tao-data-io SKILL.md skillA
tao-data-io 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-data-io@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/platform/tao-data-io/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- v0.1.0, committed Aug 11, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 5, 2026
- Size
- 6,036 bytes
- Repository stars
- 95
- License
- Apache-2.0
The data-mover for TAO jobs — decides the storage tier (A pre-positioned mount with zero fetch / B volume-from-S3 / C ephemeral in-compute fetch), stages inputs (bulk + annotation-selective + archive extract + HF/NGC PTM), maps credentials to env, routes outputs 3-way with upload-excludes, and runs the compute-frame verify gate. A support skill other platform skills (docker, kubernetes, slurm, brev, virtualenv) call to get data to and from the compute container without the TAO SDK. Trigger…
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
# tao-data-io Get data to and from the compute container. Decide the storage tier first — under **strategy A (pre-positioned mount) no bytes move at all** — and when a fetch is needed, move it **host-side** with `aws`/`s5cmd`/`boto3`/`huggingface-cli`/`ngc` directly — no `nvidia-tao-sdk`, no in-container runtime. Other platform skills call this skill to stage inputs before launch and sync outputs after. It never launches a container itself. The chosen tier is stamped into the job-record at submit. **When NOT to invoke this skill:** if the inputs are already readable from the compute frame (a local path on the execution host, an existing Lustre/PVC/bind mount), that IS tier A — record it and skip this skill entirely; there is nothing to move. **Air-gapped hosts:** tier A is the *only* tier — never attempt an S3/HF/NGC fetch; anything missing (datasets, checkpoints, and the container images themselves) must be pre-positioned by the operator, and the preflight's readability check is the only data step that runs. ## Credentials (env vars; values never written to disk by this skill) S3 credentials use the **officially documented AWS env vars**, read from the …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add nvidia-tao/tao-skill-bank/tao-data-io@sha256:f9d003bb4c825899The 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_ga5dstaerdjqrvmf)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Aug 5, 2026 and Aug 11, 2026, about one every 7 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v0.1.0 latest | 2026-08-11 | 115ac6d | 6,036 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.0 | 2026-08-05 | ae5e99c | 5,979 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (6036 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
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
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_ga5dstaerdjqrvmf GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=nvidia-tao/tao-skill-bank/tao-data-io GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f9d003bb4c8258992307c43e873ceeb1ddfced389464ca624f764ed1401dd58f
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
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.