chore: fix pnpm setup after corepack changes and address annoying flox msgs

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Summary

What it says on the tin.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation

  • Updated setup and contributor instructions to use quiet environment activation.
  • Standardized activation guidance across development, Studio, platform, and package-management documentation.

• Chores

  • Streamlined tool execution to reduce unnecessary command output.
  • Updated package-manager setup to use the dedicated Node.js environment.
  • Simplified package-manager version handling for a more consistent development setup.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The Makefile now uses quiet Flox activation and a dedicated Node.js Flox environment for pnpm. Contributor and setup documentation now consistently uses flox -q activate.

Changes

Quiet Flox tooling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Makefile Flox and pnpm execution Makefile	Adds a quiet Flox command wrapper, routes activation through it, and runs pnpm from tools/nodejs instead of Corepack.
Quiet activation documentation CONTRIBUTING.md, README.md, SETUP.md, docs/get-started/setup.mdx, web/AGENTS.md, web/README.md	Updates contributor, setup, source-installation, and web instructions to use flox -q activate.

Possibly related PRs

• NVIDIA-NeMo/nemo-platform#1253: Both PRs modify Flox-related Makefile configuration and setup documentation.

Suggested labels: docs

Mergeability Score: 🔵 Low · up to a2e5d

The PR still leaves some Node.js and pnpm setup instructions inconsistent with the Makefile, which may cause contributor setup failures or confusion. It is mergeable with explicit owner awareness or a follow-up documentation fix.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the pnpm setup fix and the Flox message changes in the pull request.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
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🔇 Additional comments (6)

Makefile (2)

226-231: LGTM!

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240-241: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration

⚠️ Unverified finding
Sandbox verification was unavailable.

Verify the version check uses the same pnpm environment.

PNPM now runs through tools/nodejs, but script/verify-node-version.sh resolves node and pnpm from PATH. If the target runs that script outside $(FLOX_NODE_EXEC), it can validate a different toolchain than the installer. Confirm that tools/nodejs provides versions compatible with web/package.json.

Based on the supplied verifier and toolchain contract snippets.

CONTRIBUTING.md (1)

137-137: LGTM!

Also applies to: 153-153

README.md (1)

38-43: LGTM!

SETUP.md (1)

97-97: LGTM!

docs/get-started/setup.mdx (1)

52-52: LGTM!

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Inline comments:
In `@CONTRIBUTING.md`:
- Around line 37-39: Align documentation with the Makefile’s environment
selection: update CONTRIBUTING.md lines 37-39 to use the dedicated Node.js
activation for direct node and pnpm commands, clarify in lines 66-69 that root
activation is for uv and nemo, update SETUP.md line 133 with the dedicated pnpm
activation, change web/AGENTS.md line 37 to reference the Node.js environment
from web/, and update web/README.md line 10 to activate that environment before
pnpm install while removing the Corepack claim.

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Unit Tests	33338/42102	79.2%	64.1%
Integration Tests	N/A	N/A	N/A