Claude Skills by NVIDIA

Use when authoring or validating PAIDF augmentation YAML configs, or running remote Cosmos Transfer (including Cosmos3 WSM controls), Cosmos Predict, image-edit, or image-to-video inference.

Use when a user needs to get started with PAIDF Auto-Labeling, plan a scenario, run or debug a shipped cookbook, author prompts or cookbooks, migrate a pipeline, or configure a stage. Confirm critical inputs (data path, output path, endpoints) and ask when any are missing. This is a router: read the matching reference instead of inventing a workflow.

Audit, prepare, and deploy PAIDF Orchestration on a Kubernetes GPU cluster - single-GPU H100/L40S hosts, managed Kubernetes, kubeadm, and similar. Select for requests to set up, install, deploy, configure, or check a PAIDF Orchestration environment; run a workflow on a new or unverified GPU host; connect via kubeconfig; validate GPU compute; deploy the Airflow controller; or choose external versus in-cluster model services. A plain SSH host is not a supported backend.

Use when a user describes a custom PAIDF Orchestration pipeline — a specific ordered combination of stages such as augmentation only, auto-labeling only, detection+captioning only, or image attribute augmentation without full auto-labeling — that no existing DAG in airflow/dags/workflows/ covers, and asks for a new Kubernetes DAG. Also use to check that a generated or existing DAG's model/container/prompt choices match an external spec document (e.g. a PAIDF `launchable.md`).

Use when the user wants to orchestrate defect image generation with NVIDIA Cosmos AnomalyGen (Cosmos-Predict2-derived) on OSMO for PCBA, metal surface, and glass inspection. The Day 0 path handles cold-start with USD-to-ROI, image-edit augmentation, and AnomalyGen to create initial PCBA datasets. The Day 1 path performs inference and labeling on real images. This skill helps with first-time asset setup, creation of finetuning checkpoints, and configuring deployment. Trigger keywords: defect ...

Run the PAIDF Orchestration Event Video Generation DAG on Kubernetes - image-to-video anomaly generation, auto-labeling, and anomaly dataset generation. Select for requests about event video generation, anomaly video generation, image-to-video synthesis, Cosmos3 image2video, anomaly dataset creation, safety/surveillance SDG, or generating person-falling, person-climbing, person-running, fighting, smoking/vaping, fire/smoke, or shoplifting video clips from a seed image. Runs environment setup ...

Run the PAIDF Orchestration Image Attribute Augmentation DAG on Kubernetes - person-crop clothing augmentation, attribute search, and augmented dataset generation. Select for requests about image attribute augmentation, person attribute search, person re-identification data, clothing augmentation, attribute captions, augmentation payloads, run status, or result retrieval. Runs environment setup first when controller readiness is unknown. Not for video or defect-image generation.

Use when the user wants to set up, scale, validate, or harden NVIDIA physical AI infrastructure for synthetic data generation workflows across local MicroK8s or Azure AKS, including Kubernetes clusters, inference endpoint deployment, OSMO deployment, workload submission readiness, and infrastructure failure recovery. Trigger keywords: physical ai infrastructure, resilient scaling, SDG infrastructure, microk8s, azure aks, NVCF deployment, NIM Operator, OSMO deploy, workflow scaling. Don't trig...

Router for NVIDIA NuRec/NRE: USDZ rendering, NCore conversion, 3DGS, gRPC sensor sim, carline adaptation, PhysicalAI HF datasets. Do NOT use for SimReady or infra setup.

Use when running video data augmentation and auto-labeling workflows on OSMO: flow selection, preflight, submit-time interpolation, monitoring, and output retrieval. Trigger keywords: video data augmentation, data enrichment, auto labeling, VDA demo, OSMO workflow, pseudo labeling.

Official NVIDIA-authored guidance for navigating PhysicsNeMo — pick the model, datapipe, or example for a SciML/AI4Science task (surrogates, forecasting, downscaling, physics-informed, inverse, generative). Points at existing files via live repo search; never writes code. Do NOT use for installation or environment setup, training-loop or other code authoring/scaffolding, contributor/CI/packaging questions, repo-specific questions in physicsnemo-sym/-cfd/-curator, or general (non-physics) ML/P...

Official NVIDIA-authored guidance for PhysicsNeMo ShardTensor domain parallelism — integrate domain parallelism into training/inference scripts (new or existing) with DDP or FSDP2, write and register shard patches to enable new layers/ops, and bootstrap multi-GPU correctness tests. Use when working with ShardTensor, scatter_tensor, domain parallelism, sequence/spatial sharding, ring attention, DeviceMesh + DDP/FSDP2 hybrid parallelism, or physicsnemo.domain_parallel. Do NOT use for generic Py...

