> For clean Markdown of any page, append .md to the page URL. > For a complete documentation index, see https://docs.nvidia.com/nemo-helix/v0.8/documentation/studio/llms.txt. > For AI client integration (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.), connect to the MCP server at https://docs.nvidia.com/nemo-helix/_mcp/server. # About NVIDIA NeMo Studio > **Note** > > Studio is still in early development. Many features are missing or should be expected to change. NeMo Studio is the web app for AI development with NVIDIA NeMo Helix. It provides a workspace-oriented UI for managing local platform resources, reviewing agents, running agent optimization workflows, monitoring agent telemetry, and working with filesets, jobs, and secrets. The pages visible in your workspace depend on the installed plugins, enabled services, feature flags, and NeMo Helix version. A page documented here might be hidden in your deployment. Preview pages identify the feature flag that enables them. --- ## Getting Started NeMo Studio is included with the platform. Follow the [Setup guide](/documentation/get-started) to start NeMo Helix, then access Studio at `/studio` on your running server. ## Features ### Current Workspace Navigation The current sidebar groups related pages under expandable parents. Selecting a parent that has its own landing page, such as **Agents**, opens that page; when it has child entries, use its chevron to expand them. A parent without a landing page, such as **Models**, only expands its child entries. | Sidebar group | Current entry point | Purpose and availability | | ----------------- | ------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | **Observability** | **Insights** | Review optimization insights generated from observed agent sessions. Shown when optimization is enabled; see [NeMo Studio Insights](/documentation/studio/insights). | | **Observability** | **Traces** | Inspect ingested traces, spans, and session details; see [NeMo Studio Traces](/documentation/studio/traces). | | **Components** | **Agents** | Opens the agent list. Select an agent to access the Overview, Deployments, Logs, Chat, Evaluations, Optimizations, Insights, and Details tabs. Optimizations and Insights are enabled by default and can be hidden by their feature flags. | | **Components** | **Models** | Expands to **Model Catalog**, **Evaluations**, **Fine-tuning**, **Playground**, **Deployments**, and **Virtual Models**, when those capabilities are enabled. **Model Catalog** opens the base-model list. **Evaluations** opens the Model Evaluations page; see [NeMo Studio Model Evaluations](/documentation/studio/model-evaluations). **Fine-tuning** opens the fine-tuned models list; see [NeMo Studio Fine-tuning](/documentation/studio/customization). **Playground** is disabled by default. **Virtual Models** appears only when the Guardrails preview feature is enabled. | | **Evaluations** | **Experiments** | Group evaluations for comparison, drill into results, and compare runs side by side; see [NeMo Studio Experiments](/documentation/studio/experiments). | | **Data** | **Datasets > Anonymizer** | Detect and protect PII in a dataset. Enabled by default; see [NeMo Studio Anonymizer](/documentation/studio/anonymizer). | | **Data** | **Datasets > Data Designer** | Build and monitor synthetic-data jobs. Other installed data plugins can appear below **Datasets**. | | **Data** | **Datasets > Safe Synthesizer** | Create and monitor privacy-preserving synthetic tabular data jobs. Enabled by default. | | **Governance** | **Guardrails** | Manage guardrail configurations. Disabled by default; see [Studio Guardrail Configs](/documentation/studio/guardrail-configs). | | **Governance** | **Agent Hardening** | Plugin-provided agent hardening UI. Appears only when the Agent hardening plugin is installed; see [Studio Plugin UIs](/documentation/studio/plugins). | | **System** | **Filesets** | Organize and manage files used by agents and jobs. | | **System** | **Jobs** | Monitor jobs across enabled platform capabilities. | | **System** | **Settings** | View workspace settings and open **Secrets** and inference provider management. Enabled by default. | **Dashboard** appears above the sidebar groups and is shown by default. **Playground** and **Virtual Models** are disabled by default and appear only when an administrator enables their feature flags. Because plugins contribute navigation at runtime, an installed plugin can also add pages to an existing group or add a new group. ### Agents Use the Studio Agents area to review NeMo Helix-managed agents, including the current Fabric-first `nemo-agents-spec-v1` experience, inspect agent details, deploy agents, open a chat session against a running deployment, and clean up deployments that are no longer needed. For the full workflow, see [Studio Agents](/documentation/studio/agents). ### Insights Use **Observability > Insights** to review optimization insights the analyst agent generates from observed agent sessions and traces, and drill into an insight's linked experiments and observed sessions. Use **Resolve** or **Delete** to close an open insight, and **Reopen** to restore a