OpenClaw Maintainer Activity

Evidence report across 92 GitHub repos and maintainer Discord channels. Counts are hard numbers; active maintainers get evidence-backed notes, and quiet maintainers are grouped compactly. Access roster: 45 people / 49 GitHub accounts.

Window
May 1, 2026
As of
Active
35/45
21 Core Staff / 14 Community
GitHub Events
1566
maintainer + non-maintainer
Discord
649
messages
PRs Opened
218
114 merged
Issues
201
208 closed
Repos
20
active in shown list
Overview

Global Summary

Codex synthesis
  • Daily report for 2026-05-01 covers 657 GitHub commits, 218 PRs opened, 114 PRs merged, and 649 Discord messages across maintainer channels.
  • Activity was concentrated in openclaw/openclaw plus focused work in ClawHub, Kova, Windows node, crawl tooling, and security-related channels.
Hard Numbers

Activity Mix

codex summaries / 20 Discord mapping gaps
Commit Search Hits
657
Issue/PR comments
0
PR review comments
0
Discord messages
649
Releases

Release Signals In This Window

12 active repos matched ReleaseBar for Daily Report 2026-05-01
Tracked active repos
12
Latest releases in window
0
Latest repo updates in window
0
No release recorded
1
Maintainers

People With Access

showing 35 of 35 active
@steipete
Peter Steinberger
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff adminsecurityrelease
openclaw: 373clawsweeper: 13crabbox: 11discrawl: 7 #maintainers: 108#maintainer-offtopic: 1 owns: Core platform, daemon, agentsowns: Internal tools

Peter had heavy visible activity with 409 GitHub events, mostly in openclaw/openclaw, including fixes for SSE receive streams, hosted image generation timeouts, Discord Carbon parity, session liveness diagnostics, and DM access groups. Discord activity was also high in #maintainers with 109 messages, alongside work touching clawsweeper, crabbox, discrawl, and homebrew-tap.

GitHub409
Commit Search Hits375
PRs33
Issues1
Discord109
@vincentkoc
Vincent Koc
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff securityrelease
openclaw: 97crawlbar: 54crawlkit: 17notcrawl: 15 #maintainers: 118#maintainer-security-ops: 15#maintainer-offtopic: 3 owns: Core platform, daemon, agentsowns: Internal toolsowns: Observability, Diag and Telemetryowns: Plugins

Vincent had 232 GitHub events across openclaw/openclaw, crawlbar, crawlkit, notcrawl, and slacrawl, with focus on plugin rebuild behavior, inspect registry snapshots, gateway transcript hot paths, audit behavior, and CLI fallback state. He was also active in Discord with 136 messages, including #maintainers and #maintainer-security-ops.

GitHub232
Commit Search Hits182
PRs50
Issues0
Discord136
@shakkernerd
Gideon Adegbesan
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff
Kova: 38openclaw: 15 #maintainers: 31#clawtributors: 1

Gideon recorded 53 commits, mostly in openclaw/Kova, focused on live provider readiness, inherited auth scenarios, embedded agent latency evidence, external CLI auth, gateway ingress evidence, and agent message ingress surfaces. Discord activity was moderate with 32 messages, mostly in #maintainers.

GitHub53
Commit Search Hits53
PRs0
Issues0
Discord32
@obviyus
Ayaan Zaidi
AI startup in pharma drug discovery
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 13openclaw-rtt: 7 #maintainers: 35 owns: Channel Telegram

Ayaan had 20 GitHub events across openclaw/openclaw and openclaw-rtt, centered on Telegram reply cold-start latency, RTT sampling, scenario parsing, and packaging speedups. He also posted 35 messages in #maintainers, including discussion of running 20 cycles and diff size.

GitHub20
Commit Search Hits18
PRs2
Issues0
Discord35
@amknight
Alex Knight
Atlassian
Core Staff
openclaw: 24 #maintainers: 2 supports: Automation, hooks & jobs (cron)supports: Interfaces (CLI, TUI, Web UI)

Alex had 24 GitHub events in openclaw/openclaw, with PRs around best-effort persistence for Teams, Matrix, Discord, and Slack, plus heartbeat scheduling and async transcript I/O. Discord activity was light with 2 maintainer-channel messages about site/network access.

GitHub24
Commit Search Hits7
PRs17
Issues0
Discord2
@pash-openai
Nik Pash
GitHub: @pash-openai / @pashpashpash
OpenAI
Core Staff
openclaw: 10 #maintainers: 15 owns: Codex

Nik had 10 GitHub events in openclaw/openclaw focused on Codex prompt snapshots, message-tool defaults, heartbeat responses, and Codex tool replies. He also posted 15 #maintainers messages discussing snapshot auditing and consolidating related Codex harness work.

