doca-upgrade
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 is installed, discover what newer release exists, report the gap, then STOP and ask for explicit confirmation — never upgrade automatically. Trigger even without the word "upgrade": "is there a newer DOCA", "should I move to the next release", "I want the latest features", "my component is being deprecated, what now",
npx skills add NVIDIA/skills --skill doca-upgrade --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# DOCA upgrade **Where to start:** This skill is the bundle's single source of truth for the discipline that wraps a DOCA *upgrade or downgrade*. Open [`TASKS.md`](TASKS.md) when the user wants to *do* something with an upgrade (detect the gap, ask for confirmation, walk the guided upgrade, verify it, or diagnose a failed one); open [`CAPABILITIES.md`](CAPABILITIES.md) when the question is *what d
What does the doca-upgrade skill do?
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 is installed, discover what newer release exists, report the gap, then STOP and ask for explicit confirmation — never upgrade automatically. Trigger even without the word "upgrade": "is there a newer DOCA", "should I move to the next release", "I want the latest features", "my component is being deprecated, what now",
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add NVIDIA/skills --skill doca-upgrade --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From NVIDIA/skills, a repository with 2,789 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.