tao-train-rtdetr

tao-train-rtdetr is a skill for Claude Code from NVIDIA-TAO/tao-skill-bank. It costs 105 tokens per session (4,518 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A real-time tool for detecting objects in ordinary two-dimensional images. RT-DETR is a neural-network architecture designed to locate objects while keeping inference fast.

In plain words
What is it for?
Train, evaluate, export, optimize, run, and distill 2D object-detection models for deployment.
Why use it?
It provides an object-detection workflow for applications that need both object locations and quick predictions.

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 Train, evaluate, export, optimize, run, and distill 2D object-detection models for deployment.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nvidia-tao/tao-skill-bank/tao-train-rtdetr
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add NVIDIA-TAO/tao-skill-bank --skill tao-train-rtdetr
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 105 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,518 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00105 $0.04518
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.02259
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00904
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00452

Measured 8d ago against content hash cb466c7c10be, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tao-train-rtdetr 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 8d 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-rtdetr/SKILL.md · 295 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 295 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

RT-DETR

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).

RT-DETR (Real-Time DEtection TRansformer) for 2D object detection. Designed for real-time inference with competitive accuracy. Supports distillation and quantization for deployment optimization.

Set model.pretrained_backbone_path for backbone weights or train.pretrained_model_path for full model.

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

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 for an action requires schemas/<action>.schema.json and references/spec_template_<action>.yaml to exist and parse. Use the packaged selected-action 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.

Train Action Policy

This model is AutoML-enabled at the model layer. Before handling any train-stage request, read references/skill_info.yaml and resolve the run override from either an explicit automl_policy value or the user's workflow request. Use automl_policy: on by default and only expose on / off in new launch prompts. Treat phrases like "turn off AutoML", "disable AutoML", "no HPO", or "plain training" as automl_policy: off for this run only. When automl_policy: on, automl_enabled: true, and both schemas/train.schema.json and references/spec_template_train.yaml are packaged, route the train action through tao-skill-bank:tao-run-automl by default with this model's skill_dir. Preserve workflow/application overrides for datasets, specs, output directories, GPU/platform settings, parent checkpoints, and automl_policy. Use direct model training only when automl_policy: off or the packaged train schema/template is missing; in the missing-schema case, report that AutoML is enabled but not runnable for this model until schemas are generated.

Read the full file on GitHub · 295 lines

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. 8d ago First seen · 295 lines · 105 tokens per session scan A cb466c7c10be

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tao-train-rtdetr is a skill published in the GitHub repository NVIDIA-TAO/tao-skill-bank (88 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 105 tokens to every session and 4,518 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 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 2026-09-03.

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