What is tao-train-dino?

Instructions for DINO, a transformer-based computer-vision model that finds and labels objects in two-dimensional images. They cover training, evaluation, exporting, model compression, and running the model to detect objects.

Use them to train or test a DINO detector, export it, compress or distill it, create a TensorRT engine, or run image inference in NVIDIA TAO.

They explain how to carry out the main DINO workflows and which data or deployment instructions apply to each one. This reduces errors when preparing models or using them for predictions.

tao-train-dino — Skill for Claude Code by NVIDIA-TAO/tao-skill-bank

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent

npx skills add NVIDIA-TAO/tao-skill-bank --skill tao-train-dino

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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README.md

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Per session 100 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 2,661 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 pass 7 Sept 2026

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00100	$0.02661
Opus 5.5	$0.00040	$0.01064
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00020	$0.00532
Haiku 4.5	$0.00010	$0.00266

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 36ae6396a472, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tao-train-dino 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 1mo 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/models/tao-train-dino/SKILL.md · 183 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 183 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

DINO

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).

DINO (DETR with Improved DeNoising Anchor Boxes) for 2D object detection. Transformer-based detector with denoising training, multi-scale features, and optional distillation support.

Uses pretrained backbone weights (e.g. ResNet-50 ImageNet). Set model.pretrained_backbone_path for backbone-only or train.pretrained_model_path for full model.

When To Use

Train, evaluate, export, distill, quantize, or run inference for a TAO DINO 2D object detector.

For TAO Deploy TensorRT actions (gen_trt_engine, TensorRT evaluate, and TensorRT inference), read references/tao-deploy-dino.md first. Deploy spec templates live in this skill's references/ folder with the spec_template_deploy_*.yaml prefix.

Reference Map

references/dino-data-specs.md — dataset contracts, per-action dataset requirements, per-action spec-override examples (train, evaluate, export, deploy/gen_trt_engine, inference, quantize, distill), data-source arrays, checkpoint inference, and dataset layout.
references/dino-actions-errors.md — important parameters, default values, evaluate/export defaults, hardware, and the full error-pattern catalog.
references/dino-tuning-multigpu.md — full AutoML/HPO notes (metrics, hyperparameters, extractor) and multi-GPU spec consistency.
references/tao-deploy-dino.md — TensorRT deploy workflow.
references/detailed-guide.md — map to the detailed model guide.

Dataclass Schemas

Generated TAO Core schemas are packaged in schemas/<action>.schema.json, with schemas/manifest.json listing available actions. Each generated schema also emits references/spec_template_<action>.yaml from the schema top-level default field. AutoML enablement is declared at the model layer in references/skill_info.yaml via automl_enabled. Runnable AutoML still requires schemas/train.schema.json and references/spec_template_train.yaml to exist and parse. Use the packaged train schema for automl_default_parameters, automl_disabled_parameters, defaults, min/max bounds, enums, option weights, math conditions, dependencies, and popular parameters. Do not expect ~/tao-core at runtime; maintainers regenerate schemas/templates before packaging the skill bank.

Read the full file on GitHub · 183 lines

Files

What ships with it

29 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.

1mo ago First seen · 183 lines · 100 tokens per session scan A 36ae6396a472

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tao-train-dino 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 100 tokens to every session and 2,661 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-30.

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