Getting it into your agent
One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.
npx skills add NVIDIA-TAO/tao-skill-bank --skill tao-run-inference-servicegit 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/nvidia-tao/tao-skill-bank/tao-run-inference-service)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nvidia-tao/tao-skill-bank/tao-run-inference-service"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nvidia-tao/tao-skill-bank/tao-run-inference-service/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nvidia-tao/tao-skill-bank/tao-run-inference-service"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nvidia-tao/tao-skill-bank/tao-run-inference-service.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
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.
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.
| Model | Per session | Once 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 |
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 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-setupskill first (host preflight, credentials, cross-skill discovery).
Instructions
To start an inference service:
- Collect required inputs (Section 1) and resolve the container image (Section 2).
- Build the job payload and inner command (Sections 3–4.1); use
references/code-templates.yaml→job_payload_builder. - Read
skills/platform/<platform>/SKILL.mdand start the container (Section 4.2). - Write the service registry and poll readiness (Section 4.3); use
references/code-templates.yaml→registry_write.<platform>andreadiness_check.
To send an inference request:
- Resolve which service receives the request per Section 6.0 (by
job_id, bynetwork_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 fromreferences/code-templates.yaml→request.registry_readwith the resolvedjob_id. - 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. - Build and send the body per Section 6.2; handle the response per Section 6.3.
To stop a service: Read references/code-templates.yaml → stop.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, validnetwork_archnames, 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.
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.
- BENCHMARK.md 3.8 KB
- evals/evals.json 804 B
- references/code-templates.yaml 17 KB
- references/cosmos-predict2.5.config.json 183 B
- references/request.yaml 11 KB
- references/service.yaml 11 KB
- references/skill_info.yaml 1.4 KB
- references/tao-dataservices.config.json 192 B
- skill-card.md 3.8 KB
- skill.oms.sig 5.9 KB
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 First seen · 247 lines · 92 tokens per session scan A 748e4d986d75
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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