Official NVIDIA-authored guidance for NVIDIA cuDF GPU DataFrames, pandas acceleration, dask-cuDF, ETL, joins, groupby, CSV/Parquet I/O, nullable semantics, and multi-GPU DataFrame workloads.

Use when asked to install, deploy, run, validate, troubleshoot, or stop NVIDIA AI-Q Blueprint infrastructure.

Use when asked to run deep research or AI-Q research through a reachable NVIDIA AI-Q Blueprint backend.

Run end-to-end calibration on the shipped sample dataset (sdg_08_2_sample_data_010926.zip) against a running AMC microservice. Use when user says 'test sample dataset', 'run sample calibration', 'verify AMC install', or 'launch and test'.

Calibrate a new dataset from pre-recorded video files via the AutoMagicCalib REST API. Use when user has local MP4s and says 'calibrate my videos', 'run AMC on these videos', or similar. For RTSP/live streams, use amc-run-rtsp-calibration instead.

Launch AutoMagicCalib microservice and web UI from NGC release images via Docker Compose. Use when user says 'deploy auto calibration', 'launch auto calibration', 'launch AMC', 'start MS+UI', or 'set up auto-magic-calib'. Requires NGC API key.

CUDA-Q onboarding guide for installation, test programs, GPU simulation, QPU hardware, and quantum applications.

Use when a user asks to build, optimize, backtest, rebalance, or analyze a stock portfolio with Mean-CVaR, efficient frontiers, scenario generation, or NVIDIA cuOpt.

Modify, build, test, debug, and contribute to NVIDIA cuOpt (C++/CUDA, Python, server, CI). Use for solver internals, PRs, DCO, and code conventions.

Install cuOpt for Python, C, or server via pip, conda, or Docker; verify the install. For building cuOpt from source, see cuopt-developer.

Trace and interpret the Pareto frontier across competing objectives using repeated single-objective cuOpt solves (weighted-sum and ε-constraint).

LP, MILP, and QP (beta) with cuOpt — Python, C, and CLI. Use when the user is solving LP, MILP, or QP with any cuOpt interface.

LP, MILP, QP — concepts, problem-text parsing, and formulation patterns (parameters, constraints, decisions, objective). Concepts only; no API.

Vehicle routing (VRP, TSP, PDP) with cuOpt — Python API only. Use when the user is building or solving routing in Python.

cuOpt REST server — start server, endpoints, Python/curl client examples. Use when the user is deploying or calling the REST API.

Read and write large cuPyNumeric arrays to HDF5 with Legate's parallel, distributed HDF5 I/O (legate.io.hdf5: to_file, from_file, from_file_batched). Use when a developer needs to save a cuPyNumeric array to an .h5/.hdf5 file, load an HDF5 dataset into a distributed cuPyNumeri…

Install and verify cuPyNumeric for Python — requirements, commands, verification. Source builds are out of scope.

Pre-migration readiness assessor for porting NumPy to cuPyNumeric. Use BEFORE substantial porting work begins when the user asks whether code will scale on GPU, whether they should migrate to cuPyNumeric, which NumPy patterns transfer cleanly, what must be refactored before po…

Load a sharded, on-disk dataset (sharded .npy, Parquet/Arrow, raw binary, sharded HDF5, custom layouts) into a distributed cuPyNumeric ndarray via a manual partition + leaf @task launch with CPU/OMP/GPU variants. Use when no single-call loader fits, including when per-shard ro…

DALI imperative dynamic mode (`nvidia.dali.experimental.dynamic`, ndd): use when working on ndd code or migrating pipelines; skip pipeline-only tasks.

Use when the user wants to create a dataset, generate synthetic data, or build a data generation pipeline.

NVIDIA DeepStream SDK development with Python pyservicemaker API. Use when building video analytics pipelines, GStreamer-based video processing, TensorRT inference integration, object detection/tracking, or Kafka/message broker integration.

