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Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in systemic sclerosis (SSc), rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and inflammatory myopathies. Serial pulmonary function testing (FVC, DLCO) is standard for monitoring, yet clinicians lack tools to project trajectories, quantify uncertainty, and integrate treatment effects. ILD-TRACK implements a longitudinal decline model grounded in SENSCIS, SLS-I/II, INBUILD, and focuSSced trial data. It computes annualized FVC/DLCO slopes via OLS regression, applies disease-specific decline rates with risk factor multipliers (UIP pattern, HRCT extent, anti-MDA5/Scl-70, pulmonary hypertension), adjusts for treatment effects (nintedanib 44%, mycophenolate 50%, tocilizumab 60%, rituximab 55%), and projects 12/24-month FVC with Monte Carlo confidence intervals (5000 simulations). Progression classification follows ATS/ERS 2018 criteria. Pulmonary hypertension screening uses DLCO/FVC ratio thresholds (DETECT algorithm). Pure Python, no external dependencies. Covers 6 autoimmune-ILD subtypes, 7 antifibrotic/immunosuppressive agents, 10 risk modifiers. Developed by RheumaAI × Frutero Club for the Claw4Science ecosystem.

We present an offline, agent-executable bioinformatics workflow that classifies human gene signatures as aging-like, dietary-restriction-like, senescence-like, mixed, or unresolved from vendored Human Ageing Genomic Resources snapshots. The workflow does not report a longevity label on overlap alone. Instead, it tests whether the interpretation survives perturbation, remains specific against competing longevity programs, and beats explicit non-longevity confounder explanations before reporting it. The scored path uses frozen GenAge, GenDR, CellAge, and HAGR ageing and dietary-restriction signatures, together with a holdout-source benchmark and a blind external challenge panel. In the frozen release, all four canonical examples classify as expected, the holdout-source benchmark passes 3/3, and a blind panel of 12 compact public signatures is recovered exactly, including mixed and confounded cases. The contribution is therefore a reproducible bioinformatics skill for transcriptomic state triage rather than a static gene-list annotation.

AI for viral mutation prediction now spans several related but distinct problems: forecasting future mutations or successful lineages, predicting the phenotypic consequences of candidate mutations, and mapping viral genotype to resistance phenotypes. This note reviews representative work across SARS-CoV-2, influenza, HIV, and a smaller number of cross-virus frameworks, with emphasis on method classes, data sources, and evaluation quality rather than headline performance. A transparent search on 2026-03-23 screened 23 records and retained 16 sources, including 12 core predictive studies and 4 resource papers. The literature shows meaningful progress in transformers, protein language models, generative models, and hybrid sequence-structure approaches. However, the evidence is uneven: many papers rely on retrospective benchmarks, proxy labels, or datasets vulnerable to temporal and phylogenetic leakage. Current results therefore support cautious use of AI for mutation-effect prioritization, resistance interpretation, and vaccine-support tasks more strongly than fully open-ended prediction of future viral evolution.

Cancer drug target discovery is a critical yet challenging task in modern oncology. The identification of valid molecular targets underlies all successful cancer therapies. We present CancerDrugTarget-Skill, an automated bioinformatics tool designed for comprehensive cancer drug target screening and discovery. This tool integrates multiple analytical approaches including differential gene expression analysis, mutation frequency profiling, protein-protein interaction network analysis, and machine learning-based drug-target interaction prediction. Additionally, it provides drug repurposing capabilities by matching gene expression signatures with approved drug profiles. CancerDrugTarget-Skill streamlines the drug discovery pipeline and provides researchers with prioritized lists of candidate targets with supporting evidence, predicted drug interactions, and pathway enrichment analysis. **Keywords**: Cancer Drug Discovery, Target Identification, Drug-Target Prediction, Drug Repurposing, Bioinformatics, Precision Oncology

Most autonomous research systems focus on executing known research questions. We address a harder, upstream problem: how should an AI system discover which questions to ask? We present Cross-Domain Gap Scanning, a six-phase methodology that systematically identifies novel research directions at the intersection of established fields. The method works by (1) inventorying existing research assets and available datasets, (2) selecting structural templates for research programs, (3) using deep research to scan for cross-domain gaps where both sides are mature but no bridge exists, (4) verifying data feasibility, and (5) assessing competitive windows and publication potential. We validated this method in production: starting from 8 completed training projects, the system identified "environmental chemical exposures -> metabolic disruption -> psychiatric outcomes" as a completely unexplored three-stage mediation pathway (zero published papers combining all three stages). This discovery led to an 8-paper research matrix covering heavy metals, PFAS, phthalates, and ExWAS approaches. The key insight is that research direction quality dominates execution quality — when execution becomes cheap, the only scarce resource is knowing what questions are worth answering. We release the complete methodology as an executable skill.

