Hf Cloud Sagemaker Deployment Planner

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Plan and coordinate the deployment of a model to Amazon SageMaker AI. Use this skill whenever the user wants to deploy, host, serve, or expose a model on SageMaker or AWS — including phrases like "deploy a model", "host this LLM on AWS", "serve this embedding model", "deploy a reranker", "deploy a text-to-image / diffusion model", "host this for async inference", "create an endpoint", "serve my fine-tuned model", or any request that involves making a model available for inference on AWS. Use this even when the user is vague (e.g. "I just want to get this running on AWS, you figure it out"). Works for text-generation LLMs, embedding models, rerankers, classifiers, text-to-image / diffusion models — picks the right serving stack and chooses between real-time and async inference. This is the entry-point skill for SageMaker deployment work — it asks clarifying questions, picks a deployment pathway, and coordinates the other deployment skills.

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The SageMaker Deployment Planner acts as the primary entry point for users looking to host models on AWS. It streamlines the deployment process by gathering essential requirements, such as model type and traffic patterns, to recommend the most efficient serving pathway. The skill coordinates with specialized sub-skills to handle context discovery, IAM configuration, image selection, and production deployment, ensuring a structured and informed path to hosting.

What it does

Identifies the appropriate SageMaker deployment pathway based on model type and traffic needs.
Conducts discovery to determine model requirements and operational constraints.
Checks AWS service quotas to prevent deployment failures due to resource limits.
Recommends optimal instance types for specific model architectures and cost profiles.
Coordinates with downstream skills for environment setup, IAM, and infrastructure deployment.
Provides clear, actionable recommendations while allowing user flexibility.

When to use it

When you need to deploy, host, or serve a model on Amazon SageMaker.
When you are unsure which SageMaker deployment option (real-time, async, serverless) fits your use case.
When you want to ensure your model deployment is configured with reasonable production defaults.
When you need to verify account quotas before attempting to launch infrastructure.

Advantages

Reduces complexity by abstracting AWS infrastructure decisions.
Prevents common deployment errors by checking service quotas upfront.
Optimizes cost and performance by selecting the right serving stack for the specific model.
Provides a consistent, guided workflow for various model types including LLMs and embeddings.

Usage examples

“I need to deploy my fine-tuned Llama-3 model on AWS, can you help?”: The agent will ask for the model artifact location and expected traffic, then recommend a real-time endpoint on an appropriate instance type.
“I have an embedding model that I need to host on SageMaker, but I'm not sure how to start.”: The agent will identify the model as an embedding task, suggest a CPU-based real-time endpoint, and initiate the deployment workflow.
“I want to deploy a stable diffusion model for async inference.”: The agent will confirm the async requirements and coordinate the deployment using the async inference pathway.

Install

Download the skill as a ZIP:
https://autogineer.com/agent-skills/huggingface/hf-cloud-sagemaker-deployment-planner/download

Unzip it into the cross-client skills folder of your project:

mkdir -p .agents/skills && unzip hf-cloud-sagemaker-deployment-planner.zip -d .agents/skills

Documentation by Hugging Face

SageMaker Deployment Planner

You are helping a user deploy a model to Amazon SageMaker. Most users invoking this skill want the model deployed with reasonable defaults, in as few questions as possible. Ask only what you need, recommend a pathway honestly, and hand off to the specialized skills.

Workflow phases

Discovery — what is being deployed and what are the constraints (this skill)
Pathway selection — real-time / serverless / async / batch / Bedrock CMI (this skill)
Context preflight — hf-cloud-aws-context-discovery, then hf-cloud-python-env-setup
IAM preflight — hf-cloud-sagemaker-iam-preflight
Image selection — hf-cloud-serving-image-selection
Deployment — hf-cloud-sagemaker-production-defaults

Phases 1–2 are this skill's job. The others activate when their patterns match.

Discovery: ask only what you need

You will eventually need to know:

What model: HuggingFace ID, S3 path to artifacts, or model name. If the user is vague ("the model I fine-tuned"), ask for the artifact location.
Model type: text-generation LLM, embedding/reranker, or other (classifier, NER, etc.). This determines the serving stack — usually inferable from the model name (anything ending in -embed-*, starting with BAAI/bge-, sentence-transformers/* etc. is embeddings; chat/instruct models are LLMs). Only ask if it's genuinely ambiguous.
Traffic shape: roughly how often will this be called?
Latency tolerance: interactive, near-real-time, or async?
Cost sensitivity: ask only if the user signals it or the traffic pattern is ambiguous.

Region comes from hf-cloud-aws-context-discovery — don't ask unless the user volunteers it.

Do not front-load all of these. A common minimal set is just: what model, and roughly how often will it be called? The model name usually settles the model-type question. That alone is often enough to narrow the pathway to two candidates. If the user already told you something, don't ask again.

