Modal Basics for Auto-Research

Foundational Modal platform knowledge for research agents. Covers how Modal apps work, the CLI, and development patterns. The GPU-specific skills (modal-gpu-dev, modal-gpu-experiment, sub-agents) build on these basics.

Modal is a serverless platform for AI/ML workloads — scalable compute (including GPUs) with minimal configuration, pay only for what you use.

Documentation

Modal's documentation is outlined at https://modal.com/llms.txt.

The docs are divided into three sections:

• Fetch Guide pages for in-depth explanations of Modal features, primitives, and workflows
• Fetch Examples pages to see how different AI applications look on Modal
• Fetch API Reference pages for signatures and docstrings for components of the Python SDK

For broader context, https://modal.com/llms-full.txt aggregates all docs in a single very large file. Do not read this into your main context.

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