Overview
deepspeed is an open-source workflow skill for Claude Code and compatible agents, published by Orchestra-Research. Its author describes it as: “Expert guidance for distributed training with DeepSpeed - ZeRO optimization stages, pipeline parallelism, FP16/BF16/FP8, 1-bit Adam, sparse attention”. The project has 12k stars on GitHub and is available under the MIT license. Add it to your setup with `/plugin marketplace add Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs`.
What deepspeed does
Comprehensive assistance with deepspeed development, generated from official documentation.
What’s inside
The SKILL.md for deepspeed is organised into these sections:
- When to Use This Skill
- Quick Reference
- Common Patterns
- Example Code Patterns
- Reference Files
- Working with This Skill
- For Beginners
- For Specific Features
- For Code Examples
- Resources
- references/
- scripts/
Installation
Add deepspeed to your agent with:
/plugin marketplace add Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLsReview 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 — ships a claude code plugin marketplace
- Codex — declared in the repository topics
License
deepspeed is published under the MIT license.
Strengths
- Clear MIT license — safe to read and adapt within its terms
- Ships in Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs, an established project with 11,807 GitHub stars
- Works with Claude Code, Codex
Author
Topics
Frequently asked questions
- What does deepspeed do?
- Expert guidance for distributed training with DeepSpeed - ZeRO optimization stages, pipeline parallelism, FP16/BF16/FP8, 1-bit Adam, sparse attention
- How do I install deepspeed?
- Run /plugin marketplace add Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs in your agent, then reload your skills. Review the source at https://github.com/Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs before installing.
- Is deepspeed free to use?
- Yes. deepspeed is free and open source under the MIT license, so you can read, run, and adapt it within that license's terms.
- Which agents does deepspeed work with?
- deepspeed lists Claude Code and Codex — 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 deepspeed come from?
- deepspeed ships inside Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs, a repository that contains 41 catalogued skills in total. The repository's 11,807 GitHub stars apply to that whole collection, not to this skill on its own.