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vast-ai-gpu-cloud
Safely inspect and operate Vast.ai marketplace instances with the vastai CLI, live offer data, and explicit approval before paid or destructive actions.
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# Vast.ai GPU Cloud
Use this skill for Vast.ai marketplace discovery and instance operations. Offers, reliability attributes, locations, bandwidth, storage, and prices are live marketplace data; query them immediately before recommending anything.
## OpenScience credential boundary
- A key saved in **Customize > Compute > Vast.ai** is encrypted control-plane data and is not exported to agent shells, notebooks, kernels, plugins, or MCP servers.
- Use `provider_compute` with `account`, `list_resources`, or `resource_status` for live account and instance reads. OpenScience selects only `vastai show user --raw`, `show instances --raw`, or one exact `show instance <id> --raw` invocation.
- **Test connection** uses the same boundary for exactly `vastai show user --raw`.
- The saved key is admitted only when **Test connection** approves a root/admin-managed, non-writable `vastai` executable. A normal user-owned pip, pipx, or Homebrew install remains credential-only and cannot be used by `provider_compute` until a managed/native adapter exists.
- `last_used` changes only after that command succeeds.
- Never print or persist the key. The saved credential cannot search/accept offers or start, stop, destroy, copy, or change instances; a generic shell needs independent user-managed authentication.
## Current CLI contract