doca-socket-relay
doca-socket-relay is an agent skill published by nvidia, listed under deploy & operate. 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 tool configures and diagnoses a socket relay between a socket-oriented host application and a BlueField DPU, allowing the application to run without modification. It supports in-process, sidecar, and BlueField service container deployments, and handles implicit requests related to socket bridging.
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 operator is driving the DOCA Socket Relay to bridge a socket-oriented host application onto a BlueField DPU peer without rewriting it — picking the deployment shape (in-process, sidecar, or BlueField service container), configuring the host-side socket and the DPU-side forwarding endpoint, walking the bind → connect → round-trip → admit-fleet smoke, or diagnosing a stuck/silent relay. Trigger even when the user does not explicitly mention "DOCA Socket Relay" — typical implicit phrasings include "move my socket app onto the BlueField without rewriting it", "host app gets ECONNREFUSED on the relay", "relay accepts the connection but bytes never arrive on the DPU side", "first round-trip works, the rest hang", "bridge an AF_UNIX (UDS) socket to a DPU peer over Comch", or "I want a sidecar that forwards my socket to the BlueField". Refuse and route elsewhere for the comch programming API, line-rate raw packet I/O via doca-eth, and DOCA install/bring-up — those belong to other skills.
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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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-socket-relay
- What does doca-socket-relay do?
- This tool configures and diagnoses a socket relay between a socket-oriented host application and a BlueField DPU, allowing the application to run without modification. It supports in-process, sidecar, and BlueField service container deployments, and handles implicit requests related to socket bridging.
- How do I install doca-socket-relay?
- 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-socket-relay?
- nvidia.
- Is doca-socket-relay 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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