Pathway selection

Pathway	When it fits	When it does not
Real-time endpoint	Steady traffic, sub-second to few-second latency, always-on	Very spiky or very sparse traffic (wastes money on idle)
Real-time, scale to zero	Sparse or scheduled traffic, dev/test endpoints, and a client that tolerates a ~9 min first request after idle	Any interactive SLA: every request during the wake fails with a 400
Serverless inference	Spiky/intermittent, tolerates cold starts (~10s+), simpler models	LLMs above a few B params (memory/cold-start limits), strict SLAs
Async inference	Long inference (>60s), large payloads, queue-friendly	Interactive synchronous calls
Batch transform	Offline scoring over a dataset	Anything online or interactive
Bedrock Custom Model Import	Wants Bedrock-compatible API, supported base family, weights only	Custom inference logic, unsupported architectures

For LLMs, real-time endpoints are the default unless traffic is explicitly spiky/sparse or inference is long-running. Serverless looks attractive for "low traffic" cases but most LLMs exceed its memory limits.

For embeddings, real-time is again the default — but CPU instances are usually the right choice (much cheaper, fast enough for most embedding workloads). Don't reflexively recommend GPU instances for embedding models; ask hf-cloud-serving-image-selection to consider CPU variants if the model is small (<1B params) and traffic is moderate.

For text-to-image, video generation, or other long-inference workloads (>30s per request) where traffic is also bursty: async inference is the right answer. It supports genuine scale-to-zero between batches and queues requests via S3, so you don't pay for idle GPU. hf-cloud-sagemaker-production-defaults has a dedicated deploy_async.py for this.

Real-time, real-time scale-to-zero, and async are the three scripted pathways (deploy.py, deploy_ic.py, deploy_async.py in hf-cloud-sagemaker-production-defaults). Serverless, batch transform, and Bedrock Custom Model Import are not currently scripted — for those, hand the user off with a brief explanation rather than trying to deploy them through this workflow.

Scale to zero, real-time or async? Both reach zero and both make the first request after idle slow. Pick async when one inference can exceed the 60s InvokeEndpoint limit, when payloads are large, or when the client can accept an S3 result instead of a synchronous response. Pick real-time scale-to-zero when the client needs a normal synchronous HTTP response and can retry through the wake. Real-time scale-to-zero needs inference components; the plain real-time pathway cannot go below one instance.

If two pathways are both reasonable, say so in one sentence each and pick one. Don't bury the recommendation in options.

Instance selection: check quota before recommending

Endpoint quotas are per instance type, per region, and default to 0 for GPU types in many accounts. Recommending an instance the account can't launch wastes a full deploy cycle on ResourceLimitExceeded. Check first:

aws service-quotas list-service-quotas --service-code sagemaker --region <region> \
    --query "Quotas[?contains(QuotaName, 'for endpoint usage') && Value > \`0\`].[QuotaName, Value]" \
    --output table

If the type you want isn't in the result, recommend one that is — or tell the user to request an increase (hours to days) before creating anything.

If the call itself is denied, say so once and continue. The quota check is an optimization, not a gate: the deployment surfaces the real limit as ResourceLimitExceeded. Never stop the workflow, and never ask the user to change IAM, for a preflight check.

GPU family notes for the common 24 GB tier:

ml.g5.* (A10G) and ml.g6.* (L4) both work with current vLLM images when the gpu-3-1 AMI is set (see hf-cloud-serving-image-selection). g6 is the newer generation and slightly cheaper per hour; g5 has roughly double the memory bandwidth, which usually means better LLM token throughput. Pick whichever has quota; when both do, either is defensible — g5 for throughput, g6 for cost.
ml.g6e.* (L40S, 48 GB) when the model doesn't fit in 24 GB.

Once you have enough to recommend, state it plainly:

Based on what you've told me, I'd recommend a real-time endpoint on ml.g5.xlarge. The model is small enough that this is cost-effective, and your traffic pattern is steady enough that you won't be paying for idle. Alternative: serverless would be cheaper if traffic dries up for hours at a time, but Qwen3-0.6B is at the edge of serverless memory limits and cold starts would be 15–30s. Want me to proceed with the real-time endpoint?

Then wait for confirmation. The user should know what they're about to spend money on before you create anything.

The plan lives in the conversation — don't generate plan.yaml or similar artifacts unless explicitly asked.

Style

Users invoking this skill are deferring to the agent because they don't want to do AWS plumbing. Match that energy: efficient, not exhaustive.
One round of clarifying questions is usually enough. Three rounds is interrogation.
When you don't know something specific (current image URI, SDK API surface, quotas), check it rather than guess. Other skills handle the "how to check" details.
If the user pushes back on a recommendation, accept it. They know their constraints better than you do.

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