doca-ngauge SKILL.md skillA
doca-ngauge 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-ngauge@git:20261028.b75adbcPins git:20261028.b75adbc 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-ngauge/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20261028.b75adbc, committed Oct 28, 2026
- Size
- 14,016 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3,871
- License
- Apache-2.0
Use this skill when the operator is driving the DOCA ngauge tool to analyze, visualize, and debug network performance on a single node by probing NIC hardware counters and storing collected data in HDF5 format. Trigger even when the user does not say "DOCA ngauge" — implicit phrasings include "probe NIC hardware counters", "collect HDF5 performance data", "plot ngauge output", "sample counters on BlueField/ConnectX", "measure network performance on a single node…
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 ngauge ## Scope boundaries These requests are out of scope: say so, name the skill that owns the request, and stop. - raw Ethernet packet send/receive at line rate: `doca-eth/SKILL.md`. - host-DPU control-plane messaging (Comch): `doca-comch/SKILL.md`. - DOCA install and bring-up: `doca-setup/SKILL.md`. - which DOCA version is installed, version compatibility: `doca-version/SKILL.md`. - NIC or BlueField mode and firmware changes: `doca-hardware-safety/SKILL.md`. - general DOCA orientation and documentation lookup: `doca-public-knowledge-map/SKILL.md`. ## Examples - **"Probe NIC hardware counters on a BlueField-3 and save HDF5 data."** — this is in scope. Configure the YAML file and run ngauge; do not attempt to change hardware or firmware state here. - **"Plot the collected counter data from an ngauge output file."** — use the sample plugins under `/usr/share/doc/ngauge/examples/plugins`; dependencies may need separate installation. - **"ngauge cannot start because fwctl is in use."** — check for other tools or services that also use fwctl; route install and driver conflict resolution to `doca-setup`. ## Quick facts …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add nvidia/skills/doca-ngauge@sha256:7cee3929a79ed412The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261028.b75adbc, 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 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 28, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
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- 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_qkpx4nh6cjp7i7uh GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=nvidia/skills/doca-ngauge GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/7cee3929a79ed41273948ad4225d98d40c7d54da248e80724a16f9a0c9d9c8d6
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