doca-bare-metal-deployment

doca-bare-metal-deployment is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from NVIDIA/skills. It costs 250 tokens per session (2,948 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A deployment guide for running a DOCA-linked program directly on NVIDIA BlueField hardware, either on the host computer or on the BlueField processor.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for BFB installation, RShim and TMFIFO setup, host PCIe function rebinding, recovery after installation, and running the program on bare metal.
Why use it?
It explains the hardware-specific steps needed to install, recover, supervise, and debug the program without containers or Kubernetes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex ✓ vendor

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it for BFB installation, RShim and TMFIFO setup, host PCIe function rebinding, recovery after installation, and running the program on bare metal.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nvidia/skills/doca-bare-metal-deployment
About the project

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.

NVIDIA/skills · 3,236 stars · on GitHub · docs.nvidia.com

Install

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.

Any agent
npx skills add NVIDIA/skills --skill doca-bare-metal-deployment
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NVIDIA/skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 250 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,948 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00250 $0.02948
Opus 5 $0.00125 $0.01474
Sonnet 5 $0.00050 $0.00590
Haiku 4.5 $0.00025 $0.00295

Measured 9d ago against content hash fd7304c1e9a6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

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 9d 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.

skills/doca-bare-metal-deployment/SKILL.md · 235 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 235 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

DOCA bare-metal deployment

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 for the non-container path. If the user has a DOCA-linked binary they built (per the canonical workflow in doca-programming-guide) and they want to know how to actually run it on the host or on the BlueField Arm cores correctly, open TASKS.md 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 CAPABILITIES.md. 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 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.

It is not for:

  • kernel-driver developers contributing to mlx5_* or the BlueField OS,
  • DOCA library contributors (those changes go to the internal DOCA tree, not to a bare-metal deployment),
  • full-Kubernetes-cluster operators managing a fleet of BlueFields (the bundle covers doca-container-deployment for the single-host kubelet-standalone shape; fleet/production-scale deployment is fleet-orchestration scope — route to the orchestration entry-point in doca-public-knowledge-map ## Deploying DOCA services at scale (DPF / Network Operator / Launch Kit), not hand-rolled static-pod loops),
  • fresh-laptop-no-hardware users with no DOCA install yet — those belong on doca-setup ## no-install.

Read the full file on GitHub · 235 lines

Files

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.

Changes

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.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 235 lines · 250 tokens per session scan A fd7304c1e9a6

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doca-bare-metal-deployment is a skill published in the GitHub repository NVIDIA/skills (3,236 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 250 tokens to every session and 2,948 once invoked, about $0.0013 per session on Opus 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.

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