NVIDIA/NemoClaw is an open-source reference stack for running supported AI agents inside NVIDIA OpenShell sandboxes with managed inference, network policies, integrations, snapshots, and lifecycle controls. It is used to run agents such as OpenClaw, Hermes, and LangChain Deep Agents with administrative and security controls. Catalogue add-ons guide coding agents through NemoClaw workflows.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to NVIDIA/NemoClaw. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClawWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/nvidia/nemoclaw/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/nvidia/nemoclaw/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/nvidia/nemoclaw/agents-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/nvidia/nemoclaw/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/nvidia/nemoclaw/agents-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.02439 | $0.02439 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00976 | $0.00976 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00488 | $0.00488 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00244 | $0.00244 |
Grade A, and why
NemoClaw AGENTS.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured today.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 170 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Agent Instructions
Project Overview
NVIDIA NemoClaw is an open-source reference stack for running always-on AI agents such as OpenClaw and Hermes inside NVIDIA OpenShell sandboxes more safely. It provides CLI tooling, a blueprint for sandbox orchestration, and security hardening.
Status: Active development. Interfaces may change without notice.
Product Scope Gate
Technical correctness, passing tests, and green CI do not establish product approval.
Before implementing or approving a change that creates a supported integration, solution recipe, custom image, third-party stack, or other product surface, confirm that an accepted issue or design decision establishes the scope and that ownership, lifecycle, compatibility, security, and validation expectations are defined.
The recorded decision must be Accept before implementation begins. The record must state the reason, placement, accountable maintainer, and validation plan. Request changes, Defer, and Decline do not authorize implementation. Small documentation corrections and low-risk fixes do not require this decision.
If the product decision is missing, do not approve or document the contribution as canonical NemoClaw behavior.
Stop and request maintainer direction, or route an independent solution through Community Solutions.
Agent Skills
This repo ships agent skills under .agents/skills/.
Use nemoclaw-user-guide for end-user documentation routing, nemoclaw-contributor-* for contributor workflows, and nemoclaw-maintainer-* for maintainer workflows.
The contributor lifecycle has one owner for each stage: nemoclaw-contributor-onboard for checkout setup, nemoclaw-contributor-plan-issue for planning, nemoclaw-contributor-implement-issue for implementation and its tests, and nemoclaw-contributor-create-pr for publication and review follow-up.
Component-specific guidance belongs in the AGENTS.md file of the package it describes, not in a skill.
Use nemoclaw-skills-guide only when choosing a skill or browsing the catalog. Go directly to a known skill.
Load supporting references only when their described condition applies; do not preload a lifecycle stack.
When editing a skill, keep its description short and specific to the task that needs it. Put conditional
procedures in references and keep completion criteria in the entrypoint. Preserve concrete security,
publication, and release constraints; avoid generic checklists and fixed report formats without a consumer.
Skills that write or review explanatory text must follow the shared Documentation Writing and Review contract.
Keep repository skill workflows agent-harness agnostic. State required capabilities, actions, and observable results instead of requiring harness-specific tool names. A skill may name a client or command when that client or command is the user-visible subject. Harness-specific automation may assist with a workflow, but it does not define or replace the skill's requirements.
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- today Changed · +3 lines · +48 tokens per session aaafdec0630f
- 20d ago Changed · +5 lines · +93 tokens per session 58623fe75979
- 27d ago Changed · +8 lines · +116 tokens per session 2f7c67cededf
- 29d ago Changed · +4 lines · +52 tokens per session 5bb48b03a4c2
- 1mo ago Changed · -164 lines · -2,350 tokens per session 55f2f6347a02
- 1mo ago Changed · +5 lines · +66 tokens per session b7e6dfd78757
- 1mo ago Changed · +7 lines · +133 tokens per session 6a24765e1e45
- 1mo ago Changed · +1 lines · +67 tokens per session 0fc59f5a5779
- 2mo ago First seen · 301 lines · 4,214 tokens per session scan A 10cf7daea60c
NemoClaw AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository NVIDIA/NemoClaw (22,871 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 2,439 tokens to every session, about $0.0098 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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next.js AGENTS.md
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langchain AGENTS.md
AGENTS.md instructions for langchain-ai/langchain, covering global development guidelines for the langchain monorepo, corridor security analysis, project architecture and context, monorepo structure and development tools & commands.
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Copilot instructions for microsoft/vscode, covering vs code copilot instructions, project overview, root folders, core architecture (src/ folder) and built-in extensions (extensions/ folder).
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AGENTS.md instructions for deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness, covering agents.md, pre-stable apis and released session data, repository layout, commands and host sandbox failures.