# Nemoclaw Skills Guide > 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. - Skill: `nvidia/nemoclaw-skills-guide-2` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 2 files) - Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add nvidia/nemoclaw-skills-guide-2` - Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/nvidia/nemoclaw-skills-guide-2/raw - Safety review: pending - Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex - Category: AI & ML - License: Apache-2.0 - Author: NVIDIA (https://skillmd.com/u/nvidia) - Updated: 2026-09-22 - Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/nvidia/nemoclaw-skills-guide-2 --- # 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-*` For project maintainers. Covers the daily maintainer cadence, trusted E2E dispatch, continuous E2E maintenance, runtime-provider integration and qualification, Launchable validation, workflow policy, CI failure classification, CI performance analysis, 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-classify-ci-failure` | Classify one failed GitHub Actions job from bounded, redacted logs and an optional validated artifact. | | `nemoclaw-maintainer-analyze-ci-performance` | Analyze retained CLI test timings and base-image publication latency with bounded, read-only GitHub 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. | | `nemoclaw-maintainer-release-notes` | Draft the post-tag Announcement 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 PR to its issue and identify competing PRs. | | `nemoclaw-maintainer-pr-comparator` | Compare open PRs for the same issue. Apply gates and score the eligible PRs before you recommend 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-refactor-docs` | Split oversized Fern docs into focused topics with journey-based navigation, canonical ownership, route-safe redirects, variant checks, and deduplication. | | `nemoclaw-maintainer-security-code-review` | Review PR or issue changes in nine security categories. Report PASS, WARNING, or FAIL for each category. | | `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-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 | Start with | |------|----------------|------------| | User | `nemoclaw-user-*` | `nemoclaw-user-guide` | | Contributor | `nemoclaw-user-*` + `nemoclaw-contributor-*` | `nemoclaw-contributor-onboard` | | Maintainer | All skills | `nemoclaw-maintainer-morning` | After identifying the role, present the applicable skills from the Skill Catalog above and recommend the starting skill.