Build DeepStream GStreamer pipelines interactively. Use when the user asks about pipelines for video/image inference, detection, tracking, or streaming — including natural phrases like 'pipeline to infer on image', 'run inference on video', 'detect objects in stream', 'save in…

Use this skill to bring any vision model from HuggingFace or NVIDIA NGC into an NVIDIA DeepStream pipeline with end-to-end automation: ONNX download, SafeTensors export, TRT engine build, custom nvinfer bbox parser, multi-stream benchmark, and PDF report. Object detection mode…

Profile a DeepStream pipeline with Nsight Systems and derive its configs from the measurement. Use when the user asks for an efficient, performant, or profiled pipeline — or to benchmark, tune, or measure FPS.

Use this skill when building, deploying, evaluating, debugging, or measuring latency for the DeepStream SOP Inference Microservice — a GPU-accelerated FastAPI service that detects whether operators perform assembly-line steps in order via event boundary detection (GEBD) plus V…

Used for extracting selected metadata from one DICOM file and flagging standard-tag PHI presence. Not for anonymization or clinical use.

Used for header-only preflight of one DICOM series folder before conversion or inference. Not for de-identification or clinical clearance.

Used for converting one CT DICOM series folder to a HU NIfTI volume with affine evidence. Not for multi-frame DICOM or clinical use.

Stage 2 of the Clinical ASR Flywheel. Use when curating clinical terms, tagging IPA, and synthesizing a NeMo manifest. NOT for scoring (use /digital-health-clinical-asr-eval).

Stage 3 of Clinical ASR Flywheel. Score a NeMo manifest, produce the five-section KER leaderboard (by-ipa_source diagnostic). Not for ASR auth (/riva-asr).

Stage 4 of the Clinical ASR Flywheel. Use when priority KER is above 0.3 to run stock NeMo SFT on Parakeet TDT v2 and offline cycle N+1 re-eval. NOT for generic word boosting (use /finetune-asr).

Stage 1 of Clinical ASR Flywheel. Use when bootstrapping a cycle: NVCF+MW disclosure, NVIDIA_API_KEY check, deps install, TTS+ASR smoke test.

Use this skill when the user is doing hands-on DOCA AES-GCM work on a BlueField DPU or ConnectX NIC — configuring `doca_aes_gcm_task_encrypt` / `_task_decrypt`, querying `doca_aes_gcm_cap_*` for per-key-type (only `DOCA_AES_GCM_KEY_128` / `_256` — AES-192 not supported) and pe…

Use this skill for hands-on DOCA Arg Parser CLI work on a shipped sample or new DOCA-using app — adding / removing / renaming flags; wiring `doca_argp_init` → register params → `doca_argp_start` → `doca_argp_destroy` in order; picking a parameter type from the full public enum…

Use this skill when the user is deploying or operating the DOCA Argus Service — the packaged BlueField-side runtime-security container that watches the BlueField and attached host for suspicious activity, integrity violations, and operational anomalies, and forwards findings t…

Use this skill for launching, supervising, debugging, OR platform lifecycle on a BlueField — BFB install, RShim/TMFIFO, host PF rebind, post-BFB recovery — taking a DOCA-linked binary to a healthy run directly on hardware (host x86 + BlueField NIC over PCIe, or BlueField Arm b…

Use this skill when the user is running `doca_bench` (DOCA ≥ 2.7.0) — the cross-library micro-benchmark harness — to measure throughput, bulk-latency, precision-latency, or max-bandwidth (the four `benchmark_mode` enum values the binary ships) of a DOCA library (RDMA, COMPRESS…

Use this skill when the operator is authoring, building, loading, or debugging a custom doca-bench plug-in — a versioned shared library with DOCA_EXPERIMENTAL-marked C entry points that doca-bench loads to measure a workload class its built-in modes do not cover, with doca_ben…

