An Empirical Study of Agent Skills for Healthcare: Practice, Gaps, and Governance
Healthcare automation is shaped by local procedures and organizational constraints, so agent capabilities rarely transfer unchanged across settings. Agent skills, self-contained directories that package reusable procedures for AI agents, are emerging as a procedural layer for adapting healthcare agents across diverse healthcare settings. We present the first empirical analysis of healthcare agent skills, drawing on 557 healthcare-related skills filtered from 58,159 public skills on ClawHub and a
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Published: 4 May 2026
Source: arXiv
Category: Research
Topics: Regulation · Jobs & economy · Healthcare · Agents & autonomy
Retrieved: 14 July 2026
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