doca-socket-relay SKILL.md skillA
doca-socket-relay 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-socket-relay@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-socket-relay/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20261028.3d06e7e, committed Oct 28, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 17, 2026
- Size
- 15,274 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3,871
- License
- Apache-2.0
Use this skill when the operator is driving the DOCA Socket Relay to bridge a socket-oriented host application onto a BlueField DPU peer without rewriting it — picking the deployment shape (in-process, sidecar, or BlueField service container), configuring the host-side socket and the DPU-side forwarding endpoint, walking the bind → connect → round-trip → admit-fleet smoke, or diagnosing a stuck/silent relay. Trigger even when the user does not explicitly mention "DOCA Socket Relay" — typical…
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 Socket Relay ## Examples - **"Can I move my socket app onto BlueField without rewriting it?"** — this is in scope. Pick deployment shape first; do not port the app onto comch here. - **"The relay is up but the host app gets ECONNREFUSED."** — walk bind / listen before assuming the DPU peer is down. ## Quick facts The authoritative source for the binary name, flags and paths is the public DOCA Socket Relay guide for your release; confirm them with the installed tool's `--help` before quoting any of them. As that guide describes it: - One relay instance per AF_UNIX server application; `SOCK_STREAM` only; at most 512 client connections. - The BlueField instance takes a socket path, a Comch service name, the device PCI address and the representor PCI address, and connects to your AF_UNIX server; the host instance takes the same without the representor and binds the socket path your clients connect to. Both sides use the same Comch name. - **`ECONNREFUSED` on the socket path:** nothing is listening there: the host relay is not running, its socket path differs from the one the client …
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How to install
mdr add nvidia/skills/doca-socket-relay@sha256:1e9a099030365520The 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.
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| git:20261028.3d06e7e latest | 2026-10-28 | 3d06e7e | 15,274 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261022.a4cf47e | 2026-10-22 | a4cf47e | 15,265 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261014.bbb601a | 2026-10-14 | bbb601a | 15,755 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260717.f64fa0e | 2026-07-17 | f64fa0e | 16,135 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 (15274 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
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- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
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- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
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- pass: No link to a raw IP address
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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_z6bjr6b4m4wb3lwz GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=nvidia/skills/doca-socket-relay GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/1e9a099030365520ee2740264a7f56b06f8a8cf7889fa68f969f0ba02c502506
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
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.