Awesome-OpenClaw-Research

Survey Paper Available on Overleaf

We maintain a comprehensive survey paper: OpenClaw Research: A Systematic Survey of Large Language Model Agents in Open Deployment

The paper is actively maintained and updated on a regular basis. We welcome comments, suggestions, and feedback from the community — feel free to leave comments directly on Overleaf or open an issue in this repo. Your input helps us improve the survey!

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🦞 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 claw learning and evolution, safety and security, social dynamics, infrastructure and systems, and applications in embodied AI, mobile agents, scientific discovery, clinical AI, and beyond. The questions are universal; OpenClaw is the lens.

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Table of Contents

• Reading Guide — survey-aligned taxonomy
• Papers — Core of this repo
  • Open Policy: Learning and Evolving
    • Component Level
    • Individual Level
    • Population Level
  • Open Environment: Safety and Security
    • Threat Landscape
    • Defense Mechanisms
  • Open Population: Claw Society
    • Emergent Characteristics
    • Structural Failures & Design
    • Human–AI Collaboration
  • Open Substrate: Infrastructure and Systems
    • Infrastructure of Claw
    • Claw as Infrastructure
  • Applications
    • Embodied Claws
    • Mobile Claws
    • Scientific Claws
    • Clinical Claws
    • Other Claws
• Other Resources — SDKs, tools, community, related repos
• Contributing

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🧭 Reading Guide

This repository follows the OpenClaw Research taxonomy: instead of grouping work only by task domain, it organizes papers by the main sandbox boundary they relax in open deployment. In this setting, agents may evolve after release, interact with untrusted tools and environments, coexist with open populations of humans and agents, and rely on persistent runtime substrates.

Principle	Repo Section	Core Question	Typical Topics
Open Policy	Learning and Evolving	How does the agent policy or its surrounding state evolve after deployment?	Memory evolution, skill evolution, RL-based agent learning, population-level co-evolution
Open Environment	Safety and Security	How can agents remain safe when tools, resources, and environments are untrusted?	Prompt injection, tool attacks, supply-chain risks, sandboxing, auditing, HITL defense
Open Population	Claw Society	What collective behaviors emerge among open populations of agents and humans?	Agent-only communities, social dynamics, consensus hallucination, human-agent collaboration
Open Substrate	Infrastructure and Systems	What runtime substrate is needed for persistent, observable, accountable agents?	Agent-as-OS, MCP/tool interoperability, edge deployment, GUI-agent infrastructure, evaluation harnesses
Application Layer	Applications	How do the four openness dimensions combine in concrete domains?	Robotics, mobile agents, scientific discovery, healthcare, education, domain-specific agents

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📄 Papers

Open Policy: Learning and Evolving

Component Level

Title	Venue	Date	Paper	Code
MemOS: A Memory OS for AI System	arXiv	2025.07
OpenViking: The Context Database for AI Agents	GitHub	2026.01
Hermes-Agent	GitHub	2026.03
AutoResearchClaw:Chat an Idea. Get a Paper. Autonomous, Collaborative & Self-Evolving.	GitHub	2026.03
ScienceClaw	GitHub / Website	2026.03
Hierarchical Memory Orchestration for Personalized Persistent Agents	arXiv	2026.04
SemaClaw: A Step Towards General-Purpose Personal AI Agents through Harness Engineering	arXiv	2026.04

Individual Level

Title	Venue	Date	Paper	Code
OpenClaw-RL: Train Any Agent Simply by Talking	arXiv	2026.03
MetaClaw: Just Talk -- An Agent That Meta-Learns and Evolves in the Wild	arXiv	2026.03
StepPO: Step-Aligned Policy Optimization for Agentic Reinforcement Learning	arXiv	2026.04

Population Level

Title	Venue	Date	Paper	Code
SkillClaw: Let Skills Evolve Collectively with Agentic Evolver	arXiv	2026.04
EvoMaster: A Foundational Evolving Agent Framework for Agentic Science at Scale	arXiv	2026.04

Open Environment: Safety and Security

Threat Landscape

Title	Venue	Date	Paper	Code
From Assistant to Double Agent: Formalizing and Benchmarking Attacks on OpenClaw for Personalized Local AI Agent	arXiv	2026.02
A Trajectory-Based Safety Audit of Clawdbot (OpenClaw)	arXiv	2026.02
Uncovering Security Threats and Architecting Defenses in Autonomous Agents: A Case Study of OpenClaw	arXiv	2026.03
Taming OpenClaw: Security Analysis and Mitigation of Autonomous LLM Agent Threats	arXiv	2026.03
Claw-Eval: Toward Trustworthy Evaluation of Autonomous Agents	arXiv	2026.04
ClawArena: Benchmarking AI Agents in Evolving Information Environments	arXiv	2026.04
ClawBench: Can AI Agents Complete Everyday Online Tasks?	arXiv	2026.04
Your Agent, Their Asset: A Real-World Safety Analysis of OpenClaw	arXiv	2026.04
ClawLess: A Security Model of AI Agents	arXiv	2026.04

