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docker-in-machine
smol-machines/smolvmSkill
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 the
Why this score
This repo hosts 10 skills, so its 6,769 stars are split between them (about 677 each) for scoring.
Popularity score: 73/100 from public GitHub signals only. It shows how widely used and maintained this is, not how well it works. Not included yet: the fake-star check. The security scan is shown separately and doesn't change the score. How we rank
Security
Scanned Oct 20, 2026 at commit c925bfd05cf6, with Cisco's open-source skill-scanner.
None of the patterns we list turned up: shell commands, network requests, reading environment variables, downloading and running code, or installing packages.
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