CenterPose for keypoint / pose estimation. Detects object centers and regresses keypoint locations for 6-DoF object pose estimation. Use when training, evaluating, exporting, or running inference for a TAO CenterPose model. Trigger phrases include "train CenterPose", "6-DoF object pose", "keypoint estimation", "object pose regression".

BEVFusion for multi-sensor 3D object detection. Fuses LiDAR point clouds and camera images in bird's-eye-view (BEV) space, used in autonomous driving for robust 3D perception. Use when training, evaluating, or running inference for a TAO BEVFusion model. Trigger phrases include "train BEVFusion", "LiDAR + camera fusion", "BEV 3D detection", "multi-sensor 3D perception".

Host setup for TAO GPU backends. Checks and, after user approval, installs NVIDIA driver branch 580, CUDA Toolkit 13.0, and NVIDIA Container Toolkit 1.19.0 for Docker/local-Docker and Kubernetes GPU worker hosts. 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 (openSUSE/SLES) hosts, and prints actionable manual-install steps for everything else. Use when the user asks to "set up an NVIDIA GPU host", "check TAO Docker GPU runtime", or prepare a Kubernetes GPU worker for TAO.

TAO Execution SDK for submitting and monitoring GPU training jobs on supported platforms (Brev, SLURM, local Docker, Kubernetes). Use when the user wants to run TAO jobs through the SDK, get job tracking, S3 I/O wrapping, multi-node distributed training, or platform-specific features that docker-run can't provide. Trigger phrases include "use the TAO SDK", "call tao_sdk", "AutoMLRunner", "ActionWorkflow", "Job handles", "S3 I/O wrapping", "TAO platform run".

Kubernetes execution platform — submits TAO container jobs as single-pod k8s Jobs with NVIDIA GPU scheduling. Use when running on EKS / GKE / AKS / on-prem clusters with the NVIDIA GPU Operator installed, or when integrating TAO into an existing k8s-native ML platform.

Docker conventions for running NVIDIA GPU container workloads — NGC authentication, --gpus flag, mount patterns, env-var passthrough, container inspection, data-root relocation for split-disk hosts, and common error modes. Use when another skill requires running an nvcr.io container or any docker run command on a GPU host. Trigger keywords — docker, docker run, nvcr.io, NGC, --gpus, nvidia-container-toolkit, container image, docker login, docker pull.

Brev managed GPU instances with Docker support. Use when running TAO training, evaluation, or inference on Brev GPU instances, managing Brev deployments, or dispatching TAO jobs through the Brev CLI. Trigger phrases include "run on Brev", "Brev GPU instance", "submit job to Brev", "Brev CLI deployment".

Run AutoML / hyperparameter optimization (HPO) for NVIDIA TAO networks using AutoMLRunner. Handles algorithm selection (bayesian, hyperband, asha, bohb, llm, hybrid, autoresearch), WandB experiment tracking, job execution on any TAO SDK platform, result interpretation, and per-rec custom evaluation hooks. Use when the user mentions TAO AutoML, hyperparameter optimization, HPO, automl, automl_settings, AutoMLRunner, tao_automl, bayesian search, hyperband, ASHA, LLM-guided search, autoresearch, or wants to tune training hyperparameters for any TAO network. Platform-agnostic — runs on any SDK (Brev, SLURM, Kubernetes, Docker).

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.

Four-step image referring-expression pipeline: turns images plus KITTI bounding-box labels into region descriptions, scene captions, grounded referring expressions, and (optionally) verified expressions via VLM distillation. Use when the user wants to generate referring-expression annotations from images with KITTI labels, build region descriptions, produce grouped grounding phrases tied to bboxes, run a double-check verification pass on grounding expressions, auto-label traffic / scene images for referring datasets, or run the image_referring_expression pipeline. Triggers include 'referring expression', 'region description', 'KITTI labels', 'spatial relationship annotation', 'auto-label image referring expression', 'image_referring_expression'.

Two-step image grounding pipeline: extracts referring expressions from (image, caption) pairs and grounds them to pixel-space bounding boxes via a VLM. Use when the user wants to ground captions to bboxes, generate phrase-grounded annotations, auto-label images for grounding, or run the image_grounding pipeline. Triggers include 'image grounding', 'phrase grounding', 'ground captions', 'auto-label image grounding', 'image_grounding'.

Fine-tune any HuggingFace CV / VLM / LLM model on local NVIDIA GPUs inside an NGC PyTorch container. 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. Supports image classification, object detection, semantic / instance / panoptic segmentation, depth estimation, image-text-to-text VLM (SFT / LoRA), and LLM SFT / DPO / GRPO. Six-step workflow: inspect and qualify, hardware and NGC image, research, generate and smoke, train + eval + infer, push and emit rerun skill.

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".

CLIP vision-language model for image-text retrieval, zero-shot classification, embedding extraction, ONNX export, and TensorRT deployment. Use when fine-tuning or training CLIP, running zero-shot classification, computing image embeddings, or deploying CLIP to ONNX/TensorRT.

Extract false-positive and false-negative gaps from VLM binary-classification-question (BCQ, yes/no) predictions. Use when the user asks to "analyze VLM BCQ gaps", "extract VLM false positives and false negatives", or identify failure cases from a predictions JSON for DEFT root-cause analysis on a binary-classification VLM workflow.

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).

Use when running people attribute search (PAS) image augmentation and auto-labeling workflows on OSMO: flow selection, preflight, submit-time interpolation, monitoring, and output retrieval. Trigger keywords: people attribute search, PAS, person augmentation, attribute search, person re-identification, clothing augmentation, person crop augmentation.

Full PAIDF AnomalyGen pipeline — fine-tune on a new anomaly dataset, generate synthetic anomaly images (SDG), evaluate quality (nn_score), and search per-sample (guidance, crop_ratio) parameters. Three modes: full (Phase 0→7: finetune then generate), finetune_only (Phase 0→1: train only), inference_only (Phase 0, 2→7: generate from an existing checkpoint). Use when the user asks to "fine-tune AnomalyGen", "generate anomaly images", "run PAIDF SDG", "evaluate SDG output quality", "run per-sample search", or run any part of the AnomalyGen pipeline, even if they only mention one phase.

Top-level workflow skill for USD performance diagnosis and optimization. Handles slow loading, high memory, low FPS, and broad scene-optimization requests; delegates auth/runtime setup to Phase 0 owners.

Coordinate the end-to-end CAD/source-asset to SimReady workflow. Use for broad requests such as CAD to SimReady, source asset to simulation-ready USD, or prop packaging that require conversion, material/physics assignment, SimReady conformance, validation, and optional package creation; deploy or verify Content Agents services first when property assignment is enabled; route single-stage work through nested references.