Pretrain a fresh KERMT model from scratch on a user-provided corpus. Builds a new vocabulary from the corpus, instantiates the model architecture from defaults, and launches pretrain_ddp.py inside the kermt container (detached for long runs). Unlike kermt-continue-pretrain, no starting checkpoint is loaded — the model is randomly initialized.
Install
npx skills add NVIDIA/skills --skill kermt-pretrain-scratchnpx skills add NVIDIA/skills --skill kermt-pretrain-scratch -a claude-code -gnpx skills add NVIDIA/skills --skill kermt-pretrain-scratch -a codex -ggemini skills install https://github.com/NVIDIA/skills.git --path skills/bionemo-kermt-pretrain-scratchgh skill install NVIDIA/skills kermt-pretrain-scratchgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NVIDIA/skills /tmp/NVIDIA__skills
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills ~/.agents/skills
cp -R /tmp/NVIDIA__skills/skills/bionemo-kermt-pretrain-scratch ~/.claude/skills/kermt-pretrain-scratch # Claude Code
cp -R /tmp/NVIDIA__skills/skills/bionemo-kermt-pretrain-scratch ~/.agents/skills/kermt-pretrain-scratch # Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot, OpenCode