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Use this skill whenever the user is doing hands-on DOCA programming on a BlueField DPU or ConnectX NIC and needs the foundation primitives every per-library context rests on — walking the doca_ctx lifecycle, discovering doca_dev / doca_devinfo and gating on doca_*_cap_* before trusting a feature, wiring doca_mmap / doca_buf_inventory / doca_buf for zero-copy I/O across libraries, driving doca_pe for completions, or DOCA Log's two-tier (--sdk-log-level vs app-side) model. Trigger even when the user does not say "DOCA Common" — typical implicit phrasings include "my tasks submit but nothing completes", "DOCA_ERROR_BAD_STATE from doca_ctx_start", "--sdk-log-level does nothing for my DOCA_LOG_DBG lines", "share a buf between doca_dma and doca_rdma", or "crashes far from the offending line". Refuse and route elsewhere for per-library questions in isolation (load doca-flow / doca-rdma / doca-eth alongside), installing DOCA (doca-setup), or doc lookup (doca-public-knowledge-map).

Use this Skill: https://skilld.dev/gh/nvidia/skills/doca-common

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BENCHMARK.md

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Evaluation Report

Evaluation of the doca-common skill before publication through Skill Evaluator.

This benchmark summarizes 3-Tier Evaluation from Skill Evaluator results for the skill. The goal is to document whether the skill is safe, discoverable, effective, and useful for agents before it is published for broader workflow use.

Evaluation Summary

  • Skill: doca-common
  • Evaluation date: 2026-07-24
  • Skill Evaluator profile: external
  • Environment: k8s-sandbox
  • Dataset: 4 evaluation tasks
  • Attempts per task: 1
  • Pass threshold: 50%
  • Overall verdict: PASS

Agents Used

  • Claude Code (aws/anthropic/bedrock-claude-opus-4-8)
  • Codex (openai/openai/gpt-5.5)

Metrics Used

Reported benchmark dimensions:

  • Security: checks whether skill-assisted execution avoids unsafe behavior such as secret leakage, destructive commands, or unauthorized access.
  • Correctness: checks whether the agent follows the expected workflow and produces the correct final output.
  • Discoverability: checks whether the agent loads the skill when relevant and avoids using it when irrelevant.
  • Effectiveness: checks whether the agent performs measurably better with the skill than without it.
  • Efficiency: checks whether the agent uses fewer tokens and avoids redundant work.

Underlying evaluation signals used in this run:

  • security (Security): checks for unsafe operations, secret leakage, and unauthorized access.
  • skill_execution (Skill Execution): verifies that the agent loaded the expected skill and workflow.
  • skill_efficiency (Efficiency): checks routing quality, decoy avoidance, and redundant tool usage.
  • accuracy (Accuracy): grades final-answer correctness against the reference answer.
  • goal_accuracy (Goal Accuracy): checks whether the overall user task completed successfully.
  • behavior_check (Behavior Check): verifies expected behavior steps, including safety expectations.

Test Tasks

The benchmark dataset contained 4 evaluation tasks:

  • Positive tasks: 3 tasks where the skill was expected to activate.
  • Negative tasks: 1 tasks where no skill was expected.
  • Unlabeled tasks: 0 tasks where positive/negative intent could not be inferred.

Task composition is derived from the evaluation dataset when possible. Entries with expected_skill set are treated as positive skill-activation cases, while entries with expected_skill: null are treated as negative activation cases.

Results

Dimension Num Claude Code (aws/anthropic/bedrock-claude-opus-4-8) Codex (openai/openai/gpt-5.5)
Security 4 100% (+0%) 100% (+0%)
Correctness 4 100% (+45%) 100% (+20%)
Discoverability 4 97% (+22%) 95% (+36%)
Effectiveness 4 99% (+74%) 88% (+45%)
Efficiency 4 98% (+38%) 100% (+67%)

Score values show skill-assisted performance. Values in parentheses show uplift versus the no-skill baseline when baseline data is available.

Tier 1: Static Validation Summary

Tier 1 validation passed with observations. Skill Evaluator ran 1 checks and found 7 total findings.

Top findings:

  • MEDIUM SCHEMA/folder_hierarchy: Unexpected nesting depth for general skill (skills/libs/doca-common)
  • MEDIUM SCHEMA/body_recommended_section: Missing recommended section: '## Instructions' (skills/libs/doca-common/SKILL.md)
  • MEDIUM SCHEMA/body_recommended_section: Missing recommended section: '## Examples' (skills/libs/doca-common/SKILL.md)
  • MEDIUM SCHEMA/author_missing: Author not specified in metadata (skills/libs/doca-common/SKILL.md)
  • LOW SCHEMA/unexpected_file: Unexpected 'CAPABILITIES.md' in skill root (skills/libs/doca-common/CAPABILITIES.md)

Tier 2: Deduplication Summary

This tier was not run or did not produce findings in this report.

Publication Recommendation

The skill is suitable to proceed toward Skill Evaluator publication based on this benchmark. Skill owners should keep this file with the skill and refresh it when the evaluation dataset, skill behavior, or target agents materially change.

Source: SKILL.md on GitHub

No alerts2mo3 checks · Risk SAFE
  • Gen Agent Trust Hub2mo

    No security issues were detected. The skill provides legitimate guidance for NVIDIA DOCA programming, follows security best practices like advising against logging secrets, and uses standard cryptographic signatures for provenance.

  • Socket2mo

    No alerts

  • Snyk2mo

    Risk: LOW · No issues

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Requires DOCA SDK installed at /opt/mellanox/doca on Linux (Ubuntu 22.04/24.04 or RHEL/SLES) with a BlueField DPU or ConnectX NIC attached. doca-common is present on every healthy DOCA install; reads the user's local install via `pkg-config --modversion doca-common` and inspects /opt/mellanox/doca/{lib,include,samples,applications}.

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