GitHub10
Commit Search Hits3
PRs7
Issues0
Discord15
@Patrick-Erichsen
Patrick Erichsen
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff release
clawhub: 10clawhub-security: 1 #maintainers: 4 owns: ClawHub

Patrick had 11 GitHub events across clawhub and clawhub-security, focused on ClawScan artifact prompt boundaries, ClawHub logo assets, and security eval pipelines. Discord activity was light, with 4 #maintainers messages about prompt findings and repository mirror handling.

GitHub11
Commit Search Hits8
PRs3
Issues0
Discord4
@shanselman
Scott Hanselman
Microsoft
Core Staff
openclaw-windows-node: 9

Scott had 9 GitHub events in openclaw/openclaw-windows-node, merging work on exec approval validation, device.status health sections, text-to-speech, tray cleanup, winnode CLI, and onboarding wizard updates. No Discord activity was visible in this window.

GitHub9
Commit Search Hits3
PRs6
Issues0
Discord0
@BunsDev
Val Alexander
Independent DevRel / builder
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 8 #maintainers: 2

Val had 8 GitHub events in openclaw/openclaw, closing or merging work around Gateway RPC SDK APIs, workspace bootstrap config, proxy validation, and async music delivery. Discord activity was light with 2 #maintainers messages.

GitHub8
Commit Search Hits0
PRs6
Issues2
Discord2
@sallyom
Sally O'Malley
Red Hat
Core Staff
openclaw: 7 #maintainers: 3#maintainer-offtopic: 1

Sally had 7 GitHub events in openclaw/openclaw, focused on config recovery logging, config-audit redaction, pairing stat errors, Docker runtime Python restoration, and Docker apt GPG pinning. She also posted 4 Discord messages across #maintainers and #maintainer-offtopic, including notes about preparing a doc and evals coordination.

GitHub7
Commit Search Hits1
PRs6
Issues0
Discord4
@pgondhi987
Pavan Kumar Gondhi
NVIDIA
Core Staff security
openclaw: 7

Pavan had 7 GitHub events in openclaw/openclaw, focused on blocking unsafe workspace environment injection paths for systemd, gcloud, Windows system paths, and Homebrew resolution. No Discord activity was visible in this window.

GitHub7
Commit Search Hits3
PRs4
Issues0
Discord0
@RomneyDa
Dallin Romney
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff
gitcrawl: 3openclaw: 3 #maintainers: 1

Dallin had 6 GitHub events across openclaw/openclaw and gitcrawl, focused on gateway reconnect logging, embedded-run abort leak validation, embedding retry behavior, pagination logs, and GitHub API rate-limit handling. He posted 1 #maintainers message describing PR #75008 and targeted memory-leak harness verification.

GitHub6
Commit Search Hits0
PRs6
Issues0
Discord1
@jalehman
Josh Lehman
Martian Engineering
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 6

Josh had 6 GitHub events in openclaw/openclaw, including work on main build failures, context engine initialization, compaction model fallback, backup restore logging, and prompt authority in precheck. No Discord activity was visible in this window.

GitHub6
Commit Search Hits1
PRs4
Issues1
Discord0
@joshavant
Josh Avant
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff security
gogcli: 2openclaw: 2 #maintainers: 6#maintainer-offtopic: 1 owns: Security

Josh had 4 GitHub events across openclaw/openclaw and gogcli, focused on published upgrade survivor tests and generic dev version fallback. He also posted 7 Discord messages across #maintainers and #maintainer-offtopic, including discussion of future agent payment platform considerations.

GitHub4
Commit Search Hits0
PRs4
Issues0
Discord7
@eleqtrizit
Agustin Rivera
NVIDIA
Core Staff security
openclaw: 5

Agustin had 5 GitHub events in openclaw/openclaw, opening PRs around malformed canvas request URLs, exec allowlist wildcard normalization, wiki session visibility, browser tab exports, and Mattermost slash callback validation. No Discord activity was visible in this window.

GitHub5
Commit Search Hits1
PRs4
Issues0
Discord0
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff adminsecurityrelease
#maintainers: 17#clawtributors: 2#maintainer-offtopic: 1

Shadow had no visible GitHub activity, but posted 20 Discord messages across #maintainers, #clawtributors, and #maintainer-offtopic. The snippets show operational discussion around server questions and backup machine needs.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord20
@ngutman
Nimrod Gutman
Singular
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 3 #maintainers: 4#maintainer-offtopic: 3

Nimrod had 3 GitHub events in openclaw/openclaw, focused on macOS exec approval dialog layout and moving sessions into a context submenu. He also posted 7 Discord messages across #maintainers and #maintainer-offtopic.

