NVIDIA / NVIDIA/cuda-python

Allow user-provided annotation for kernels generated from `Program` and`ObjectCode`

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Since May 20, 2026.

cuda.core feature P1
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Description

We have examples like this today

kernel = module.get_kernel("vectorAdd<float>")

which does not tell us what args are expected on the device side, and so when launch(s, config, kernel, ...) is called we cannot do type checking for users.

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