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NemoClaw Maintainer Policies

This package contains policy references. This file is its manifest and index.

References

Read the reference that owns the question. Read additional references only when that question crosses their boundaries.

• references/workflow-policy.md — Source of truth, authorization, Issue Type, label boundaries, and agent-owned labels.
• references/triage-instructions.md — Issue and PR evaluation, questions, needs:*, confidence, and suggestion payloads.
• references/label-taxonomy.md — Label meaning, selection, compatibility, unknown labels, agt: *, and release labels.
• references/label-taxonomy.json — Allowed machine values and write policy.
• references/project-workflow.md — Project Status, lifecycle, duplicates, blocked work, review, and QA.
• references/daily-flow.md — Daily priorities, standup, assignment, execution, and QA handoff.
• references/release-train.md — Release inclusion, cutoff, carry-forward, history, and label retirement.
• references/examples.md — Examples for triage, review, release activation, competing PRs, and stale PRs.

Answering Workflow Questions

Read the related reference before you answer or apply policy. Use plain language for maintainers. Distinguish Issue Type, PR type labels, needs:* labels, Project fields, close reasons, and release labels. Do not invent labels, statuses, fields, release labels, or workflow states. Follow the shared Documentation Writing and Review contract for changed workflow guidance and maintainer-facing text.

For agent implementation, use triage-instructions.md as the payload contract. Use label-taxonomy.json to validate allowed values.

Workflow answers must remain reference-backed. Do not encode alternate policy in this manifest.