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Doca Bare Metal Deployment skill

doca-bare-metal-deploymentNVIDIA/skillsskills/doca-bare-metal-deployment/SKILL.md

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 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", "host PFs aren't showing netdevs". Service containers under kubelet belong to doca-container-deployment. Covers PCI/NUMA/CPU/IRQ binding, co-tenant isolation (cgroup-v2/netns/numactl), a seven-layer error taxonomy, platform lifecycle (BFB install, RShim/TMFIFO, host PF rebind, post-BFB recovery) and a six-state BlueField lifecycle classifier. Destructive firmware burn / mlxconfig set requires explicit confirmation via doca-hardware-safety; library APIs, env prep, and build use other skills.

3.7kApache-2.0

always on

245 tokname + description

once used

2,521 tokSKILL.md body

bundled files

7134 KB

repo stars

3.7kGitHub

Install the Doca Bare Metal Deployment skill

Skills CLI (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others)

npx skills add https://github.com/NVIDIA/skills --skill doca-bare-metal-deployment

Claude Code, by hand (all projects)

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NVIDIA/skills.git /tmp/skills
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -R /tmp/skills/skills/doca-bare-metal-deployment ~/.claude/skills/doca-bare-metal-deployment

For one project only, copy the folder into .claude/skills/ in that project instead. The agent picks it up when a task matches its description.

What it costs your context

Agent Skills load in three steps. Tokens counted with the o200k tokenizer; your model's count will differ a little.

WhenWhat loadsCost
Every sessionName and description245 tok
When the agent uses itThe SKILL.md instructions2,521 tok
Only if opened7 bundled files (134 KB)varies

Until it is used, doca-bare-metal-deployment costs about 5.6× less than the median MCP server we measured (1,363 tokens on every turn). Installing all 150 skills from NVIDIA/skills would load 20,796 tokens of descriptions. Skills vs MCP study

Checks

Our checks found nothing to flag: it follows the Agent Skills specification's naming and size guidelines and doesn't pipe downloads into a shell.

Checked 2026-10-22 · method

What's inside

The headings of its SKILL.md. Read the full file on GitHub.

  • DOCA bare-metal deployment
  • Examples
  • Instructions
  • Audience
  • When to load this skill
  • What this skill provides
  • Loading order
  • Example questions this skill answers well
  • What this skill deliberately does not ship
  • Related skills

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