NemoClaw: Skill for Codex

.agents/skills/nemoclaw-contributor-update-dependencies/SKILL.md

nemoclaw-contributor-update-dependencies is a skill for Codex from NVIDIA/NemoClaw. It costs 106 tokens per session (1,110 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for upgrading a dependency, such as a library, command-line tool, service, runtime, or packaged image, as a code migration.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to trace changes in the upgraded software, update NemoClaw consumers, add relevant tests, and verify the resulting artifacts.
Why use it?
It prevents a version change from breaking code that depends on the old behavior and checks related security, compatibility, and packaging concerns.

Skill for Codex ✓ vendor

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

This is NVIDIA/NemoClaw's own configuration. It tells Codex how to work on NemoClaw itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything NemoClaw configures →

About the project

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.

NVIDIA/NemoClaw · 22,427 stars · on GitHub · docs.nvidia.com

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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.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/main/.agents/skills/nemoclaw-contributor-update-dependencies/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 106 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,110 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Snyk warn 7 Sept 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00106 $0.01110
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.00555
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00222
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00111

Measured yesterday against content hash d33f61f45908, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

nemoclaw-contributor-update-dependencies 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 yesterday.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/collect-hermes-release-supplement.py, scripts/collect-release-ledger.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

.agents/skills/nemoclaw-contributor-update-dependencies/SKILL.md · 112 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 112 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Update Dependencies

Treat an upgrade as a migration, not a version edit. Explain the changed upstream contracts, their NemoClaw consumers, the required migrations, and the evidence for each conclusion.

Load this workflow from nemoclaw-contributor-implement-issue for a dependency upgrade. nemoclaw-contributor-implement-issue still owns issue scope and handoff; this workflow owns the upgrade procedure.

Mutation boundary

Change only the NVIDIA/NemoClaw checkout in scope. Treat upstream repositories, registries, workflows, issue trackers, and PRs as read-only. Report an upstream defect and its downstream effect. Require a separate user request for upstream changes.

Plan the upgrade

Add these outcomes to the working plan:

  • Resolve the current and target source and artifact identities.
  • Audit every adjacent release range.
  • Map changed upstream contracts to current downstream consumers.
  • Record security, lifecycle, state, packaging, and compatibility concerns.
  • Implement required migrations before changing the final selector.
  • Add concern-specific tests and runtime evidence.
  • Verify the artifacts and selectors used by the PR head.

An unresolved high-impact concern blocks the upgrade.

Discover current contracts

Follow Discover the Current Implementation.

Search from the current dependency identity and each changed upstream identifier. Trace consumers through source, tests, configuration, generated inputs, packaging, workflows, and documentation. Do not maintain a path or selector inventory in this skill.

Audit upstream changes

For each adjacent release range:

  1. Resolve immutable source identities and publication status.
  2. Read the complete commit and changed-path inventory.
  3. Inspect source and upstream tests for plausible contract changes.
  4. Use release notes and PR descriptions as leads, not behavior authority.
  5. Compare resolved dependency graphs and distributed artifacts.
  6. Open a concern for each downstream effect or evidence-backed exclusion.

Read the full file on GitHub · 112 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

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.

  1. yesterday Changed · -7 lines d33f61f45908
  2. 11d ago First seen · 119 lines · 106 tokens per session scan A d256cb18533b

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nemoclaw-contributor-update-dependencies is a skill published in the GitHub repository NVIDIA/NemoClaw (22,427 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 106 tokens to every session and 1,110 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 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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