tao-finetune-cosmos-embed

tao-finetune-cosmos-embed is a skill for Claude Code from NVIDIA-TAO/tao-skill-bank. It costs 79 tokens per session (3,663 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A model guide for Cosmos-Embed1, which converts video and text into comparable numerical representations called embeddings. These representations help match, classify, compare, and remove duplicate videos by meaning.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find videos from text descriptions, search with another video, classify videos without task-specific training, detect semantic duplicates, fine-tune the model, or export it.
Why use it?
It provides the model-specific actions and rules needed for training, evaluation, inference, and export without routing the work through unsupported automation paths.

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 find videos from text descriptions, search with another video, classify videos without task-specific training, detect semantic duplicates, fine-tune the model, or export it.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nvidia-tao/tao-skill-bank/tao-finetune-cosmos-embed
Install

Getting it into your agent

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install tao-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 76 skills.

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Per session 79 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,663 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: 7 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 79
    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 48
    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 MCP Rug Pull · line 107
    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 MCP Rug Pull · line 114
    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 MCP Rug Pull · line 121
    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 MCP Rug Pull · line 131
    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
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    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 $0.00079 $0.03663
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.01832
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00733
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00366

Measured 12d ago against content hash 46ec7fc320eb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tao-finetune-cosmos-embed 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/models/tao-finetune-cosmos-embed/SKILL.md · 303 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 303 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cosmos-Embed

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).

Cosmos-Embed1 is a joint video-text embedder for text-to-video retrieval, video-to-video search, zero-shot/kNN classification, and semantic deduplication. The packaged CLI is cosmos-embed1 and supports train, evaluate, inference, and export.

Container image and per-action commands are in references/skill_info.yaml. Compact starting specs are in references/spec_template_*.yaml.

Train Action Policy

AutoML is not packaged for this model skill because there are no Cosmos-Embed schemas under schemas/. Always use the direct model skill actions for train, evaluate, inference, and export, even when a higher-level request includes automl_policy: on. Do not route Cosmos-Embed through workflow or AutoML skills until model-specific train schemas and templates are added.

Non-train actions such as evaluate, inference, export, and deploy flows stay in this model skill. The per-run automl_policy override does not change model metadata.

Quick Start

Use the published Cosmos-Embed container pinned below (also declared in references/skill_info.yaml). Do not build from the private Cosmos-Embed1 source tree for normal skill use; build from source only when developing the container itself.

COSMOS_EMBED_IMAGE_DEFAULT=nvcr.io/nvidia/tao/tao-toolkit:7.1.0-cosmos-embed  # versions-key: images.tao_toolkit.cosmos_embed
COSMOS_EMBED_IMAGE="${COSMOS_EMBED_IMAGE:-$COSMOS_EMBED_IMAGE_DEFAULT}"
docker pull "$COSMOS_EMBED_IMAGE"

Expected local workspace layout:

workspace/
├── data/
│   ├── msrvtt_test_1k.json
│   └── video/
│       ├── video7020.mp4
│       └── ...
├── model/
│   └── Cosmos-Embed1-224p/        # optional if using HF repo id
├── specs/
│   ├── train.yaml
│   ├── evaluate.yaml
│   ├── inference.yaml
│   ├── export_onnx.yaml
│   └── export_hf.yaml
└── results/

Read the full file on GitHub · 303 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 · 303 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A 46ec7fc320eb

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tao-finetune-cosmos-embed is a skill published in the GitHub repository NVIDIA-TAO/tao-skill-bank (88 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 3,663 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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