NemoClaw is NVIDIA's agent sandbox that lets you run AI assistants locally using your own inference backend — Ollama, llama.cpp, or cloud providers. It bundles OpenShell as a gateway and OpenClaw as the agent runtime, all orchestrated through Docker containers.

Here's a walkthrough of setting it up from scratch.

Setup …

TLDR;

GitHub Token

To pull container images from GitHub's registry, you need a Personal Access Token (PAT).

1. Go to GitHub Token Settings
2. Click Generate new token (classic)
3. Give it a descriptive name and set an expiry
4. Under scopes, check read:packages
5. Click Generate token and copy it right away — you …