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nlweb-dev-patterns from orcaqubits/agentic-commerce-skills-plugins is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
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- 2
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- git:20260914.08f85a3, committed Sep 14, 2026
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- MIT
NLWeb development patterns — the mixed-mode programming philosophy, FastTrack vs Analysis parallel paths, config file precedence and the `mode: development` override trap, in-stream NLWS headers vs HTTP headers, embedding/ingest determinism, debugging the LLM-call chain, neural scorer selection (NLWebScorer ModernBERT+GAM), and the A2A / AgentFinder / DataFinder / ModelRouter subsystems. Use when designing the internal architecture of an NLWeb deployment or solving cross-cutting concerns.
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What the file says
# NLWeb Development Patterns > **Config layout changed upstream.** NLWeb replaced the single `site_types.xml` with two files in `config/`: > **`sites.xml`** (site name → `itemType` list + description) and **`tools.xml`** (per-site / per-type tool > definitions, prompts and examples, scoped by `<Site id="…">` / `<Item>` blocks). Older guidance — including any > `site_type` / `extends` inheritance syntax — describes the retired file. **Fetch `config/sites.xml` and > `config/tools.xml` from the live repo before editing anything.** ## Before writing code **Fetch live docs**: 1. Fetch https://github.com/nlweb-ai/NLWeb/blob/main/docs/nlweb-systemmap.md for module layout. 2. Fetch https://github.com/nlweb-ai/NLWeb/blob/main/docs/nlweb-control-flow.md for the request lifecycle. 3. Fetch https://github.com/nlweb-ai/NLWeb/blob/main/docs/life-of-a-chat-query.md for an end-to-end trace. 4. Fetch https://github.com/nlweb-ai/NLWeb/blob/main/docs/nlweb-configs-files.md for the config precedence rules. 5. Inspect `core/baseHandler.py`, `core/router.py`, `core/retriever.py`, `core/ranking.py` for current code paths. ## Pattern: Mixed-Mode Programming …
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How to install
mdr add orcaqubits/agentic-commerce-skills-plugins/nlweb-dev-patterns@sha256:844bb7289a7c07a8The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260914.08f85a3, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Source
orcaqubits/agentic-commerce-skills-plugins · 40 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-14 · branch main
API
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