| name | nemoclaw-maintainer-policies |
| description | Read-only maintainer policy reference for NemoClaw agents, engineers, and maintainers. Use when answering NemoClaw project-management workflow questions, including GitHub Issue Type, labels, Project fields, daily release labels, triage, duplicates, blocked items, and maintainer workflow decisions. Trigger keywords - maintainer policy, workflow policy, project workflow, issue type, labels, label taxonomy, needs labels, project status, blocked issue, duplicate issue, daily release label, release train, triage policy. |
| user_invocable | true |
NemoClaw Maintainer Policies
This is a policy-only skill package. SKILL.md is only the manifest and index.
References
- Broad overview: When a new engineer asks how NemoClaw uses GitHub or how the maintainer workflow works, load references/workflow-policy.md, then references/project-workflow.md, then references/daily-flow.md. Use references/release-train.md only when release labels, cutoff, carry-forward, release history, or label pruning are involved.
- Agent implementation: When building or updating an agent or app that applies or recommends workflow metadata, load references/workflow-policy.md, references/triage-instructions.md, references/label-taxonomy.json, and references/examples.md, in that order.
- Load references/workflow-policy.md when answering source-of-truth, authorization, Issue Type, label boundary, or agent-owned label questions.
- Load references/triage-instructions.md when answering how to evaluate issues or PRs, when to ask for information, how to use
needs:*, how to set confidence, or what suggestion payload shape to emit.
- Load references/label-taxonomy.md when answering human-facing label meaning, label selection, label compatibility, unknown-label,
agt: *, or release-label taxonomy questions.
- Load references/label-taxonomy.json when validating machine-readable Issue Type, Project field, label, signal, compatibility, or write-policy values.
- Load references/project-workflow.md when answering Project Status, Project fields, duplicate, blocked, backlog, review, QA, issue-template, or lifecycle workflow questions.
- Load references/daily-flow.md when answering daily slate, priority lane, standup, assignment, execution, QA handoff, or daily operating-loop questions.
- Load references/release-train.md when answering daily version-label, release inclusion, carry-forward, cutoff, release history, or label-pruning questions.
- Load references/examples.md when examples or anti-examples are needed for triage, PR review, daily release activation, competing PRs, stale/rebase cases, or agent-owned labels.
Answering Workflow Questions
Before answering or applying policy, read the most relevant reference file. Answer in plain maintainer-facing language and distinguish native GitHub Issue Type, PR type labels, needs:* action labels, Project fields, GitHub close reasons, and daily version labels. Do not invent labels, statuses, fields, release labels, or workflow states.
For agent implementation questions, treat triage-instructions.md as the recommendation payload contract and label-taxonomy.json as the allowed-value and validation source.
Workflow answers must remain reference-backed. Do not encode alternate policy in this manifest.
