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doca-setup
Use this skill when the user is dealing with the DOCA environment around their workload — verifying an install is healthy, preparing the build env (pkg-config, headers, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, hugepages, devlink, representors), debugging env-class failures, deciding container-vs-bare-metal deployment shape, or reaching a DOCA install from a host that doesn't have one yet via the NGC DOCA container Stage-1 fallback. Trigger even when the user does not explicitly mention "DOCA setup" — typical implicit phrasings include "just got a BlueField, what now", "code is built, how to run it", "pkg-config can't find doca-flow", "no free 2048 kB hugepages", "representor X not found", "on a Mac and want to learn DOCA". Refuse and route elsewhere for library API specifics (Flow pipes, RDMA queues), the modify-a-sample first-app workflow or DOCA_ERROR_* program-side debugging, and "where is X documented" knowledge-map questions — those belong to other skills.
skills/doca-setup/SKILL.md
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BENCHMARK.mddoc · 10,723 bytesCAPABILITIES.mddoc · 29,110 bytesSKILL.mdcore · 15,727 bytesTASKS.mddoc · 26,649 bytesevals/evals.jsonasset · 2,902 bytesreferences/command-appendix.mddoc · 5,701 bytesreferences/hardware-binding.mddoc · 5,802 bytesreferences/no-install.mddoc · 13,226 bytesreferences/recognize.mddoc · 8,860 bytesskill-card.mddoc · 5,299 bytesskill.oms.sigasset · 5,977 bytes
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# DOCA setup
**Where to start:** If the user's question is *deployment-shaped*
(*"how do I deploy"*, *"how do I run my DOCA workload"*, *"I just got a
BlueField, what now"*, *"my code is built, what next"*), walk
[`TASKS.md ## recognize`](references/recognize.md) **first**. It is the
bundle's front-door: it detects the system shape (host x86 / BlueField
Arm bare-metal / DPU-only / fresh laptop), asks the developer the
minimal set of questions needed to disambiguate, and routes to the
correct downstream skill — the container deployment path
(`doca-container-deployment/SKILL.md`),
the bare-metal hardware deployment path
(`doca-bare-metal-deployment/SKILL.md`),
or the no-hardware fallback