tao-setup-nvidia-gpu-host SKILL.md skillA
tao-setup-nvidia-gpu-host 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-setup-nvidia-gpu-host@v0.1.2Pins v0.1.2 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-setup-nvidia-gpu-host/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v0.1.2, committed Aug 12, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 3, 2026
- Size
- 13,550 bytes
- Repository stars
- 95
- License
- Apache-2.0
Host setup for TAO GPU backends. Checks and, after user approval, installs minimum-compatible NVIDIA driver, CUDA Toolkit, and NVIDIA Container Toolkit versions for Docker/local-Docker and Kubernetes GPU worker hosts. TAO-wide defaults can be overridden by the selected model's runtime profile. The `--check-only` path works on any Linux distribution; `--install` automates debian-family (Ubuntu/Debian/Pop!_OS/Mint/Zorin/Raspbian), rhel-family (Fedora/RHEL/Rocky/AlmaLinux), and suse-family…
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
# NVIDIA GPU Host Setup > **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 setup skill before TAO workflows run on the `docker`, `local-docker`, or `kubernetes` backend. The TAO-wide default minimums are: - NVIDIA driver `>=580` (open kernel module preferred) - CUDA Toolkit `>=13.0` - NVIDIA Container Toolkit `>=1.19.0` - Docker engine — only installed for `docker` / `local-docker` backends and only when Docker is missing. The package picked depends on the distro family (`docker.io` on Debian-family by default, `moby-engine` / `docker-ce` from `download.docker.com` on RHEL-family, `docker` on SUSE-family). Pass `--skip-docker-install` to opt out. The check is safe and read-only by default — it works on any Linux distribution because it only probes `nvidia-smi`, the CUDA toolkit path, the installed container-toolkit package version (via `dpkg`/`rpm`/the `nvidia-ctk` binary version), and the Docker daemon's NVIDIA runtime. Installation must be explicitly authorized by the user and rerun with …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add nvidia-tao/tao-skill-bank/tao-setup-nvidia-gpu-host@sha256:bc3b2a18db46a64dThe line at the top of this page pins the label v0.1.2, 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 3, 2026 and Aug 12, 2026, about one every 17 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| v0.1.2 latest | 2026-08-12 | b4a232e | 13,550 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.1 | 2026-08-03 | 03f2daa | 12,820 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.0 | 2026-06-22 | 40f84a4 | 11,790 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.0 | 2026-06-08 | b59eb4c | 12,302 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1 | 2026-06-03 | 94ef697 | 11,304 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 (13550 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_towshuonkaoyvvow GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=nvidia-tao/tao-skill-bank/tao-setup-nvidia-gpu-host GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/bc3b2a18db46a64dc6f60e604d115adfdedc764cb8c29777ab5a12bdaeff603e
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