AF doca-hardware-safety
Use this skill whenever the agent is about to recommend or apply a change that touches DPU / NIC hardware state on a live system — mlxconfig firmware-parameter write, NIC firmware burn, BFB reflash, NIC ↔ DPU mode flip, SR-IOV or device-emulation slot enable, kernel boot-parameter change (IOMMU, hugepages, VFIO), PCIe rebind / rescan / link-state flip, or BlueField cold reboot. Wraps the change in pre-flight inventory, OOB reachability, a maintenance window, the mlxconfig cold-power-cycle rule, replica rehearsal, and rollback. Trigger even when the user does not say "hardware safety" — implicit phrasings: "flip BlueField mode over SSH", "enable SR-IOV and reboot", "burned firmware but mlxconfig shows old value", "reflashed BFB and lost representors", "reflash during business hours", "vendor says this is one-way". Refuse for general DOCA orientation (doca-public-knowledge-map), install or env debug (doca-setup), and program-side debug (doca-debug, doca-programming-guide) — those belong to other skills.
Use this skill whenever the agent is about to recommend or apply a change that touches DPU / NIC hardware state on a live system — mlxconfig…
As a process F 44/100 · Will not run — References files that are not bundled: TASKS.md, CAPABILITIES.md, TASKS.md
How to improve
- The text references files that are not there: add them or drop the references.
- Your own cases (evals/evals.json, 4–6 real requests with expected answers): the full check would then run those instead of a model-drafted suite.
- A spec.yaml with trigger phrases and assertions — a behaviour contract for CI; `skilltest init` writes a template.
Guard findings · 0
✓ No critical or high findings
Files scanned: 1. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
- warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: TASKS.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: CAPABILITIES.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: TASKS.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: CAPABILITIES.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: CAPABILITIES.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: TASKS.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: TASKS.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: TASKS.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../../AGENTS.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: TASKS.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../doca-public-knowledge-map/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../doca-setup/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../doca-debug/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../doca-programming-guide/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../doca-version/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../doca-structured-tools-contract/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../doca-container-deployment/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../services/doca-argus/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../services/doca-dms/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../services/doca-firefly/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../services/doca-urom-svc/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../libs/doca-flow/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../libs/doca-rdma/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../libs/doca-eth/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../libs/doca-pcc/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../libs/doca-rmax/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../tools/doca-spcx-cc/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../tools/doca-pcc-counters/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../doca-public-knowledge-map/SKILL.md - note
edit-residuethe text marks something as outdated (lines 95): check that old rules are not kept next to new ones — the full check reads the text for contradictions
Process rating: all ten parameters 44/100
- 0Tools and files. 29 referenced file(s) missing: TASKS.md, CAPABILITIES.md, TASKS.md
- 0Result and completion. Does not say what the result is
- 0Inputs and preconditions. Does not say what the process needs to start
- 0Progress reporting. Says nothing while it works
- 30Running it twice. 11 mutating operations with no state check
- 50Failures and branches. 0 branches, has a failure section
- 70When it triggers. States when to use, but not when not to
- 100Steps. 24 steps
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 3856 tokens
Everything here is measured from the skill text rather than judged by a model, so the numbers are checkable. A parameter weighs more when it is a more common reason for the process to stall.
Quality signals
- +4Description does not say when NOT to use the skill (false activations)
- +3Description length 1016: 120–800 characters recommended
- +3Output format is not stated: the model decides each time
- +2Single-language instructions
- +5Description quotes 7 example trigger phrases
- +4Structure: 8 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 24 items
- +4Has examples (0 code blocks)
- +1License stated
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 75.