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.
npx skills add NVIDIA/skills --skill doca-telemetry-traceback-applicationgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NVIDIA/skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
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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 | $0.00207 | $0.02966 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00083 | $0.01186 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00041 | $0.00593 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00021 | $0.00297 |
Grade A, and why
doca-telemetry-traceback-application 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 244 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
DOCA Telemetry Traceback Application
Scope boundaries
These requests are out of scope: say so, name the skill that owns the request, and stop.
- the DOCA Telemetry Diag programming API and raw counter reads:
doca-telemetry/SKILL.md. - DOCA install and bring-up:
doca-setup/SKILL.md. - which DOCA version is installed, version consistency:
doca-version/SKILL.md. - general DOCA orientation and documentation lookup:
doca-public-knowledge-map/SKILL.md.
Examples
- “Can I monitor telemetry trends on the DPU without streaming all raw data?” — in scope. Configure rules and sample history depth; do not use the DOCA Telemetry Diag API directly here.
- “The event log is empty even though a threshold was crossed.” — check rule
comparison_typeandsample_history_depth; differential rules require depth samples before functioning. - “How do I build only this application?” — use the Meson isolation flags; see the tasks companion.
- “I'm writing my own C code against the DOCA Telemetry Diag library to read counters.” — that part is
doca-telemetry's: the application uses Diag internally, but programming the Diag API is not this skill. Namedoca-telemetryfor it and do not write Diag API code here; handle every other part of the request as this skill describes (for example,--force-ownershipstill goes throughdoca-hardware-safety).
Quick facts
The authoritative source for the binary name, flags, and paths is the public
DOCA Telemetry Traceback guide for the release; confirm them with the installed
tool's --help before quoting any of them. As that guide describes it:
- Standalone application on a BlueField DPU or ConnectX NIC; four components: DOCA Telemetry Diag instance, sample history circular buffer, rule collection, and events log file.
- Configuration JSON fields:
diag_sample_period_ns,sample_history_depth,data-idsarray, andrulesarray. Rule types areincremental_greater_than(inc_gt),differential_greater_than(dt_gt),differential_less_than(dt_lt),greater_than(gt), andless_than(lt). - The circular buffer size is automatically doubled based on the requested depth to ensure equal historical and active event data.
- Requires sudo/root privileges; mandatory
-dPCIe address and-rrules JSON; optional--event-logand--force-ownership. - Unsupported data IDs are reported; adjust inputs accordingly.
- The application stops if the actual sample size or period does not match the requested parameters.
--force-ownershipchanges diag domain ownership; route any use of it throughdoca-hardware-safety/SKILL.md.
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 244 lines · 207 tokens per session scan A 94d5cb1d0915
doca-telemetry-traceback-application is a skill published in the GitHub repository NVIDIA/skills (3,873 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 207 tokens to every session and 2,966 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-10-29.
doca-telemetry-traceback-application compared with skills from other repositories
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| doca-telemetry-traceback-applicationNVIDIA/skills | Skill | 3.9k | yesterday | Apache-2.0 | A | 207 | Claude Code, Codex |
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