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Doca Hardware Safety

Use this skill whenever the agent is about to recommend or apply a change that touches DPU / NIC hardware state on a live system — mlxconfig firmware-parameter write, NIC firmware burn, BFB reflash, NIC ↔ DPU mode flip, SR-IOV or device-emulation slot enable, kernel boot-parameter change (IOMMU, hugepages, VFIO), PCIe rebind / rescan / link-state flip, or BlueField cold reboot. Wraps the change in pre-flight inventory, OOB reachability, a maintenance window, the mlxconfig cold-power-cycle rule, replica rehearsal, and rollback. Trigger even when the user does not say "hardware safety" — implicit phrasings: "flip BlueField mode over SSH", "enable SR-IOV and reboot", "burned firmware but mlxconfig shows old value", "reflashed BFB and lost representors", "reflash during business hours", "vendor says this is one-way". Refuse for general DOCA orientation (doca-public-knowledge-map), install or env debug (doca-setup), and program-side debug (doca-debug, doca-programming-guide) — those belong to other skills.

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Overview

What It Does

Doca Hardware Safety packages a focused devops & cloud workflow for an AI agent. Use this skill whenever the agent is about to recommend or apply a change that touches DPU / NIC hardware state on a live system — mlxconfig firmware-parameter write, NIC firmware burn, BFB reflash, NIC ↔ DPU mode flip, SR-IOV or device-emulation slot enable, kernel boot-parameter change (IOMMU, hugepages, VFIO), PCIe rebind / rescan / link-state flip, or BlueField cold reboot. Wraps the change in pre-flight inventory, OOB reachability, a maintenance window, the mlxconfig cold-power-cycle rule, replica rehearsal, and rollback. Trigger even when the user does not say "hardware safety" — implicit phrasings: "flip BlueField mode over SSH", "enable SR-IOV and reboot", "burned firmware but mlxconfig shows old value", "reflashed BFB and lost representors", "reflash during business hours", "vendor says this is one-way". Refuse for general DOCA orientation (doca-public-knowledge-map), install or env debug (doca-setup), and program-side debug (doca-debug, doca-programming-guide) — those 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

  • Inspect deployment or infrastructure state
  • Automate a repeatable operations task
  • Troubleshoot configuration and runtime issues
  • Apply documented production practices

Installation

Install this Agent Skill

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

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Popularity context

Why It’s Popular

Doca Hardware Safety is a verified Agent Skill from NVIDIA with a public SKILL.md, compatible with Claude Code, Codex.

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