vss-deploy-dense-captioning

Purpose

Stand up the RT-VLM dense-captioning microservice on its own and exercise every endpoint it exposes (file upload, generate_captions, stream add/delete, chat-completions, Kafka topics).

Prerequisites

For standalone RT-VLM deployment:

• Docker, Docker Compose, NVIDIA Container Toolkit, and a visible GPU.
• NGC registry credentials in $NGC_CLI_API_KEY for docker login nvcr.io, image pulls, and local NGC model/artifact downloads.
• curl, jq, and any writable working directory for the standalone compose copy.

For API calls against an existing service:

• Running RT-VLM service reachable at $BASE_URL.
• Bearer token in $RTVI_VLM_API_KEY or $NGC_CLI_API_KEY, depending on how the service was configured.

For full VSS profile deployment:

• Use ../vss-deploy-profile/SKILL.md; this skill does not deploy full VSS profiles.