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name: tooling-and-deployment description: "Use tooling-and-deployment for Isaac Lab installation, docs, tests, packaging metadata, changelog fragments, scaffolding, and deployment-maintenance workflows." disable-model-invocation: true metadata: disco-role: operating license: NOASSERTION

Tooling and Deployment

Use this sub-skill when the task is about maintaining the Isaac Lab repository itself rather than using one of the simulation or task workflows.

Route here for

• Installation and packaging questions.
• Docs builds, formatting hooks, and test execution.
• Changelog fragments and release-note hygiene.
• Repository maintenance helpers and scaffolding commands.
• Deployment and CI-adjacent helpers when they are part of repo maintenance rather than end-user training.

Use other subskills for

• Simulation launch and backend choice: ../simulation-core/SKILL.md.
• Task discovery and preset selectors: ../tasks-and-presets/SKILL.md.
• RL train/play wrappers: ../rl-training/SKILL.md.
• Teleoperation, Mimic, and augmentation: ../imitation-and-teleop/SKILL.md.

Working references

• references/maintenance-workflows.md covers docs, tests, packaging, and scaffold commands.
• references/package-and-release-notes.md covers package metadata, extras, and changelog-fragment rules.
• references/deployment-notes.md covers deployment helpers and explicit exclusions.
• references/troubleshooting.md covers build, docs, and maintenance failures.
• scripts/inspect_repo_maintenance.py prints a safe maintainer checklist and the current repo version metadata.

Acceptance checks

• Distinguish user-facing maintenance from implementation-only internals.
• Name the correct repo wrapper or maintenance command for the requested action.
• Avoid promising destructive or cloud-automation workflows as if they were safe defaults.
• Cite the maintenance file or command family the user should inspect or run next.