What's on the bench.
Tao Generate Referring Expressions
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'.
Tao Generate Image Grounding
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'.
Tao Finetune Cosmos Reason
Cosmos-Reason2-8B video QA supervised fine-tuning with FSDP parallelism. Use when training or evaluating video question-answering models, fine-tuning Cosmos-Reason2 with SFT, or working with Cosmos-RL. Trigger phrases include "fine-tune Cosmos-Reason", "Cosmos-RL SFT", "video QA fine-tune", "Cosmos-Reason2-8B training".
Tao Finetune Cosmos Embed
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".
Tao Finetune Clip
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.
Tao Analyze Gaps Vlm Bcq
Extract false-positive and false-negative gaps from VLM binary-classification-question (BCQ, yes/no) predictions. Use after running VLM evaluation when you have a predictions JSON and need to identify failure cases for DEFT root cause analysis on a binary-classification VLM workflow.
Tao Analyze Gaps Visual Changenet
Performs gap analysis on NVIDIA TAO Visual ChangeNet (VCN) Classify experiments by invoking the data-services container (`tao_toolkit.data_services` from `versions.yaml`) 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, auditing PASS/NO_PASS boundary cases, or running DEFT gap analysis on an AOI ChangeNet model.
Tao Analyze Changenet Rca
Performs deep Root Cause Analysis (RCA) on NVIDIA TAO Visual ChangeNet classification experiments with image-evidence-driven investigation. Use when analyzing ChangeNet model failures, investigating poor recall / FAR / PASS-NO_PASS metrics, auditing visual inspection pipeline quality, or running an RCA report for an AOI defect-detection model. Trigger phrases include "RCA on my ChangeNet model", "why is my AOI model failing", "audit ChangeNet predictions", "investigate FAR regressions", "root cause analysis on visual-changenet".
Skill Card Generator
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.
Rag Perf
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).
Rag Eval
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.
Rag Blueprint
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).
Physicsnemo Discover
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/PyTorch.
Nv Segment Ct Finetune
Used for smoke or dataset finetuning of NV-Segment-CT VISTA3D on CT NIfTI labels. Not for clinical validation.
Nemotron Speech
Routes NVIDIA Nemotron Speech (Riva) NIM tasks — deploys, runs, and tests ASR, TTS, and NMT NIMs on build.nvidia.com or self-hosted.
Nemotron Retrieval Recipes
Use when planning, debugging, tuning, evaluating, exporting, or deploying public Nemotron `embed`/`rerank` retrieval recipes.
Nemotron Customize
Plan, configure, and chain repo-native Nemotron customization steps into single-step or multi-step pipelines: curation, translation, SFT/PEFT (AutoModel or Megatron-Bridge), pretraining/CPT, RL alignment (DPO/RLVR/GRPO/RLHF), BYOB/MCQ benchmarks, checkpoint conversion, ModelOpt optimization, env profiles, and evaluation of trained checkpoints or existing/hosted endpoints. Use when a request names a Nemotron step or workflow, or asks to clean, translate, train, fine-tune, align, convert, optimize, evaluate, or compose these into a pipeline. Do NOT use for frontend/dashboard/visualization work, generic ML advice, billing/access, or non-Nemotron coding tasks.
Nemoclaw User Monitor Sandbox
Inspects sandbox health, traces agent behavior, and diagnoses problems. Use when monitoring a running sandbox, debugging agent issues, or checking sandbox logs. Trigger keywords - monitor nemoclaw sandbox, debug nemoclaw agent issues.
Nemoclaw User Manage Sandboxes
Explains operational tasks after the quickstart: listing sandboxes, status and health checks, logs, diagnostics, port forwards, multiple sandboxes, credential reset, rebuilds, network presets, upgrades, and uninstall. Trigger keywords - manage nemoclaw sandboxes, nemoclaw status, nemoclaw list, nemoclaw dashboard port, nemoclaw rebuild, nemoclaw upgrade sandboxes, nemoclaw uninstall, sandbox mutability, sandbox runtime configuration, sandbox rebuild, nemoclaw backup, nemoclaw restore, workspace backup, openshell sandbox download upload, nemoclaw messaging channels, nemoclaw telegram, nemoclaw discord, nemoclaw slack, nemoclaw wechat, nemoclaw whatsapp, openshell channel messaging, nemoclaw workspace files, soul.md, user.md, identity.md, agents.md, sandbox persistence.
Nemoclaw User Manage Policy
Adds, removes, or modifies allowed endpoints in the sandbox policy. Use when customizing network policy, changing egress rules, or configuring sandbox endpoint access. Trigger keywords - customize nemoclaw network policy, sandbox egress policy configuration, nemoclaw integration policy examples, post-install policy setup, openshell approval workflow, policy preset, nemoclaw approve network requests, sandbox egress approval tui.
Nemoclaw User Deploy Remote
Explains how to run NemoClaw on a remote GPU instance, including the deprecated Brev compatibility path and the preferred installer plus onboard flow. Use when deploying NemoClaw to a remote VM, onboarding a Brev instance, or migrating away from the legacy `nemoclaw deploy` wrapper. Trigger keywords - deploy nemoclaw remote gpu, nemoclaw brev cloud deployment, nemoclaw plugins, openclaw plugins, install openclaw plugin, nemoclaw onboard from dockerfile, nemoclaw brev web ui, nemoclaw getting started, brev quickstart, nvidia nemotron agent, nemoclaw sandbox hardening, container security, docker capabilities, process limits.
Nemoclaw User Configure Inference
Connects NemoClaw to a local inference server. Use when setting up Ollama, vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, NIM, or any OpenAI-compatible local model server with NemoClaw. Trigger keywords - nemoclaw local inference, ollama nemoclaw, vllm nemoclaw, local model server, openai compatible endpoint, switch nemoclaw inference model, change inference runtime, nemoclaw additional model, nemoclaw sub-agent model, openclaw sub-agent, agents.list, sessions_spawn, vlm-demo, nemoclaw tool calling, ollama tool calls, vllm tool-call-parser, raw json in tui, nemoclaw inference options, nemoclaw onboarding providers, nemoclaw inference routing.
Nemo Rl Session Memory
Manage durable working-session memory for coding agents. Use when a user asks to preserve or recover agent context across disconnects, VS Code restarts, long-running work, handoffs, or any session where important state should be written periodically under the repo's session directory. Do NOT use for: simple questions, short tasks, one-off commands, linting, or code review.
Nemo Rl Brev Etiquette
Brev instance operating guidance for NeMo-RL agents working in /home/ubuntu/RL with limited workspace disk, a larger /ephemeral volume, and optional /home/ubuntu/RL/.env secrets. Use when running nemo-rl-auto-research campaigns, experiments, training jobs, model or dataset downloads, shared cache-heavy commands, log-producing runs, checkpoint generation, W&B or Hugging Face authenticated workflows, or any workflow that may create large files on Brev.