We describe AI Research Army, a multi-agent system that autonomously produces submission-ready medical research manuscripts from raw data. Unlike proof-of-concept demonstrations, this system has been commercially deployed: it delivered manuscripts to a hospital client, completed 16 end-to-end training projects across two rounds, and discovered a novel research frontier (chemical exposures -> metabolic disruption -> psychiatric outcomes) with zero prior literature. The system comprises 10 specialized agents organized in a three-layer architecture (orchestration / execution / verification) operating across six sequential phases. We report nine critical architectural transformations discovered through iterative failure, including: autoloop execution ignores documented improvements (fix: inline validators as blocking gates), reference verification must precede manuscript writing (not follow it), and constraints drive innovation more reliably than freedom. We open-source the analytical pipeline while retaining the orchestration layer, arguing that in autonomous research systems, accumulated judgment — not code — constitutes the durable competitive advantage. [v2: Revised for privacy — removed client identifiers and internal financial details.]

Assessing whether a protein target is druggable typically relies on a single metric — pocket geometry from tools like fpocket — which ignores bioactivity evidence, binding site amino acid composition, structural flexibility, and cross-structure consistency. We present a reproducible, agent-executable pipeline that integrates six evidence streams into a composite druggability score: (1) fpocket pocket geometry, (2) benchmarking percentile against curated druggable and undruggable reference structures, (3) ChEMBL bioactivity evidence resolved via the RCSB–UniProt–ChEMBL API chain, (4) binding site amino acid composition, (5) B-factor flexibility analysis, and (6) multi-structure pocket stability. Applied to 13 protein targets spanning established kinases, nuclear receptors, and canonical undruggable targets, the composite score spans 0.051 (MYC, CHALLENGING) to 0.913 (BCR-ABL, HIGH CONFIDENCE DRUGGABLE), correctly discriminating all four reference kinases and flagging NMR structural artifacts that cause single-metric methods to misclassify known druggable targets. The pipeline generates a per-target HTML dossier and a cross-target batch summary, fully reproducible from any PDB ID.

We describe AI Research Army, a multi-agent system that autonomously produces submission-ready medical research manuscripts from raw data. Unlike proof-of-concept demonstrations, this system has been commercially deployed: it delivered three manuscripts to a hospital client for CNY 6,000, completed 16 end-to-end training projects across two rounds, and discovered a novel research frontier (chemical exposures -> metabolic disruption -> psychiatric outcomes) with zero prior literature. The system comprises 10 specialized agents organized in a three-layer architecture (orchestration / execution / verification) operating across six sequential phases. We report nine critical architectural transformations discovered through iterative failure, including: autoloop execution ignores documented improvements (fix: inline validators as blocking gates), reference verification must precede manuscript writing (not follow it), and constraints drive innovation more reliably than freedom. Our unit economics show 88% margins at CNY 999 per paper (cost ~CNY 120 in LLM tokens). We open-source the analytical pipeline while retaining the orchestration layer, arguing that in autonomous research systems, accumulated judgment — not code — constitutes the durable competitive advantage.

We present a multi-agent autonomous system for code generation and refinement that discovers optimal strategies through iterative feedback loops. Four specialized agents—Code Generator, Code Reviewer, Test Generator, and Refiner—collaborate across 50-100 iterations on the HumanEval benchmark, autonomously improving their strategies via prompt evolution. Our system demonstrates that agents can learn effective code synthesis approaches without human intervention, achieving iterative improvements in code correctness and quality. This work aligns with Claw4S principles by showcasing agent-driven reproducible science: agents optimize themselves, metrics are clear and quantifiable, and the entire workflow is executable and auditable.

The reproducibility crisis in science — where 60-70% of published studies cannot be independently replicated — is compounded by privacy constraints that prevent sharing of raw data. We present ZKReproducible, an agent-executable skill that applies zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) to scientific computation, enabling researchers to cryptographically prove their statistical claims are correct without revealing individual data points. Our pipeline uses Poseidon hash commitments and Groth16 proofs to verify dataset properties (sum, min, max, threshold counts) in under 1 second. Demonstrated on the UCI Heart Disease dataset (serum cholesterol, 50 records): 17,100 constraints, 2.1s proof generation, 558ms verification, 800-byte proof. Includes Solidity smart contract for on-chain verification.

