nemoclaw-skills-guide

name	nemoclaw-skills-guide
description	Start here. Introduces what NemoClaw is, what agent skills are available, and which skill to use for a given task. Use when discovering NemoClaw capabilities, choosing the right skill, or orienting in the project. Trigger keywords - skills, capabilities, what can I do, help, guide, index, overview, start here.

NemoClaw Skills Guide

NVIDIA NemoClaw runs OpenClaw always-on assistants inside hardened OpenShell sandboxes with NVIDIA inference (Nemotron). It provides CLI tooling, guided onboarding, a security blueprint, routed inference, and workspace management.

This guide lists every agent skill shipped with NemoClaw, organized by audience. Load the specific skill you need after identifying it here.

Skill Buckets

Skills are grouped into three buckets by audience. The prefix in each skill name indicates who it is for.

nemoclaw-user-* (9 skills)

For end users operating a NemoClaw sandbox. Covers installation, inference configuration, network policy management, monitoring, remote deployment, security configuration, workspace management, and reference material.

nemoclaw-maintainer-* (7 skills)

For project maintainers. Covers the daily maintainer cadence (morning standup, daytime loop, evening handoff), cutting releases, finding PRs to review, normalizing issue and PR title tags, and performing security code reviews.

nemoclaw-contributor-* (2 skills)

For contributors to the NemoClaw codebase. Covers creating pull requests that follow the project template and drafting documentation updates from recent commits.

Skill Catalog

User Skills

Skill	Summary
nemoclaw-user-overview	What NemoClaw is, ecosystem placement (OpenClaw + OpenShell + NemoClaw), how it works internally, and release notes.
nemoclaw-user-get-started	Install NemoClaw, launch a sandbox, and run the first agent prompt.
nemoclaw-user-configure-inference	Choose inference providers during onboarding, switch models without restarting, and set up local inference servers (Ollama, vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, NIM).
nemoclaw-user-manage-policy	Approve or deny blocked egress requests in the TUI and customize the sandbox network policy (add, remove, or modify allowed endpoints).
nemoclaw-user-monitor-sandbox	Check sandbox health, read logs, and trace agent behavior to diagnose problems.
nemoclaw-user-deploy-remote	Deploy NemoClaw to a remote GPU instance, set up the Telegram bridge, and review sandbox container hardening.
nemoclaw-user-configure-security	Review the risk framework for every configurable security control, understand credential storage, and assess posture trade-offs.
nemoclaw-user-workspace	Back up and restore OpenClaw workspace files (soul.md, identity.md, memory.md, agents.md) and understand file persistence across sandbox restarts.
nemoclaw-user-reference	CLI command reference, plugin and blueprint architecture, baseline network policies, and troubleshooting guide.

Maintainer Skills

Skill	Summary
nemoclaw-maintainer-morning	Morning standup: triage the backlog, determine the day's target version, label selected items, surface stragglers, and output the daily plan.
nemoclaw-maintainer-day	Daytime loop: pick the highest-value version-targeted item and execute the right workflow (merge gate, salvage, security sweep, test gaps, hotspot cooling, or sequencing). Designed for /loop.
nemoclaw-maintainer-evening	End-of-day handoff: check version progress, bump stragglers to the next patch, generate a QA handoff summary, and cut the release tag.
nemoclaw-maintainer-cut-release-tag	Cut an annotated semver tag on main, move the latest floating tag, and push both to origin.
nemoclaw-maintainer-find-review-pr	Find open PRs labeled security + priority-high, link each to its issue, detect duplicates, and present a review summary.
nemoclaw-maintainer-normalize-title-tags	Preview and remove bracketed NemoClaw title tags from issues and PRs case-insensitively, even when the tag appears later in the title.
nemoclaw-maintainer-security-code-review	Perform a 9-category security review of a PR or issue, producing per-category PASS/WARNING/FAIL verdicts.

Contributor Skills

Skill	Summary
nemoclaw-contributor-create-pr	Create GitHub pull requests that follow the NemoClaw PR template, including pre-PR checks, conventional commit titles, and DCO sign-off.
nemoclaw-contributor-update-docs	Scan recent git commits for user-facing changes and draft or update the corresponding documentation pages.

Getting Started

Ask the user which role best describes them:

• User — operating a NemoClaw sandbox (running, configuring, monitoring).
• Contributor — contributing code or docs to the NemoClaw project.
• Maintainer — triaging, reviewing, releasing, and managing the project day-to-day.

Skills are cumulative. Each role includes the skills from the roles above it:

Role	Skills included	Count	Start with
User	nemoclaw-user-*	9	nemoclaw-user-get-started
Contributor	nemoclaw-user-* + nemoclaw-contributor-*	11	nemoclaw-user-overview
Maintainer	All skills	18	nemoclaw-maintainer-morning

After identifying the role, present the applicable skills from the Skill Catalog above and recommend the starting skill.