BioSkills
ReviewAudited by ClawScan on May 10, 2026.
Overview
BioSkills appears to be a coherent installer, but it downloads and runs a pinned GitHub installer that persistently adds hundreds of auto-triggered bioinformatics skills.
This looks purpose-aligned for installing bioinformatics capabilities. Before running it, make sure you trust the GitHub repository and understand that it will add hundreds of persistent skills to OpenClaw; consider using --categories to install only what you need.
Findings (2)
Artifact-based informational review of SKILL.md, metadata, install specs, static scan signals, and capability signals. ClawScan does not execute the skill or run runtime probes.
Installing requires trusting the pinned GitHub release because it can add code and skills to the local OpenClaw environment.
The installer downloads an external GitHub repository and runs its install script. The expected commit check is a meaningful mitigation, but the executed repository installer is not part of the supplied artifacts.
REPO_URL="https://github.com/GPTomics/bioSkills.git" RELEASE_TAG="3.0" EXPECTED_COMMIT="fae219d8cacb7be84b96b3a99122556c1a42a47b" ... bash "$INSTALL_DIR/install-openclaw.sh" $EXTRA_ARGS
Install only if you trust the GPTomics/bioSkills repository and, for higher assurance, review the pinned commit or use a limited category install.
Future bioinformatics requests may use newly installed skills automatically, which can change how the agent behaves across many analysis areas.
The skill intentionally performs a bulk change to the agent's available skills, and those skills may be invoked in later tasks.
Meta-skill that installs the full bioSkills collection (425 skills across 62 categories) ... Once installed, skills are automatically triggered based on the task at hand.
Prefer installing only needed categories with --categories, review the installed skill list, and use the documented --uninstall option if the added skills are no longer wanted.