doca-bare-metal-deployment SKILL.md skillA
doca-bare-metal-deployment 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-bare-metal-deployment@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-bare-metal-deployment/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261028.3d06e7e, committed Oct 28, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 17, 2026
- Size
- 11,273 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3,871
- License
- Apache-2.0
Running a DOCA-linked binary directly on the hardware, with no container or kubelet: on host x86 with a BlueField NIC over PCIe, or bare-metal on BlueField Arm. Use this skill for launching and supervising it (direct, tmux, systemd), and when it "exits 1 right after launch", "systemd keeps restarting it", reports "no matching device on the BF", or the BlueField itself is unhealthy: "bfb-install exited 0 but DPU is dead", "ping 192.168.100.2 works but ssh fails…
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 bare-metal deployment ## Examples - **"The binary exits 1 right after launch."** — this is in scope. Treat it as a launch / device-bind / isolation failure before rewriting application code. - **"systemd keeps restarting my DOCA app."** — a restart loop on hardware is high-stakes. Debug the first exit before enabling Restart=always. ## Instructions Follow Loading order below. Open the tasks companion for launch / supervise / recover, and the capabilities companion for the runtime contract. Do not open every companion file. **Where to start:** This skill is the bundle's home for *operating* a DOCA-linked application binary **directly on hardware** — no container, no kubelet, no static-pod manifest. It is the parallel of `doca-container-deployment/SKILL.md` for the non-container path. If the user has a DOCA-linked binary they built (per the canonical workflow in `doca-programming-guide/SKILL.md`) and they want to know *how to actually run it on the host or on the BlueField Arm cores correctly*, open the tasks companion and start at `## configure`. If the question is *what shape does the bare-metal runtime even have and what is the …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add nvidia/skills/doca-bare-metal-deployment@sha256:fe0e0dff809062ccThe 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_pcxvxgnjlyh4kqnn)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Jul 17, 2026 and Oct 28, 2026, about one every 26 days.
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| git:20261028.3d06e7e latest | 2026-10-28 | 3d06e7e | 11,273 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261022.a4cf47e | 2026-10-22 | a4cf47e | 11,274 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261014.bbb601a | 2026-10-14 | bbb601a | 11,608 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260727.a5736e4 | 2026-07-27 | a5736e4 | 11,602 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260717.f64fa0e | 2026-07-17 | f64fa0e | 11,640 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 (11273 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_pcxvxgnjlyh4kqnn GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=nvidia/skills/doca-bare-metal-deployment GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/fe0e0dff809062ccc4e1cb41d6cddfe18fcd43a3cb751767b976ff7a0e0624ec
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