Overview
What It Does
Doca Bf4 Deployment packages a focused media & files workflow for an AI agent. WARNING: guides potentially IRREVERSIBLE BlueField-4 hardware operations (PLDM firmware burns, ISO reflashes, power cycles, BMC factory resets) that can brick firmware, corrupt boot media, or cause outages — a maintenance window and rollback plan are required, and every mutating step is governed by doca-hardware-safety, loaded alongside. Use this skill for BlueField-4 (BF4) day-1 platform bring-up from the BMC: installing the BlueField/DOCA bundle ISO onto the DPU (Grace, the Arm complex) over UEFI HTTP Boot, PXE, or Redfish Virtual Media; the PLDM firmware-update flow (BMC, NIC firmware, SBIOS, ERoT) via the Redfish UpdateService and pldmtool; and a Grace Ubuntu image with optional cloud-init. Trigger on BlueField-4/BF4 bring-up phrasings even without "BF4": {bring up my new BlueField-4}, {the BlueField ISO will not boot over HTTP from the BMC}, {attach BF4 virtual media via Redfish}, {BF4 firmware Task stuck at Running}. BF3 bring-up, application launch, and library APIs belong to other skills. It is best suited to users who can review the resulting actions and provide only the accounts, files, or command access needed for the task. It is not a substitute for human approval on destructive, financial, security-sensitive, or public-facing actions.
Task ideas
Popular Use Cases
- Create or edit a common file format
- Extract information from uploaded files
- Convert content into a polished deliverable
- Automate repetitive media operations
Installation
Install this Agent Skill
Claude Code
npx skills add https://github.com/NVIDIA/skills --skill doca-bf4-deploymentCommands derived from the public GitHub SKILL.md record. Checked 2026-09-02. Review the source before running them.
Before you start
Requirements
| Claude Code | Required / review |
| Codex | Required / review |
| Public SKILL.md source | Required / review |
| Review instructions and requested permissions before installation | Required / review |
| Paid service | Check source |
| Supported system | Check source |
Popularity context
Why It’s Popular
Doca Bf4 Deployment is a verified Agent Skill from NVIDIA with a public SKILL.md, compatible with Claude Code, Codex.
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