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Overview

Validate configured OpenClaw skill paths before starting the gateway. This prevents missing paths, files used as directories, and directories without SKILL.md from being forwarded as if the requested skills were available.

Details

  • Resolve skill paths relative to the NeMo Fabric configuration base directory.
  • Return stable lifecycle errors with the failing skills.paths index when a configured skill is missing or invalid.
  • Preserve the existing OpenClaw extraDirs configuration for valid skill directories.
  • Add regression coverage for missing paths, non-directory paths, missing manifests, and the valid runtime path.

Validation

  • uvx ruff@0.15.21 format --check adapters/python/openclaw/src/nemo_fabric_adapters/openclaw/adapter.py tests/adapters/test_openclaw.py
  • uvx ruff@0.15.21 check adapters/python/openclaw/src/nemo_fabric_adapters/openclaw/adapter.py tests/adapters/test_openclaw.py
  • .venv/bin/pytest tests/adapters/test_openclaw.py -q (58 passed, 5 skipped)
  • just no_uv=true test-python (1597 passed, 97 skipped)
  • uv run pre-commit run --all-files
  • git diff --check

No public API or schema changes. Valid OpenClaw skill configurations retain their existing behavior.

Where should the reviewer start?

Start with _resolve_skill_paths in adapters/python/openclaw/src/nemo_fabric_adapters/openclaw/adapter.py, then review test_openclaw_rejects_invalid_skill_paths for the failure contract.

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  • Improvements
    • Skill paths can be specified relative to the adapter’s base directory and are resolved to full paths for loading.
    • Configured skill paths are checked to ensure they exist, point to directories, and contain a SKILL.md file. Missing or invalid paths produce clear errors identifying the problematic entry.
    • When no skill paths are configured, the generated configuration omits the skills section, avoiding unnecessary configuration.

Signed-off-by: mnajafian-nv <mnajafian@nvidia.com>
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Walkthrough

OpenClaw resolves configured skill paths relative to the adapter base directory and checks that each path is a directory containing SKILL.md. Validated paths populate skills.load.extraDirs. The skills entry is omitted when no paths are configured.

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OpenClaw skill path validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Resolve, validate, and configure skill paths
adapters/python/openclaw/src/nemo_fabric_adapters/openclaw/adapter.py, tests/adapters/test_openclaw.py
The adapter resolves configured paths and raises openclaw_skill_not_found for missing paths or openclaw_skill_invalid for paths that are not directories containing SKILL.md. Tests cover invalid paths and valid skill directories. The test helper includes skills only when enabled.

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Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

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Valid configured skills are passed through, while invalid paths report the failing field. No material merge-blocking risk is evident.

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Learning: In the NeMo-Fabric adapters, treat path values used in Fabric adapter configuration (including logic like `_resolve_path` in adapter.py) as config-root-relative. Do not apply `Path.expanduser()` (or otherwise apply `~`/home or shell-style expansion), because it will make the resolved paths normalize inconsistently across adapters. Also, do not rely on or add any resolution behavior that uses `harness.settings.cwd` as an override point for these adapter paths—`harness.settings.cwd` is explicitly unsupported in this adapter context.

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266-284: Skill path validation is correct and consistent with the config-root-relative path rule.

  • base_dir / path does not call expanduser(), which matches the adapter learning.
  • resolve(strict=True) catches OSError and RuntimeError (symlink loops). Each failure maps to a LifecycleError with the skills.paths[index] field.
  • raise ... from None hides the OS path in the error chain. The path stays out of the returned message.
  • Path.is_dir() and Path.is_file() follow the pathlib learning.
  • is_file() on a nonreadable parent directory returns False on PermissionError in current Python releases. This yields openclaw_skill_invalid, which is acceptable.
  • An empty skills config returns [], so the skills key stays omitted.

492-494: LGTM!

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@mnajafian-nv mnajafian-nv self-assigned this Oct 2, 2026
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mnajafian-nv marked this pull request as draft October 2, 2026 19:30
Signed-off-by: mnajafian-nv <mnajafian@nvidia.com>
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LGTM

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