tao-launch-workflow SKILL.md skillA
tao-launch-workflow 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-launch-workflow@v0.1.1Pins v0.1.1 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/core/tao-launch-workflow/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 9
- Latest version
- v0.1.1, committed Oct 12, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 12, 2026
- Size
- 19,999 bytes
- Repository stars
- 95
- License
- Apache-2.0
The mandatory pre-launch gate and four-verb execution contract for every TAO workflow or action. Invoke BEFORE launching anything side-effecting — AutoML, train, evaluate, inference, export, TensorRT engine generation, or DEFT/application workflows — on any execution platform. Covers platform selection, credentials, image confirmation, dataset intake, preflight, the launch review, job records, monitoring, and failure/retry classification. Trigger phrases include "train this model…
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 Workflow Launch Intake
> **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).
Use this skill before launching any TAO workflow or model action.
For direct invocation, run the complete-checkout check in
`references/platform-preflight.md` before Step 0 or any helper. Individual
skill installs lack shared scripts; stop if the check fails. Use its verified
`TAO_SKILL_BANK_PATH` for every helper.
## Step 0 — Execution Mode: Card Packs (check first)
Before running a multi-stage application workflow inside this conversation,
check whether a compiled card pack ships next to the application skill:
```bash
ls "${TAO_SKILL_BANK_PATH}/skills/applications/<skill>/cards/" 2>/dev/null
```
- **Pack exists** → prefer the token-efficient path: the pack's `driver.sh`
runs the workflow as fresh per-stage sessions (measured 74-91% cheaper than
in-conversation execution, and the only mode validated on small models).
Read the pack's `README.md` for required env, complete THIS gate's items
1-9 for the launch review, then start the pack driver detached instead of
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add nvidia-tao/tao-skill-bank/tao-launch-workflow@sha256:721173386bcd2363The line at the top of this page pins the label v0.1.1, 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_kh7foub3phgwcjoq)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 9 versions of this file, between Aug 12, 2026 and Oct 12, 2026, about one every 8 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v0.1.1 latest | 2026-10-12 | bb4fe0f | 19,999 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.1 | 2026-10-12 | 3ab2a35 | 20,508 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.1 | 2026-10-09 | d5fd318 | 19,858 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.1 | 2026-10-06 | 60c8e76 | 19,353 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.1 | 2026-09-20 | 7e8c293 | 19,366 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.1 | 2026-08-28 | 614fe51 | 18,175 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.1 | 2026-08-21 | 49672c2 | 18,185 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.1 | 2026-08-20 | b9578f8 | 17,651 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.1 | 2026-08-12 | b4a232e | 17,027 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 (19999 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_kh7foub3phgwcjoq GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=nvidia-tao/tao-skill-bank/tao-launch-workflow GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/721173386bcd23633325e553e7f2aa7b7443614b04e4e537065ed4c6ab5f58b9
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.