Defense Mechanisms

Title	Venue	Date	Paper	Code
Formal Analysis and Supply Chain Security for Agentic AI Skills	arXiv	2026.02
Uncovering Security Threats and Architecting Defenses in Autonomous Agents: A Case Study of OpenClaw	arXiv	2026.03
Don't Let the Claw Grip Your Hand: A Security Analysis and Defense Framework for OpenClaw	arXiv	2026.03
OpenClaw PRISM: A Zero-Fork, Defense-in-Depth Runtime Security Layer for Tool-Augmented LLM Agents	arXiv	2026.03
Defensible Design for OpenClaw: Securing Autonomous Tool-Invoking Agents	arXiv	2026.03

Open Population: Claw Society

Emergent Characteristics

Title	Venue	Date	Paper	Code
OpenClaw Agents on Moltbook: Risky Instruction Sharing and Norm Enforcement in an Agent-Only Social Network	arXiv	2026.02
When AI Agents Teach Each Other: Discourse Patterns Resembling Peer Learning in the Moltbook Community	arXiv	2026.02
OpenClaw AI Agents as Informal Learners at Moltbook: Characterizing an Emergent Learning Community at Scale	arXiv	2026.02

Structural Failures & Design

Title	Venue	Date	Paper	Code
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

Human–AI Collaboration

Title	Venue	Date	Paper	Code
When Openclaw Agents Learn from Each Other: Insights from Emergent AI Agent Communities for Human-AI Partnership in Education	arXiv	2026.03

Open Substrate: Infrastructure and Systems

Infrastructure of Claw

Title	Venue	Date	Paper	Code
AgentOS: From Application Silos to a Natural Language-Driven Data Ecosystem	arXiv	2026.03
OpenClaw as Language Infrastructure: A Case-Centered Survey of a Public Agent Ecosystem in the Wild (Survey)	Preprints.org	2026.03

Claw as Infrastructure

Title	Venue	Date	Paper	Code
MCP-Atlas: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Tool-Use Competency with Real MCP Servers	arXiv	2026.01
NanoClaw	GitHub	2026.01
PicoClaw: Ultra-Efficient AI Assistant in Go	GitHub	2026.02
Three Provinces and Six Ministries · Edict	GitHub	2026.02
CyberClaw: Next-Gen Transparent Agent Architecture	GitHub	2026.03
ClawGUI: A Unified Framework for Training, Evaluating, and Deploying GUI Agents	arXiv	2026.04

Applications

Embodied Claws

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

Mobile Claws

Title	Venue	Date	Paper	Code
StreamingClaw Technical Report	arXiv	2026.03
UAV-Claw	GitHub	2026.04

Scientific Claws

Title	Venue	Date	Paper	Code
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
Autonomous Agents Coordinating Distributed Discovery Through Emergent Artifact Exchange	arXiv	2026.03
clawRxiv: Agent-Native Open Research Archive	GitHub / Website	2026.03
AutoResearchClaw:Chat an Idea. Get a Paper. Autonomous, Collaborative & Self-Evolving.	GitHub	2026.03
OpenCLAW-P2P v7.0-P2PCLAW: Resilient Multi-Layer Persistence, Live Reference Verification, and Production-Scale Evaluation of Decentralized AI Peer Review v7.0 -- Mathematical Corrections & Ecosystem Developments Edition	arXiv	2026.04

Clinical Claws

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
MedOpenClaw: Auditable Medical Imaging Agents Reasoning over Uncurated Full Studies	arXiv	2026.03
OpenClaw-Medical-Skills	GitHub	2026.03
When OpenClaw Meets Hospital: Toward an Agentic Operating System for Dynamic Clinical Workflows	arXiv	2026.03

Other Claws

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

• Context Kit — Personal Context Artifacts: 4 Markdown templates (wiki, mental-models, voice, protocols) + 5 Claude Code skills. Solves context amnesia — every session starts context-full. MIT, one-command install.

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📦 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
clawRxiv	Website	Academic archive for AI agents — 383 agents, 1,827+ papers; affiliated with Stanford–Princeton Claw4S Conference (deadline Apr 30, 2026, prize $50,200)
Claw4Science (Claw4S)	Website	First agent-native scientific conference: submit executable skills, not papers; agent peer review; Stanford–Princeton co-organized

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

Chinese Community & Tutorials

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

Related Repositories

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

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🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! We especially need help with:

• Papers — Adding missing OpenClaw-related papers with proper links.
• Analysis — Improving paper notes, section placement, and taxonomy alignment.
• Timeline — Updating the ecosystem timeline with new events.
• Resources — Adding useful SDKs, tools, benchmarks, datasets, and community repositories.