tao-run-inference-service

tao-run-inference-service is a skill for Claude Code from NVIDIA-TAO/tao-skill-bank. It costs 92 tokens per session (4,646 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for starting, querying, and stopping a TAO inference microservice: a network service that receives data and returns a model's predictions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to launch a TAO model service, find the correct endpoint when several services exist, send inference requests, and stop the service.
Why use it?
It handles the setup details needed to run model inference as a service, including the container, request payload, service registry, and readiness checks.

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 launch a TAO model service, find the correct endpoint when several services exist, send inference requests, and stop the service.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nvidia-tao/tao-skill-bank/tao-run-inference-service
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add NVIDIA-TAO/tao-skill-bank --skill tao-run-inference-service
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 92 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,646 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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: 1 finding, up to medium

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 →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 51
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00092 $0.04646
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.02323
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00929
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00465

Measured 13d ago against content hash 748e4d986d75, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tao-run-inference-service scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

Send a `POST` to `{BASE_URL}/v1/chat/completions` with `Content-Type: application/json` and a timeout of **at least 300 s**. The body is OpenAI-compatible (vLLM chat completions); see `references/request.yaml` → `chat_co
skills/applications/tao-run-inference-service/SKILL.md · 247 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 247 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

TAO Inference Microservice

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).

Instructions

To start an inference service:

  1. Collect required inputs (Section 1) and resolve the container image (Section 2).
  2. Build the job payload and inner command (Sections 3–4.1); use references/code-templates.yamljob_payload_builder.
  3. Read skills/platform/<platform>/SKILL.md and start the container (Section 4.2).
  4. Write the service registry and poll readiness (Section 4.3); use references/code-templates.yamlregistry_write.<platform> and readiness_check.

To send an inference request:

  1. Resolve which service receives the request per Section 6.0 (by job_id, by network_arch, or by explicit user choice when multiple services run — never silently default to "latest" when more than one service exists), then read the endpoint from references/code-templates.yamlrequest.registry_read with the resolved job_id.
  2. Before building the request body, prompt the user for the vLLM-style sampling parameters (Section 6.1). Present max_tokens, top_p, temperature (and any per-arch extras) with their defaults; let the user override or skip each one to accept the default. Never silently use defaults.
  3. Build and send the body per Section 6.2; handle the response per Section 6.3.

To stop a service: Read references/code-templates.yamlstop.registry_read to resolve the job_id, read skills/platform/<platform>/SKILL.md, then follow Section 5.

Reference data (schemas, mappings, valid values — no instructions):

  • references/service.yaml — image mappings, valid network_arch names, job payload schema, env var names, secrets classification.
  • references/request.yaml — endpoint definition, request field schema, response shapes, code examples.
  • references/code-templates.yaml — Python templates for payload building, registry writes, readiness checks, and stop/request flows.

Read the full file on GitHub · 247 lines

Files

What ships with it

10 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. 13d ago First seen · 247 lines · 92 tokens per session scan A 748e4d986d75

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tao-run-inference-service is a skill published in the GitHub repository NVIDIA-TAO/tao-skill-bank (88 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 92 tokens to every session and 4,646 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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