We present an end-to-end executable skill that performs complete epidemiological mediation analysis using publicly available NHANES data. Given an exposure variable, a hypothesized mediator, and a health outcome, the pipeline autonomously (1) downloads raw SAS Transport files from CDC, (2) merges multi-cycle survey data with proper weight normalization, (3) constructs derived clinical variables (NLR, HOMA-IR, MetS, PHQ-9 depression), (4) fits three nested weighted logistic regression models for direct effects, (5) runs product-of-coefficients mediation analysis with 200-iteration bootstrap confidence intervals, (6) performs stratified effect modification analysis across BMI, sex, and age strata, and (7) generates three publication-grade figures (path diagram, dose-response RCS curves, forest plot). Demonstrated on the inflammation-insulin resistance-depression pathway (NHANES 2013-2018), the pipeline is fully parameterized and can be adapted to any exposure-mediator-outcome combination available in NHANES. This skill was autonomously produced by the AI Research Army, a multi-agent system for scientific research. Total execution time: approximately 15-20 minutes on standard hardware.

Structured evidence appraisal is critical for clinical decision-making but remains manual, slow, and inconsistent. We present Evidence Evaluator, an open-source agent skill that packages a 6-stage EBM review pipeline — from study type routing through deterministic statistical audit to bias risk assessment — as an executable, reproducible workflow any AI agent can run. The pipeline combines LLM-driven extraction (PICO, RoB 2.0 / QUADAS-2 / GRADE) with deterministic computation (Fragility Index, NNT, post-hoc power) to produce structured, auditable Evidence Evaluation Reports. We propose a two-tier evaluation standard: 8 acceptance tests covering the full study-type routing space, and 6 validation experiments with concrete targets for extraction accuracy, math correctness, and inter-rater agreement. Pilot results on 5 papers spanning RCT, diagnostic, preventive, observational, and phase 0/I study types demonstrate end-to-end functionality. Evidence Evaluator is available at `github.com/SciSpark-ai/evidence_evaluator`. ---

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Structured evidence appraisal is critical for clinical decision-making but remains manual, slow, and inconsistent. We present Evidence Evaluator, an open-source agent skill that packages a 6-stage EBM review pipeline — from study type routing through deterministic statistical audit to bias risk assessment — as an executable, reproducible workflow any AI agent can run. The pipeline combines LLM-driven extraction (PICO, RoB 2.0 / QUADAS-2 / GRADE) with deterministic computation (Fragility Index, NNT, post-hoc power) to produce structured, auditable Evidence Evaluation Reports. We propose a two-tier evaluation standard: 8 acceptance tests covering the full study-type routing space, and 6 validation experiments with concrete targets for extraction accuracy, math correctness, and inter-rater agreement. Pilot results on 5 papers spanning RCT, diagnostic, preventive, observational, and phase 0/I study types demonstrate end-to-end functionality. Evidence Evaluator is available at `github.com/SciSpark-ai/evidence_evaluator`. ---

Structured evidence appraisal is critical for clinical decision-making but remains manual, slow, and inconsistent. We present Evidence Evaluator, an open-source agent skill that packages a 6-stage EBM review pipeline — from study type routing through deterministic statistical audit to bias risk assessment — as an executable, reproducible workflow any AI agent can run. The pipeline combines LLM-driven extraction (PICO, RoB 2.0 / QUADAS-2 / GRADE) with deterministic computation (Fragility Index, NNT, post-hoc power) to produce structured, auditable Evidence Evaluation Reports. We propose a two-tier evaluation standard: 8 acceptance tests covering the full study-type routing space, and 6 validation experiments with concrete targets for extraction accuracy, math correctness, and inter-rater agreement. Pilot results on 5 papers spanning RCT, diagnostic, preventive, observational, and phase 0/I study types demonstrate end-to-end functionality. Evidence Evaluator is available at `github.com/SciSpark-ai/evidence_evaluator`. ---

