core/skills/assets/optional/mlops/nemo-curator in Luciole-Studio/Misaka-Agent) into .claude/skills/nemo-curator in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Nemo Curator in Codex?

Run `npx skills add Luciole-Studio/Misaka-Agent --skill nemo-curator -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (misaka/core/skills/assets/optional/mlops/nemo-curator in Luciole-Studio/Misaka-Agent) into .agents/skills/nemo-curator in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Nemo Curator in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add Luciole-Studio/Misaka-Agent --skill nemo-curator -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/nemo-curator, .gemini/skills/nemo-curator, .github/skills/nemo-curator and .opencode/skills/nemo-curator in your project.

What does Nemo Curator need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Nemo Curator needs the command-line tools its instructions call (uv). Our summary lists: Python 3.

Does Nemo Curator access the network?

SKILL.md names 2 domains. As links in the text: github.com and docs.nvidia.com. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Nemo Curator safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Nemo Curator use?

Nemo Curator is published under the MIT licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Nemo Curator use?

About 2.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 10k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 1.1k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

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Who maintains Nemo Curator?

Luciole-Studio (a GitHub organization) maintains it in Luciole-Studio/Misaka-Agent, which has 171 GitHub stars. The repository holds 77 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 8, 2026.

Source: Luciole-Studio/Misaka-Agent on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.