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Awesome-OpenClaw-Research Awesome

🦞 OpenClaw launched Nov 2025, hit 200k GitHub stars in 84 days, and surpassed 330k stars by March 2026. This repo collects papers studying or built upon the OpenClaw ecosystem — covering agent infrastructure, learning, safety, embodiment, social dynamics & domain applications. The questions are universal; OpenClaw is the lens.

Papers Stars PRs Welcome

Table of Contents

📄 Papers

25+ papers published in Feb–Mar 2026 alone. Each entry includes paper link, code (if available), and key highlights.

Infrastructure & Systems

Frameworks, OS paradigms, benchmarks, and protocol evaluation.

Title Venue Date Paper Code
OpenClaw as Language Infrastructure: A Case-Centered Survey of a Public Agent Ecosystem in the Wild (Survey) Preprints.org 2026.03 Preprints N/A
AgentOS: From Application Silos to a Natural Language-Driven Data Ecosystem arXiv 2026.03 arXiv N/A
EvoClaw: Evaluating AI Agents on Continuous Software Evolution arXiv 2026.03 arXiv GitHub HuggingFace
ClawGUI: A Unified Framework for Training, Evaluating, and Deploying GUI Agents arXiv 2026.04 arXiv GitHub
MCP-Atlas: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Tool-Use Competency with Real MCP Servers arXiv 2026.01 arXiv N/A
NanoClaw GitHub 2026.01 N/A GitHub
nanobot GitHub 2026.02 N/A GitHub
PicoClaw: Ultra-Efficient AI Assistant in Go GitHub 2026.02 N/A GitHub
AutoResearchClaw:Chat an Idea. Get a Paper. Autonomous, Collaborative & Self-Evolving. GitHub 2026.03 N/A GitHub
Three Provinces and Six Ministries · Edict GitHub 2026.02 N/A GitHub
ClawTeam: Agent Swarm Intelligence GitHub 2026.03 N/A GitHub
CyberClaw: Next-Gen Transparent Agent Architecture GitHub 2026.03 N/A GitHub

Learning & Evolution

Reinforcement learning, meta-learning, and self-improvement of agents.

Title Venue Date Paper Code
OpenClaw-RL: Train Any Agent Simply by Talking arXiv 2026.03 arXiv GitHub
MetaClaw: Just Talk -- An Agent That Meta-Learns and Evolves in the Wild arXiv 2026.03 arXiv GitHub
Hermes Agent GitHub 2026.03 N/A GitHub
SkillClaw: Let Skills Evolve Collectively with Agentic Evolver arXiv 2026.04 arXiv GitHub

Safety & Security

Attack benchmarks, defense frameworks, supply-chain security, and runtime protection.

Title Venue Date Paper Code
From Assistant to Double Agent: Formalizing and Benchmarking Attacks on OpenClaw for Personalized Local AI Agent arXiv 2026.02 arXiv GitHub
A Trajectory-Based Safety Audit of Clawdbot (OpenClaw) arXiv 2026.02 arXiv GitHub
Formal Analysis and Supply Chain Security for Agentic AI Skills arXiv 2026.02 arXiv GitHub PyPI
Don't Let the Claw Grip Your Hand: A Security Analysis and Defense Framework for OpenClaw arXiv 2026.03 arXiv Github
OpenClaw PRISM: A Zero-Fork, Defense-in-Depth Runtime Security Layer for Tool-Augmented LLM Agents arXiv 2026.03 arXiv N/A
Uncovering Security Threats and Architecting Defenses in Autonomous Agents: A Case Study of OpenClaw arXiv 2026.03 arXiv GitHub
Defensible Design for OpenClaw: Securing Autonomous Tool-Invoking Agents arXiv 2026.03 arXiv N/A
Claw-Eval: Toward Trustworthy Evaluation of Autonomous Agents arXiv 2026.04 arXiv GitHub
ClawArena: Benchmarking AI Agents in Evolving Information Environments arXiv 2026.04 arXiv GitHub
Taming OpenClaw: Security Analysis and Mitigation of Autonomous LLM Agent Threats arXiv 2026.03 arXiv GitHub
ClawBench: Can AI Agents Complete Everyday Online Tasks? arXiv 2026.04 arXiv N/A
Your Agent, Their Asset: A Real-World Safety Analysis of OpenClaw arXiv 2026.04 arXiv GitHub

Agent Society

Social behaviors, emergent norms, peer learning, and collective dynamics in agent populations.

