Detect host inventory and effective CPU, memory, disk, scheduler, container, and accelerator limits when a user asks for resource-aware planning or before a clearly resource-sensitive local workload. Produces a redacted JSON snapshot and conservative planning helpers without stress tests or assuming

Get Available Resources Build a conservative picture of resources available to the current process . Keep host inventory, process affinity, cgroup/container limits, scheduler allocation, and accelerator runtime usability separate. Safety contract Follow these rules: Run detection when the user requests it or a specific workload needs resource planning. Do not persist a fingerprint for every scientific task. Use stdout by default. Persist only when the user chooses an explicit generic local filename. Do not run stress tests, benchmarks, large allocations, write probes, device resets, driver installation, or clock/power changes. Do not dump the environment. Read only the named Slurm and accelerator variables implemented by the detector. Do not report hostnames, absolute paths, cgroup paths, job IDs, device UUIDs, PCI addresses, or raw visibility variable values. Treat a missing observation as unknown. Never convert unknown to unlimited. Never infer that a visible host CPU, memory pool, or GPU is usable inside a scheduler allocation or container. The bundled detector uses only fixed executable/argument tuples, no shell, short timeouts, bounded stdout/stderr, and partial failure warnings. Quick start Run from this skill directory. Ephemeral stdout snapshot The command emits only JSON to stdout. Redirect it only when ordinary shell permissions are acceptable. Explicit private file Explicit output is restricted to one .json filename in the current directory, uses private permissions, rejects symlinks and path traversal, and refuses overwrite unless force is supplied. Optional psutil enhancement The standard library detector works without installation. For broader cross platform physical core, affinity, available memory, swap, and disk coverage: The import is lazy. Failure to import psutil becomes a warning, not a fatal error. Skip management tool probes Use this when accelerator discovery latency is undesirable. The detector still summarizes the presence and state of allowlisted visibility variables without returning their values. Required interpretation CPU Read these as different facts: cpu.host.logical : system visible scheduling units. cpu.host.physical : physical topology, or null; never inferred from logical count. cpu.process.affinity logical : current affinity set size when supported. cpu.cgroup v2.cpuset logical : effective cgroup cpuset size. cpu.cgroup v2.quota cores : finite cpu.max capacity, possibly fractional. scheduler.allocation.cpu per process : bounded Slurm per task interpretation when scope is clear. cpu.effective.capacity cores : minimum positive observed constraint. cpu.effective.worker ceiling : conservative floor for CPU process workers. A quota of 1.5 is CPU time capacity, not 1.5 physical cores. Affinity and cpusets constrain placement; quota constrains bandwidth. Memory Keep these separate: host total/available memory; current cgroup usage, hard memory.max , and remaining hierarchical capacity; memory.high , which is a pressure/throttle boundary rather than a hard cap; scheduler memory allocation and its scope; and conservative effective hard limit and available estimate. On Apple silicon, memory.model is unified cpu gpu . Do not add integrated GPU memory to RAM or describe it as separate VRAM. Accelerators Each device is a backend candidate : NVIDIA GPU → CUDA candidate; AMD GPU → ROCm candidate; Apple integrated GPU → Metal candidate. Management query visibility does not establish: 1. scheduler/container permission; 2. device node access; 3. driver/runtime compatibility; 4. framework package compatibility; or 5. operator/data type support. Therefore runtime usable devices remains null and each device says runtime compatibility: not tested . Visibility/allocation counts are upper bounds, not guarantees. Disk capacity bytes , filesystem free bytes , user available blocks, and a non writing permission check are distinct. Filesystem or project quotas can still be stricter. The absolute working path is always redacted. Scheduler and container Slurm variables describe allocation scope, but enforcement depends on site configuration such as task affinity or cgroups. Prefer affinity and cgroup observations as enforcement evidence. Container markers identify context; cgroup controls identify limits. A container with no finite cgroup value can still see host inventory, and a non root cgroup is not automatically labeled a container. See [ references/resource semantics.md ](references/resource semantics.md) for the detailed platform rules. Plan a workload The planner consumes a validated snapshot and performs no work: Optional controls: workers N : explicit upper bound. reserve memory mib N : memory kept outside the worker budget. workload cpu mixed io : selects a bounded worker heuristic. accelerator none any cuda rocm metal : requests a candidate backend decision without claiming usability. output plan.json : explicit private local output; stdout is default. For CPU or mixed work, use suggested workers and threads per worker together. Process workers multiplied by BLAS/OpenMP native threads can oversubscribe an allocation. The I/O plan permits bounded oversubscription (maximum 32) but labels it a heuristic. Benchmark only the real representative workload and stay within scheduler/container limits. Validate or diff snapshots Validate: Diff resource state while ignoring observed at : Use include volatile to include the timestamp. Inputs must be regular, non symlink JSON files no larger than 1 MiB. Diffs are bounded. The schema and null/zero meanings are documented in [ references/snapshot schema.md ](references/snapshot schema.md). Optional accelerator diagnostic plan Generate a plan without executing any diagnostic: The result contains fixed, read only management query argument lists and separate gates for visibility, permission, and runtime compatibility. Run a framework's official availability check only in the exact environment that will execute the workload. Do not install or mutate drivers automatically. Partial failures and provenance One failed probe must not erase successful observations. Inspect: completeness ; sorted warnings with stable codes; sorted provenance source/status records; and null fields. Subprocess stderr and raw exception text are not copied into the snapshot because they can contain identifiers or paths. Platform notes Linux: reads only bounded /proc and cgroup v2 files. Ancestor CPU and memory limits are considered. macOS: uses fixed sysctl keys and a bounded system profiler SPDisplaysDataType json query. Apple silicon memory is unified. Windows: optional psutil improves physical core, affinity, available memory, and swap observations. Processor group scope can make host and process counts differ. Slurm: reads an allowlist of allocation variables. It never emits job, node, submit host, GPU ID, or path values. NVIDIA/AMD: management CLIs are optional. Absence is normal; timeout, truncation, parse failure, and runtime uncertainty remain explicit. Bundled files scripts/detect resources.py — redacted snapshot collector. scripts/plan workload.py — deterministic worker/memory planner. scripts/snapshot tools.py — schema validator and bounded structural diff. scripts/accelerator diagnostics.py — non executing read only diagnostic plan. tests/get available resources/ in the repository root — network free Linux, macOS, Windows, cgroup, Slurm, and accelerator cases. references/resource semantics.md — interpretation and platform details. references/snapshot schema.md — schema 1.1 contract. references/sources.md — dated official source ledger. Official documentation was refreshed on 2026 07 23 ; consult [ references/sources.md ](references/sources.md) before changing semantics or dependency pins. Citing Scientific Agent Skills This skill is part of Scientific Agent Skills by K Dense. 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