Tao Artifacts

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Validating a spec-bundle before submit
• Reading a .tao/jobs job-record
• Resolving where results land
• Consuming AutoMLs bestrec.json

Example prompts

• “s bestrec.json. Trigger phrases include”
• “job record schema”
• “status vocabulary”
• “/tao-artifacts”

Requirements

• Python 3
• Docker
• Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Python 3.10+ with jsonschema for validation. No nvidia-tao-sdk.
• Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Bash

Workflow steps

2 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1Nested, not dotted. A spec is a nested dict mirroring the container's
2. 2Mode discrimination. mode: config requires spec + config_format

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 67a13c0. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

  • Read
  • Bash

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  Ships script files (Python), which the agent can run.

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • python
  • bundle

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md.

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

• Compatibility

  Python 3.10+ with jsonschema for validation. No nvidia-tao-sdk.

  From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

Tao Artifacts loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs, and up to ~8.3k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 141 tokens; SKILL.md has 510 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~141

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.4k

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~8.3k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

• NotePre-approves every shell command (allowed-tools: Bash)SKILL.md

  allowed-tools: Read, Bash

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from NVIDIA/skills at commit 67a13c0, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© NVIDIA). 510 words, ~1,350 tokens.

name

tao-artifacts

description

The contract home for TAO's SDK-free execution pipeline — authoritative JSON Schemas for the four typed artifacts (spec-bundle, job-record, results_dir layout, best_rec) plus the fixed job-status vocabulary and the nested-not-dotted spec rule. Use when authoring or validating a spec-bundle before submit, writing or reading a .tao/jobs job-record, resolving where results land, or consuming AutoML's best_rec.json. Trigger phrases include "validate the spec bundle", "job record schema", "status vocabulary", "results_dir layout", "best_rec schema".

allowed-tools

Read, Bash

compatibility

Python 3.10+ with jsonschema for validation. No nvidia-tao-sdk.

license

Apache-2.0

metadata.author

NVIDIA Corporation

metadata.version

0.1.0

tags

core

python - <<'PY'
import json, yaml, jsonschema, pathlib
ref = pathlib.Path("${TAO_SKILL_BANK_PATH:?}/skills/core/tao-artifacts/references")
schema = json.loads((ref / "spec_bundle.schema.json").read_text())
bundle = yaml.safe_load(open("/path/to/bundle.yaml"))   # or a dict built in-context
jsonschema.validate(bundle, schema)                      # raises on violation
print("bundle OK")
PY

© NVIDIA, Apache-2.0. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 10 other files (references) in skills/tao-artifacts of NVIDIA/skills.

• SKILL.md
• BENCHMARK.md
• config/skillspector-baseline.yaml
• evals/evals.json
• references/best_rec.schema.json
• references/job_record.schema.json
• references/results_dir.contract.md
• references/spec_bundle.schema.json
• references/tests/test_artifact_schemas.py
• skill-card.md
• skill.oms.sig

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 67a13c0