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docker-in-machine

An AI agent skill from smol-machines/smolvm, scored 65 out of 100 by code.

65/ 100C

Code score by group

  • Spec20/20
  • Description15/20
  • Procedure0/15
  • Done criteria4/15
  • Resources10/10
  • Scripts6/8
  • Safety7/7
  • Upkeep3/5

It loses the most points in Procedure (15), the group that checks whether the steps are numbered, read the context first and say what to do when something fails.

What the author says it does

Runs a Docker daemon inside a smolvm machine and shows it working there, which is what tools that call Docker themselves need, such as a test suite that starts containers, an image build, or a coding agent that launches containers. Use when dockerd will not start inside a machine; when Docker worked on the first boot and broke after a stop and start; when deciding where Docker's data directory has to live; or when checking whether this is possible on a given platform at all. Do not use it to run OCI images, which smolvm boots natively without Docker, and do not attempt it on Windows, where th…

This is the description in the skill's own SKILL.md, written by its author, not by SkillCheatSheet.

Repository
smol-machines/smolvm
Folder
docs/docker-in-machine
License
Apache-2.0
GitHub stars
7,092
SKILL.md lines
269
Other files
10

Add docker-in-machine to your agent

npx skills add smol-machines/smolvm --skill docker-in-machine

The command uses the open skills CLI. A skill is instructions and scripts your agent will follow, so read it first: open the folder on GitHub at the commit that was scored.

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