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.
license	Apache-2.0

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-* (1 skill)

For end users operating a NemoClaw sandbox. Covers routing human users' AI agents to the canonical NemoClaw Markdown documentation.

nemoclaw-maintainer-* (13 skills)

For project maintainers. Covers the daily maintainer cadence (morning standup, daytime loop, evening handoff), workflow policy reference, cutting releases, drafting release notes, finding PRs to review, comparing PRs, cross-issue sweeps, triage, normalizing issue and PR title tags, performing security code reviews, and verifying whether stale bug reports still reproduce on the latest release.

nemoclaw-contributor-* (4 skills)

For contributors to the NemoClaw codebase. Covers trusted checkout setup and readiness checks, creating pull requests that follow the project template, monitoring CI and automated review feedback, drafting documentation updates, and onboarding new messaging channels.

Skill Catalog

User Skills

Skill	Summary
nemoclaw-user-guide	Route human users' AI agents to llms.txt and the relevant NemoClaw Markdown docs for installation, configuration, operation, security, and troubleshooting.

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-triage	Suggest and optionally apply labels for issues and PRs using the live NemoClaw triage instructions.
nemoclaw-maintainer-policies	Read-only maintainer workflow policy reference for Issue Type, labels, Project fields, daily release labels, triage, duplicates, blocked items, and workflow decisions.
nemoclaw-maintainer-cross-issue-sweep	Scan open issues for adjacent fixes or contradiction risks when reviewing a PR.
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, identify stragglers, generate a QA handoff summary, cut the release tag, bump stragglers to the next patch, and hand off release notes.
nemoclaw-maintainer-cut-release-tag	Cut an annotated semver tag on a maintainer-confirmed origin/main commit, wait for workflow-managed latest, and bump remaining open items to the next patch; lkg stays manual.
nemoclaw-maintainer-release-notes	Draft release notes from live tag/compare data, with the three-paragraph narrative, categorized change list, and external-only contributor thanks.
nemoclaw-maintainer-find-review-pr	Find open security PRs with Urgent or High Project Priority, link each to its issue, detect duplicates, and present a review summary.
nemoclaw-maintainer-pr-comparator	Compare competing PRs for the same issue and recommend which one to merge.
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.
nemoclaw-maintainer-verify-stale	Verify whether old issues with native Issue Type Bug still reproduce on latest. Reuses or provisions a Brev box, scores confidence, and proposes evidence-backed Project/comment writes for approval; never auto-closes.

Contributor Skills

Skill	Summary
nemoclaw-contributor-onboard	Set up, repair, or verify a trusted source checkout, with explicit opt-ins for host-visible CLI exposure, the pinned agent, and runtime onboarding.
nemoclaw-contributor-create-pr	Create GitHub pull requests that follow the NemoClaw PR template, including pre-PR checks, conventional commit titles, DCO sign-off, post-push CI monitoring, and CodeRabbit/PR Review Advisor follow-up.
nemoclaw-contributor-onboard-messaging-channel	Add or review a new messaging channel with manifest-first implementation, upstream source analysis, plugin install confirmation, reachability checks, policies, docs, and tests.
nemoclaw-contributor-update-docs	Scan recent git commits for user-facing changes and draft or update documentation pages during release prep.

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-*	1	nemoclaw-user-guide
Contributor	nemoclaw-user-* + nemoclaw-contributor-*	5	nemoclaw-contributor-onboard
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.