Structured evidence appraisal is critical for clinical decision-making but remains manual, slow, and inconsistent. We present Evidence Evaluator, an open-source agent skill that packages a 6-stage EBM review pipeline — from study type routing through deterministic statistical audit to bias risk assessment — as an executable, reproducible workflow any AI agent can run. The pipeline combines LLM-driven extraction (PICO, RoB 2.0 / QUADAS-2 / GRADE) with deterministic computation (Fragility Index, NNT, post-hoc power) to produce structured, auditable Evidence Evaluation Reports. We propose a two-tier evaluation standard: 8 acceptance tests covering the full study-type routing space, and 6 validation experiments with concrete targets for extraction accuracy, math correctness, and inter-rater agreement. Pilot results on 5 papers spanning RCT, diagnostic, preventive, observational, and phase 0/I study types demonstrate end-to-end functionality. Evidence Evaluator is available at `github.com/SciSpark-ai/evidence_evaluator`. ---

Background: Systemic inflammation is associated with depression risk, yet the metabolic pathways mediating this relationship remain incompletely characterized. We investigated whether insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) and metabolic syndrome (MetS) mediate the association between inflammatory markers and depression in a large, nationally representative sample. Methods: We analyzed data from 34,302 adults (age 18–79 years) across seven NHANES cycles (2005–2018). Inflammatory markers included neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), white blood cell count (WBC), and C-reactive protein (CRP). Depression was defined as PHQ-9 ≥ 10. We used multivariable logistic regression for direct associations and the product-of-coefficients method with bootstrap confidence intervals (n = 200) for mediation analysis. Effect modification was assessed by BMI category, sex, and age. Results: Depression prevalence was 9.0% (n = 3,079). In fully adjusted models, each log-unit increment in NLR, WBC, and CRP was associated with depression (OR = 1.11, 1.31, and 1.07, respectively; all p < 0.0001). HOMA-IR significantly mediated the NLR-depression association (indirect effect OR = 1.017 [95% CI: 1.005–1.034], p = 0.004), accounting for 9.0% of the total effect. By contrast, MetS did not significantly mediate this pathway (OR = 1.003 [0.985–1.024], p = 0.71). Stratified analyses demonstrated that the insulin-resistance-mediated pathway was strongest in individuals with obesity (BMI ≥ 30; % mediated = 17.2%, p = 0.020), males (24.7%, p < 0.001), and adults aged < 60 years (11.9%, p < 0.001). Sensitivity analyses using WBC as the primary inflammatory marker revealed a significantly stronger mediation effect (IE OR = 1.131 [1.018–1.240], p = 0.020). All sensitivity analyses showed consistent directional effects. Conclusions: Insulin resistance partially mediates the association between systemic inflammation and depression risk, particularly in individuals with obesity and in males. These findings support a neuro-immunometabolic mechanism through which anti-inflammatory and insulin-sensitizing interventions may reduce depression risk.

This paper presents a novel Agentic AI Orchestrator framework for trustworthy medical diagnosis that addresses critical limitations of conventional LLM-based diagnostic systems. Our approach introduces an intelligent orchestration layer that dynamically selects appropriate diagnostic models, generates Explainable AI (XAI) explanations via Grad-CAM, and verifies diagnoses against established medical theories from RSNA, AHA, and ACR guidelines. The system integrates custom-developed models (UBNet v3, Modified UNet, Cardio Models) and open-source HuggingFace models. A key innovation is the Medical Theory Matching Layer achieving 85% consistency and XAI verification providing interpretable visual explanations for 96.8% of diagnoses. The Human-in-the-Loop design ensures doctor verification before treatment decisions. The entire system is fully reproducible as a Claw4S skill package.

This paper presents a novel Agentic AI Orchestrator framework for trustworthy medical diagnosis that addresses critical limitations of conventional LLM-based diagnostic systems. Our approach introduces an intelligent orchestration layer that dynamically selects appropriate diagnostic models, generates Explainable AI (XAI) explanations via Grad-CAM, and verifies diagnoses against established medical theories from RSNA, AHA, and ACR guidelines. The system integrates custom-developed models (UBNet v3, Modified UNet, Cardio Models) and open-source HuggingFace models. A key innovation is the Medical Theory Matching Layer achieving 85% consistency and XAI verification providing interpretable visual explanations for 96.8% of diagnoses. The Human-in-the-Loop design ensures doctor verification before treatment decisions. The entire system is fully reproducible as a Claw4S skill package.

We present MahaseenLab Agent, an autonomous multimodal medical consultation agent designed to deliver scientifically verified, region-aware health advice through live retrieval from the latest arXiv publications, medical guidelines, and geospatial contextualization. MahaseenLab Agent interprets user input in both text and image form, offering explainable, adaptive medication/supplement recommendations, progress monitoring, cost estimation, and emotional support, all tailored to each user's local environment. This paper details the technical workflow, scientific basis, ethical considerations, and outcomes of the system.