GitHub3
Commit Search Hits0
PRs3
Issues0
Discord7
@hxy91819
Mason Huang
Tencent
Core Staff security
openclaw: 3 #maintainer-security-ops: 2

Mason had 3 GitHub events in openclaw/openclaw, focused on blocking package updates inside a running gateway service, redaction patterns for cloud/API keys, and Nextcloud Talk timing-safe comparison. Discord activity was limited to 2 #maintainer-security-ops messages.

GitHub3
Commit Search Hits0
PRs3
Issues0
Discord2
@huntharo
Harold Hunt
GIPHY / PwrDrvr LLC
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 9

Harold had no visible GitHub activity, but posted 9 messages in #maintainers. The visible discussion centered on cost trajectory and economics of the current approach.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord9
@mcaxtr
Marcus Castro
Unnamed American company
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 6#maintainer-offtopic: 1

Marcus had no visible GitHub activity, but posted 7 Discord messages across #maintainers and #maintainer-offtopic. The snippets show general channel participation and a meeting link.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord7
@odysseus0
George Zhang
Stealth startup
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 7

George had no visible GitHub activity, but posted 7 messages in #maintainers. The visible discussion focused on model cost and unit economics.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord7
@jacobtomlinson
Jacob Tomlinson
NVIDIA
Core Staff security
#maintainer-security-ops: 6

Jacob had no visible GitHub activity, but posted 6 messages in #maintainer-security-ops. The snippets show coordination around GHSA access and catching up on a security backlog.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord6
@scoootscooob
Scott Fan
Paradigm
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 4#maintainer-offtopic: 2

Scott Fan had no visible GitHub activity, but posted 6 Discord messages across #maintainers and #maintainer-offtopic. The snippets mention composing a doc for trace providers and a potential partnership follow-up after a call.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord6
@giodl73-repo
Gio Della-Libera
Microsoft
Core Staff
openclaw: 1

Gio had 1 GitHub event in openclaw/openclaw, merging work to allow config includes from approved roots. No Discord activity was visible in this window.

GitHub1
Commit Search Hits0
PRs1
Issues0
Discord0
@velvet-shark
Radek Sienkiewicz
Consulting / DevRel
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 3

Radek had no visible GitHub activity, but posted 3 messages in #maintainers. The snippets show discussion around exploring an update-related issue and linking external feedback about updates.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord3
@vignesh07
Vignesh Natarajan
Snowflake
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 2#maintainer-offtopic: 1

Vignesh had no visible GitHub activity, but posted 3 Discord messages across #maintainers and #maintainer-offtopic. The snippets focused on slug-page redirect wording and plugin discoverability concerns.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord3
@visionik
Jonathan Taylor
PhotoDay / Sighthound / Deft; contractor for NASA/SpaceX/Blue Origin via Mars Scientific
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 3

Jonathan had no visible GitHub activity, but posted 3 messages in #maintainers. The snippets show document review discussion, including proposed revisions, comments versus tracked changes, and audience clarification.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord3
@Evizero
Christof Salis
VertifyMed
Community Maintainer
#maintainer-offtopic: 1#maintainers: 1

Christof had no visible GitHub activity, but posted 2 Discord messages across #maintainers and #maintainer-offtopic. The snippets were general discussion about location and local model impressions.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord2
@galiniliev
Galin Iliev
Microsoft
Core Staff
#maintainers: 2

Galin had no visible GitHub activity, but posted 2 messages in #maintainers. One snippet mentions submitting a release branching proposal in the maintainers repo and offering to start tool changes for the next release.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord2
@mbelinky
Mariano Belinky
Regenerative agriculture farm / asset management setup
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 2

Mariano had no visible GitHub activity, but posted 2 messages in #maintainers. The snippets show a shared X link and a short greeting.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord2
No matching active maintainer in this report.

No visible activity

10 maintainers
  • @bek91 - Bek Akhmedov
  • @davemorin - Dave Morin
  • @gumadeiras - Gustavo Madeira Santana
  • @joshp123 - Josh Palmer
  • @momothemage - Zhengnan Niu
  • @onutc - Onur Solmaz
  • @SidU - Sid Uppal
  • @sjf - Sarah Fortune
  • @sliverp - Yuehua Li
  • @Takhoffman - Tak Hoffman