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Use when integrating a CuTeDSL/CUTE DSL kernel into cuDNN Frontend as a frontend-only Python API, including APIBase wrappers, lazy cudnn exports, optional cutedsl dependencies, FE OSS documentation, and pytest coverage.

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CuTeDSL Kernel Integration

Use this skill to add or update a CuTeDSL frontend-only API in cuDNN Frontend. The goal is a complete integration: Python API, wrapper, exports, docs, and tests.

Before Editing

  1. Inspect the current repo state and avoid overwriting unrelated changes.
  2. Confirm every original source file needed for the integration is available. If a source file is missing, report that gap instead of inferring its contract from a related kernel.
  3. Record source provenance when it is available: upstream URL, local source path, commit, and which files map to public API modules versus private helpers.
  4. Classify the kernel before choosing a template:
    • Kernel family: dense GEMM, GEMM fusion, grouped GEMM, discrete grouped GEMM, MoE, attention, sparse attention, or another frontend-only API family.
    • Execution topology: single kernel, paired forward/backward APIs, multi-kernel orchestrator, helper-kernel setup, distributed/runtime-coordinated execution, or internal scheduler.
    • Public surface: class API, high-level wrapper, returned tensors, optional outputs, workspace ownership, and import/export namespace.
    • Internal support: source helper modules, schedulers, metadata utilities, and generated descriptors that must stay private to the package.
  5. Read references/integration-pattern.md for the detailed repo conventions before implementing.

Integration Workflow

  1. Add or update the operation package under the closest existing family, such as python/cudnn/<operation>/, python/cudnn/grouped_gemm/<operation>/, python/cudnn/discrete_grouped_gemm/<operation>/, or python/cudnn/sdpa/<direction>/.
  2. Implement the class API by extending APIBase; keep constructor descriptors, check_support(), compile(), and execute() consistent with the closest template.
  3. Add a high-level wrapper that allocates outputs, caches/reuses compiled kernels where the template does, and returns a TupleDict.
  4. Export the public class and wrapper through the operation/family __init__.py files and _LAZY_OPTIONAL_IMPORTS in python/cudnn/__init__.py.
  5. Reuse the existing cutedsl optional dependency unless the new kernel truly needs an additional package.
  6. Add FE OSS documentation and update the relevant overview or operation index links.
  7. Add tests under test/python/fe_api/, including support validation and numerical/reference coverage when executable.
  8. For grouped/discrete/MoE/SDPA kernels, preserve the source helper and scheduler topology; shared helper modules should be internal package files, not public cudnn exports.

Verification

  • Run focused formatting or tests for the files changed.
  • At minimum for skill-only edits, verify this SKILL.md has valid frontmatter and all referenced paths exist.
  • For kernel integrations, run the relevant pytest test/python/fe_api/test_<operation>.py target when the environment has the required GPU and optional dependencies; otherwise report the skipped verification explicitly.