Overview
What It Does
Doca Dpa packages a focused media & files workflow for an AI agent. Use this skill when the user is doing hands-on DOCA DPA host-side work on a BlueField — creating the `doca_dpa` Core context, loading a DPACC-compiled DPA app image (`doca_dpa_app`), creating DPA threads, launching kernels via `doca_dpa_kernel_launch_update_*`, draining `doca_dpa_completion`, running `doca_dpa_cap_*` discovery, choosing between the DPA comm component (inter-DPA messaging) and the DPA verbs component (in-kernel RDMA), or debugging `DOCA_ERROR_*` from `doca_dpa_*`. Trigger even without "DOCA DPA" or "Data-Path Accelerator": "run compute on the DPA from my host", "DPA kernel hangs, no completion", "DOCA_ERROR_DRIVER on launch", "DOCA/DPACC version skew", or "does this BlueField expose a DPA". Route elsewhere for DPA-side kernel programming itself, DPACC compiler internals, host↔DPU messaging (doca-comch), host-side RDMA (doca-rdma), and GPU-initiated networking (doca-gpunetio). 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-dpaCommands 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 Dpa is a verified Agent Skill from NVIDIA with a public SKILL.md, compatible with Claude Code, Codex.
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