tao-run-dinov3-ssl-deft

tao-run-dinov3-ssl-deft is a skill for Claude Code from NVIDIA-TAO/tao-skill-bank. It costs 82 tokens per session (1,744 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A controller for repeatedly selecting useful data from an unlabeled image collection and retraining a DINOv3 self-supervised vision model. DINOv3 learns visual features without manually labelled examples; DEFT is the data-selection and retraining process described here.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for active-learning-style DINOv3 data mining with GRIT or round-robin weakness selection, fixed retrieval, and container-based runs.
Why use it?
It helps focus training on examples or tasks where the current model is weak instead of treating every unlabelled image equally. It also checks the packaged runtime and launch plan before execution.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the tao-skills plugin — 82 skills shipped together , and of tao-skill-bank

Good fit Use it for active-learning-style DINOv3 data mining with GRIT or round-robin weakness selection, fixed retrieval, and container-based runs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nvidia-tao/tao-skill-bank/tao-run-dinov3-ssl-deft
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add NVIDIA-TAO/tao-skill-bank --skill tao-run-dinov3-ssl-deft
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 82 skills.

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Per session 82 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,744 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.
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 $0.00082 $0.01744
Opus 5.5 $0.00033 $0.00698
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00349
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00174

Measured 13d ago against content hash ad4647326e7a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

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.

skills/applications/tao-run-dinov3-ssl-deft/SKILL.md · 132 lines

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

  1. Resolve the DINOv3 model using the model resolver. Choose grit-score for unlabeled target ranking; its scorer is built in. Offer multi-task-round-robin only when the user already has a score adapter that meets the task scoring contract: DS ships no multi-task scorer, and validate rejects the recipe's placeholder. Read architecture.md for the scientific meaning, task weighting, and stopping policy.
  2. Read tao-container-integration.md. Check release readiness before offering a launch: the resolved images.tao_toolkit.data_services image 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 at validate, fail in round 1 with Missing configured inputs: [... 'score_implementation_0'], and exit 0 after a cancel. The release/7.3.0 cherry-pick of this skill must bump images.tao_toolkit.data_services in versions.yaml to that RC. The executable profile is one allocated DS container; no external runner ships with this application. For release QA, the repository script scripts/deft_container_handoff.py runs 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/main diffs each release from its merge base. It is a QA tool, not a launcher.
  3. Follow the selected platform's launch gate. For Docker, use the concrete allocation, preflight, and docker exec lifecycle 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 with init, fill paths/resources, then run validate <config>, preflight <config> --gpu in the launch runtime, and plan <config>. Read adapter-contracts.md when declaring a held-out benchmark (isolation), or configuring custom scoring/evaluation, indexed retrieval, or resource policies.
  4. Inspect the plan and present the approval contract below. Read references/skill_info.yaml:path_contract as the input-mount checklist: every applicable path must be visible in the allocated container, and output.run_dir must 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.
  5. 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.

Read the full file on GitHub · 132 lines

Files

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.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

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  5. 1mo ago First seen · 99 lines · 84 tokens per session scan A a6f1d4afae4d

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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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