doca-sta SKILL.md skillA
doca-sta 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-sta@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-sta/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261028.3d06e7e, committed Oct 28, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 17, 2026
- Size
- 16,228 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3,871
- License
- Apache-2.0
Use this skill when the user builds an NVMe-over-Fabrics storage target on BlueField with DOCA STA — instantiating doca_sta, declaring doca_sta_subsystem NQNs and namespaces over local NVMe disks via doca_sta_be, validating platform support with doca_sta_cap_is_supported, sizing I/O queue depth, or decoding DOCA_ERROR_* statuses such as IO_FAILED on NVMe reads. Also load it for implied asks like "Identify Controller times out over RoCE", "offload the nvmf target…
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 STA (Storage Target Acceleration) ## Examples - **"Offload the nvmf target onto the DPU."** — this is in scope. Stand up `doca_sta` + subsystem/namespaces; do not rewrite the initiator stack here. - **"Identify Controller times out over RoCE."** — check `doca_sta_cap_is_supported` and queue sizing before changing backend disks. ## Instructions Follow Loading order below. Open the tasks companion for configure / target / debug. Open the capabilities companion for queue limits and NVMe-oF caps. Do not open every companion file. **Where to start:** This skill assumes DOCA is already installed and the user is doing **hands-on NVMe-over-Fabrics storage-target work** on a BlueField-class device with DOCA. Open the tasks companion if the user wants to *do* something (configure / modify / build / run / test / debug); open the capabilities companion when the question is *what can DOCA STA express* on this version. If the user has not installed DOCA yet, route to `doca-setup/SKILL.md` first. If the user is asking *"is this an NVMe-oF initiator/host transport?"*, the answer is no — doca-sta accelerates the **target** side: it presents …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add nvidia/skills/doca-sta@sha256:8463080bef44d584The 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_tnni26tczymmcqky)
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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.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261028.3d06e7e latest | 2026-10-28 | 3d06e7e | 16,228 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261022.a4cf47e | 2026-10-22 | a4cf47e | 16,313 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261014.bbb601a | 2026-10-14 | bbb601a | 16,610 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260727.a5736e4 | 2026-07-27 | a5736e4 | 15,905 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260717.f64fa0e | 2026-07-17 | f64fa0e | 15,905 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 (16228 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_tnni26tczymmcqky GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=nvidia/skills/doca-sta GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8463080bef44d584a7bf3322c283f2f5866a19963859b59002fe8a7c2e7481b3
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Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.