# Vss Manage Alerts

Use this skill when operating VSS alert workflows, real-time monitoring, Alert-Bridge...

- Repository: https://github.com/NVIDIA-AI-Blueprints/video-search-and-summarization (1959 stars)
- Category: Engineering
- License: Apache-2.0
- Last updated: 2026-11-01
- Runs scripts: yes, review before use

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add NVIDIA-AI-Blueprints/video-search-and-summarization --skill vss-manage-alerts -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add NVIDIA-AI-Blueprints/video-search-and-summarization --skill vss-manage-alerts -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add NVIDIA-AI-Blueprints/video-search-and-summarization --skill vss-manage-alerts -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add NVIDIA-AI-Blueprints/video-search-and-summarization --skill vss-manage-alerts -g -a gemini-cli -y`

## Description

Use this skill when operating VSS alert workflows, real-time monitoring, Alert-Bridge subscriptions, verification verdicts, on-demand verification, always-on operation, Slack notifications, incident queries, or camera onboarding. Not for non-alert analytics.

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

## Purpose

Operate the VSS alert pipeline (mode detection, Alert-Bridge subscriptions, verification verdicts, on-demand verification, always-on operation, Slack notifications, queries, camera onboarding, verifier-prompt customization).

## Prerequisites

- The `vss` CLI on `PATH`. The OpenClaw and Hermes harness images ship it; anywhere else, install it from the same checkout as this skill so the CLI and the skill match: `uv tool install <checkout>/libs/vss/cli`.
- Active VSS **alerts** profile reachable either on Docker (`$HOST_IP:9080` Alert
  Bridge) or through the public Ingress (`VSS_PUBLIC_URL` with `/alert-bridge`).
- Follow
  [`../vss-build-vision-ai/references/deployment_resolution.md`](../../vss-build-vision-ai/references/deployment_resolution.md)
  for the shared `VSS_PUBLIC_URL` contract.
- `curl` and `jq` on the agent host. Docker Compose mode detection may use
  `docker` / `generated.env`; Kubernetes must not.

## Instructions

Follow the routing tables and step-by-step workflows below. Each section that ends in *workflow*, *quick start*, or *flow* is intended to be executed top-to-bottom. Detailed reference material lives in `references/` and helper scripts live in `scripts/`, call them via `run_script` when the skill points to a script by name.

## Examples

Runnable end-to-end scenarios live under `evals/` (each `*.json` manifest); inline `curl` blocks appear in each workflow below. Replay with `nv-base validate <this-skill-dir> --agent-eval`.

## Limitations

Requires the matching VSS profile/microservice deployed and reachable. NGC-hosted models/NIMs are subject to rate-limits, GPU-memory needs, and license terms; concurrency and storage limits depend on host hardware and the profile's compose file.

## Troubleshooting

The rest: https://github.com/NVIDIA-AI-Blueprints/video-search-and-summarization/blob/HEAD/skills/operations/vss-manage-alerts/SKILL.md