jbaruch/nanoclaw-core
Core behavioral rules and skills for NanoClaw personal assistant agents. Always-on rules for communication, verification, memory, and formatting.
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jbaruch/nanoclaw-core
Core behavioral rules and skills for NanoClaw personal assistant agents. Always-on rules for communication, verification, memory, and formatting.
Installation
tessl install jbaruch/nanoclaw-coreRules
| Rule | Scope | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| core-behavior | always-on | Baseline conversational behavior — concise replies, no trailing summaries |
| telegram-protocol | always-on | Telegram-channel formatting and reply conventions |
| language-matching | always-on | Match the user's language; don't volunteer translations |
| default-silence | always-on | Silent-on-no-news as the default; surface only what's actionable |
| temporal-awareness | always-on | Convert relative dates, respect timezones; compute past/future via now-vs-deadline, never eyeball it |
| ground-truth | always-on | Live source > cached/recalled state; always verify before acting |
| read-full-content | always-on | Read full email/message bodies, never just snippets/previews |
| context-recovery | always-on | Recover from compaction by reading state, not by claiming lost context. Includes post-compaction skill-block disambiguation (history vs new tasks) |
| post-compaction-trust | always-on | Compaction summaries are trusted state; do not re-derive what's already there |
| tone-matching | always-on | Mirror the user's register; tone shifts signal mode shifts |
| query-size-limits | always-on | Bounded SQL/API queries; never SELECT * on large tables |
| progress-updates | conditional | Brief updates at key moments; silence is not a failure |
Skills
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| query-history | Search messages.db by keyword and/or sender; companion to context-recovery |
| now-vs-deadline | Deterministically compare a deadline against the current instant; mandated path for temporal-awareness |
Philosophy
- Always on by default. 11 of the 12 rules are
alwaysApply: true— the agent follows them without being prompted.progress-updatesis conditional (alwaysApply: false+applyTo:), firing only when long-running background work is in play. - One concern per rule. Each file covers one topic so projects can override surgically without throwing out the whole tile.
- Behavior, not domain. These are conversational and verification baselines — anything domain-specific (CFPs, calendar, email) lives in
nanoclaw-admin. - Hint, not authority for state. Cached state is a recall hint; verify against the live source before acting on it (see
ground-truth).
See CHANGELOG.md for version history.
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- jbaruch
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- Repository
- https://github.com/jbaruch/nanoclaw-core
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