Agent skill

Medical Specialty Briefs

by FreedomIntelligence in FreedomIntelligence/OpenClaw-Medical-Skills

Generate daily or on-demand medical research briefs for any medical specialty.

No licenceAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Medical Specialty Briefs

skills CLI
$ npx skills add FreedomIntelligence/OpenClaw-Medical-Skills --skill medical-specialty-briefs -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install FreedomIntelligence/OpenClaw-Medical-Skills medical-specialty-briefs --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/FreedomIntelligence/OpenClaw-Medical-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/medical-specialty-briefs .claude/skills/medical-specialty-briefs && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
medical-specialty-briefs
GitHub stars
3.1k
Token cost
~798 tokens
SKILL.md length
348 words
Files
2
Skills in repo
279
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

Generate daily or on-demand medical research briefs for any medical specialty.

  • Works in 6 steps: Headline - Clear, concise title → One-Sentence Summary - Key takeaway for… → Source - Journal name + publication date → …
  • User asks for medical news
  • SKILL.md covers When to Use This Skill, Output Format, Search Strategy and Workflow, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Medical Specialty Briefs is an agent skill from FreedomIntelligence/OpenClaw-Medical-Skills. Generate daily or on-demand medical research briefs for any medical specialty. Searches latest research from top-tier journals, delivers concise summaries with 1-sentence takeaways, images when available, and direct links. Use when user asks for medical news, research updates, journal briefs, or specialty-specific medical updates for specialties like endocrinology, cardiology, oncology, neurology, etc.

Its SKILL.md is about 800 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 1 other file (for example `_meta.json`).

It sits in Research & Science, covering Deep research and Clinical and healthcare research. The repository describes itself as: The largest open-source medical AI skills library for OpenClaw🦞.

When your agent uses it

  • User asks for medical news
  • Research updates
  • Specialty-specific medical updates for specialties like endocrinology

Example prompts

  • “/medical-specialty-briefs”

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Headline - Clear, concise title
  2. One-Sentence Summary - Key takeaway for clinicians
  3. Source - Journal name + publication date
  4. Image - Include if available from source
  5. Link - Direct URL to original article
  6. Clinical Relevance Badge - One of

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit b1f9b6e. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Medical Specialty Briefs loads about 798 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 108 tokens; SKILL.md has 348 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~108
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~798

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 348 words (~798 tokens).

“Generate curated medical research briefs for any medical specialty in a Google News-style format.”

— opening of SKILL.md by FreedomIntelligence
name
medical-specialty-briefs

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file in skills/medical-specialty-briefs of FreedomIntelligence/OpenClaw-Medical-Skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • _meta.json

Open the folder on GitHubat commit b1f9b6e

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Questions about Medical Specialty Briefs

What does Medical Specialty Briefs do?

Generate daily or on-demand medical research briefs for any medical specialty. Medical Specialty Briefs is an agent skill from FreedomIntelligence/OpenClaw-Medical-Skills. Generate daily or on-demand medical research briefs for any medical specialty.

When should I use Medical Specialty Briefs?

Medical Specialty Briefs fits situations like: user asks for medical news; research updates; specialty-specific medical updates for specialties like endocrinology.

How do I install Medical Specialty Briefs in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add FreedomIntelligence/OpenClaw-Medical-Skills --skill medical-specialty-briefs -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/medical-specialty-briefs in FreedomIntelligence/OpenClaw-Medical-Skills) into .claude/skills/medical-specialty-briefs in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Medical Specialty Briefs in Codex?

Run `npx skills add FreedomIntelligence/OpenClaw-Medical-Skills --skill medical-specialty-briefs -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/medical-specialty-briefs in FreedomIntelligence/OpenClaw-Medical-Skills) into .agents/skills/medical-specialty-briefs in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Medical Specialty Briefs in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add FreedomIntelligence/OpenClaw-Medical-Skills --skill medical-specialty-briefs -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/medical-specialty-briefs, .gemini/skills/medical-specialty-briefs, .github/skills/medical-specialty-briefs and .opencode/skills/medical-specialty-briefs in your project.

What does Medical Specialty Briefs need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Medical Specialty Briefs is instructions for the agent only.

Does Medical Specialty Briefs access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Medical Specialty Briefs safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Medical Specialty Briefs use?

No licence was found for Medical Specialty Briefs or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.

How many tokens does Medical Specialty Briefs use?

About 798 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.2k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Medical Specialty Briefs?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Medical Specialty Briefs: Drug Research (lamm-mit/scienceclaw, 246 stars), Clinical Reports (K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer, 2.4k stars), GitHub Deep Research (bytedance/deer-flow, 84k stars) and Deep Research Workflow (TokenRhythm/opensquilla, 7.1k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Medical Specialty Briefs?

FreedomIntelligence (a GitHub organization) maintains it in FreedomIntelligence/OpenClaw-Medical-Skills, which has 3,053 GitHub stars. The repository holds 279 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on July 21, 2026.

Source: FreedomIntelligence/OpenClaw-Medical-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.