Nemoclaw Maintainer Verify Stale Agent Skill

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NemoClaw Maintainer — Verify Stale Issues

Automates the maintainer loop: choose an old issue whose native Issue Type is Bug, verify whether it still reproduces on the latest NemoClaw tag, then prepare an evidence-backed Project/comment write set for maintainer approval. It never closes issues automatically and never substitutes labels for Issue Type, lifecycle, or resolution.

Progress checklist

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Verify-stale progress:
- [ ] Select issue(s), latest tag, and reported version
- [ ] Apply skip/idempotency/active-discussion filters
- [ ] Classify environment, provider, and bug class
- [ ] Extract or synthesize a reproducer
- [ ] Verify preconditions and try local-first if eligible
- [ ] If Brev is needed, get plan approval before provisioning
- [ ] Validate the reproducer on baseline, then verify latest
- [ ] Check by-design/static-analysis branch when behavior was removed
- [ ] Score, redact, draft, and self-verify comment links
- [ ] Re-check issue state, apply the accepted Project/comment write set
- [ ] Append activity log entry

Workflow

• Select candidates and versions. Read reference/candidate-selection.md. Use it for single-issue mode, batch mode, latest-tag detection, filters, idempotency, active-discussion handling, and reported-version parsing.
• Classify and prepare. Read reference/environment-and-reproducer.md. Use it for CPU/GPU/provider/bug-class classification, safe API-key handling, reproducer extraction, dependency checks, Brev auth, and local-first verification.
• Stop for approval before cost. In batch mode, present one issue's plan and wait for maintainer approval before provisioning Brev.
• Provision and install. If local-first does not settle the issue, read reference/brev-provisioning.md. Use it for Brev reuse/provisioning, reset, baseline/latest installs, dependency bootstrap, and brev exec footguns.
• Run the verification rubric. Read reference/reproduction-rubrics.md. Use it to validate baseline behavior, retry with a synthesized reproducer if needed, run latest, handle architectural drift, and branch for performance or rebuild-cycle bugs.
• Check intentional changes. If the symptom targets removed/deprecated behavior, read reference/by-design.md. Use static evidence to recommend Project Status Won't Fix, then request explicit approval for the Project/comment write set.
• Score, propose, apply, and log. Read reference/scoring-comments-and-logging.md. Use it for confidence scoring, redaction, concise templates, authorization, issue-state race checks, approved Project 199 movement, infra failures, and activity logging.

Non-negotiables

• Never auto-close an issue. Verdict names belong in comments and logs, not labels.
• Never write a Project field, assignment, or public comment before the maintainer accepts that write set.
• Never put API keys on a command line. Use the file-based pattern in environment-and-reproducer.md.
• Never post unredacted transcripts, issue excerpts, synthesized scripts, internal hostnames, email addresses, or tokens.
• Never post a comment with broken markdown links or tag-drifting file:line citations. Re-run cited commands and link-check at least one rendered link per comment section.
• Never use Brev for unsupported platforms or integration-token issues in v1.
• Keep comments concise: default to 200–300 words for fixed/by-design, 100–200 for inconclusive, and 30–80 for still-reproduces.

Reference map

| Need | Read |

|---|---|

| Candidate query, filters, version parser | reference/candidate-selection.md |

| Environment classification, credentials, reproducer, preconditions, local-first | reference/environment-and-reproducer.md |

| Brev box reuse/provision, reset, installs, dependency bootstrap | reference/brev-provisioning.md |

| Baseline/latest matching, synth-repro, drift, performance, rebuild-cycle | reference/reproduction-rubrics.md |

| Static by-design branch and proposed Won't Fix Project state | reference/by-design.md |

| Score, redact, authorize, comment, Project update, infra handling, log | reference/scoring-comments-and-logging.md |