docs(changelog): prepare v0.0.106 release entry

[jyaunches]

Summary

Adds the August 10, 2026 release entry for v0.0.106 before the release plan captures the candidate commit. The entry groups supported user-visible changes since v0.0.105 and omits work that is private, dormant, qualification-only, internal, or outside accepted product scope.

Changes

• Add the canonical docs/changelog/2026-08-10.mdx entry with the exact v0.0.106 heading.
• Summarize readiness, OpenShell v0.0.101, bounded DGX Spark and vLLM choices, inference, sandbox lifecycle, security, Hermes, and host maintenance changes.
• Use root-absolute documentation routes and the shared dated changelog source for all published variants.
• Exclude PR feat(onboard): activate portable runtime inference #8753 from canonical release claims because no accepted issue or design decision establishes its product scope.

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: test/changelog-docs.test.ts validates dated changelog SPDX placement, version headings, forbidden terms, and link form.
• Tests not applicable — justification:
• 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/2026-08-10.mdx; an independent Codex Desktop subagent reviewed the writing rules and documentation style, terminology, structure, voice, code-sample presentation, links, source and test accuracy, and product scope at commit c15039c94.
• Agent: Codex Desktop

DGX Station Hardware Evidence

• Tested on DGX Station
• Tested commit: Not applicable; scripts/prepare-dgx-station-host.sh is unchanged.
• Station profile/scenario: Not applicable.
• Result: Not applicable.
• Supporting evidence: Not applicable.

Verification

• PR description includes a Signed-off-by: line and every commit appears as Verified in GitHub
• Normal pre-commit, commit-msg, and pre-push hooks passed, or npm run validate:pr passed after refreshing origin/main when hooks were skipped or unavailable
• Targeted behavior tests pass for the current change set, or tests are marked not applicable above — command/result or justification: npx vitest run test/changelog-docs.test.ts passed 6 tests.
• Applicable broad gate passed — npm test for broad runtime/test-harness changes; npm run check for repo-wide validation/coverage changes — command/result: Not applicable to one documentation-only release entry.
• 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) — result: passed with 0 errors and 2 existing warnings.
• Doc pages follow the style guide (doc changes only)
• New doc pages include SPDX header and frontmatter (new pages only) — dated changelog entries use the required parser-safe MDX SPDX block and no frontmatter.

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Signed-off-by: Julie Yaunches jyaunches@nvidia.com

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Added release notes for v0.0.106.
  • Documented lifecycle readiness checks, sandbox lifecycle improvements, safer updates, and scoped uninstall capabilities.
  • Added details on OpenShell v0.0.101 adoption and DGX Spark vLLM configuration options.
  • Documented recovery and inference diagnostics, endpoint security enforcement, and installation and image updates.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The PR adds the v0.0.106 changelog. It documents runtime, inference, lifecycle, security, installation, recovery, update, uninstall, and image tooling changes.

Changes

Release documentation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
v0.0.106 release notes docs/changelog/2026-08-10.mdx	Adds release notes for readiness checks, OpenShell adoption, DGX Spark inference profiles, recovery, security controls, lifecycle changes, safer updates, scoped uninstall, installer handling, and image tooling.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~3 minutes

Possibly related PRs

• NVIDIA/NemoClaw#8390: Documents runtime, inference, and sandbox lifecycle changes referenced by this changelog.
• NVIDIA/NemoClaw#8511: Updates a related versioned changelog with overlapping lifecycle, DGX Spark, recovery, security, and installation changes.
• NVIDIA/NemoClaw#8588: Details DGX Spark vLLM profiles, recovery, and security controls referenced by this changelog.

Suggested labels: area: docs, release-target, v0.0.106

Suggested reviewers: cv

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely identifies the v0.0.106 changelog release entry added by this documentation-only change.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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4 semantic terminology decisions

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

• define — credential-free readiness report at docs/changelog/2026-08-10.mdx:12: Define the compound term at first use in a user guide if it becomes a recurring supported interface term.
• established — admission policy at docs/changelog/2026-08-10.mdx:12: Use the established term consistently for lifecycle admission decisions.
• established — trusted-private endpoint at docs/changelog/2026-08-10.mdx:31: Use the existing documentation form “trusted private endpoint” unless a literal identifier requires hyphenation.
• established — scoped uninstall at docs/changelog/2026-08-10.mdx:44: Use the established term consistently for limited uninstall behavior.

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