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Doca Sta skill

doca-staNVIDIA/skillsskills/doca-sta/SKILL.md

Use this skill when the user is doing hands-on NVMe-over-Fabrics storage-target work on a BlueField DPU or ConnectX NIC with DOCA STA — standing up a doca_sta DOCA Core context that accelerates the target-side NVMe-oF data path over RDMA, defining doca_sta_subsystem targets (NQN + namespaces) backed by local NVMe-PCI backend disks (doca_sta_be), checking device support via doca_sta_cap_is_supported, sizing the per-connection I/O queues, or debugging DOCA_ERROR_* from a STA call. Trigger even when the user does not say "DOCA STA" — typical implicit phrasings include "my NVMe-oF Connect never completes", "Identify Controller times out over RoCE", "16 I/O queues at depth 1024 — does this BlueField support that", "offload the nvmf target onto the DPU", or "DOCA_ERROR_IO_FAILED on an NVMe read". Refuse and route elsewhere for DOCA install, raw RDMA data movement, raw packet I/O, flow-rule programming, or initiator-side / host NVMe stack work — those belong to other skills.

3.7kApache-2.0

always on

249 tokname + description

once used

3,820 tokSKILL.md body

bundled files

780 KB

repo stars

3.7kGitHub

Install the Doca Sta skill

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

npx skills add https://github.com/NVIDIA/skills --skill doca-sta

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-sta ~/.claude/skills/doca-sta

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 description249 tok
When the agent uses itThe SKILL.md instructions3,820 tok
Only if opened7 bundled files (80 KB)varies

Until it is used, doca-sta costs about 5.5× 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 STA (Storage Target Acceleration)
  • Examples
  • Instructions
  • Example questions this skill answers well
  • Audience
  • When to load this skill
  • What this skill provides
  • What this skill deliberately does not ship
  • Loading order
  • Related skills

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