> For clean Markdown of any page, append .md to the page URL.
> For a complete documentation index, see https://docs.nvidia.com/nim/metadata-api/1.0.0/about/llms.txt.
> For AI client integration (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.), connect to the MCP server at https://docs.nvidia.com/nim/metadata-api/_mcp/server.

# About

## Docs

- [Overview](https://docs.nvidia.com/nim/metadata-api/1.0.0/about/overview.md): Read an NVIDIA NIM microservice's profiles, hardware requirements, and capabilities over HTTP, in one request, before you download the container.
- [Architecture Overview](https://docs.nvidia.com/nim/metadata-api/1.0.0/about/architecture-overview.md): Understand how published NIM profile metadata reaches HTTP clients and supports hardware selection before deployment.
- [Ecosystem Overview](https://docs.nvidia.com/nim/metadata-api/1.0.0/about/ecosystem.md): Understand when to use tag-level metadata, NGC repository information, GPU lookup, and NIM deployment documentation.
- [Core Concepts Overview for NIM Metadata API](https://docs.nvidia.com/nim/metadata-api/1.0.0/about/core-concepts.md): Understand profiles, GPU targeting, and the serialization rules that determine how to interpret a NIM Metadata API response.