Use when a user asks to build, optimize, backtest, rebalance, or analyze a stock portfolio with Mean-CVaR, Mean-Variance/SOCP variance caps, efficient frontiers, scenario generation, or NVIDIA cuOpt.

NVIDIA RAG Blueprint — deploy, configure, troubleshoot, and manage. Handles any RAG action: deploy, install, start, enable, disable, toggle, change, configure, troubleshoot, debug, fix, shutdown, stop, or tear down any RAG feature or service (Agentic RAG, VLM, guardrails, query rewriting, models, search, ingestion, observability, summarization, reasoning, and more).

Filesystem RAG benchmarks: corpus/, train.json, evaluate_rag.py (RAGAS quality). Not for prod monitoring, latency/throughput benchmarking (use rag-perf), or evals outside this repo layout.

Performance benchmarking for a deployed NVIDIA RAG Blueprint server: profiling pass + aiperf load test driven by a single YAML config. Not for accuracy / RAGAS scoring (use rag-eval) or for deploying / repairing services (use rag-blueprint).

How to swap the DeepStream CV detection model in the VSS Alerts Blueprint verification (2d_cv) mode - covers ONNX export, custom bbox parsers, compose mount gotchas, nvinfer config, runtime TRT engine build, deployment, and a segmentation-capable model addendum handoff.

Scaffold a standalone RTVI CV microservice that plugs into VSS Search and Alerts profiles via Kafka mdx-raw. The shipped scaffold script is a YOLO26 reference implementation (ONNX, labels, custom parser required). Use when building a new perception microservice repo, validating the VSS integration contract, extending that scaffold for segmentation frame-mask payloads, or scaffolding with placeholders before customer YOLO26 assets exist. For swapping the detector in the stock vss-rt-cv contain...

How to swap the VLM in the VSS Alerts Blueprint — covers RTVI-VLM microservice deployment methods, all three VLM consumers (rtvi-vlm, vlm-as-verifier, vss-agent), and health checks.

Use only to generate or update a governance skill card for a specified existing agent skill directory. Do not use for explaining, listing, comparing, or discussing skill capabilities.

Performs deep Root Cause Analysis (RCA) on NVIDIA TAO Visual ChangeNet classification experiments with

Performs gap analysis on NVIDIA TAO VCN Classify (Visual Component Net) experiments by invoking the pinned TAO data-services container directly via `docker run … gap_analysis vcn_aoi …` — picks the optimal decision threshold, ranks per-sample weakness, and emits a top-K weakest parquet expanded per-lighting for downstream augmentation. Use when analyzing VCN classification failures, picking SDA augmentation targets, or auditing PASS/NO_PASS boundary cases.

Extract false-positive and false-negative gaps from VLM binary-classification-question (BCQ, yes/no) predictions.

Run `tao-daft convert` to convert NVIDIA TAO DAFT datasets between supported formats. Do not use for non-DAFT data.

CLIP vision-language model for image-text retrieval, zero-shot classification, embedding extraction, ONNX

Cosmos-Embed1 video-text embedding for text-to-video retrieval, video-to-video search, semantic deduplication, and fine-tuning. Use when the user asks to "fine-tune Cosmos-Embed1", "run cosmos-embed inference", "export Cosmos-Embed1", "embed videos", or "search videos with text".

Shared Cosmos3 frontend that explicitly routes Cosmos Framework and Cosmos-RL, validates runtime model/video-dataset/SLURM inputs, consumes an SQSH or packaged backend image, optionally plans explicit clean source builds, prepares checkpoints, validates the first update in-process, and returns token-weighted losses and task-aware accuracy.

Fine-tune any HuggingFace CV / VLM / LLM model on local NVIDIA GPUs inside an NGC PyTorch container when no dedicated TAO model skill matches. Use when the user wants to fine-tune a HuggingFace model (full or LoRA), train a vision / VLM / LLM model end-to-end, generate a reproducible HF training pipeline, smoke-test a HuggingFace model locally before scale-up, push a fine-tuned model to the HF Hub with a model card, or emit a self-contained rerun skill for an existing HuggingFace finetune. Su...

"Two-step image grounding pipeline: extracts referring expressions from (image, caption) pairs and grounds them

"Four-step image referring-expression pipeline: turns images plus KITTI bounding-box labels into region

Multi-step video annotation pipeline that turns raw videos into Chain-of-Thought training data — multi-level captions, structured descriptions, and QA pairs (MCQ, binary, open-ended) with reasoning traces, via VLM/LLM distillation. Use when the user wants to "create video training data", "generate video QA datasets", "build CoT reasoning traces from videos", "auto-label videos", or run the video_reasoning_annotation pipeline. Triggers include "video annotation", "video CoT", "video QA", "chai...

