NVIDIA/skills is a catalogue of portable instruction sets that teach coding agents how to use NVIDIA software for robotics, simulation, CUDA, retrieval-augmented generation, and related workflows. Developers install these skills in agents such as Claude Code or Codex, while the catalogue mirrors skills maintained in separate NVIDIA product repositories.
Getting it into your agent
One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.
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What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00248 | $0.02823 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00099 | $0.01129 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00050 | $0.00565 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00025 | $0.00282 |
Grade A, and why
doca-bare-metal-deployment scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 252 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
DOCA bare-metal deployment
Examples
- "The binary exits 1 right after launch." — this is in scope. Treat it as a launch / device-bind / isolation failure before rewriting application code.
- "systemd keeps restarting my DOCA app." — a restart loop on hardware is high-stakes. Debug the first exit before enabling Restart=always.
Instructions
Follow Loading order below. Open the tasks companion for launch / supervise / recover, and the capabilities companion for the runtime contract. Do not open every companion file.
Where to start: This skill is the bundle's home for operating
a DOCA-linked application binary directly on hardware — no
container, no kubelet, no static-pod manifest. It is the parallel
of doca-container-deployment/SKILL.md
for the non-container path. If the user has a DOCA-linked binary
they built (per the canonical workflow in
doca-programming-guide/SKILL.md)
and they want to know how to actually run it on the host or on
the BlueField Arm cores correctly, open
the tasks companion and start at
## configure. If the question is what
shape does the bare-metal runtime even have and what is the
deployment contract, start at the capabilities companion.
If the user is not yet sure whether their target system shape is
the container path or the bare-metal path, route the recognition
step to doca-setup/SKILL.md first; only return
here once bare-metal is the confirmed shape.
Audience
This skill serves external DOCA developers and operators who have a DOCA-linked application binary they built and want to run it directly on hardware — i.e., people who already have:
- a DOCA-linked application binary they built per
doca-programming-guide ## build, - a real BlueField NIC and a host that talks to it (the host x86 path — DOCA host install on the host talks to the BlueField NIC over PCIe), OR a BlueField with a console or SSH to the Arm side (the BlueField Arm bare-metal path — DOCA installed on the DPU Arm cores; the binary runs there directly), and
- a desire to RUN that binary directly on the hardware, not inside a kubelet-standalone-managed container.
What ships with it
7 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 8d ago Changed fe0e0dff8090
- 15d ago Changed · +1 lines · +3 tokens per session 786bee7d5d2d
- 23d ago Changed · +16 lines · -5 tokens per session da5031d88434
- 2mo ago First seen · 235 lines · 250 tokens per session scan A fd7304c1e9a6
doca-bare-metal-deployment is a skill published in the GitHub repository NVIDIA/skills (3,873 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 248 tokens to every session and 2,823 once invoked, about $0.0010 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
doca-bare-metal-deployment compared with skills from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| doca-bare-metal-deploymentNVIDIA/skills | Skill | 3.9k | yesterday | Apache-2.0 | A | 248 | Claude Code, Codex |
| desktop-and-local-ipc-securitymakifbaysal/tasktrooper | Skill | 120 | 16d ago | Apache-2.0 | A | 78 | Claude Code, Codex |
| spark-environment-setupwshobson/agents | Skill | 42k | yesterday | MIT | A | 76 | Claude Code |
| spark-training-gotchaswshobson/agents | Skill | 42k | yesterday | MIT | A | 63 | Claude Code |
| technical-troubleshootingstrands-agents/samples | Skill | 925 | yesterday | Apache-2.0 | A | 38 | Claude Code |
| screen-mockup-htmlmakifbaysal/tasktrooper | Skill | 120 | 16d ago | Apache-2.0 | A | 63 | Claude Code, Codex |
| responsive-layoutmakifbaysal/tasktrooper | Skill | 120 | 16d ago | Apache-2.0 | A | 35 | Claude Code, Codex |