How do I install the Vllm Speculative Decoding Claude Code skill?

Install via the ClaudSkills desktop app (one click) or copy SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/vllm-speculative-decoding/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at https://claudskills.com/install/.

Is this skill free to install?

Yes. ClaudSkills is an open registry — every skill keeps its source repository's license, and manual install via copy is free. ClaudSkills Pro ($9/mo, $79/yr, or $149 one-time) adds one-click install via the desktop app and a multi-signal Quality Score.

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Vllm Speculative Decoding

Category: General · Sub-category: general-misc · Last updated: 2026-05-08

ai:llm

Pick, configure, tune, monitor vLLM speculative decoding in production. Eleven SpeculativeMethod options (ngram, ngram_gpu, medusa, mlp_speculator, draft_model, suffix, eagle, eagle3, dflash, mtp, extract_hidden_states), `--speculative-config` JSON schema, which methods pair with which target model family, Prometheus acceptance metric surface, version gates (v0.11.1 EAGLE-3 preamble fix, v0.16 parallel drafting, v0.18 ngram_gpu, v0.19 dflash and zero-bubble), composability with chunked prefill / PP / LoRA / FP8 / structured outputs, Arctic Inference plugin, where spec-dec stops paying at high batch.

From the source SKILL.md

For production vLLM operators deciding which speculative method fits a given model + workload, configuring it correctly, wiring the acceptance metrics into their dashboards, and diagnosing why a deployment isn't seeing the expected speedup.

What this skill does

Vllm Speculative Decoding is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the general-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/vllm-speculative-decoding/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

Who uses this skill

The Vllm Speculative Decoding skill is built for Claude Code users and developers across all disciplines looking for general-purpose AI assistance. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 56,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/vllm-speculative-decoding
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/vllm-speculative-decoding/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/vllm-speculative-decoding/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/vllm-speculative-decoding/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/vllm-speculative-decoding/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\vllm-speculative-decoding\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

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