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Vast Ai

Provision and manage on-demand GPUs on VAST.ai, including search by GPU and price, renting containers, retrieving SSH, and checking account balance.

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Install

openclaw skills install vast-ai

Skill: VAST.ai GPU Rental

Overview

This skill allows you to provision on-demand GPU infrastructure. You must have a user-provided API Key before performing write actions.

Capabilities

  1. Search: Find machines by GPU model (e.g., "RTX 4090") and max hourly price.
  2. Rent: Instantiate a container (default: PyTorch) on a specific Offer ID.
  3. Connect: Retrieve the SSH connection string for an active instance.
  4. Balance: Check available credit and current hourly burn rate across all active machines.

Usage Protocol

  • Step 1: Ask the user for their VAST API Key if not already in context.
  • Pre-flight Check: Before renting, call balance to ensure the user has sufficient funds.
  • Step 2: Search for offers and present the top 3 cheapest options to the user.
  • Step 3: Upon confirmation, call rent.
  • Reporting: If credit is below $5.00, warn the user after every successful rental.
  • Step 4: Wait 30-60 seconds, then call connect to provide the SSH string.

Tool Definitions

  • search(gpu: string, price: number)
  • rent(id: number, image: string)
  • connect(id: number)
  • balance()

Execution

Run the CLI wrapper for these tools. Command: node /Users/sschepis/Development/vast-ai/dist/cli.js <action> [params] Env: VAST_API_KEY must be set.

Examples

  • Search: node dist/cli.js search --gpu "RTX 4090" --price 0.5
  • Rent: node dist/cli.js rent --id 12345 --image "pytorch/pytorch"
  • Connect: node dist/cli.js connect --id 12345
  • Balance: node dist/cli.js balance