Title Venue Date Paper Code
OpenClaw Agents on Moltbook: Risky Instruction Sharing and Norm Enforcement in an Agent-Only Social Network arXiv 2026.02 arXiv GitHub
When AI Agents Teach Each Other: Discourse Patterns Resembling Peer Learning in the Moltbook Community arXiv 2026.02 arXiv N/A
OpenClaw AI Agents as Informal Learners at Moltbook: Characterizing an Emergent Learning Community at Scale arXiv 2026.02 arXiv N/A
When Openclaw Agents Learn from Each Other: Insights from Emergent AI Agent Communities for Human-AI Partnership in Education arXiv 2026.03 arXiv N/A
MoChat: Reconnecting the World through AI Agents GitHub 2026.02 N/A GitHub
AgentPanel: The world’s first research-focused human-AI Agent collaborative discussion community GitHub 2026.03 N/A GitHub

application

Vertical applications, organized into embodied, scientific discovery, medical, and other directions.

Embodied Agents

Robotics, physical embodiment, and ROS integration.

Title Venue Date Paper Code
RoboClaw: An Agentic Framework for Scalable Long-Horizon Robotic Tasks arXiv 2026.03 arXiv GitHub
RoboClaw (MINT): Open-Source Embodied Intelligence Assistant GitHub 2026.03 N/A GitHub
ROSClaw: An OpenClaw ROS 2 Framework for Agentic Robot Control and Interaction arXiv 2026.03 arXiv GitHub
RoClaw: The Cerebellum — physical embodiment for AI agents GitHub 2026.03 N/A GitHub

Scientific Discovery

Automated research, distributed discovery, and life-science research platforms.

Title Venue Date Paper Code
Autonomous Agents Coordinating Distributed Discovery Through Emergent Artifact Exchange arXiv 2026.03 arXiv GitHub
From Agent-Only Social Networks to Autonomous Scientific Research: Lessons from OpenClaw and Moltbook, and the Architecture of ClawdLab and Beach.Science arXiv 2026.02 arXiv GitHub GitHub
ScienceClaw GitHub / Website 2026.03 N/A GitHub Website

Medical

Clinical workflows, medical imaging, digital twins, and medical skill ecosystems.

Title Venue Date Paper Code
Autonomous Agent-Orchestrated Digital Twins (AADT): Leveraging the OpenClaw Framework for State Synchronization in Rare Genetic Disorders arXiv 2026.03 arXiv N/A
MedOpenClaw: Auditable Medical Imaging Agents Reasoning over Uncurated Full Studies arXiv 2026.03 arXiv N/A
OpenClaw-Medical-Skills GitHub 2026.03 N/A GitHub
When OpenClaw Meets Hospital: Toward an Agentic Operating System for Dynamic Clinical Workflows arXiv 2026.03 arXiv N/A

Other

Other application directions such as education, knowledge work, and math learning.

Title Venue Date Paper Code
Scaling Laws for Educational AI Agents arXiv 2026.03 arXiv GitHub
DenchClaw GitHub 2026.02 N/A GitHub
MathClaw GitHub 2026.03 N/A GitHub

🏗 Architecture

flowchart LR
    subgraph Channels["📱 Channels"]
        direction TB
        C1[WhatsApp] ~~~ C2[Telegram] ~~~ C3[Discord] ~~~ C4[Slack] ~~~ C5["50+"]
    end

    subgraph Core["⚙️ Core"]
        direction TB
        Router[Message Router] --> Kernel[Agent Kernel]
        Kernel <--> LLM["LLM Backend\nClaude / GPT / Ollama"]
    end

    subgraph Memory["🧠 Memory"]
        direction TB
        M1[Session Context] ~~~ M2[Daily Notes] ~~~ M3[Long-term Memory] ~~~ M4[Semantic Search]
    end

    subgraph Extensions["🔌 Extensions"]
        direction TB
        E1["Skills (5,700+)"] ~~~ E2["MCP (3,200+)"] ~~~ E3[Plugins]
    end

    subgraph External["🌐 External"]
        direction TB
        X1[Moltbook] ~~~ X2[ROSClaw] ~~~ X3[RoboClaw]
    end

    Channels --> Core
    Core <--> Memory
    Core <--> Extensions
    Extensions --> External
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📅 Ecosystem Timeline

