# Doca Dpa

> Use this skill when the user is doing hands-on DOCA DPA host-side work on a BlueField — creating the docadpa Core context, loading a DPACC-compiled DPA app image (docadpaapp), creating DPA threads, launching kernels via docadpakernellaunchupdate, draining docadpacompletion, running docadpacap discovery, choosing between the DPA comm component (inter-DPA messaging) and the DPA verbs component (in-kernel RDMA), or debugging DOCAERROR from docadpa. Trigger even without "DOCA DPA" or "Data-Path Accelerator": "run compute on the DPA from my host", "DPA kernel hangs, no completion", "DOCAERRORDRIVER on launch", "DOCA/DPACC version skew", or "does this BlueField expose a DPA". Route elsewhere for DPA-side kernel programming itself, DPACC compiler internals, host↔DPU messaging (doca-comch), host-side RDMA (doca-rdma), and GPU-initiated networking (doca-gpunetio).

## Facts
- Page: https://tashan.sh/capability/skill-nvidia-doca-dpa
- tashan id: skill:NVIDIA/doca-dpa
- Source: https://github.com/NVIDIA/skills
- Type: skill
- Category: other
- tashan score: not scored (catalogued only — too little public evidence)
- Adoption: 9.0
- Upkeep: 96.0
- Freshness: 92.0
- Evidence coverage: 84% of the inputs this score can use
- Health: active
- Instruction depth: not yet graded
- License: Apache-2.0
- Official: no

## Install

```sh
cp -r doca-dpa ~/.claude/skills/
```

## Security audit
Not scanned. We audit npm-published capabilities; this one has no npm package we can resolve, or has not reached the queue. This is not a clean bill of health.

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Measured 2026-08-20 by tashan (https://tashan.sh) from public evidence. Scorer s5.