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Setup

Beginner ~2 min

There is nothing to install. Everything runs in your browser on Nebius. Bring a laptop that can open a web page.

Both are posted in #berlin-general on the ClawBio Slack, along with every other joining detail. Join before you arrive so you are not hunting for credentials at 12:00.

Join the ClawBio Slack

Organisers have spares at the desk if anything goes wrong.

Connecting

  1. Open the link from #berlin-general. You land on the OpenClaw Gateway Dashboard.
  2. The WebSocket URL field is already filled in for you.
  3. Paste your token into Gateway Token. Leave Password empty.
  4. Click Connect.
  5. You arrive at the BioNeMo Research Agent chat, running Nemotron 3 Super.

Type into the message box at the bottom and you are working.

If it says Could not connect

Check these in order, and ask in #berlin-help rather than losing build time:

  • The WebSocket URL must start with wss://, not ws://.
  • Make sure the token went into Gateway Token and not into Password.
  • Check for a trailing space when you pasted the token.
  • Try a private or incognito window, in case a stale session is interfering.

Organisers have spare credentials. This is the one thing worth interrupting someone for.

The first thing to type

Capabilities differ between environments. Find out what yours actually has before you build on an assumption:

Before we start, tell me exactly what you can do:
1. List every tool you have available, with its name.
2. Use your ClawBio skill-listing tool to show me the skills you can actually run.
3. Can you fetch a file from a public URL? Can you read or write local files?
4. Can you run code you write yourself?

Answer only from what you can actually see. If you are not sure whether something
works, say so rather than assuming, and we will test it.

Whatever it answers is your real toolkit for the day. Build to that.

Your ClawBio tools

The agent reaches the skill library through three tools. Tool names may be prefixed in your environment, so let the agent find them rather than typing them yourself.

Tool What it does
clawbio_list_skills(query) Search the library. An empty query lists everything.
clawbio_describe_skill(name) Read a skill's contract: inputs, outputs, safety rules
clawbio_run_skill(skill, demo, input_path, output_dir, extra_args) Run a skill

Two things worth knowing:

Skills use short aliases. It is prs, not gwas-prs. It is acmg, not clinical-variant-reporter. Ask the agent to list them and work from what it shows you.

demo=true always works. Passing a local file through input_path may be refused depending on how your image is configured. If it is refused, that is a boundary worth reporting in your demo, not a bug to fight for an hour.

Your data

All three challenges have their data sorted, and none of it needs an account.

  • Challenge 1 uses a 15 KB teaching pack published at the data page. Ask your agent to fetch the URLs.
  • Challenge 2 queries public APIs live. Nothing to download.
  • Challenge 3 uses demo data already inside the skills.

Get the data

Then pick a challenge

Each brief has a prompt template you paste straight in. That is your starting point, and your first hour should be science rather than setup.

Read the challenges

Prefer to work on your own machine?

The hosted agent is the supported route today, but everything is open source and runs locally if you would rather.

curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ClawBio/ClawBio.git
cd ClawBio
python3 examples/nebius_agent.py --dry-run

Every skill runs through uv, so a bare python3 will fail on missing packages. Note also that clawbio.py run only knows 49 short aliases: if a skill is not found, call its script directly, for example uv run python skills/gwas-prs/gwas_prs.py --demo --output /tmp/prs.

Each challenge brief has a collapsed block with the exact verified commands. You can also open Claude Code or Codex in the clone: the repo ships CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md, so both pick up the library on their own.

Getting help

Channel For
#berlin-general Your Nebius link and token, plus announcements
#berlin-help Anything technical, including connection problems
#berlin-teams Finding people to build with
#berlin-demos Your repo and one line, before 16:10

Join the ClawBio Slack

Ask early rather than at 15:30. The mentors are there precisely so that nobody loses an hour to a fixable problem.