Use this skill for BlueField-3 (BF3) day-1 platform bring-up via the classic RShim/BFB path: pushing a BlueField bundle (BFB) to the DPU over RShim with bfb-install from the host, the host-to-DPU TMFIFO management channel (tmfifo_net0, the 192.168.100.x convention), RShim daem…

WARNING: guides potentially IRREVERSIBLE BlueField-4 hardware operations (PLDM firmware burns, ISO reflashes, power cycles, BMC factory resets) that can brick firmware, corrupt boot media, or cause outages — a maintenance window and rollback plan are required, and every mutati…

Use this skill when the user wants to invoke the read-only doca_caps CLI to ask what DOCA sees on this host — listing DOCA devices and PCIe addresses, listing representor devices, asking which DOCA libraries are available on the current OS, checking per-device per-library capa…

Use this skill to deploy and operate a CollectX (clx) based DOCA telemetry collector on a host or BlueField — wiring providers / counters into the collector, running the collection daemon, and shaping its exporters (Prometheus pull, Fluent Bit push, NetFlow, file / IPC) so the…

Use this skill when the user is doing hands-on DOCA Comch work on a host + BlueField pair — bringing up host ↔ DPU PCIe control-plane messaging, picking server (DPU) vs client (host) roles, choosing slow-path send-task / recv-callback vs fast-path producer / consumer, querying…

Use this skill to enumerate host↔DPU DOCA comch (formerly Comm Channel) servers and connections via the shipped doca_comm_channel_admin binary — listing comch-capable devices and decoding the per-device server / connection table (server name, PID, in-use / max, PCIe address). …

Use this skill whenever the user is doing hands-on DOCA programming on a BlueField DPU or ConnectX NIC and needs the foundation primitives every per-library context rests on — walking the doca_ctx lifecycle, discovering doca_dev / doca_devinfo and gating on doca_*_cap_* before…

Use this skill for hands-on DOCA Compress programming on a BlueField DPU, ConnectX NIC, or host with DOCA — enabling compress-deflate, decompress-deflate, decompress-lz4-stream, or decompress-lz4-block tasks on a doca_compress context (the hardware supports DEFLATE both direct…

Use this skill when the user is hands-on deploying an in-bundle DOCA service container (Argus, DMS, Firefly, Flow-Inspector, OS-Inspector, UROM service) on a BlueField — kubelet standalone watching a static-pod manifests directory, YAML pod-spec drop, kubelet status / ENTRYPOI…

Use this skill when the user is debugging any DOCA symptom — a build that won't compile, a link step that can't resolve a doca_* symbol, a runtime call returning DOCA_ERROR_*, a silent service or tool, or a stack trace / valgrind / core dump — and needs the layered ladder (ins…

Use this skill when the user is doing hands-on DOCA Device Emulation on a BlueField DPU — exposing a custom emulated PCIe device the host sees as a real peripheral while DPU-side code runs the backend, picking the sub-library (PCI Generic, virtio-net, virtio-fs), wiring the pe…

Use this skill when the user is doing hands-on DOCA DMA programming — bringing up a doca_dma context, configuring the single doca_dma_task_memcpy task type, sizing buffers via the doca_dma_cap_task_memcpy_* queries, setting LOCAL_READ_ONLY / LOCAL_READ_WRITE permissions on sou…

SAFETY: several gNOI operations here — reboot, OS install, factory-reset — are DESTRUCTIVE and IRREVERSIBLE and can take a production BlueField or ConnectX offline; confirm the target device and require explicit user confirmation before issuing any, and never invoke them specu…

Use this skill when the user is doing hands-on DOCA DPA host-side work on a BlueField — creating the `doca_dpa` Core context, loading a DPACC-compiled DPA app image (`doca_dpa_app`), creating DPA threads, launching kernels via `doca_dpa_kernel_launch_update_*`, draining `doca_…

Use this skill when the user runs doca_dpa_hl_tracer to capture/decode DPA-side traces at the programming-events layer (kernel entry/exit, sync points, comm primitive calls, RDMA WR submission, completion drain) — picking TRACE vs CRIT, tuning the JSON config (file-size limits…

