docs: complete v0.0.100 post-tag audit follow-ups

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Summary

Completes the documentation follow-ups identified after the v0.0.100 tag.
The durable guides and docs/changelog/2026-07-31.mdx now cover final inference-route timing, validation reuse boundaries, and replacement-image cleanup.

Changes

• #8046 -> docs/inference/verify-inference-route.mdx and docs/changelog/2026-07-31.mdx: Documents the 2-second final inference.local response budget for OpenClaw and Hermes, including the OpenClaw client-overhead rationale.
• #8044 -> docs/inference/understand-provider-validation.mdx: Documents the exact one-shot Chat Completions validation reuse and forced-revalidation conditions.
• #8039 and #8042 -> docs/manage-sandboxes/recover-rebuild-sandboxes.mdx and docs/changelog/2026-07-31.mdx: Documents obsolete owned source-image cleanup after durable replacement proof and the gc recovery action.
• docs/reference/system-readiness.mdx and docs/reference/troubleshooting.mdx: Applies title case and removes code styling from headings while preserving literal identifiers in prose.

Type of Change

• Code change (feature, bug fix, or refactor)
• Code change with doc updates
• Doc only (prose changes, no code sample modifications)
• Doc only (includes code sample changes)

Quality Gates

• Tests added or updated for changed behavior
• Existing tests cover changed behavior — justification:
• Tests not applicable — justification: This documentation-only change does not modify executable behavior.
• Docs updated for user-facing behavior changes
• Docs not applicable — justification:
• Sensitive paths changed (security, policy, credentials, preflight, onboarding, inference, runner, sandbox, or messaging)
• Sensitive-path review completed or maintainer-approved waiver recorded — reviewer/approval link/justification:
• Non-success, skipped, or missing CI check accepted by maintainer — check name, approval link, and follow-up issue:

Documentation Writer Review

• Documentation writer subagent reviewed the completed changes
• Result: docs-updated
• Evidence: docs/changelog/2026-07-31.mdx, docs/inference/understand-provider-validation.mdx, docs/inference/verify-inference-route.mdx, docs/manage-sandboxes/recover-rebuild-sandboxes.mdx, docs/reference/system-readiness.mdx, and docs/reference/troubleshooting.mdx. The documentation-only diff was reviewed against the writing rules and documentation style.
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• Targeted behavior tests pass for the current change set, or tests are marked not applicable above — command/result or justification: Documentation-only; npx vitest run test/changelog-docs.test.ts test/agent-variant-docs.test.ts passed 23 tests.
• Applicable broad gate passed — npm test for broad runtime/test-harness changes; npm run check for repo-wide validation/coverage changes — command/result:
• Quality Gates section completed with required justifications or waivers
• No secrets, API keys, or credentials committed
• npm run docs builds without warnings (doc changes only)
• Doc pages follow the style guide (doc changes only)
• New doc pages include SPDX header and frontmatter (new pages only)

npm run docs completed with 0 errors and the existing Fern warning.

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Signed-off-by: Miyoung Choi miyoungc@nvidia.com

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The documentation now describes provider-validation reuse, inference-route timing, interrupted rebuild image cleanup, and updated reference headings.

Changes

Inference validation and route timing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Inference validation and route timing docs/inference/understand-provider-validation.mdx, docs/inference/verify-inference-route.mdx, docs/changelog/2026-07-31.mdx	Documents same-invocation validation reuse, revalidation conditions, and 2-second route-response timing. OpenClaw provider preflight timing is also documented.

Interrupted rebuild image cleanup

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Interrupted rebuild image cleanup docs/manage-sandboxes/recover-rebuild-sandboxes.mdx, docs/changelog/2026-07-31.mdx	Documents removal of obsolete owned source images after replacement validation. Shared or reused images remain, and cleanup failures direct operators to nemoclaw gc.

Reference heading updates

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Reference heading updates docs/reference/system-readiness.mdx, docs/reference/troubleshooting.mdx	Updates section heading capitalization and invalid Docker host troubleshooting wording.

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

Possibly related PRs

• NVIDIA/NemoClaw#5385: Relates to hosted inference routing and end-to-end verification changes.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

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Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies documentation follow-ups completed after the v0.0.100 tag, matching the main changes.

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Advisor assessment: No blocking advisor findings reported
Next action: No advisor follow-up needed.
Findings: 0 blockers · 0 warnings · 0 suggestions

Model lanes

• GPT-5.6 Terra (primary): Completed · high confidence · 0 blockers · 0 warnings · 0 suggestions
• Nemotron 3 Ultra (second opinion): Completed · high confidence · 0 blockers · 0 warnings · 0 suggestions
• Model comparison: normalized findings match; normalized terminology decisions differ; normalized E2E selections differ; severity counts match.

1 terminology difference from the second opinion

Advisory only. These are normalized differences from the primary terminology receipt.

• obsolete owned source image at docs/changelog/2026-07-31.mdx:23: selected only by the second-opinion lane as define.

Second-opinion terminology and E2E selections are advisory. They do not change the primary assessment or E2E / PR Gate.

3 semantic terminology decisions

Terminology decisions are advisory. They affect the assessment only when a separate finding identifies concrete semantic impact.

• justified — validated DNS IP address set at docs/inference/understand-provider-validation.mdx:81: Keep the term with the adjacent reuse and revalidation conditions.
• established — replacement identity at docs/manage-sandboxes/recover-rebuild-sandboxes.mdx:187: Keep the established term for the cleanup condition.
• justified — obsolete source image at docs/manage-sandboxes/recover-rebuild-sandboxes.mdx:187: Keep the modifier because the adjacent retention conditions define its cleanup eligibility.

E2E guidance

Advisory only. E2E / PR Gate selects and runs jobs independently.

Recommended E2E: None

2 optional E2E recommendations

• inference-routing
• rebuild-openclaw

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Actionable comments posted: 1

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Inline comments:
In `@docs/inference/understand-provider-validation.mdx`:
- Around line 83-87: Update the validation reuse guidance in the “any of these
inputs changes” bullet to clarify that comparisons occur after applying the
documented normalization rules, preserving the exception that trailing slashes,
duplicate IP addresses, and IP address order do not prevent reuse.

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📥 Commits

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📒 Files selected for processing (6)

• docs/changelog/2026-07-31.mdx
• docs/inference/understand-provider-validation.mdx
• docs/inference/verify-inference-route.mdx
• docs/manage-sandboxes/recover-rebuild-sandboxes.mdx
• docs/reference/system-readiness.mdx
• docs/reference/troubleshooting.mdx

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