resolved or deleted one. For the full workflow, see [Studio Insights](/documentation/studio/insights). ### Traces Use **Observability > Traces** to inspect ingested telemetry in the Traces and Spans tables, and drill into a session's trace and span detail, with specialized views for LLM, tool, agent, chain, embedding, reranker, retriever, guardrail, and evaluator spans. For the full workflow, see [Studio Traces](/documentation/studio/traces). ### Guardrails When the preview feature is enabled, use **Governance > Guardrails** to create and manage NeMo Guardrails configurations for the current workspace. Select **Create Guardrail** to add a configuration. The list shows each config's **Name**, **Main Model**, **Flows**, and **Updated** columns, with an optional **Created** column; use the row actions to **Duplicate** or **Delete** a config, or select several rows to delete them together. Select a row to open the detail page, which has **Configuration**, **Test and Validate**, and **Virtual Models** tabs. The **Configuration** tab lets you edit the main model and rails, and shows the full payload as read-only **Configuration JSON**. Select **Save Guardrail** to apply your changes or **Reset** to discard them. The detail page also offers **Duplicate** and **Delete** actions. For the full workflow, see [Studio Guardrail Configs](/documentation/studio/guardrail-configs). ### Virtual Models When the Guardrails preview feature is enabled, use **Models > Virtual Models** to inspect inference routes managed by the Inference Gateway. The list shows all user-created virtual models in the workspace — auto-provisioned passthrough routes are hidden. Select a row, or choose **View** from its row actions, to open the virtual model's detail page. The **Details** tab shows the default backend model when configured, and the ordered request, response, and post-response middleware pipelines attached to the route. The **Chat** tab sends test prompts through the virtual model. Row actions also include **Chat** and **Delete**. Virtual models are created through the `nemo inference virtual-models` CLI or the Inference Gateway API. For the full workflow, see [Studio Virtual Models](/documentation/studio/virtual-models). ### Models Select **Models > Model Catalog** to browse base-model entities available in the current workspace. **Models** is an expandable parent without its own landing page; **Model Catalog** is the base-model list. Base models include models registered in the workspace and default platform models. The Model Catalog page supports searching by model name, filtering by creation or update date, sorting alphabetically or by creation time, and showing only customizable models. Select a model card to open the model details side panel. The model details side panel has **Model Details** and **Chat Playground** tabs. **Model Details** shows model metadata, parameters, and available actions, such as **Customize this Model** when fine-tuning is enabled. **Chat Playground** lets you chat with chat-capable models. ### Fine-tuning Select **Models > Fine-tuning** to open the fine-tuned models list, start a fine-tuning job against an eligible base model, and track job progress. Enabled by default; see [NeMo Studio Fine-tuning](/documentation/studio/customization). ### Workspaces Keep models and data organized in dedicated workspaces. ### Filesets Use **Filesets** to organize files by **purpose**, which determines which metadata fields are available. Purpose is chosen at creation time and can't be changed afterward. | Purpose | Use for | | ----------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Generic | Files that don't fit the Dataset, Model, or Environment categories. Doesn't add purpose-specific metadata fields. | | Dataset | Default for new filesets. Training and evaluation data. Enables dataset-specific metadata, including schema information. Use built-in tools to transform data schemas with LLM assistance or create train/test splits. | | Model | Model weights and checkpoints. Enables model-specific metadata, including tool-calling and model configuration fields. | | Environment | Executable environment packages consumed by sandboxed workloads. | **Supported file formats:** JSON (`.json`), JSONL (`.jsonl`), CSV (`.csv`), and Parquet (`.parquet`). PDF, image, and other binary formats are not currently supported. You can upload any file type into a fileset. However, each service supports specific input file types: | Service | Supported File Types | | ----------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------- | | [Data Designer](/documentation/design-synthetic-data) | `.json`, `.jsonl`, `.csv`, `.parquet` | ### Anonymizer Use **Datasets > Anonymizer** to detect and protect PII in a dataset, choosing a substitute, redact, annotate, hash, or rewrite strategy, previewing the result on a few records, and running a full job. Enabled by default. For the full workflow, see [NeMo Studio Anonymizer](/documentation/studio/anonymizer). ### Safe Synthesizer Use **Datasets > Safe Synthesizer** to create and monitor privacy-preserving synthetic tabular data jobs from NeMo Studio. The Studio page provides