doca-debug
doca-debug 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 assists users debugging issues related to DOCA, providing a structured approach from installation to runtime, verbosity controls, and guidance on capturing state for forum posts. It triggers on specific error messages and questions without requiring explicit mention of 'DOCA debug.'
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
Use this skill when the user is debugging any DOCA symptom — a build that won't compile, a link step that can't resolve a doca_* symbol, a runtime call returning DOCA_ERROR_*, a silent service or tool, or a stack trace / valgrind / core dump — and needs the layered ladder (install → version → build → link → runtime → program → driver), verbosity controls (--sdk-log-level, DOCA_LOG_LEVEL, the doca-{lib}-trace flavor), container-debug constraints, or how to capture state for a Developer Forum post. Trigger even when the user does not say "DOCA debug" — implicit phrasings include "undefined reference to doca_*", "how do I get more logs", "packets aren't reaching the wire", "doca_caps returned nothing", or "hugepages empty in the container". Refuse and route elsewhere for library-specific debug (Flow pipe trace, RDMA QP, Comch stats), env-class pkg-config or hugepages symptoms, the DOCA_ERROR_* taxonomy and lifecycle interpretation, and performance or incident-response work — those belong to other skills.
doca-debug compared with similar skills
| Skill | Publisher | What it does | Repo stars | Last update |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| doca-debug (this page) | nvidia | Use this skill when the user is debugging any DOCA symptom — a build that won't compile, a link step that can… | 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-debug
- What does doca-debug do?
- This skill assists users debugging issues related to DOCA, providing a structured approach from installation to runtime, verbosity controls, and guidance on capturing state for forum posts. It triggers on specific error messages and questions without requiring explicit mention of 'DOCA debug.'
- How do I install doca-debug?
- 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-debug?
- nvidia.
- Is doca-debug 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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