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Use this skill when the user is dealing with the DOCA environment around their workload — verifying an install is healthy, preparing the build env (pkg-config, headers, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, hugepages, devlink, representors), debugging env-class failures, deciding container-vs-bare-metal deployment shape, or reaching a DOCA install from a host that doesn't have one yet via the NGC DOCA container Stage-1 fallback. Trigger even when the user does not explicitly mention "DOCA setup" — typical implicit phrasings include "I just got a BlueField, what now", "my code is built, how do I run it", "pkg-config can't find doca-flow", "no free 2048 kB hugepages", "representor X not found", "I'm on a Mac and want to learn DOCA". Refuse and route elsewhere for library API specifics (Flow pipes, RDMA queues), the modify-a-sample first-app workflow or DOCA_ERROR_* program-side debugging, and "where is X documented" knowledge-map questions — those belong to other skills.

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

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BENCHMARK.md

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Evaluation Report

Evaluation of the doca-setup 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-setup
  • Evaluation date: 2026-07-23
  • 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%) 95% (+10%)
Discoverability 4 100% (+39%) 83% (+22%)
Effectiveness 4 100% (+68%) 91% (+42%)
Efficiency 4 77% (+22%) 90% (+54%)

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 5 total findings.

Top findings:

  • MEDIUM SCHEMA/body_recommended_section: Missing recommended section: '## Instructions' (skills/doca-setup/SKILL.md)
  • MEDIUM SCHEMA/body_recommended_section: Missing recommended section: '## Examples' (skills/doca-setup/SKILL.md)
  • MEDIUM SCHEMA/author_missing: Author not specified in metadata (skills/doca-setup/SKILL.md)
  • LOW SCHEMA/unexpected_file: Unexpected 'CAPABILITIES.md' in skill root (skills/doca-setup/CAPABILITIES.md)
  • LOW SCHEMA/unexpected_file: Unexpected 'TASKS.md' in skill root (skills/doca-setup/TASKS.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

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  • Gen Agent Trust Hub2mo

    This skill provides comprehensive workflows for setting up and verifying NVIDIA DOCA environments on BlueField DPUs. It guides agents through install health checks, system configuration, and deployment routing using official NVIDIA tools and resources.

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  • Snyk2mo

    Risk: MEDIUM · 2 issues

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No DOCA install required to read this skill (it is an overlay loaded against any DOCA artifact skill); the validation steps within DO require a live DOCA install at /opt/mellanox/doca. The agent must have a target-host command channel or provide commands for the user to run and return their exact output; local shell access must not be assumed to reach the target.

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