access to job creation, job status, details, reports, and result downloads for Safe Synthesizer workflows. For the full workflow, see [Synthesize Safe Data](/documentation/synthesize-safe-data). ### Evaluations Studio provides separate agent, model, and workspace evaluation views: | Location | What it shows | | ------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | **Agents > select an agent > Evaluations** | In-progress and completed evaluations in one table, and experiments scoped to the selected agent. Start a new run with **Run Evaluation**. | | **Models > Evaluations** | The Model Evaluations page: start a model evaluation with **Run Evaluation**, and review job results and per-row scores. See [Studio Model Evaluations](/documentation/studio/model-evaluations). | | **Evaluations > Experiments** | Experiments and their evaluations across the workspace, evaluation drill-down, and side-by-side run comparison. See [Studio Experiments](/documentation/studio/experiments). | Use the agent's **Evaluations** tab when reviewing how a specific agent performed. Use **Experiments** for the broader workspace history. ### Experiments Use **Evaluations > Experiments** to run an evaluation against an agent from the UI — selecting the agent and judge model, uploading a dataset and evaluation config — and to compare results across runs on the experiment leaderboard. For the full workflow, see [NeMo Studio Experiments](/documentation/studio/experiments). For concepts, the data model, and the CLI and SDK workflows, see [Experiments](/documentation/evaluate-models/experiments). ### Jobs Track and manage all platform jobs from a single view. The Jobs page aggregates jobs across enabled capabilities, such as Data Designer, so you can monitor progress, view logs, download artifacts, and cancel jobs in one place. Navigate to **Jobs** in the workspace sidebar to see all jobs in the current workspace. **Search and filter** — Find jobs by name, filter by status, or narrow results by creation or update date range. **Status tracking** — Each job displays its current status: | Status | Description | | ---------- | ------------------------------------------ | | Created | Job has been created but not yet scheduled | | Pending | Job is queued and waiting for resources | | Active | Job is currently running | | Completed | Job finished successfully | | Error | Job encountered an error | | Cancelled | Job was cancelled by a user | | Cancelling | Cancellation is in progress | | Paused | Job execution is paused | | Pausing | Job is transitioning to paused | | Resuming | Paused job is restarting | **Service routing** — Clicking a job navigates to its service-specific detail view when one exists. Jobs from services that aren't enabled fall back to the generic job detail view. **Cancelling a job** — Active or pending jobs can be cancelled from the job list or the detail page. Cancelling a job permanently stops it and cannot be undone. ### Secrets Store API keys and credentials to securely connect with external providers. Open **Settings** in the **System** group and select **Manage Secrets**. See [manage-secrets](/documentation/get-started/core-concepts/manage-secrets) for details. ## Docs - [NeMo Studio Agents](https://docs.nvidia.com/nemo-helix/v0.8/documentation/studio/agents.md): - [NeMo Studio Anonymizer](https://docs.nvidia.com/nemo-helix/v0.8/documentation/studio/anonymizer.md): Detect and protect PII in a dataset from Studio, with a live preview before running a full job. - [NeMo Studio Fine-tuning](https://docs.nvidia.com/nemo-helix/v0.8/documentation/studio/customization.md): Fine-tune models from NeMo Studio, and track customization jobs. - [Data Designer in NeMo Studio](https://docs.nvidia.com/nemo-helix/v0.8/documentation/studio/data-designer.md): Build, preview, and edit synthetic-data jobs visually with the Data Designer builder. - [NeMo Studio Experiments](https://docs.nvidia.com/nemo-helix/v0.8/documentation/studio/experiments.md): Group evaluations into experiments, drill into results, and compare runs side by side. - [NeMo Studio Insights](https://docs.nvidia.com/nemo-helix/v0.8/documentation/studio/insights.md): Review optimization insights generated from observed agent sessions. - [NeMo Studio Model Evaluations](https://docs.nvidia.com/nemo-helix/v0.8/documentation/studio/model-evaluations.md): Run model evaluations and review job results and per-row scores. - [Plugin UIs in NeMo Studio](https://docs.nvidia.com/nemo-helix/v0.8/documentation/studio/plugins.md): Find and use Studio pages contributed by installed NeMo Helix plugins. - [NeMo Studio Guardrail Configs](https://docs.nvidia.com/nemo-helix/v0.8/documentation/studio/guardrail-configs.md): Create, edit, and test NeMo Guardrails configurations in Studio when the preview feature is enabled. - [NeMo Studio Traces](https://docs.nvidia.com/nemo-helix/v0.8/documentation/studio/traces.md): Inspect ingested traces, spans, and session detail from agent telemetry. - [NeMo Studio Virtual Models](https://docs.nvidia.com/nemo-helix/v0.8/documentation/studio/virtual-models.md): Inspect inference routes in Studio when the Guardrails preview feature is enabled.