ScienceClaw is a personal research assistant built with LangChain DeepAgents and AIO Sandbox infrastructure, adopting a completely new architecture beyond OpenClaw. It offers stronger security, better transparency, and a more user-friendly experience.

✨ Why ScienceClaw

🏗️ Architecture

Welcome to try our official cloud version: scienceclaw.zidongtaichu.com

• 🎁 Sign-up Bonus: New users get ¥50 in trial credits upon registration
• 🎁 Referral Rewards: Both the inviter and the invitee receive ¥20 in trial credits — the more you invite, the more you earn
• 🎁 Education Email Bonus: Verify with a .edu or .edu.cn email and get an extra ¥50 in trial credits

📦 Quick Start

Windows Users — Desktop App (One-Click Install)

No Docker required, no command-line needed. Download the desktop installer and get started instantly.

1. Download the installer

👉 ScienceClaw Desktop v0.0.4 (.tar.gz)

2. Extract and install

After downloading, extract the archive and run the installer. Follow the setup wizard to complete installation.

3. Launch

Once installed, double-click the desktop shortcut to start ScienceClaw — ready to use out of the box.

macOS / Linux Users — Docker Deployment

📖 For a detailed step-by-step deployment guide, see Deployment Guide (中文).

Prerequisites

• Docker & Docker Compose (Docker Desktop includes Compose)
• Recommended system RAM ≥ 8 GB

Install & Launch

1. Get the code

• Fresh install:

git clone https://github.com/AgentTeam-TaichuAI/ScienceClaw.git
cd ScienceClaw

• Upgrade an existing installation:

cd ScienceClaw
git pull

2. Launch — pull pre-built images

docker compose -f docker-compose-release.yml up -d --pull always

Pulls pre-built images directly — no local compilation needed. Ready in a few minutes.

3. Open in browser

http://localhost:5173

4. Login

Default admin credentials: Field Value Username admin Password admin123 ⚠️ Please change the default password after your first login.

🛠️ Developers — Build from Source

docker compose up -d --build

Builds all images from source code. Ideal for developers who need to modify the code. The first build downloads dependencies and may take longer.

🎬 Demo

🎁 Free LLM API Credits for Early Users

To lower the barrier for new users, a limited batch of LLM API resources:

Limited availability — first come, first served. We will continue to secure more compute resources for the community.

🔧 Tools & Skills System

🧪 1,900+ Built-in Scientific Tools

ScienceClaw integrates ToolUniverse, a unified ecosystem of 1,900+ scientific tools spanning multiple disciplines:

🛠️ Four-Layer Tool Architecture

🎨 Custom Tools

ScienceClaw makes it easy to extend with your own tools:

• Natural language creation — Simply describe what you want in chat, and the agent will create, test, and save a new tool for you automatically.
• Manual mounting — Drop any Python file with @tool decorated functions into the Tools/ directory; they are auto-detected and hot-loaded without restart.

🧠 Skill System

Skills are structured instruction documents (SKILL.md) that guide the Agent through complex, multi-step workflows. Unlike tools (executable code), skills act as the Agent's "playbook" — defining strategies, rules, and best practices.

Built-in Skills

Multi-Format Report Generation

ScienceClaw can produce professional research deliverables in 4 document formats:

Custom Skills

• Natural language creation — Describe your workflow in chat, and the agent will draft, test, and save a new skill for you.
• Manual installation — Place a folder with a SKILL.md file into the Skills/ directory. The agent automatically matches and loads relevant skills based on user intent.
• Community ecosystem — Discover and install skills from the open community with the built-in find-skills capability.

💡 Practical Features

📂 Project Structure

ScienceClaw/
├── docker-compose.yml              # 10-service orchestration
├── docker-compose-release.yml      # Pre-built image orchestration (for end users)
├── docker-compose-china.yml        # China mirror acceleration
├── images/                         # Static assets (logo, screenshots)
├── videos/                         # Demo videos
├── Tools/                          # Custom tools (hot-reload)
├── Skills/                         # User & community skill packages
├── workspace/                      # 🔒 Local workspace (data never leaves your machine)
└── ScienceClaw/
    ├── backend/                    # FastAPI backend
    │   ├── deepagent/              # Core AI agent engine (LangGraph)
    │   ├── builtin_skills/         # 9 built-in skills (pdf, docx, pptx, xlsx, tooluniverse, ...)
    │   ├── route/                  # REST API routes
    │   ├── im/                     # IM integrations (Feishu / Lark)
    │   ├── mongodb/                # Database access layer
    │   ├── user/                   # User management
    │   ├── scripts/                # Utility scripts (Feishu setup, etc.)
    │   └── translations/           # i18n language packs
    ├── frontend/                   # Vue 3 + Tailwind frontend
    ├── sandbox/                    # Isolated code execution environment
    ├── task-service/               # Scheduled task service (cron jobs)
    └── websearch/                  # Search & crawl microservice

🧑‍💻 Useful Commands

# First launch (recommended for most users) — pull pre-built images, no local compilation
docker compose -f docker-compose-release.yaml up -d

# First launch (for developers) — build from source and start all services
docker compose up -d --build

# First launch (for developers in China) — build with Chinese mirror sources for faster downloads
docker compose -f docker-compose-china.yml up -d --build

# Daily launch — fast startup, no rebuild needed
docker compose up -d

# Check service status
docker compose ps

# View logs (-f to follow in real time)
docker compose logs -f backend     # Backend logs
docker compose logs -f frontend    # Frontend logs
docker compose logs -f sandbox     # Sandbox logs

# Restart a single service
docker compose restart backend

# Stop all services
docker compose down

# Stop a single service
docker compose stop backend

🗑️ Uninstall

ScienceClaw is built entirely on Docker, so uninstalling it is clean and simple — it has no side effects on your host system.

# Stop and remove all containers
docker compose down

# (Optional) Remove downloaded images to free up disk space
docker compose down --rmi all --volumes

Then simply delete the project folder:

rm -rf /path/to/ScienceClaw

That's it. No residual files, no registry entries, no system-level changes.

🏛️ Built By

Zhongke Zidong Taichu (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd.

🤝 Community

We welcome contributions, feedback, and discussions! Join our community:

• Submit issues and feature requests via GitHub Issues
• Share your custom tools and skills with the community

📄 License

MIT License

🙏 Acknowledgements

ScienceClaw is built on the shoulders of excellent open-source projects. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to:

• LangChain DeepAgents — The batteries-included agent harness built on LangChain and LangGraph. ScienceClaw's core agent engine is powered by the DeepAgents architecture, which provides planning, filesystem access, sub-agent delegation, and smart context management out of the box.

• AIO Sandbox — The all-in-one agent sandbox environment that combines Browser, Shell, File, and MCP operations in a single Docker container. ScienceClaw relies on AIO Sandbox to provide secure, isolated code execution with a unified file system.

• ToolUniverse — A unified ecosystem of 1,900+ scientific tools developed by the Zitnik Lab at Harvard. ToolUniverse powers ScienceClaw's multi-disciplinary research capabilities across drug discovery, genomics, astronomy, earth science, and more.

• SearXNG — A privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine. ScienceClaw uses SearXNG as the backbone of its web_search tool, aggregating results from multiple search engines without tracking.

• Crawl4AI — An open-source, LLM-friendly web crawler. ScienceClaw's web_crawl tool is powered by Crawl4AI, enabling intelligent content extraction from web pages for research and analysis.

⭐ Star History

Contributors

• Zhiyuan Li
• Guangchuan Guo
• Shaoling Lin
• Songsong Lei
• Zhidong Zhang

Technical Support: NLP Group, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences