add model builder skill

[mnabian]

PhysicsNeMo Pull Request

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[CharlelieLrt]

@mnabian just curious: is it a 1-to-1 conversion of the older cursor rules into skills?
If so, does it keep all rules or does it updates on the rules? And is it worth deprecating the rules if they are replaced by these skills?

[melo-gonzo]

This looks good overall. You will not need to include skill-card.md or BENCHMARK.md - these will be generated by the nvskills-ci pipeline. Once you sync with the main branch we can invoke the CI pipeline and have a look at the reports generated and make any necessary changes.

To @CharlelieLrt's point - i think its ok to leave the rules as is, and simply point to them in the skills like you do here. For other skills, i've takne the approach of allowing the agent to self discover the rules by only pointing to the main folder/files. Adding specific references as you do here (e.g, pointing to MOD-00b may make the skill more token efficient, but also if we do end up changing the location of these rules in the future we'll have to go back an update all of the skills.

[mnabian]

/nvskills-ci

[mnabian]

/nvskills-ci

[mnabian]

@mnabian just curious: is it a 1-to-1 conversion of the older cursor rules into skills? If so, does it keep all rules or does it updates on the rules? And is it worth deprecating the rules if they are replaced by these skills?

I agree with Carmelo. I think the rules can stay there for now and point the skills to them (or have them discover the rules).