Use this skill when the user has an existing DPDK application and is adding DOCA capabilities in-place — most commonly DOCA Flow hardware steering — without rewriting the data-plane in DOCA-native form: binding a DPDK port id to a `doca_dev` (`doca_dpdk_port_probe` / `doca_dpd…

Use this skill when the user is doing hands-on DOCA Erasure Coding programming on a BlueField DPU, ConnectX NIC, or host — bringing up a doca_ec context, picking among the create / recover / update tasks, choosing matrix type / N / K / block size, querying doca_ec_cap_* before…

Use this skill for hands-on DOCA Ethernet packet-queue work on a BlueField DPU or ConnectX NIC — bringing up a `doca_eth_rxq` or `doca_eth_txq` on a port / representor / SF, picking among the four `enum doca_eth_rxq_type` values (`_REGULAR` / `_CYCLIC` / `_MANAGED_MEMPOOL` / `…

Use this skill when the user is operating the DOCA Firefly Service container on BlueField — picking the four PTP configuration axes (role / profile / domain / interface), wiring the BlueField PHC + host follower + consumer workload pairing, deciding whether PTP-grade time is e…

Use this skill for DOCA Flow on a supported NVIDIA NIC/DPU — both for DOCA Flow application knowledge and for writing Flow applications: defining match/action pipes, bringing up ports / representors, forwarding with FWD_PORT (or another fwd target), reading flow counters, vali…

Use this skill when the user is invoking doca_flow_dpa_perf on DPA-capable hardware (ConnectX-7+ or BlueField-3) to measure rule update / disable rates on the DPA-offloaded DOCA Flow path — picking the active / passive device split, choosing workload-shape axes (burst, queue, …

Use this skill when the user is doing hands-on DOCA Flow DPA Provider work — exporting a `doca-flow` pipe or external resource (index-selector/memory) into BlueField DPA address space so a DPACC-built kernel can read counters, mutate hash-pipe entries, and update/read memory o…

PLAINTEXT-ONLY: the shipped `doca_flow_grpc` server uses `grpc::InsecureServerCredentials()` with NO TLS / mTLS / token-auth knob on the binary — transport security must come from external infrastructure (e.g. an mTLS proxy / sidecar) on a trusted segment. Use this skill when …

Use this skill when the user is measuring the host or DPU-CPU control-plane rate of a DOCA Flow pipeline with doca_flow_perf — picking a JSON policy from configs/, choosing the DPDK or DOCA backend, running the single-iteration smoke then the iterative eval loop, interpreting …

Use this skill when the user is tuning a live or captured `doca-flow` pipeline with `doca_flow_tune` — snapshotting pipe / counter / KPI state, picking a tuning axis (rule placement, resource hints / table sizing, HW-offload mode) and a matching measurement (rule-install rate,…

Use this skill when the user is doing hands-on DOCA GPI programming — wiring a GPU-Packet-Initiator context so a CUDA kernel drives RDMA queues directly from GPU memory without host CPU mediation. Covers picking GPI vs doca-gpunetio, the doca_gpi / domain / channel object mode…

Use this skill when the user is doing hands-on DOCA GPUNetIO programming — wiring a CUDA kernel on an NVIDIA GPU to a doca-eth queue via doca_gpu_eth_rxq / doca_gpu_eth_txq, standing up the per-CUDA-device doca_gpu context, designing the persistent CUDA kernel that drains the …

Use this skill when the user is building, running, or interpreting the doca/tools/gpunetio_ib_write_bw client+server benchmark — a CUDA kernel on the server posts RDMA WRITE work requests through the doca-gpunetio device-side surface to measure sustained GPU-driven WRITE bandw…

Use this skill when the user is measuring GPU-kernel-initiated RDMA WRITE latency through doca-gpunetio — building and running the `gpunetio_ib_write_lat` client + server pair under `doca/tools/gpunetio_ib_write_lat/`, checking GPU-NIC pairing, reading the half-iter / full-ite…