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", "run AutoM...

Answer what the TAO Skill Bank plugin can do by generating the response from packaged application, data, model, AutoML, and platform manifests. Use when the user asks "what can TAO Skill Bank do", "list TAO models", "which TAO workflows are available", or "what supports AutoML".

Runs the DEFT embed-then-mine workflow for VCN AOI iterations — embeds the gap-analysis target parquet, embeds a source pool, and mines nearest-neighbour source images for downstream augmentation. Use as the immediate next step after `tao-route-visual-changenet-samples` when expanding a real-image augmentation queue from the mining subset.

Integrate a HuggingFace Computer Vision model into the NVIDIA TAO Toolkit ecosystem (tao-core config, tao-pytorch trainer, tao-deploy TensorRT pipeline). Use when the user asks to "integrate a HuggingFace model into TAO", "add an HF model to TAO Toolkit", "wire a HuggingFace ViT/DETR/ SegFormer into tao-pytorch", "build a TAO trainer + deploy pipeline for an HF CV model", or pastes a HuggingFace model URL/ID and wants it turned into a TAO model. Covers the full 7-phase loop: prerequisites che...

Routes the weakest VCN samples (output of `tao-analyze-gaps-visual-changenet`) into per-augmentation-module

Run the canonical NVIDIA AOI three-phase training pipeline — Phase 1 AutoML baseline (HPO), Phase 2 DEFT loop (RCA → SDG → mining → plain-train retrain), Phase 3 AutoML refinement on the DEFT-augmented dataset. Use when the user asks to "run the AOI workflow", "fine-tune my PCB AOI model end-to-end", "improve my AOI ChangeNet model", or "AOI workflow with AutoML" request — route here instead of tao-run-deft-aoi directly unless the user explicitly asks for the DEFT loop ONLY (e.g. "run JUST th...

Run container-backed AutoML / hyperparameter optimization (HPO) for NVIDIA TAO networks using AutoMLRunner. Handles algorithm

Run the full DEFT AOI improvement loop for NVIDIA TAO VisualChangeNet / ChangeNet PCB inspection models: baseline evaluate, RCA, Cosmos AnomalyGen / AMP synthetic defects, k-NN mining, retraining, and deployment gating against a customer-defined primary metric and optional constraints. Use only when the request identifies an AOI / automated-optical-inspection, PCB-defect, VisualChangeNet, or ChangeNet workflow. Supports air-gapped/offline runs with pre-staged assets. Never infer AOI from gene...

Start, query, and stop a network-specific TAO inference microservice ({network_arch}-inference-microservice) by delegating container execution to the appropriate platform skill. Handles container image resolution, job-payload JSON construction, and the service registry. Use when the user wants to run inference on a TAO model checkpoint using a microservice container, deploy a TAO inference endpoint, or stop a running inference container.

Run a TAO training/evaluation/inference container on an NVIDIA Brev GPU instance. Instance provisioning (create/search/stop/delete/login) is delegated to the official brev-cli agent skill or the Brev MCP server; this skill covers only the TAO-specific part — running the container over `brev exec` via the four-verb docker contract. Trigger phrases include "run on Brev", "Brev GPU instance", "TAO on Brev", "submit job to Brev".

The Docker execution platform for TAO jobs — a local daemon or a remote GPU box via DOCKER_HOST=ssh://user@host. Implements the four-verb consumer contract (submit/status/logs/cancel) over the docker CLI, wired to the job-record, tao-data-io staging, and the redact lint, on top of the underlying docker conventions (--gpus, mounts, NGC auth, inspection, data-root relocation, error modes). Use to run any single-node TAO container action on Docker without the SDK. Trigger keywords — docker, dock...

Kubernetes execution platform — submits TAO container jobs as k8s Jobs with NVIDIA GPU scheduling; single-pod

Remote SLURM GPU cluster execution over SSH with sbatch/srun, Pyxis/Enroot containers, and Lustre-backed

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 (open...

Action recognition from video sequences. Supports RGB, optical flow, and joint (multi-stream) input types for

BEVFusion for multi-sensor 3D object detection. Fuses LiDAR point clouds and camera images in bird's-eye-view

CenterPose for keypoint / pose estimation. Detects object centers and regresses keypoint locations for 6-DoF

Deformable DETR for 2D object detection. Uses deformable attention for efficient multi-scale feature processing,

Monocular depth estimation using Metric Depth Anything v2 or Relative Depth Anything architectures. Predicts