doca-argus SKILL.md skillA
doca-argus 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-argus@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-argus/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20261028.3d06e7e, committed Oct 28, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 17, 2026
- Size
- 17,110 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3,871
- License
- Apache-2.0
Use this skill when the user is deploying or operating the DOCA Argus Service — the packaged BlueField-side runtime-security container that watches the BlueField and attached host for suspicious activity, integrity violations, and operational anomalies, and forwards findings to a SIEM (Splunk / ELK / Sentinel / syslog). Covers the four-axis config (detection policy, forwarding, sampling, host coverage), running the NGC container on BlueField Arm, and wiring the forwarder. Trigger even without…
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 Argus Service ## Examples - **"Container green but no findings arrive."** — this is in scope. Stay on Argus config / forwarder; do not rewrite SIEM ingest stanzas here. - **"Runtime security on a fleet of BlueField-3s."** — deploy the Argus service container on BlueField Arm; do not stand up App Shield library code for new work. ## Instructions Follow Loading order below. Open the tasks companion for configure / forward / debug. Open the capabilities companion for the four-axis config. Do not open every companion file. > **Currently-promoted successor.** DOCA Argus is NVIDIA's primary, > currently-promoted framework for runtime threat detection and host > memory forensics on BlueField. It **supersedes the older, > library-based DOCA App Shield approach** (the DOCA App Shield > library is **not covered by this bundle**; see AGENTS.md `## Non-goals` (bundle `AGENTS.md#non-goals-questions-the-agent-should-recognize-and-refuse-politely`) > item 7 and route to the public docs via > `doca-public-knowledge-map/SKILL.md`). > When a request is "introspect host processes / detect suspicious > activity / runtime security" and asks for the *currently-supported* …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add nvidia/skills/doca-argus@sha256:9c318b8b47e12669The 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 | 17,110 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261022.a4cf47e | 2026-10-22 | a4cf47e | 17,197 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261014.bbb601a | 2026-10-14 | bbb601a | 19,674 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260717.f64fa0e | 2026-07-17 | f64fa0e | 19,102 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 (17110 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_fweld5gyyg37cf7m GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=nvidia/skills/doca-argus GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/9c318b8b47e1266923471bf81211d63d7ab0f9f9c026a523daa218ccf70f6083
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