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-param…

Use this skill when the user is doing hands-on DOCA Management programming against BlueField / ConnectX devices — standing up a management or representor context (doca_mgmt_dev_ctx / doca_mgmt_dev_rep_ctx), querying device caps (data-direct, caps-general), toggling congestion-…

Use this skill when the user is doing hands-on host-side DOCA PCC work to load a CUSTOM Programmable Congestion Control algorithm onto a BlueField DPU — creating per-port `doca_pcc` contexts, loading a `dpacc`-compiled `doca_pcc_app` onto the `doca_dev` for the RoCE-bearing po…

Use this skill when the user is invoking the DOCA PCC Counters tool — the `pcc_counters.sh` bash script under the DOCA tools directory — to arm and read the fixed firmware/hardware PCC (Programmable Congestion Control) diagnostic counters (CNP, RTT, WRED-drop, etc.) on a Conne…

Use this skill when the user is doing hands-on deployment, tuning, or evaluation of the DOCA-shipped Zero-Touch RoCE RTT-based Congestion Control (ZTR RTTCC) reference algorithm on a BlueField-3 DPA — wiring `doca_pcc_dev_ztr_rttcc_algo` into the shipped DOCA PCC sample, picki…

Use this skill when the user is writing their first DOCA app or asking a library-agnostic programming question — picking a shipped sample to copy and modify, wiring the canonical pkg-config doca-{library} + meson build (or FFI from Rust / Go / Python against the public C ABI),…

Use this skill when the user needs to locate authoritative information about NVIDIA DOCA without access to the source tree — finding the right docs.nvidia.com page for a library/service/tool, identifying which DOCA libraries are installed and at what version, locating a sample…

Use this skill when the user is doing hands-on DOCA RDMA programming on a BlueField DPU, ConnectX NIC, or DOCA host — bringing up an RDMA context on a doca_dev, picking a connection method (RDMA CM, bridge/OOB, or gRPC exchange of doca_rdma_export()), enabling one of the eleve…

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 bef…

Use this skill when the user is doing hands-on DOCA Rivermax work on a BlueField DPU or ConnectX host — standing up `doca_rmax_in_stream` (receive) sessions for timing-precise media-over-IP (SMPTE ST 2110 video/audio, market data, scientific feeds), confirming the Rivermax SDK…

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…

Use this skill when the user is doing hands-on DOCA SHA programming — offloading SHA-1, SHA-256, or SHA-512 hashing onto a BlueField DPU or ConnectX accelerator, picking between one-shot `doca_sha_task_hash` and incremental `doca_sha_task_partial_hash`, querying `doca_sha_cap_…

Use this skill when wiring the DOCA SHA Offload Engine (an OpenSSL ENGINE) into an existing OpenSSL pipeline to offload one-shot SHA-1, SHA-256, or SHA-512 (EVP_Digest) onto DOCA SHA hardware without rewriting against doca-sha. Covers engine load mechanics (`openssl engine dyn…

Use this skill when the operator is driving the DOCA Socket Relay to bridge a socket-oriented host application onto a BlueField DPU peer without rewriting it — picking the deployment shape (in-process, sidecar, or BlueField service container), configuring the host-side socket …

Use this skill when the user is invoking `doca_spcx_cc` (the host-side CLI under /opt/mellanox/doca/tools/) to load, parameterize, start, observe, or stop a Programmable Congestion Control (SPCX) algorithm on a BlueField with a DPA processor against a live RDMA / RoCE fabric, …

Use this skill when the user is doing hands-on NVMe-over-Fabrics storage-target work on a BlueField DPU or ConnectX NIC with DOCA STA — standing up a doca_sta DOCA Core context that accelerates the target-side NVMe-oF data path over RDMA, defining doca_sta_subsystem targets (N…

