doca-dpa SKILL.md skillA
doca-dpa 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-dpa@git:20261022.a4cf47ePins git:20261022.a4cf47e 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-dpa/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261022.a4cf47e, committed Oct 22, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 17, 2026
- Size
- 16,244 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3,871
- License
- Apache-2.0
Use this skill when the user is doing hands-on DOCA DPA host-side work on a BlueField — creating the `doca_dpa` Core context, loading a DPACC-compiled DPA app image (`doca_dpa_app`), creating DPA threads, launching kernels via `doca_dpa_kernel_launch_update_*`, draining `doca_dpa_completion`, running `doca_dpa_cap_*` discovery, choosing between the DPA comm component (inter-DPA messaging) and the DPA verbs component (in-kernel RDMA), or debugging `DOCA_ERROR_*` from `doca_dpa_*`. Trigger even…
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 DPA ## Examples - **"Run compute on the DPA from my host."** — this is in scope. Stay on `doca_dpa` + a DPACC-built image; do not rewrite it as host-CPU or GPUNetIO. - **"DPA kernel hangs, no completion."** — drain `doca_dpa_completion` and check DOCA/DPACC version skew before changing the kernel. ## Instructions Follow Loading order below. Open the tasks companion for configure / launch / debug. Open the capabilities companion for threads vs kernels and the DPA cap query. Do not open every companion file. **Where to start:** This skill assumes DOCA is already installed, the user's BlueField has a DPA processor and the host can see it through DOCA, and the user is doing **hands-on DPA work from the host side** — i.e. using `doca-dpa` to load a DPA application image, launch DPA kernels, and exchange data with the DPA processor. Open the tasks companion if the user wants to *do* something (configure / build / modify / run / test / debug); open the capabilities companion when the question is *what can the host-side DPA API express* on this version + this BlueField generation. If the user has not installed DOCA yet, route to `doca-setup/SKILL.md` first; if the …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add nvidia/skills/doca-dpa@sha256:c63c599f94f6b118The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261022.a4cf47e, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_jsnnchbnqwrac2zu)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jul 17, 2026 and Oct 22, 2026, about one every 48 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261022.a4cf47e latest | 2026-10-22 | a4cf47e | 16,244 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261014.bbb601a | 2026-10-14 | bbb601a | 16,695 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260717.f64fa0e | 2026-07-17 | f64fa0e | 20,070 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 (16244 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_jsnnchbnqwrac2zu GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=nvidia/skills/doca-dpa GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c63c599f94f6b1188df06784bcd8710c0cb6435ca9f9ae59fe8c7b8f2f091fdb
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