paidf-cosmos-predict

paidf-cosmos-predict is a skill for Claude Code from NVIDIA-TAO/tao-skill-bank. It costs 23 tokens per session (4,366 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for preparing and running PAIDF Cosmos Predict, a video-generation system, on media samples. It produces a JSONL handoff linking each input media file to its generated video.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create generated video samples from existing media in a DEFT workflow, when the required NVIDIA, Docker, model, and captioning setup is available.
Why use it?
It organizes the required containers, GPU support, captioning service, model access, and runtime settings before generation starts.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the tao-skills plugin — 76 skills shipped together , and of tao-skill-bank

Good fit Use it to create generated video samples from existing media in a DEFT workflow, when the required NVIDIA, Docker, model, and captioning setup is available.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nvidia-tao/tao-skill-bank/paidf-cosmos-predict
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add NVIDIA-TAO/tao-skill-bank --skill paidf-cosmos-predict
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NVIDIA-TAO/tao-skill-bank

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,366 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 6 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Privilege Escalation · line 151
    Potential security issue detected. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Review the flagged content for security risks. Ensure no credentials, secrets, or sensitive data are exposed.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 152
    Potential security issue detected. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Review the flagged content for security risks. Ensure no credentials, secrets, or sensitive data are exposed.
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 149
    Docker image references without a specific tag (:latest is implicit) or digest (@sha256:...) can be silently replaced by a malicious image.
    Fix: Pin the image: image:tag or image@sha256:abc123
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 239
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 240
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 243
    Docker image references without a specific tag (:latest is implicit) or digest (@sha256:...) can be silently replaced by a malicious image.
    Fix: Pin the image: image:tag or image@sha256:abc123
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00023 $0.04366
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.02183
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00873
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00437

Measured 12d ago against content hash 85d5cded4775, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paidf-cosmos-predict 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 5 executable files (scripts/paidf_common.py, scripts/prepare_paidf_config.py, scripts/test_paidf_cosmos_predict.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/data/paidf-cosmos-predict/SKILL.md · 248 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 248 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PAIDF Cosmos Predict Generation

Prepare and run PAIDF Cosmos Predict generation for media samples. The skill emits a JSONL handoff that maps each input id to the original media path and generated video path.

Purpose

Use this skill when a DEFT workflow already has media samples and needs synthetic/generated videos from PAIDF Cosmos Predict. This skill does not start the VLM captioning service. A reachable OpenAI-compatible base URL for the model used to caption input media must be provided at runtime.

Prerequisites

  • Docker with NVIDIA GPU support and nvidia-container-toolkit.
  • Access to the PAIDF augmentation image declared by images.metropolis_sdg.paidf_augmentation in versions.yaml.
  • A running VLM captioning service with an OpenAI-compatible API base URL. The base URL must be provided by the user or upstream workflow at runtime; reuse that exact base URL for every --vlm-captioning-endpoint argument. Do not include /models in VLM_CAPTIONING_ENDPOINT.
  • HF_TOKEN in the run environment when Cosmos model downloads require HuggingFace access — exported, or in a user-approved env file (bare KEY=value lines) that the run block sources.
  • VLM_API_KEY in the run environment the same way when the VLM captioning endpoint requires authentication.
  • Input media paths that are absolute paths on the host under the required media directory. Pass the host media directory with --media-dir; the skill mounts it into the PAIDF container at the exact same path.

Inputs

Input Required Notes
Input JSONL Yes Path to the generic media JSONL. The user or upstream workflow must provide it. Each row must include string fields id and media_path; id values must be unique.
Output directory Yes Host directory for prepared PAIDF config, generated videos, captions, metadata, logs, and final handoff. The user or upstream workflow must provide it.
VLM captioning endpoint base URL Yes The user or upstream workflow must provide this OpenAI-compatible base URL, for example a URL ending in /v1. Do not include /models. Pass the exact same base URL to verify_vlm_captioning_base_url.py before any other step and to prepare_paidf_config.py when writing config.yaml.
Generation settings No If the user provides a generation settings JSON, use it. Otherwise set GENERATION_SETTINGS to skills/data/paidf-cosmos-predict/assets/default_generation_settings.json. Always pass the resolved path to prepare_paidf_config.py with --generation-settings.
PAIDF GPU count Yes Number of GPUs for PAIDF augmentation. Pass it to prepare_paidf_config.py with --paidf-num-gpus N and to Docker with --gpus "$PAIDF_NUM_GPUS".
Media directory Yes Host directory containing the input media referenced by media_path. Pass it as --media-dir /path/to/media_dir to prepare_paidf_config.py and mount it into Docker 1:1.
VLM captioning prompt Yes Prompt text file for VLM captioning. Pass it to prepare_paidf_config.py with --caption-prompt-file; the script inlines the prompt into config.yaml.
HF_TOKEN Yes for Cosmos model downloads The agent checks that HF_TOKEN is already set in the run environment, whether exported or sourced from a user-approved env file, and forwards it to Docker with -e HF_TOKEN.
VLM_API_KEY Yes when the VLM captioning endpoint requires authentication The agent warns when VLM_API_KEY is not set, then forwards it to Docker with -e VLM_API_KEY when present. If the endpoint does not require authentication, PAIDF can run without it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 248 lines

Changes

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.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 248 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A 85d5cded4775

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paidf-cosmos-predict is a skill published in the GitHub repository NVIDIA-TAO/tao-skill-bank (88 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 4,366 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. 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 2026-08-30.

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