Getting it into your agent
One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.
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tao-skills scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 84 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
{
"name": "tao-skills",
"description": "Full TAO skill bank — every model, data, platform, and application skill in one bundle. Install this for the standard agentic-fine-tuning experience.",
"source": "./",
"strict": true,
"skills": [
"./skills/data/tao-generate-anomalies",
"./skills/data/tao-prepare-anomalygennext-inputs",
"./skills/data/tao-finetune-anomalygennext",
"./skills/data/tao-generate-od-defects",
"./skills/applications/tao-run-automl-deft-pipeline",
"./skills/applications/tao-train-single-step",
"./skills/applications/tao-analyze-changenet-rca",
"./skills/applications/tao-run-automl",
"./skills/applications/tao-run-inference-service",
"./skills/applications/tao-finetune-huggingface-model",
"./skills/applications/tao-port-huggingface-model",
"./skills/applications/tao-run-deft-aoi",
"./skills/applications/tao-run-deft-aoi-cosmos3",
"./skills/applications/tao-run-deft-pas",
"./skills/applications/tao-run-deft-cr-its-mining",
"./skills/applications/tao-validate-recipe-transfer",
"./skills/applications/tao-run-deft-object-detection",
"./skills/applications/tao-run-deft-od-aoi",
"./skills/data/tao-mine-nearest-neighbors",
"./skills/data/tao-mine-aoi-images",
"./skills/data/tao-analyze-gaps-visual-changenet",
"./skills/data/tao-analyze-gaps-od-map",
"./skills/data/tao-route-visual-changenet-samples",
"./skills/data/paidf-cosmos-predict",
"./skills/data/tao-generate-video-reasoning-annotations",
"./skills/models/tao-train-action-recognition",
"./skills/models/tao-train-bevfusion",
"./skills/models/tao-train-centerpose",
"./skills/models/tao-train-image-classification",
"./skills/models/tao-finetune-clip",
"./skills/models/tao-finetune-cosmos-reason",
"./skills/models/tao-train-codetr",
"./skills/models/tao-train-deformable-detr",
"./skills/models/tao-train-fast-foundation-stereo",
"./skills/models/tao-train-depthWhat it installs
The manifest is a name and a version. 76 skills travel with it, and installing the plugin installs all of them — 8,352 tokens a session between them. Each is measured on its own page, and each can be installed alone.
- Skill paidf-cosmos-predict A 23 tokens
- Skill tao-generate-anomalies A 163 tokens
- Skill tao-run-automl A 235 tokens
- Skill tao-run-deft-aoi-cosmos3 A 175 tokens
- Skill tao-run-deft-cr-its-mining A 80 tokens
- Skill tao-run-inference-service A 92 tokens
- Skill tao-run-on-slurm A 94 tokens
- Skill tao-train-codetr A 107 tokens
- Skill tao-train-mask2former A 89 tokens
- Skill tao-train-oneformer A 84 tokens
- Skill tao-train-visual-changenet A 92 tokens
- Skill tao-analyze-gaps-visual-changenet A 103 tokens
- Skill tao-finetune-clip A 104 tokens
- Skill tao-finetune-cosmos-embed A 79 tokens
- Skill tao-finetune-video-clip A 111 tokens
- Skill tao-mine-aoi-images A 79 tokens
- Skill tao-run-automl-deft-pipeline A 269 tokens
- Skill tao-run-deft-pas A 175 tokens
- Skill tao-train-bevfusion A 103 tokens
- Skill tao-train-deformable-detr A 92 tokens
- Skill tao-train-depth-anything-v2 A 85 tokens
- Skill tao-train-grounding-dino A 103 tokens
- Skill tao-train-image-classification A 103 tokens
- Skill tao-train-mask-grounding-dino A 100 tokens
- Skill tao-train-nvpanoptix3d A 131 tokens
- Skill tao-train-ocdnet A 92 tokens
- Skill tao-train-ocrnet A 87 tokens
- Skill tao-train-optical-inspection A 88 tokens
- Skill tao-train-pointpillars A 110 tokens
- Skill tao-train-pose-classification A 82 tokens
- Skill tao-train-reid A 86 tokens
- Skill tao-train-rtdetr A 105 tokens
- Skill tao-train-segformer A 77 tokens
- Skill tao-train-sparse4d A 110 tokens
- Skill tao-validate-recipe-transfer A 179 tokens
- Skill tao-analyze-detection-kpi A 94 tokens
- Skill tao-finetune-nv-tesseract-ad-diffusion A 148 tokens
- Skill tao-finetune-nv-tesseract-forecasting A 144 tokens
- Skill tao-generate-referring-expressions A 143 tokens
- Skill tao-generate-video-reasoning-annotations A 134 tokens
- Skill tao-route-visual-changenet-samples A 95 tokens
- Skill tao-run-deft-object-detection A 196 tokens
- Skill tao-train-action-recognition A 84 tokens
- Skill tao-train-centerpose A 81 tokens
- Skill tao-train-dino A 100 tokens
- Skill tao-train-fast-foundation-stereo A 101 tokens
- Skill tao-train-foundation-stereo A 74 tokens
- Skill tao-train-mask-auto-encoder A 103 tokens
- Skill tao-train-mask-auto-label A 94 tokens
- Skill tao-train-metric-learning-recognition A 98 tokens
- Skill tao-train-nvdinov2 A 97 tokens
- Skill tao-generate-image-embeddings A 81 tokens
- Skill tao-generate-image-grounding A 95 tokens
- Skill tao-mine-od-images A 74 tokens
- Skill tao-run-deft-od-aoi A 81 tokens
- Skill tao-train-dinov3 A 117 tokens
- Skill tao-analyze-changenet-rca A 121 tokens
- Skill tao-analyze-gaps-od-map A 84 tokens
- Skill tao-mine-nearest-neighbors A 39 tokens
- Skill tao-run-on-virtualenv A 131 tokens
- Skill tao-analyze-gaps-vlm-bcq A 83 tokens
- Skill tao-convert-dataset-format A 71 tokens
- Skill tao-validate-dataset-format A 77 tokens
- Skill tao-finetune-anomalygennext A 58 tokens
- Skill tao-prepare-anomalygennext-inputs A 59 tokens
- Skill tao-generate-od-defects A 54 tokens
- Skill tao-finetune-cosmos-reason A 73 tokens
- Skill tao-run-deft-aoi A 155 tokens
- Skill tao-train-single-step A 107 tokens
- Skill tao-setup-nvidia-gpu-host B 177 tokens
- Skill tao-finetune-huggingface-model C 241 tokens
- Skill tao-run-on-kubernetes C 80 tokens
- Skill tao-run-on-brev C 106 tokens
- Skill tao-data-io C 159 tokens
- Skill tao-port-huggingface-model C 210 tokens
- Skill tao-run-on-docker D 146 tokens
What ships with it
2 files beside marketplace.json#tao-skills in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- yesterday Changed · +4 lines 89f534874650
- 7d ago First seen · 80 lines scan A 7e632d010da2
tao-skills is a plugin published in the GitHub repository NVIDIA-TAO/tao-skill-bank (88 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.
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