NemoClaw v0.0.38 tag update

[ericksoa]

NemoClaw v0.0.38 Tag Update

Today was one of those long, useful days where the little things added up to something real. We moved through the review queue carefully, one PR at a time, and turned a pile of sharp-edged fixes into the v0.0.38 tag. Some of the work was visible, some of it was plumbing, and some of it was the kind of cleanup that only gets noticed when it is missing.

The big theme was reliability. Uninstall now cleans up the Ollama auth proxy, destroy no longer tears down a shared gateway unless explicitly asked, status and list commands keep showing useful information even when gateway probing gets unhappy, and stale inference DNS routes now repair themselves. We also tightened onboarding behavior, installer recovery guidance, runtime docs, and the test coverage around the places where state can otherwise linger after the user thinks they are done.

We also made good progress on the model and integration surface: Kimi health checks are now model-aware, Kimi reasoning noise is suppressed, Slack placeholder rewriting is fixed before egress, and the Hermes Discord facade made it in after a careful maintainer replay. CI and docs got stronger too, with coverage honesty checks, environment-variable drift gates, CLI help parity checks, sprint automation, and the v0.0.38 release docs. The v0.0.38 tag is cut now, and the green nightly e2e gives us the confidence to call it shipped.

Release, CI, and Review Hygiene

• #3296 - prepared the v0.0.38 release documentation.
• #3154 - enforced honest coverage reporting and removed misleading coverage escapes.
• #3187 - added CI coverage for documented NEMOCLAW_* environment variables, closing #3184.
• #3216 - automated assignment of closed work into project sprints.

Installer, Onboarding, and Lifecycle Cleanup

• #3167 - made uninstall stop the Ollama auth proxy, closing #2759.
• #3229 - preserved shared gateways by default during destroy, closing #2166.
• #3221 - added an exactly-once regression test for Ollama GPU unload.
• #3264 - persisted credential environment clears when switching remote to local, closing #2625.
• #3272 - improved TTY-required installer errors with working curl | bash recovery examples, closing #3058.

Runtime, Status, and Gateway Behavior

• #3185 - made status show the active gateway policy version instead of the schema constant, closing #1961.
• #3267 - repaired stale inference DNS routes and tightened related runtime recovery behavior.
• #3270 - kept status and list output visible when gateway probing fails, closing #2666.

Inference and Model Experience

• #3243 - made Kimi health checks model-aware, closing #3176.
• #3244 - suppressed Kimi reasoning output, closing #3177.

Hermes, Slack, and Discord

• #3242 - rewrote Slack placeholders before egress, closing #3179.
• #3293 - added the Hermes Discord facade after replaying and hardening the contributor work.

Docs and CLI Parity

• #3234 - synced CLI command docs with install.sh --help and added parity checks, closing #3224.
• #3268 - documented the OpenClaw build-time version pin, closing #2635.

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