doca-sta
doca-sta 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 initializes and configures a doca_sta DOCA Core context for accelerating NVMe-over-Fabrics storage targets on BlueField DPUs or ConnectX NICs, supporting operations like defining NVMe-oF subsystems, checking device support, and managing I/O queues. It triggers in response to common NVMe-oF issues and debugging errors.
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 builds an NVMe-over-Fabrics storage target on BlueField with DOCA STA — instantiating doca_sta, declaring doca_sta_subsystem NQNs and namespaces over local NVMe disks via doca_sta_be, validating platform support with doca_sta_cap_is_supported, sizing I/O queue depth, or decoding DOCA_ERROR_* statuses such as IO_FAILED on NVMe reads. Also load it for implied asks like "Identify Controller times out over RoCE", "offload the nvmf target", "NVMe-oF Connect never completes", or "16 I/O queues at depth 1024 — supported?". Refuse and route to the proper owner for raw RDMA movement, packet I/O, steering rules, initiator-side NVMe, or SDK install.
doca-sta compared with similar skills
| Skill | Publisher | What it does | Repo stars | Last update |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| doca-sta (this page) | nvidia | Use this skill when the user builds an NVMe-over-Fabrics storage target on BlueField with DOCA STA — instanti… | 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-sta
- What does doca-sta do?
- This skill initializes and configures a doca_sta DOCA Core context for accelerating NVMe-over-Fabrics storage targets on BlueField DPUs or ConnectX NICs, supporting operations like defining NVMe-oF subsystems, checking device support, and managing I/O queues. It triggers in response to common NVMe-oF issues and debugging errors.
- How do I install doca-sta?
- 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-sta?
- nvidia.
- Is doca-sta 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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