tao-setup SKILL.md skillA
tao-setup 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@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/core/tao-setup/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 6
- Latest version
- v0.1.0, committed Oct 9, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 3, 2026
- Size
- 9,379 bytes
- Repository stars
- 95
- License
- Apache-2.0
One-time session setup and orchestration map for the TAO skill bank. Run this first when the TAO skills were installed individually (e.g. from a public skills catalog) so the session gets the cross-skill discovery flow, credential checks, and host preflight that the bundled plugin hook would otherwise inject automatically. Trigger phrases include "set up TAO skills", "TAO session setup", "prepare TAO environment", "TAO getting started".
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 Setup One-time session bootstrap for the TAO skill bank. TAO skills are standalone — each model, data, and platform skill carries its own pinned container image and instructions — but multi-skill workflows chain them (data prep, train, evaluate, deploy). This skill provides the session-level pieces that make that chaining work when skills are installed individually: the discovery flow, the credential conventions, and the host preflight. When the full skill bank is installed as a plugin from this repository, a SessionStart hook injects this guidance automatically and you do not need to run this skill. When skills were installed one-by-one from a skills catalog, run this skill first. ## Quick Start Individual skill installs do not include the shared `scripts/` helpers. Obtain a complete TAO skill bank checkout at the same release ref as the installed skills, then verify it before using any shared helper. If the checkout is elsewhere, set `TAO_SKILL_BANK_PATH` to its root. Reuse a plugin-provided path when present. If no checkout exists, obtain it with user approval, for example …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add nvidia-tao/tao-skill-bank/tao-setup@sha256:6ebc11c02f0cd943The 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 6 versions of this file, between Aug 3, 2026 and Oct 9, 2026, about one every 13 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| v0.1.0 latest | 2026-10-09 | d5fd318 | 9,379 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.0 | 2026-09-20 | 7e8c293 | 8,367 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.0 | 2026-08-20 | b9578f8 | 7,261 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.0 | 2026-08-11 | 115ac6d | 7,179 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.0 | 2026-08-05 | ae5e99c | 6,981 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.0 | 2026-08-03 | 03f2daa | 5,943 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 (9379 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_ukumkkmrj2kxyvog GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=nvidia-tao/tao-skill-bank/tao-setup GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/6ebc11c02f0cd9439a734657fe79c7390151ad57cfbc8377a18831f2b91c93ad
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.