A device trait is a general property or capability a device has. All devices are annotated with traits, which are used to determine whether a device supports a given device operation or programming method.
Examples:
mcuboottrait: The device has support for programming over MCUboot.jlinktrait: The device has a J-Link probe and supports operations likeerase,recover, ...serialPortstrait: The device has serial ports.
See the help for --traits (for example in nrfutil device list --help) for the full list of available
traits and their descriptions.