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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Name: jbaruch/nanoclaw-core
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Author: jbaruch

Core behavioral rules and skills for NanoClaw personal assistant agents. Always-on rules for communication, verification, memory, and formatting.

Installation

tessl install jbaruch/nanoclaw-core

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

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`

Always on by default. 11 of the 12 rules are alwaysApply: true — the agent follows them without being prompted. progress-updates is 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.