Agent skill · NVIDIA
doca-rdmi
Use this skill when the user is doing hands-on DOCA RDMI (RDMA Initiator) programming — picking doca-rdmi vs doca-rdma for an accelerator-initiated one-sided RDMA flow, standing up a doca_rdmi_connection or doca_rdmi_poster, attaching a doca_dpa_completion or doca_verbs_cq before doca_ctx_start(), retrieving the DPA-side handle for a DPA kernel, auditing whether a doca_rdmi_* symbol is EXPERIMENTAL on this DOCA, or debugging DOCA_ERROR_* returns from RDMI calls. Trigger even when the user does not say "DOCA RDMI" or "initiator" — implicit phrasings include "my DPA kernel needs to post RDMA writes to a remote responder", "DPA kernel sees no completions", "function not found on doca_rdmi_* at link time", "DOCA_ERROR_BAD_STATE from completion attach", or "the DPA posted but the work request never arrived". Refuse and route elsewhere for two-sided or host-CPU RDMA, the DPA programming model, GPU-side RDMA initiation, or general RDMA/IB/RoCE concepts — those belong to other skills.
What it needs
About 8k tokens when loaded.
What this skill does
DOCA RDMA Initiator Where to start: This skill assumes DOCA is already installed and the user is doing hands-on RDMI work on a host or BlueField with the DOCA package set that ships the doca-rdmi library. Open TASKS.md if the user wants to do something (install / configure / build / modify / run / test / debug / use); open CAPABILITIES.md when the question is what can RDMI express on this version — the object model, the DPA-side handle types, the relationship to doca-rdma, the EXPERIMENTAL-tag policy, and the safety overlay. End-to-end "walk me through doca-rdmi" questions are answerable entirely from this skill. Go straight to TASKS.md ## end-to-end (quickref), which carries the self-contained install-check → device/cap discovery → sample → pkg-config build → run → debug walkthrough with the exact commands. You do not need to open doca-setup or doca-programming-guide to answer an RDMI build/run/debug question. Route to doca-setup when the required DOCA prerequisites are absent, partial, or version-mismatched. Example questions this skill answers well The CLASSES of RDMI questions this skill is built to answer, each with one worked example. The agent should treat the class as the load-bearing piece — the worked example is a single instance. "Should I use doca-rdmi or doca-rdma for this case?" — worked example: "I have a DPA kernel that needs to fire 1 MB RDMA writes at a remote responder; which library?". Answered by the initiator-side vs general-purpose selection rule in CAPABILITIES.md ## Capabilities and modes surface-selection table + the routing back to doca-rdma when the use case is two-sided or host-CPU initiated. "How do I bring up an RDMI connection on the DPA datapath?" — worked example: "create a docardmiconnection, attach a DPA completion context, hand the DPA-side handle to my kernel". Answered by the connection-object lifecycle in CAPABILITIES.md ## Capabilities and modes the configure walk in TASKS.md ## configure. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills NVIDIA/doca-rdmi