doca-compress
doca-compress is an agent skill published by nvidia, listed under review & testing. It lives in the NVIDIA/skills repository, which has 3,735 GitHub stars and is licensed under Apache-2.0; we last read it on 2026-10-23.
This skill enables compress-deflate, decompress-deflate, decompress-lz4-stream, or decompress-lz4-block tasks on a doca_compress context, connecting to BlueField DPU, ConnectX NIC, or host with DOCA, requiring credentials for hardware access.
Install
skills is a generic installer for any repository of Claude agent skills -- it reads NVIDIA/skills’s own structure rather than assuming one, the same way this page reads the skill’s own SKILL.md rather than assuming a format.
npx skills add NVIDIA/skills
Maintenance
Hardware compression offload with DOCA Compress on a BlueField DPU, ConnectX NIC, or host: DEFLATE compress and decompress, plus LZ4 decompress (stream and block; LZ4 encode is NOT supported), instead of CPU zlib / zstd. Trigger on "offload this gzip", "decompress incoming network data on the NIC", "compress task returns INVALID_VALUE on alloc_init", "submitted a task but no completion arrives", or "decompress LZ4 on the BlueField", even without naming DOCA Compress. Covers enabling compress-deflate, decompress-deflate, decompress-lz4-stream and decompress-lz4-block tasks on a doca_compress context, sizing source / destination doca_buf against the per-task cap query, mmap permissions, offload vs CPU decisions, a round-trip smoke, and DOCA_ERROR_* from Compress calls. Refuse and route elsewhere for zstd / Snappy / brotli, LZ4 encode (a CPU LZ4 library), pure mmap-to-mmap copies (doca-dma), or DOCA Core lifecycle internals.
doca-compress compared with similar skills
| Skill | Publisher | What it does | Repo stars | Last update |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| doca-compress (this page) | nvidia | Hardware compression offload with DOCA Compress on a BlueField DPU, ConnectX NIC, or host: DEFLATE compress a… | 3,735 | 2026-10-26 |
| deepstream-sop(same repository) | nvidia | Use this skill when building, deploying, evaluating, debugging, or measuring latency for the DeepStream SOP I… | 3,735 | 2026-10-26 |
| doca-aes-gcm(same repository) | nvidia | Use this skill when the user is doing hands-on DOCA AES-GCM work on a BlueField DPU or ConnectX NIC — configu… | 3,735 | 2026-10-26 |
| doca-argp(same repository) | nvidia | Use this skill for hands-on DOCA Arg Parser CLI work on a shipped sample or new DOCA-using app — adding / rem… | 3,735 | 2026-10-26 |
| doca-bare-metal-deployment(same repository) | nvidia | Running a DOCA-linked binary directly on the hardware, with no container or kubelet: on host x86 with a BlueF… | 3,735 | 2026-10-26 |
| doca-bench-extension(same repository) | nvidia | Use this skill when the operator is authoring, building, loading, or debugging a custom doca-bench plug-in —… | 3,735 | 2026-10-26 |
| doca-caps(same repository) | nvidia | Use this skill when the user wants to invoke the read-only doca_caps CLI to ask what DOCA sees on this host —… | 3,735 | 2026-10-26 |
Skills from the same repository first, then others for this job by repository stars. Figures are from each repository when we last read it.
Common questions about doca-compress
- What does doca-compress do?
- This skill enables compress-deflate, decompress-deflate, decompress-lz4-stream, or decompress-lz4-block tasks on a doca_compress context, connecting to BlueField DPU, ConnectX NIC, or host with DOCA, requiring credentials for hardware access.
- How do I install doca-compress?
- Run npx skills add NVIDIA/skills. The skills installer reads the repository’s own structure, so it works for any repository of agent skills.
- Who publishes doca-compress?
- nvidia.
- Is doca-compress maintained, and what licence does it use?
- Its repository has 3,735 GitHub stars and its state in our directory is listed. Its last commit we recorded was on 2026-10-26. The repository declares the Apache-2.0 licence.
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