# Remote Compute Modal

Run GPU jobs on the user's own Modal account via host.compute.create('byoc:modal', ...).

- Repository: https://github.com/HughYau/AcademicForge (2620 stars)
- Category: Media
- License: Apache-2.0
- Last updated: 2026-08-30
- Runs scripts: yes, review before use

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add HughYau/AcademicForge --skill remote-compute-modal -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add HughYau/AcademicForge --skill remote-compute-modal -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add HughYau/AcademicForge --skill remote-compute-modal -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add HughYau/AcademicForge --skill remote-compute-modal -g -a gemini-cli -y`

## Description

Run GPU jobs on the user's own Modal account via host.compute.create('byoc:modal', ...). Covers the create→submit→wait_for_notification flow, the compute_provider kernel for env setup, image/volume resolution, and the two approval cards. Load once you've decided to dispatch to Modal.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

You're dispatching to the user's Modal account: containers spin up in Modal's
cloud, on hardware you name in plain terms (gpu/cpu/memory/timeout), under
their workspace, on their bill. That's the reason there are
two approval cards rather than one, and the reason the env-setup surface is
a separate kernel rather than something you can call inline from the
control-plane kernel: each card is the user consenting to a specific,
bounded use of their credential, and the architecture keeps those grants
legible by keeping the surfaces apart.

If `compute.create('byoc:modal', …)` returns `unknown provider 'byoc:modal'`,
Modal isn't enabled in this install, ask the user to enable it under
*Settings → Compute → Modal* (or surface the prompt; you can't enable it for
them).

For first-time environment setup, see `env-setup.md` in this skill
directory, it walks through driving the `compute_provider` kernel to
build and record images.

## Two timeouts, one timeline

Modal has two deadline timers. Both live INSIDE the sandbox, and neither
can cost you the outputs of a job that ran. The timeline every job runs
on:

The rest: https://github.com/HughYau/AcademicForge/blob/HEAD/skills/claude-science/remote-compute-modal/SKILL.md