Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add NVIDIA-TAO/tao-skill-bank --skill tao-run-dinov3-ssl-deftgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NVIDIA-TAO/tao-skill-bankWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
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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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00082 | $0.01744 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00033 | $0.00698 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00016 | $0.00349 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00174 |
Grade A, and why
tao-run-dinov3-ssl-deft 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 13d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 132 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
DINOv3 SSL DEFT
The DS-packaged Python controller owns the loop and durable state. This skill prepares and approves its inputs; it does not implement orchestration.
Instructions
- Resolve the DINOv3 model using the model resolver. Choose
grit-scorefor unlabeled target ranking; its scorer is built in. Offermulti-task-round-robinonly when the user already has a score adapter that meets the task scoring contract: DS ships no multi-task scorer, andvalidaterejects the recipe's placeholder. Read architecture.md for the scientific meaning, task weighting, and stopping policy. - Read tao-container-integration.md.
Check release readiness before offering a launch: the resolved
images.tao_toolkit.data_servicesimage must be a release build whose installed packages contain the reviewed DEFT modules and pass packaged validation. An older DS build is not sufficient. The placeholder rejection (step 1), the cohort checks and the canceled-run exit code 143 need a DS build that contains tao-data-services#59: the first DS 7.3.0 RC after rc-90. DS rc-90 and older accept the placeholder atvalidate, fail in round 1 withMissing configured inputs: [... 'score_implementation_0'], and exit 0 after a cancel. Therelease/7.3.0cherry-pick of this skill must bumpimages.tao_toolkit.data_servicesinversions.yamlto that RC. The executable profile is one allocated DS container; no external runner ships with this application. For release QA, the repository scriptscripts/deft_container_handoff.pyruns each repository's regression tests (--suite source) and the shipped package checks (--suite packaged) inside the approved images; the packaged suite also rejects a DS image that predates #59. Run it from clean checkouts of the release SHAs; the default--base-ref origin/maindiffs each release from its merge base. It is a QA tool, not a launcher. - Follow the selected platform's launch gate. For Docker, use the concrete
allocation, preflight, and
docker execlifecycle in the integration reference. Inside that runtime, follow the preparation sequence in adapter-contracts.md: produce source/target embeddings with the same fixed encoder, register the source store with its payload contract, and write the target contract. No additional host/model package installation is needed. Generate a packaged recipe withinit, fill paths/resources, then runvalidate <config>,preflight <config> --gpuin the launch runtime, andplan <config>. Read adapter-contracts.md when declaring a held-out benchmark (isolation), or configuring custom scoring/evaluation, indexed retrieval, or resource policies. - Inspect the plan and present the approval contract below. Read
references/skill_info.yaml:path_contractas the input-mount checklist: every applicable path must be visible in the allocated container, andoutput.run_dirmust match the platform's durable results directory. Skill Bank resolves image keys on the host; DS accepts explicit image references only and never reads this repository at runtime. - After approval, execute
run <config>inside the allocated container. Monitor to a terminal result using the commands below. Do not modify controller state or locks manually.
What ships with it
9 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.
- evals/evals.json 4.6 KB
- references/adapter-contracts.md 27 KB
- references/architecture.md 6.8 KB
- references/metrics.schema.json 1.0 KB
- references/skill_info.yaml 2.0 KB
- references/stage-request.schema.json 3.2 KB
- references/tao-container-integration.md 8.1 KB
- references/workflow.schema.json 9.7 KB
- skill-card.md 542 B
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.
- 13d ago Changed · +22 lines ad4647326e7a
- 18d ago Changed · +5 lines 9a7a062bc237
- 21d ago Changed · +2 lines 9642558be102
- 25d ago Changed · +4 lines · -2 tokens per session 7361c66489c0
- 1mo ago First seen · 99 lines · 84 tokens per session scan A a6f1d4afae4d
tao-run-dinov3-ssl-deft is a skill published in the GitHub repository NVIDIA-TAO/tao-skill-bank (97 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 1,744 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-23.
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