# v{{ release }} — 2026-05-20

First public release of {{platform_name}}. This release establishes the
local-first OSS distribution and the core agent build, optimize, and secure
flow.

## Highlights

- Agent lifecycle managed end-to-end through `nemo agents` (create, deploy,
  invoke, evaluate, optimize, secure, undeploy).
- Optimize and secure deployed agents with sibling-candidate validation
  before promotion.
- Provider-agnostic Inference Gateway with virtual models and middleware
  (Switchyard routing, guardrails).
- Guardrails, vulnerability scanning, and evaluation available out of the
  box.
- Local-first install — `make bootstrap` + `nemo setup`, no cluster required
  for this release. Cluster and scale-out deployment are on the roadmap.

## What's included

### Agents

- `nemo agents` lifecycle commands (create, deploy, invoke, evaluate,
  optimize, undeploy, delete).
- NAT ([NeMo Agent Toolkit](https://docs.nvidia.com/nemo/agent-toolkit/latest/))
  workflows as the agent format.
- Sibling-agent candidate flow for applying optimization and security
  changes without editing a running agent in place.

### Models and Inference

- Inference Gateway: provider registration, virtual models, entity-name
  routing.
- Switchyard middleware: random routing for strong/weak splits, cross-format
  translation.
- Supported upstream providers: NVIDIA Build, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google
  Gemini, Ollama, generic OpenAI-compatible endpoints.

### Guardrails

- `nemo-guardrails` middleware applied via virtual models.
- Catalog content-safety, topic-control, and safety-guard models.

### Evaluation

- LLM-as-a-judge, similarity, RAG, and agentic metrics.
- Agent and model configuration as evaluation targets.

### Vulnerability Scanning

- garak-backed audits against models reachable through the Inference Gateway.
- Audit configs, probes, targets, and JSONL and HTML reports.

### Data

- Data Designer for synthetic dataset generation.
- Anonymizer for PII handling in datasets.

### Studio

- Workspace browser, agent list, and chat playground for deployed agents and
  models. The Studio agent build, optimize, and secure flow is in progress
  and not part of {{ release }}.

### Coding-agent skills

- `nemo skills install --agent <claude|codex|cursor|opencode>` installs
  platform skills for the supported coding agents.
- Agent-flow skills: `nemo-setup`, `nemo-explore`, `nemo-spec`,
  `nemo-build-agent`, `nemo-try-agent`, `agents-optimize`, `agents-secure`,
  `nemo-status`, `nemo-teardown`.

### CLI and SDK

- `nemo` CLI with auto-generated API commands plus use-case commands like
  `chat`.
- `nemo-platform` Python SDK, generated by Stainless from the OpenAPI spec.

## Install

```bash
git clone https://github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/nemo-platform.git
cd nemo-platform
make bootstrap
nemo setup
```

See [Setup](../../get-started/setup.md) for prerequisites and provider
configuration.

## Compatibility

- Python 3.11–3.13
- macOS, Linux
- 16 GB disk, 8 GB RAM
- Node 22.18.0+ for Studio assets

## Current constraints

- **Local-only.** Cluster and scale-out deployment are on the roadmap for
  enterprise use; {{ release }} supports a single local install.
- **Studio agent flow.** Studio ships with chat and workspace browsing
  today. The agent build, optimize, and security flows in Studio are in
  progress.
- **In-place agent edits.** The Agents v2 API has no patch operation.
  Config changes go through a sibling agent and redeploy.
- **Bring your own agent.** The platform's deploy and optimize paths target
  NAT workflows. NAT ships with a thin LangGraph wrapper, so LangGraph
  agents work first-class today. Agents from other frameworks need a thin
  wrapper to plug into NAT. Broader framework support is on the roadmap.

## Coming soon

- **Fine-tuning** (Customizer): model fine-tuning workflows on the platform.
- **Safe Synthesizer:** privacy-preserving synthetic data generation with
  differential-privacy guarantees.
- **Studio agent flow:** the build, optimize, and secure paths surfaced in
  the web UI.
- **Cluster and scale-out deployment** for enterprise workloads.

## Links

- Repository: [https://github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/nemo-platform](https://github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/nemo-platform)
- Issues: [https://github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/nemo-platform/issues](https://github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/nemo-platform/issues)
- NeMo Agent Toolkit: [https://docs.nvidia.com/nemo/agent-toolkit/latest/](https://docs.nvidia.com/nemo/agent-toolkit/latest/)
