tao-mine-od-images

tao-mine-od-images is a skill for Claude Code from NVIDIA-TAO/tao-skill-bank. It costs 74 tokens per session (2,118 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An image-selection workflow that matches embedded source images to target samples while assigning each source image only once. Embeddings are numerical representations used to compare image similarity.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it with source and target embedding Parquet files to retrieve a requested number of unique images and save the selected files, summary, and iteration results.
Why use it?
It finds a unique set of nearby source images without reusing the same file, while avoiding the need to calculate embeddings itself.

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 with source and target embedding Parquet files to retrieve a requested number of unique images and save the selected files, summary, and iteration results.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nvidia-tao/tao-skill-bank/tao-mine-od-images
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add NVIDIA-TAO/tao-skill-bank --skill tao-mine-od-images
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 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,118 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: 4 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 88
    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 95
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 88
    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 151
    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 $0.00074 $0.02118
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.01059
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00424
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00212

Measured 12d ago against content hash 776b3d5a6dcd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tao-mine-od-images 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 1 executable file (scripts/verify_unique_neighbor_matching_spec.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/tao-mine-od-images/SKILL.md · 187 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 187 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

TAO Mine OD Images (Unique Neighbor Matching)

Use this skill to run TAO Data Services TMM unique-neighbor matching mining for object detection. The skill consumes pre-embedded source and target parquets and writes a directory of outputs including final_unique_files.parquet and summary.json. It does not compute embeddings; upstream steps must produce the source and target embedding parquets first.

The container entrypoint is:

tmm unique_neighbor_matching -e /absolute/path/to/unique_neighbor_matching.yaml

Inputs

The user can provide either an existing spec or the fields needed to generate one.

Required spec fields:

Field Meaning
source_path Absolute path to the source embeddings parquet or directory of parquets.
target_path Absolute path to the target embeddings parquet or directory of parquets.
output_dir Absolute path to the output directory. Writes final_unique_files.parquet, summary.json, and per-iteration parquets.
desired_unique_count Total number of unique source files to retrieve.

Common optional fields:

Field Default Meaning
allocation_policy global global or class_stratified.
distance_metric euclidean One of euclidean, cosine, or manhattan. Embeddings are L2-normalized before search.
candidate_expansion_factor 5 Candidate-pool multiplier per iteration. Increase if desired count is not reached.
source_embedding_column embedding Embedding column in source_path.
target_embedding_column embedding Embedding column in target_path.
source_filepath_column filepath Filepath column in source_path; also the column of final_unique_files.parquet.
target_filepath_column filepath Filepath column in target_path.
exclude_path null Parquet with a filepath column; those images are removed from the source pool.
source_detection_file null COCO .json or KITTI label directory for the source. Required for class_stratified.
target_detection_file null COCO .json or KITTI label directory for the target. Required for class_stratified.
detection_format null coco or kitti. Required whenever a detection file is set; never inferred from the path.
rare_class_list "" Comma-separated rare class names, e.g. "person,bicycle". Required for class_stratified.
save_embeddings false Include embeddings in per-iteration parquet outputs.
visualize false Save per-class visualization grids (requires Pillow and matplotlib).

Read the full file on GitHub · 187 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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 · 187 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A 776b3d5a6dcd

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tao-mine-od-images is a skill published in the GitHub repository NVIDIA-TAO/tao-skill-bank (88 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 2,118 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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