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-* (19 skills)

For project maintainers. Covers the daily maintainer cadence, trusted E2E dispatch, continuous E2E maintenance, runtime-provider integration and qualification, Launchable validation, workflow policy, pull request value-stream analysis, documentation refactors, releases, review selection, comparison, triage, security review, and stale bug verification.

nemoclaw-contributor-* (6 skills)

For contributors to the NemoClaw codebase. The lifecycle runs from checkout setup through planning, implementation, and publication. Each stage has one owner: nemoclaw-contributor-plan-issue refines an issue into capability slices, nemoclaw-contributor-implement-issue implements a slice and owns its tests, and nemoclaw-contributor-create-pr publishes the branch and follows CI and automated review. Load nemoclaw-contributor-update-dependencies for a dependency upgrade and nemoclaw-contributor-update-docs for documentation catch-up. The dependency workflow runs inside the implementation stage. Component-specific guidance lives with the package it describes, not in a skill.

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	Propose Issue Type, Project fields, and approved labels for issues and PRs. Apply only changes that the maintainer accepts.
nemoclaw-maintainer-policies	Answer maintainer workflow questions from the read-only policy references.
nemoclaw-maintainer-cross-issue-sweep	Find open issues that a PR can also fix or conflict with. Report file and line evidence.
nemoclaw-maintainer-day	Run one daytime maintainer pass for the release version. Select a merge, salvage, security, test, conflict, or sequencing workflow. Designed for /loop.
nemoclaw-maintainer-evening	Complete the cumulative documentation PR and release entry, show release context, and optionally start tag cutting.
nemoclaw-maintainer-cut-release-tag	Verify candidate evidence, record the maintainer's E2E decision, and cut one signed semver tag.
nemoclaw-maintainer-e2e	Describe default E2E triggered by pushes to main, dispatch exact-revision manual PR E2E, and verify applicable workflow evidence.
nemoclaw-maintainer-analyze-pr-value-stream	Measure one PR from its earliest observable branch push through merge, separate approval delay from automation time, and compare the latest revision with a target.
nemoclaw-maintainer-runtime-provider	Implement or review one managed runtime provider through the bundle API, qualification-backed activation, provider-neutral orchestration, and exact-commit E2E qualification.
nemoclaw-maintainer-fix-e2e-failures	Continuously fix automatic main E2E failures by root cause, coordinate peer approvals, merge eligible PRs, and monitor new results.
nemoclaw-maintainer-validate-launchable	Run advisory validation of the staging Brev Launchable deployment, image and runtime identity, preinstalled user journey, inference, and cleanup.

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-plan-issue	Research, refine, and divide a named issue into independently valuable capability slices without implementing or publishing them.
nemoclaw-contributor-implement-issue	Implement the smallest accepted issue capability slice with focused validation and no pull request publication.
nemoclaw-contributor-create-pr	Create a PR with the NemoClaw template, required checks, DCO declaration, and verified commits. Then, monitor CI and automated reviews.
nemoclaw-contributor-update-dependencies	Audit and implement a dependency upgrade from current upstream and downstream contracts, including Hermes CalVer and base-image upgrades.
nemoclaw-contributor-update-docs	Find user-visible changes merged to main and update their owning documentation under current repository policy.

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-*	7	nemoclaw-contributor-onboard
Maintainer	All skills	26	nemoclaw-maintainer-morning

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