tao-train-dino SKILL.md skillA
tao-train-dino from nvidia-tao/tao-skill-bank is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add nvidia-tao/tao-skill-bank/tao-train-dino@v0.1.0Pins v0.1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- nvidia-tao/tao-skill-bank
- Path
skills/models/tao-train-dino/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v0.1.0, committed Aug 11, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 8, 2026
- Size
- 11,176 bytes
- Repository stars
- 95
- License
- Apache-2.0
DINO (DETR with Improved DeNoising Anchor Boxes) for 2D object detection. Transformer-based detector with.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# 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. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add nvidia-tao/tao-skill-bank/tao-train-dino@sha256:36ae6396a47274a9The line at the top of this page pins the label v0.1.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Jun 8, 2026 and Aug 11, 2026, about one every 16 days.
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| v0.1.0 latest | 2026-08-11 | 366c7ca | 11,176 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.0 | 2026-08-05 | ae5e99c | 10,633 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.0 | 2026-08-03 | 03f2daa | 11,394 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.0 | 2026-06-22 | dd187ad | 11,215 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.0 | 2026-06-08 | 5d938f5 | 8,616 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (11176 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
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- pass: No link to a raw IP address
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Source
nvidia-tao/tao-skill-bank · 95 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_5gxebs4t6t2rdcv4 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=nvidia-tao/tao-skill-bank/tao-train-dino GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/36ae6396a47274a90e093927590b6ef328b7504482e1c271aaa0ff8acd32c912
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Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.