2025.11 ─── Launch (ClawdBot / Moltbot → OpenClaw)
    │
2025.12 ─── ClawHub skill marketplace
    │
2026.01 ─── Moltbook (1.5M agents / 72h) ─── Academic paper boom (6 papers / 2 weeks)
    │
2026.02 ─── ClawHavoc attack ─── CVE-2026-25253 ─── 200k Stars (84 days)
    │         │
    │         └── Response: VirusTotal + audit mechanisms
    │
2026.03 ─── RL / Meta-Learning / Robotics papers ─── 330k Stars
    │
    └── ROSClaw Hackathon champion ─── v2026.3.13-1 (68th release)
              │
              └── WeChat official ClawBot plugin (03.22)
                    │
                    └── National Cybersecurity Advisory (China, 03.13)
Full timeline
Date Event
2025.11.24 OpenClaw (formerly ClawdBot / Moltbot) launched
2025.12 ClawHub skill marketplace released
2026.01 Moltbook launched — 1.5M agents registered in 72h
2026.01 6 academic papers produced in 2 weeks
2026.02.02 Risky Sharing & Norm Enforcement paper
2026.02 PASB security evaluation paper
2026.02 ClawHavoc supply chain attack — 1,184 malicious skills
2026.02 CVE-2026-25253 disclosed (RCE, CVSS 8.8)
2026.02.16 GitHub Stars crossed 200k (84 days)
2026.02 OpenClaw + VirusTotal security partnership
2026.03 OpenClaw-RL / MetaClaw / AgentOS / RoboClaw papers
2026.03 ROSClaw won SF OpenClaw Hackathon
2026.03.13 v2026.3.13-1 released (68th release)
2026.03.13 China National Cybersecurity Advisory
2026.03.22 WeChat official ClawBot plugin released
2026.03 GitHub Stars crossed 330k

📦 Other Resources

Official Links
Name Link
OpenClaw Core github.com/openclaw/openclaw
ClawHub Marketplace clawhub.com
Official Docs docs.openclaw.ai
SDKs & Tools
Name Language Description
openclaw-sdk Python Build & publish autonomous AI agents
mcp-bridge-openclaw TypeScript MCP multi-server bridge
amor71/openclaw-mcp TypeScript Native MCP client
henry-y/openclaw-paper-tools Python OpenClaw arXiv paper reader
Automated Research Tools
Name Link Description
AutoResearchClaw GitHub Fully autonomous 23-stage research pipeline: idea → experiment → conference-ready paper; multi-agent peer review
OpenClaw-Medical-Skills GitHub 869 curated medical AI skills covering clinical work, genomics, drug discovery & bioinformatics
ScienceClaw GitHub Autonomous research pipeline; 266+ domain skills; 77+ databases
ClawCures GitHub AI campaign orchestrator for drug discovery; planner/critic loops; ADMET maps
Security References
Name Link
PASB Framework GitHub
SkillFortify GitHub · PyPI
SecureClaw GitHub
SlowMist Security Guide GitHub
CVE-2026-25253 NVD
Security Guide bitdoze.com
Benchmarks
Name Link Description
PinchBench pinchbench.com · GitHub 23 real-world tasks across 8 categories; automated + LLM judge grading
EvoClaw evo-claw.com · HuggingFace Continuous software evolution benchmark; 7 repos / 5 languages / 98 milestones
Name Link Description
OpenClaw China BytePioneer-AI/openclaw-china Domestic IM adaption (3,200+ Stars)
中文教程 openclawgithub.cc Config & integration guides
Hello Claw Datawhale Datawhale tutorial
中文站 clawcn.net Domestic LLM guide
Learn OpenClaw learnopenclaw.com Learning platform

Know a great OpenClaw project we missed? Open a PR and help us keep this list growing!

Repository Stars Description
SamurAIGPT/awesome-openclaw 823 Comprehensive list of OpenClaw resources, tools, skills, tutorials & articles
mergisi/awesome-openclaw-agents 830+ 177 production-ready AI agent templates across 24 categories
VoltAgent/awesome-openclaw-skills — Community curated skills collection
community/openclaw-recipes — Common automation recipes
templates/claw-templates — Starter templates for OpenClaw projects
pranciskus/discourse-openclaw NEW Discourse forum integration with 12 tools
wanikua/ByeByeClaw NEW One-command uninstaller for all Claw-family agents

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! We especially need help with:

  • Papers — Adding missing OpenClaw-related papers with proper links
  • Analysis — Improving paper notes and highlights
  • Timeline — Updating the ecosystem timeline with new events