dpdk

dpdk is a skill for Codex from OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development. It costs 50 tokens per session (2,029 once invoked), scanned B, original, Apache-2.0.

A read-only guide for building a userspace DPDK network data path. DPDK is a toolkit for moving network packets in an application rather than through the usual kernel path.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for initializing DPDK, configuring a network driver and packet loop, setting up RSS and huge pages, and validating the port with testpmd.
Why use it?
It brings the required setup and checks together for huge pages, network ports, packet buffers, queue distribution, and test traffic.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is sudo ./build/app/dpdk-testpmd -l 0-3 -n 4 -- -i --forward-mode=io.

Good fit It is for initializing DPDK, configuring a network driver and packet loop, setting up RSS and huge pages, and validating the port with testpmd.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/outlinedriven/outline-driven-development/dpdk

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,029 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 10 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Tool Misuse · line 28
    Tool calls are chained to bypass individual safety checks or escalate capabilities beyond what any single tool call would allow.
    Fix: Limit tool chaining depth and validate the output of each tool before passing it to the next. Require explicit user approval for multi-step chains.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 30
    Tool calls are chained to bypass individual safety checks or escalate capabilities beyond what any single tool call would allow.
    Fix: Limit tool chaining depth and validate the output of each tool before passing it to the next. Require explicit user approval for multi-step chains.
  • medium Privilege Escalation · line 28
    Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.
    Fix: Avoid sudo/root unless strictly required. Prefer least-privilege patterns. If elevation is needed, document the justification and scope.
  • medium Privilege Escalation · line 30
    Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.
    Fix: Avoid sudo/root unless strictly required. Prefer least-privilege patterns. If elevation is needed, document the justification and scope.
  • medium Privilege Escalation · line 31
    Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.
    Fix: Avoid sudo/root unless strictly required. Prefer least-privilege patterns. If elevation is needed, document the justification and scope.
  • medium Privilege Escalation · line 32
    Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.
    Fix: Avoid sudo/root unless strictly required. Prefer least-privilege patterns. If elevation is needed, document the justification and scope.
  • medium Privilege Escalation · line 56
    Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.
    Fix: Avoid sudo/root unless strictly required. Prefer least-privilege patterns. If elevation is needed, document the justification and scope.
  • medium Privilege Escalation · line 57
    Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.
    Fix: Avoid sudo/root unless strictly required. Prefer least-privilege patterns. If elevation is needed, document the justification and scope.
  • medium Privilege Escalation · line 58
    Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.
    Fix: Avoid sudo/root unless strictly required. Prefer least-privilege patterns. If elevation is needed, document the justification and scope.
  • medium Privilege Escalation · line 124
    Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.
    Fix: Avoid sudo/root unless strictly required. Prefer least-privilege patterns. If elevation is needed, document the justification and scope.
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 $0.00050 $0.02029
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.01014
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00406
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00203

Measured 3d ago against content hash c9f3436f202a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

dpdk scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 3d 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

echo 1024 | sudo tee /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-2048kB/nr_hugepages
.devin/skills/dpdk/SKILL.md · 158 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 158 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

DPDK

Contract

Field Bound contract
Trigger Building a userspace DPDK dataplane: EAL init, port and PMD setup, rte_eth_rx_burst/tx_burst, mbuf pools, rte_ring, RSS, testpmd validation, or virtio-under-QEMU testing.
Authority Read-only. Writes nothing. Chat output only. No remote mutation.
Side effect Returns setup commands, driver code, and a validation plan. No source files are modified.
Done The hugepage and EAL setup, the port init and burst loop, the RSS configuration, and a testpmd validation run are delivered.

Inputs

  1. Target NIC and driver (required): the PCI address, the current kernel driver, and the PMD that will own it.
  2. Core and memory layout (optional): lcore list, memory channels, hugepage size. Defaults to one lcore per RX queue.
  3. Test plan (optional): testpmd forward mode and traffic generator, when the request includes validation.

Procedure

  1. Set up hugepages before EAL starts. EAL maps hugepages at startup and fails when pages are short.

    echo 1024 | sudo tee /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-2048kB/nr_hugepages
    # 1 GiB pages help TLB reach on large-memory boxes
    echo 4 | sudo tee /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/nr_hugepages
    sudo mkdir -p /mnt/huge
    sudo mount -t hugetlbfs nodev /mnt/huge
    grep Huge /proc/meminfo
    

    Done when: /proc/meminfo reports the requested hugepage count.

  2. Initialize EAL. rte_eal_init consumes its arguments and returns how many it took; the rest belong to the application.

    int ret = rte_eal_init(argc, argv);
    if (ret < 0)
        rte_exit(EXIT_FAILURE, "EAL init failed\n");
    return run_dataplane(argc - ret, argv + ret);
    
    ./dpdk_app -l 0-3 -n 4 --huge-dir=/mnt/huge -- -p 0x3
    # -l: lcore list   -n: memory channels
    # --proc-type=primary   --file-prefix=pfx for a second instance
    

    Done when: the app starts with its lcore list and the argument split is respected.

  3. Bind the NIC to a PMD and configure the port. Physical NICs need vfio-pci (with IOMMU) or a uio driver.

Read the full file on GitHub · 158 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 3d ago First seen · 158 lines · 50 tokens per session scan B c9f3436f202a

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dpdk is a skill published in the GitHub repository OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development (52 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 2,029 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-06.

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