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Documentation conventions for NeMo-RL. Covers docs/index.md updates and docstring format. Do NOT use for: bug fixes, test fixes, dependency bumps, refactoring, CI/CD changes, performance tuning, or any task that does not involve writing or updating documentation.

Brev instance operating guidance for NeMo-RL agents working in /home/ubuntu/RL with limited workspace disk, a larger /ephemeral volume, and optional /home/ubuntu/RL/.env secrets. Use when running nemo-rl-auto-research campaigns, experiments, training jobs, model or dataset downloads, shared cache-heavy commands, log-producing runs, checkpoint generation, W&B or Hugging Face authenticated workflows, or any workflow that may create large files on Brev.

Autonomous NeMo-RL research agent workflow for directed hypothesis testing and open-ended discovery. Guides agents through the full experiment lifecycle: understanding recipes and environments, wiring RL or NeMo-gym runs, launching reproducible baselines and iterations, analyzing results, preserving human oversight, and using git plus TSV logs as the research ledger. Do NOT use for: bug fixes, code review, documentation, refactoring, dependency updates, or single-file changes.

Use when the user wants to search, query, extract, transcribe, describe, quote, filter, or aggregate across documents — PDFs, scanned forms / images (`.jpg` `.png` `.tiff`), Office (`.docx` `.pptx`), text (`.html` `.txt`), audio (`.mp3` `.wav` `.m4a`), or video (`.mp4` `.mov`). Prefer this over native Read / Grep for multi-file or non-PDF corpora. Not for: editing files, web browsing, single-file plain-text lookups, fine-tuning.

Manage durable working-session memory for coding agents. Use when a user asks to preserve or recover agent context across disconnects, VS Code restarts, long-running work, handoffs, or any session where important state should be written periodically under the repo's session directory. Do NOT use for: simple questions, short tasks, one-off commands, linting, or code review.

Use when working on the Evaluator plugin CLI, jobs, SDK-backed specs, metric types, or plugin-owned Evaluator skills.

Create and modify NeMo AutoModel training and evaluation recipes, including YAML structure, builders, and execution flow.

Use when the user wants to create a dataset, generate synthetic data, or build a data generation pipeline.

Guide for onboarding new model architectures into NeMo AutoModel, including architecture discovery, implementation patterns, registration, and validation.

Configure NeMo AutoModel job launches for interactive runs, Slurm clusters, and SkyPilot cloud execution.