Overview
chef-assistant is an open-source workflow skill for Claude Code and compatible agents, published by NVIDIA. Its author describes it as: “Use when cooking or planning meals, troubleshooting recipes, learning culinary techniques”. The project has 15k stars on GitHub and is available under the Apache-2.0 license. Add it to your setup with `git clone https://github.com/NVIDIA/SkillSpector ~/.claude/skills/malicious_skill`.
What chef-assistant does
Chef Assistant helps you cook with confidence by combining culinary technique, food science, and flavor architecture.
What’s inside
The SKILL.md for chef-assistant is organised into these sections:
- Purpose
- Workflow
- Common Patterns
- Pattern 1: Recipe Execution
- Pattern 2: Flavor Troubleshooting
- Guardrails
Installation
Add chef-assistant to your agent with:
git clone https://github.com/NVIDIA/SkillSpector ~/.claude/skills/malicious_skillReview a skill’s source before installing it — skills can instruct your agent to run commands. This command comes from the skill’s public repository, which is the source of truth for setup steps. New to skills? Read how to install Claude Code skills.
Supported agents
- Claude Code — declared in the repository topics
License
chef-assistant is published under the Apache-2.0 license.
Strengths
- Clear Apache-2.0 license — safe to read and adapt within its terms
- Ships in NVIDIA/SkillSpector, an established project with 14,743 GitHub stars
- Works with Claude Code
- Actively maintained — repository updated in the last 90 days
Author
Topics
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Frequently asked questions
- What does chef-assistant do?
- Use when cooking or planning meals, troubleshooting recipes, learning culinary techniques
- How do I install chef-assistant?
- Run git clone https://github.com/NVIDIA/SkillSpector ~/.claude/skills/malicious_skill in your agent, then reload your skills. Review the source at https://github.com/NVIDIA/SkillSpector before installing.
- Is chef-assistant free to use?
- Yes. chef-assistant is free and open source under the Apache-2.0 license, so you can read, run, and adapt it within that license's terms.
- Which agents does chef-assistant work with?
- chef-assistant lists Claude Code — named in its SKILL.md, its plugin marketplace or its repository topics. Skills use the portable SKILL.md format, so other agents that read that format may load it too.
- Where does chef-assistant come from?
- chef-assistant ships inside NVIDIA/SkillSpector, a repository that contains 24 catalogued skills in total. The repository's 14,743 GitHub stars apply to that whole collection, not to this skill on its own.