doca-programming-guide SKILL.md skillA
doca-programming-guide from nvidia/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add nvidia/skills/doca-programming-guide@git:20261028.3d06e7ePins git:20261028.3d06e7e in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- nvidia/skills
- Path
skills/doca-programming-guide/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20261028.3d06e7e, committed Oct 28, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 17, 2026
- Size
- 14,315 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3,871
- License
- Apache-2.0
Use this skill when the user is writing their first DOCA app or asking a library-agnostic programming question — picking a shipped sample to copy and modify, wiring pkg-config + meson (or FFI from Rust / Go / Python against the public C ABI), walking the Core lifecycle (create → configure → start → connect → use → stop → destroy), or decoding a DOCA_ERROR_*. Trigger on implicit phrasing: "write my first DOCA program", "meson line for doca_rdma_*", "DOCA_ERROR_BAD_STATE on first call…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# DOCA programming guide ## Examples - **"How do I write my first DOCA program?"** — copy a shipped sample and follow the modify workflow, then the canonical pkg-config + meson build. Docker / NGC can compile and link; runtime needs a real BlueField or ConnectX. - **"What's the lifecycle every DOCA object follows?"** — create → configure → start → connect → use → stop → destroy. Configuration finishes before start. ## Instructions Follow Loading order below. Open the tasks companion for how-to and the capabilities companion for coverage. Do not open every companion file. **Where to start:** Read [`## Audience`](#audience) to confirm the user is *consuming* DOCA, not *contributing* to it. Then jump to the H2 that matches the verb (`## modify` for first-app derivation, `## build` for the canonical build pattern, `## test` for the test loop, `## debug` for the program-class debug ladder). **Docker / NGC is the build half, not the runtime half.** The NGC container can compile and link. Flow pipe creation, RDMA QP ops, and any call that needs a `doca_dev` on a port need a real BlueField or ConnectX. Do not promise the app will work entirely inside docker. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add nvidia/skills/doca-programming-guide@sha256:d2725bdef5f0ffdbThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261028.3d06e7e, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Jul 17, 2026 and Oct 28, 2026, about one every 34 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261028.3d06e7e latest | 2026-10-28 | 3d06e7e | 14,315 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261022.a4cf47e | 2026-10-22 | a4cf47e | 14,308 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261014.bbb601a | 2026-10-14 | bbb601a | 14,530 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260717.f64fa0e | 2026-07-17 | f64fa0e | 13,777 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (14315 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
nvidia/skills · 3,871 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_6z37hun7jiekb46x GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=nvidia/skills/doca-programming-guide GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d2725bdef5f0ffdbde0eb86a23b1a3edc6f24d4c3ed1f7fc85e27fac93151a02
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