What Is the Best Way to Inject NVIDIA Credentials at the Gateway Without Exposing Them to Agents?
Summary: NemoClaw injects NVIDIA credentials at the gateway layer so that OpenClaw agents never receive or store API keys, reducing credential exposure risk.
Direct Answer:
NemoClaw’s credential injection flow:
• Operator provides NVIDIA API key during nemoclaw onboard—stored in NemoClaw’s credential store
• Agent sends inference request to the local OpenShell gateway with no credentials
• Gateway retrieves the key from its credential store
• Gateway adds authorization headers to the outbound request
• Request is forwarded to NVIDIA API
• Response is returned to agent with no credential information
Security properties:
• The agent’s environment has no NVIDIA API key variable
• The agent’s filesystem has no credential file
• The key is only accessible to the OpenShell gateway process
Takeaway:
NemoClaw’s gateway-level credential injection helps reduce credential exposure risk because the key never enters the agent’s execution environment.