OpenClaw-Medical-Skills

What it is

OpenClaw Medical Skills is a curated collection of 869 AI agent skills covering biomedical and clinical research, designed for OpenClaw / NanoClaw frameworks. Each skill is a self-contained module (a SKILL.md file) that teaches domain knowledge, connects to databases/APIs/tools, and produces structured outputs.

How it works

Skills are organized into categories (e.g., Medical & Clinical, Scientific Databases, Bioinformatics). They connect to external data sources and tools via standardized skill modules contained under skills/, enabling an OpenClaw agent to perform domain-specific tasks.

Getting started

Requirements:

• OpenClaw installed and running, or NanoClaw as an alternative
• Git for cloning

Installation options:

• Method 1 — Clone and Copy (Recommended)

# Clone this repository (skills only — skips large data files)
git clone --depth=1 --no-checkout https://github.com/FreedomIntelligence/OpenClaw-Medical-Skills.git
cd OpenClaw-Medical-Skills
git sparse-checkout init --cone
git sparse-checkout set skills
git checkout main

# Install to your workspace skills directory
cp -r skills/* <your-workspace>/skills/

# Or install globally (available to all agents)
cp -r skills/* ~/.openclaw/skills/

Note: Some skills bundle large data files. If you need the full repo including all data, install Git LFS first, then run git clone https://github.com/FreedomIntelligence/OpenClaw-Medical-Skills.git.

Skills are picked up automatically on the next session. No restart needed.

• Method 2 — OpenClaw CLI

openclaw plugins install <skill-slug>
openclaw plugins update

• Method 3 — Configure Extra Directories

{
  "plugins": {
    "local": ["/path/to/OpenClaw-Medical-Skills"]
  }
}

• Method 4 — Install Selected Skills Only

# Example: clinical + drug discovery stack
SKILLS=(
  "clinical-reports"
  "tooluniverse-drug-research"
  "tooluniverse-pharmacovigilance"
  "clinicaltrials-database"
  "biomedical-search"
  "tooluniverse-drug-drug-interaction"
)

for skill in "${SKILLS[@]}"; do
  cp -r OpenClaw-Medical-Skills/skills/$skill ~/.openclaw/skills/
done

For NanoClaw Users

# Clone and copy into NanoClaw container skills directory
git clone https://github.com/FreedomIntelligence/OpenClaw-Medical-Skills.git
cp -r OpenClaw-Medical-Skills/skills/* /path/to/nanoclaw/container/skills/

# Rebuild the container to apply
cd /path/to/nanoclaw
./container/build.sh

Recent releases

• Releases: latest 0 has none

Traction

• Stars: 2909
• Forks: 409
• Open issues: 14

Behind the repo

• Host: FreedomIntelligence
• Description: The largest open-source medical AI skill library for OpenClaw

Caveats

• License: MIT (as shown by badge in README)
• Language: Python
• Created: 2026-03-08
• Last push: 2026-07-21
• Platform: OpenClaw | NanoClaw