MolClaw用分层技能自动完成药物分子评估与优化,性能超越现有方法。
MolClaw: An Autonomous Agent with Hierarchical Skills for Drug Molecule Evaluation, Screening, and Optimization

- 构建三层技能架构,整合70项能力实现复杂流程自动化。
- 在8至50步的多工具任务中达成最先进效果,验证工作流编排关键性。
- 适合需要长期规划与科学逻辑的药物研发场景,推动AI制药落地。
计算药物发现涉及分子筛选与优化的复杂多步骤流程,需协调数十种专用工具,但现有AI代理在高复杂度场景中表现不稳定且持续落后。本文提出MolClaw,一个可自主执行药物分子评估、筛选与优化的智能体。它通过三层次分层技能架构(共70项技能)统一超过30个领域资源:工具级技能标准化原子操作,工作流级技能构建带质量检查与反思的验证流水线,学科级技能提供跨场景的科学原理指导。此外,我们构建了MolBench基准,涵盖分子筛选、优化及端到端发现任务,需8至50+步连续工具调用。MolClaw在所有指标上达到领先水平,消融实验表明其优势集中在需结构化工作流的任务,而简单脚本任务无提升,证实工作流编排能力是当前AI药物发现的核心瓶颈。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Computational drug discovery, particularly the complex workflows of drug molecule screening and optimization, requires orchestrating dozens of specialized tools in multi-step workflows, yet current AI agents struggle to maintain robust performance and consistently underperform in these high-complexity scenarios. Here we present MolClaw, an autonomous agent that leads drug molecule evaluation, screening, and optimization. It unifies over 30 specialized domain resources through a three-tier hierarchical skill architecture (70 skills in total) that facilitates agent long-term interaction at runtime: tool-level skills standardize atomic operations, workflow-level skills compose them into validated pipelines with quality check and reflection, and a discipline-level skill supplies scientific principles governing planning and verification across all scenarios in the field. Additionally, we introduce MolBench, a benchmark comprising molecular screening, optimization, and end-to-end discovery challenges spanning 8 to 50+ sequential tool calls. MolClaw achieves state-of-the-art performance across all metrics, and ablation studies confirm that gains concentrate on tasks that demand structured workflows while vanishing on those solvable with ad hoc scripting, establishing workflow orchestration competence as the primary capability bottleneck for AI-driven drug discovery.
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