tao-data-io
tao-data-io is an agent skill published by nvidia. It lives in the NVIDIA/skills repository, which has 3,735 GitHub stars and is licensed under Apache-2.0; we last read it on 2026-09-25.
This tool decides the storage tier for TAO jobs, stages inputs, maps credentials, routes outputs, and runs compute-frame verification. It supports data transfer to and from compute containers using various platforms like Docker, Kubernetes, and Slurm.
Install
skills is a generic installer for any repository of Claude agent skills -- it reads NVIDIA/skills’s own structure rather than assuming one, the same way this page reads the skill’s own SKILL.md rather than assuming a format.
npx skills add NVIDIA/skills
Maintenance
The data-mover for TAO jobs — decides the storage tier (A pre-positioned mount with zero fetch / B volume-from-S3 / C ephemeral in-compute fetch), stages inputs (bulk + annotation-selective + archive extract + HF/NGC PTM), maps credentials to env, routes outputs 3-way with upload-excludes, and runs the compute-frame verify gate. A support skill other platform skills (docker, kubernetes, slurm, brev, virtualenv) call to get data to and from the compute container without the TAO SDK. Trigger phrases include "stage inputs", "mount the dataset", "upload TAO results", "download only referenced files", "resolve results_dir", "verify the container can read the data".
Common questions about tao-data-io
- What does tao-data-io do?
- This tool decides the storage tier for TAO jobs, stages inputs, maps credentials, routes outputs, and runs compute-frame verification. It supports data transfer to and from compute containers using various platforms like Docker, Kubernetes, and Slurm.
- How do I install tao-data-io?
- Run npx skills add NVIDIA/skills. The skills installer reads the repository’s own structure, so it works for any repository of agent skills.
- Who publishes tao-data-io?
- nvidia.
- Is tao-data-io maintained, and what licence does it use?
- Its repository has 3,735 GitHub stars and its state in our directory is listed. Its last commit we recorded was on 2026-10-26. The repository declares the Apache-2.0 licence.