Use this skill whenever another DOCA skill says "prefer the structured tool per doca-structured-tools-contract", or when the user wants a one-shot answer that consolidates info multiple manual commands would produce — DOCA env / version / devices / capabilities / validate / ho…

Use this skill when reading **DOCA hardware-counter events** from a `doca_dev` via the per-domain DOCA Telemetry reader libraries — `doca_telemetry_pcc`, `_dpa`, `_diag`, `_adp_retx`, `_phy`, `_pci`. This is the **counter-READER** surface — there is no NetFlow / IPFIX / local-…

Use this skill when the user is doing hands-on DOCA Telemetry Exporter programming on a host where DOCA is installed — defining a doca_telemetry_exporter_schema, creating sources, picking counter/gauge/event types, running capability queries before assuming limits, registering…

Use this skill when the user is invoking `doca_telemetry_utils` on a host with DOCA installed — discovering the diagnostic-counter schema, translating counter names to binary Data IDs, validating per-device counter support before committing a DOCA Telemetry exporter config, or…

Use this skill when the user is contemplating a DOCA upgrade or downgrade — moving a host to a newer DOCA release, refreshing the BlueField BFB, bumping the NGC DOCA container tag, or rolling back. The discipline is detect → report → ASK → only-then guided upgrade: detect what…

Use this skill when the user is doing hands-on DOCA UROM library work from the host side — wiring doca-urom under an HPC / UCX / MPI stack to OFFLOAD remote memory operations (puts, gets, atomics, collectives) onto a BlueField DPU, creating a UROM Service context (doca_urom_se…

SECURITY: the DOCA UROM Service binary has NO standalone access control (no authz list / `allowed_host` / `allowed_users` / `auth_token`) — access is governed ENTIRELY by DOCA Comch pairing + RDMA permissions, so any host able to establish a Comch pairing can drive remote memo…

Use this skill when the user is dropping below the higher-level DOCA libraries (doca-rdma / doca-eth / doca-rmax) into the raw-verbs escape hatch — managing QP / CQ / PD / MR / SRQ / AH / CC-group / Ethernet-SQ-RQ primitives inside DOCA Core, porting libibverbs code into the D…

Use this skill when the user is doing DOCA version handling — detecting the installed release, validating the four-way match across pkg-config doca-common, applications/VERSION, doca_caps --version, and bfver/mlnx-release on BlueField, reasoning about NGC container tags, looki…

Validate that a Dynamo deployment's NIXL/UCX/NCCL interconnect is ready for disaggregated serving over RDMA/NVLink. Use after recipe-runner brings a deployment up (especially disagg/multi-node) to confirm the KV transport is correct; use troubleshoot for diagnosing already-fai…

Select, validate, patch, and deploy existing NVIDIA Dynamo Kubernetes recipes. Use for model/backend/GPU/deployment-mode recipe bring-up; use router-starter for router-only mode work and troubleshoot for broken deployments.

Start or patch Dynamo router modes and run router endpoint smoke checks. Use for round-robin, KV-aware, least-loaded, or device-aware routing setup; use recipe-runner for recipe deployment and troubleshoot for failure diagnosis.

Diagnose failed or unhealthy Dynamo deployments. Use when pods, model-cache jobs, PVCs, workers, frontend/router health, endpoints, or benchmark jobs fail; use recipe-runner/router-starter before this for normal bring-up.

Create and validate Earth2Studio data source wrappers (DataSource, ForecastSource, DataFrameSource, ForecastFrameSource) from remote stores. Do NOT use for fetching data with existing sources, model inference, or installation tasks.

Create Earth2Studio diagnostic model wrappers for single-step data transformations, including simple derived diagnostics, packaged AutoModel diagnostics, and generative or diffusion diagnostics. Do NOT use for prognostic time-stepping models, data sources, or installation.

Create Earth2Studio prognostic (time-stepping forecast) model wrappers. Do NOT use for diagnostic models, data sources, or installation.