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serving-llms-vllm

Category: ml-inference-and-ops · License: MIT · Version: 1.0.0 Tags: vLLM, Inference Serving, PagedAttention, Continuous Batching, High Throughput, Production, OpenAI API, Quantization, Tensor Parallelism

When to use it

Serves LLMs with high throughput using vLLM’s PagedAttention and continuous batching. Use when deploying production LLM APIs, optimizing inference latency/throughput, or serving models with limited GPU memory. Supports OpenAI-compatible endpoints, quantization (GPTQ/AWQ/FP8), and tensor parallelism.

Example requests

Ask your agent in plain language, for example:
  • “How do I serve Llama-3-8B with vLLM behind an OpenAI-style API?”
  • “I’m trying to load Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct-AWQ on 2x A100 80GB for our lab’s chat tool and vLLM crashes with ‘CUDA out of memory’ during model loading. Command: vllm serve Qwen/Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct-AWQ —tensor-parallel-size 2. What should I change?”
  • “I have 200,000 abstracts in abstracts.jsonl and need to run an open-weights model over all of them to extract structured summaries on one shared GPU server. What’s the fastest way to do this without writing a request loop against an API?”

Install

In Claude Code you can also add the marketplace with /plugin marketplace add KalarisLabs/research-agent-skills and install the whole ml-inference-and-ops category with /plugin install ml-inference-and-ops@research-agent-skills.

Full playbook

Read SKILL.md for the complete workflow, references and any scripts. The agent installer copies the full skill folder.
Last modified on October 19, 2026