Agentic AI NIM Bootcamp

This repo contains the challenge and the tutorial for the bootcamp

Bootcamp Content

The challenge consists of the following parts.

1. Creating a Question & Answer (Q&A) MCP Server
2. Creating an Invoice MCP Server
3. Modifying the existing LLM workflow to utilise both the Q&A and Invoice MCP Servers

Tools and Frameworks

The tools and frameworks used in this bootcamp are as follows

1. NVIDIA NIM
2. Model Context Protocol
3. LangGraph

Bootcamp Duration

The duration of the tutorial is 2 hours.
The duration of the challenge is 4 hours.

Prerequisites

1. Register for an account and generate API key with build.nvidia.com

   Prepaid cards or numbers marked as spam will not be able to register for an API Key

2. Setup API key in environment variable

   MacOS

   • Open a terminal

   • Edit .zprofile

     vi ~/.zprofile

   • insert the following line to end of file

     export NVIDIA_API_KEY=<your api key>

   • exit vi editor

     source ~/.zprofile

   Windows

   • Open CMD terminal

     setx NVIDIA_API_KEY "<your api key>"

3. Test your API Key to ensure it has permissions to invoke the cloud endpoints

   Replace [YOUR_API_KEY] with your generated API key from 1)

   curl https://integrate.api.nvidia.com/v1/chat/completions \
   -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
   -H "Authorization: Bearer [YOUR_API_KEY]" \
   -d '{
       "model": "nvidia/llama-3.3-nemotron-super-49b-v1",
       "messages": [{"role":"system","content":"detailed thinking on"}],
       "temperature": 0.6,   
       "top_p": 0.95,
       "max_tokens": 4096,
       "frequency_penalty": 0,
       "presence_penalty": 0,
       "stream": false                
   }'
   

4. Install the following packages

   • uv package manager
   • python
   • git version control
   • claude desktop

5. Deploy NIMs locally (not required if using cloud endpoints)

   Follow the below instructions for the respective NIMs llama-3.3-nemotron-super-49b-v1 mistral-nemo-12b-instruct

Steps

1. Clone this repository

   git clone https://github.com/openhackathons-org/bootcamp-challenge-public-nim.git
   

2. Learn how to build MCP Clients/Servers for agentic tool calling in the MCP tutorial.

3. Learn how to utilise NVIDIA NIMs and MCP in agentic workflows using the Agent tutorial

4. Attempt the challenge to modify an existing LLM workflow to utilise NVIDIA NIM and MCP.

Attribution

This material originates from the OpenHackathons Github repository. Check out additional materials here

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Licensing

Copyright © 2025 OpenACC-Standard.org. This material is released by OpenACC-Standard.org, in collaboration with NVIDIA Corporation, under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). These materials may include references to hardware and software developed by other entities; all applicable licensing and copyrights apply.