# Contribute API

> Contribute a new NVIDIA NeMo Fabric public API surface safely, with Rust, CLI, Python, TypeScript, schema, adapter, and documentation parity in mind

- Skill: `nvidia/contribute-api` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add nvidia/contribute-api`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/nvidia/contribute-api/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: AI & ML
- License: Apache-2.0
- Author: NVIDIA (https://skillmd.com/u/nvidia)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/nvidia/contribute-api

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# Contribute A New API Surface

## Companion Guidance

Use `karpathy-guidelines` alongside this skill for implementation or review
work. Keep changes scoped, surface assumptions, and define focused validation
before editing.

Use this skill when contributing a public API addition or behavior change to the
runtime or bindings.

## Default Guidance

- Start from the shared Rust core behavior first
- Decide whether the CLI, PyO3 binding, Python SDK, type stubs, schemas, or the
  Python and TypeScript adapter-contract bindings must expose the new surface
- Keep every affected public surface in parity
- Update docs and examples in the same branch

## Minimum Acceptance

- Public behavior is clearly described
- Every affected public surface is covered
- The validation matrix matches the changed surfaces
- PR notes explain the user-facing change

## References

- `validate-change`
- `review-doc-style`
- `docs/python-sdk-contract.md`
- `schemas/SCHEMA.md`
- `justfile`