tao-convert-dataset-format

tao-convert-dataset-format is a skill for Claude Code from NVIDIA-TAO/tao-skill-bank. It costs 71 tokens per session (1,387 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A command-line workflow for converting NVIDIA TAO DAFT datasets between supported formats. DAFT is NVIDIA TAO's dataset format system.

In plain words
What is it for?
Converting DAFT datasets or dataset trees with `tao-daft convert`, using explicit input and output paths.
Why use it?
It avoids manually restructuring dataset files when a TAO workflow needs another supported format.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the tao-daft-process plugin — 2 skills shipped together , and of tao-skills, tao-skill-bank

Good fit Converting DAFT datasets or dataset trees with tao-daft convert, using explicit input and output paths.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nvidia-tao/tao-skill-bank/tao-convert-dataset-format
Install

Getting it into your agent

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install tao-daft-process, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills.

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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,387 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00071 $0.01387
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00694
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00277
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00139

Measured 12d ago against content hash 26fef280f514, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tao-convert-dataset-format 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.

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/tao-convert-dataset-format/SKILL.md · 140 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 140 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Convert a TAO DAFT Dataset

Standalone install? If this session was not initialized by the TAO skill bank plugin, run the tao-setup skill first (host preflight, credentials, cross-skill discovery).

Quick start

tao-daft convert <source-format> <target-format> --path <input> --output <output>

Source and target are positional subcommands; --path and --output are flags. Discover the supported formats and per-pair flags from the leaf --help (see "CLI conventions" below).

Preflight

python -c "import nvidia_tao_daft" 2>/dev/null || {
  echo "MISSING: tao-daft not installed. Run:"
  echo "  pip install nvidia-tao-daft"
  exit 1
}

Quick Start

Discover the installed CLI surface before choosing format slugs, then run the leaf conversion command with explicit --path and --output flags:

tao-daft --version
tao-daft convert --help
tao-daft convert <source-format> --help
tao-daft convert <source-format> <target-format> --path /path/to/daft --output /path/to/converted

Purpose

Drives tao-daft convert to transform a DAFT dataset (or a tree of them) between supported formats. The CLI does the real work; the skill picks the right source/target pair and flags, then explains the result.

Trigger on: converting a DAFT dataset, packaging DAFT QA / summarization / temporal tasks for VLM training, producing a meta.json-style training set, or the command tao-daft convert. Do not trigger for non-DAFT → DAFT conversion (COCO, YOLO, Data Factory JSONL) — redirect to the upstream nvidia-tao-daft repo's converter skills.

If the user opens ambiguously, run a few --help calls first.

Prerequisites

  • nvidia-tao-daft installed (wheel only, not the source repo). Confirm with tao-daft --version.
  • A DAFT dataset, or a parent directory containing many, on local disk.

Instructions

CLI conventions

tao-daft is nested argparse subcommands. The conventions below are stable across versions even when format names or flags change, so always discover the current surface from --help rather than relying on names this doc happens to mention.

Read the full file on GitHub · 140 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md 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.

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 · 140 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 26fef280f514

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tao-convert-dataset-format is a skill published in the GitHub repository NVIDIA-TAO/tao-skill-bank (88 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 1,387 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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