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NVIDIA NemoClaw 0.0.113 tightens sandboxes, adds experimental Hermes Google Chat
NemoClaw v0.0.113 (Aug 20) improves sandbox recovery, adds experimental Hermes Google Chat with keys outside the sandbox, and changes the Gemini default.
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NVIDIA’s OpenClaw release notes date NemoClaw v0.0.113 to 20 August 2026. This is a patch-train cut for operators already running sandboxed OpenClaw and Hermes—not a product launch, and not a new stack.
The notes lead with recovery. v0.0.113 improves sandbox and onboarding recovery across interactive connections, Hermes, Portable, policy changes, and local adapters. If you have been living in interrupted onboarding, policy flips, or adapter-local rebuilds, that sentence is the operational headline.
The second sentence is the security-relevant one. The same release adds experimental Hermes Google Chat support while keeping the service-account private key outside the sandbox. Google Chat is experimental. The private key is not supposed to land inside the sandbox. If you try the channel, treat key placement as a first-class check, not a footnote.
The rest of the 0.0.113 blurb is short. It also changes the Google Gemini default, strengthens managed image publication, and improves E2E diagnostics. The notes do not name the new Gemini model, do not spell out how Google Chat is wired, and do not list which recovery paths or diagnostic cases actually changed. Those details are unknown from this page.
A same-day cut, not a reset
v0.0.113 landed on the same dated notes block as v0.0.112. That matters for how you read it. NVIDIA is shipping frequent 0.0.x cuts to harden sandboxed OpenClaw and Hermes in place. 0.0.113 is operational work on that train.
v0.0.112, also dated 20 August 2026, is the longer sibling. It strengthens managed local inference across vLLM, llama.cpp, Ollama, and routed provider recovery. It improves Portable and sandbox lifecycle recovery, MCP credential republishing, messaging continuity, and Shields ownership cleanup. It also tightens release provenance, E2E qualification, contributor review automation, and dependency compatibility.
Read together, 112 and 113 are the same day’s recovery and publication work: inference and lifecycle on 112, onboarding surfaces plus an experimental chat channel on 113. E2E shows up in both—qualification on 112, diagnostics on 113.
The week behind it
The same release-notes page makes the cadence obvious. v0.0.111 is dated 18 August 2026. It extends the explicit experimental Portable profile with receipt-owned Hermes lifecycle authority and a fixed host-gateway and registry network topology. It makes Shields recovery, sandbox rebuilds, provider routing, and messaging bootstrap more diagnosable and less likely to leave ambiguous state. It also improves headless and local-inference onboarding, managed gateway recovery, uninstall cleanup, and release qualification.
v0.0.110 (17 August) added an experimental managed llama.cpp profile for Meta Muse Glimmer 30B on one DGX Spark, required native tool-use evidence from custom Anthropic-compatible endpoints, and strengthened the experimental Portable OpenClaw path with rootless Podman lifecycle authority, CPU-delegation preflight, and receipt-bound uninstall. v0.0.109 (14 August) and v0.0.108 (12 August) are the previous recovery, messaging, and managed-image cuts on that same page.
Against that trail, 0.0.113’s entry is the short one. 111 and 112 spell out topology, inference backends, and cleanup. 113 names five recovery surfaces, one experimental channel, a Gemini default change, managed image publication, and E2E diagnostics—then stops. That is the shape of the notes, not a gap in this write-up.
What operators should actually check
NemoClaw is in early preview starting 16 March 2026. These notes track changes across NemoClaw, NemoHermes, and NemoDeepAgents. For release announcements and downloadable assets, NVIDIA points to NemoClaw announcements on GitHub. The version prose for 0.0.113 lives in the official release notes.
If you are already on this train, 0.0.113 is not a reason to re-architect. It is a reason to verify four things the notes actually claim:
- Sandbox and onboarding recovery still converges after interactive disconnects, Hermes work, Portable use, policy changes, and local-adapter paths.
- Experimental Hermes Google Chat keeps the service-account private key outside the sandbox.
- The Google Gemini default is the one you think it is. The notes only say it changed.
- Managed image publication and E2E diagnostics still match how you ship and qualify images.
Do not invent a configuration story the notes do not give. There is no command list, no model ID, and no Google Chat setup walkthrough in the 0.0.113 blurb. If a detail is not on that page, it is unknown.
Same-day 0.0.112 is the better companion read if your pain is vLLM, llama.cpp, Ollama, routed provider recovery, MCP credentials, messaging continuity, or Shields ownership. 0.0.111 is the better companion if your pain is Portable topology, Hermes lifecycle authority, or ambiguous rebuild state.
Next step
Open NVIDIA’s OpenClaw release notes and read the 20 August 2026 block for v0.0.113 next to v0.0.112. Then, on a non-production sandbox, confirm recovery after an onboarding interrupt and confirm that any Google Chat service-account private key stays outside the sandbox before you enable the experimental channel.