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 2, 2026
As of
Active
21/45
13 Core Staff / 8 Community
GitHub Events
963
maintainer + non-maintainer
Discord
369
messages
PRs Opened
122
96 merged
Issues
1
5 closed
Repos
14
active in shown list
Overview

Global Summary

Codex synthesis
  • Daily window 2026-05-02: activity concentrated in openclaw/openclaw plus ClawHub, Clawbench, Kova, and maintainers docs; Discord volume mostly in #maintainers.
  • Several maintainers had GitHub-only or Discord-only traces; many listed maintainers had no visible activity in the provided window.
Hard Numbers

Activity Mix

codex summaries / 20 Discord mapping gaps
Commit Search Hits
569
Issue/PR comments
0
PR review comments
0
Discord messages
369
Releases

Release Signals In This Window

12 active repos matched ReleaseBar for Daily Report 2026-05-02
Tracked active repos
12
Latest releases in window
0
Latest repo updates in window
0
No release recorded
2
Maintainers

People With Access

showing 21 of 21 active
@steipete
Peter Steinberger
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff adminsecurityrelease
openclaw: 311clawsweeper: 24crabbox: 7 #maintainers: 78#maintainer-offtopic: 1 owns: Core platform, daemon, agentsowns: Internal tools

High activity across openclaw/openclaw, clawsweeper, and crabbox with 283 commits, 21 PRs opened, and 36 PRs merged; focus areas included queue behavior, gateway tool-call preservation, server-side dictation, channel install hints, session persistence performance, and plugin install repair. Discord activity was also high in #maintainers with 79 messages, including release/team coordination.

GitHub342
Commit Search Hits283
PRs59
Issues0
Discord79
@vincentkoc
Vincent Koc
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff securityrelease
openclaw: 87clawhub: 64crawlbar: 25crawlkit: 19 #maintainers: 53 owns: Core platform, daemon, agentsowns: Internal toolsowns: Observability, Diag and Telemetryowns: Plugins

High GitHub activity with 239 commits across openclaw/openclaw, clawhub, crawlbar, crawlkit, and notcrawl; focus areas included channel install hints, xAI/Grok tool-call handling, ClawHub clawpack artifact installation, and metadata renaming. Discord activity in #maintainers referenced Vercel/backend deployment and ClawHub going live.

GitHub246
Commit Search Hits239
PRs7
Issues0
Discord53
@BunsDev
Val Alexander
Independent DevRel / builder
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 38clawhub: 7 #maintainers: 11#maintainer-security-ops: 1

Visible GitHub work centered on openclaw/openclaw and clawhub with 12 commits, 15 PRs opened, and 17 merged; focus areas included WebUI session latency churn and gateway plugin tool invocability. Discord activity in #maintainers and #maintainer-security-ops included bug triage and UX/UI framing.

GitHub45
Commit Search Hits12
PRs33
Issues0
Discord12
@obviyus
Ayaan Zaidi
AI startup in pharma drug discovery
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 23 #maintainers: 23 owns: Channel Telegram

Openclaw/openclaw activity included 14 commits and 8 merged PRs, focused on Gemini stream hangs, agent timeout fallback behavior, cron retry behavior, service PATH cleanup, channel-plugin session keys, and Gemini thinkingBudget handling. Discord activity was 23 #maintainers messages with release/build chatter.

GitHub23
Commit Search Hits14
PRs9
Issues0
Discord23
@shakkernerd
Gideon Adegbesan
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff
Kova: 5openclaw: 4 #maintainers: 30#clawtributors: 1

Worked across openclaw/openclaw and Kova with 5 commits, 2 PRs opened, and 1 merged; focus areas included static tool descriptor planning and Kova operator/agent skills docs. Discord activity was mostly in #maintainers, including commit-hash and move coordination.

GitHub9
Commit Search Hits5
PRs4
Issues0
Discord31
@pash-openai
Nik Pash
GitHub: @pash-openai / @pashpashpash
OpenAI
Core Staff
openclaw: 15 #maintainers: 3 owns: Codex

Openclaw/openclaw activity focused on Codex prompt snapshots, with PRs around workspace bootstrap context, runtime prompt snapshot directory naming, and happy-path prompt snapshots. Discord activity was light in #maintainers with testing/cleanup discussion.

GitHub15
Commit Search Hits4
PRs11
Issues0
Discord3
@scoootscooob
Scott Fan
Paradigm
Community Maintainer
clawbench: 3openclaw: 3 #maintainers: 17

Worked in openclaw/openclaw and clawbench with 4 commits and 1 merged PR; focus areas included explicit gateway startup control-plane retries and Clawbench eval harness/run lifecycle stability. Discord activity was 17 messages in #maintainers around crabbox/testbox discussion.

GitHub6
Commit Search Hits4
PRs2
Issues0
Discord17
@mbelinky
Mariano Belinky
Regenerative agriculture farm / asset management setup
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 6 #maintainers: 6

Openclaw/openclaw activity included 2 commits, 2 PRs opened, and 2 merged, focused on agent visibility in skills checks and Codex OAuth status auth labeling. Discord activity was 6 #maintainers messages including issue/fix coordination.

GitHub6
Commit Search Hits2
PRs4
Issues0
Discord6
@joshavant
Josh Avant
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff security
openclaw: 6 #maintainers: 3 owns: Security

Openclaw/openclaw activity included 2 commits, 2 PRs opened, and 2 merged, focused on bounding Wizard hatch TUI timeout and memoizing plugin descriptor config keys. Discord activity was light in #maintainers, including a question about plugin SDK import issue handling.

GitHub6
Commit Search Hits2
PRs4
Issues0
Discord3
@pgondhi987
Pavan Kumar Gondhi
NVIDIA
Core Staff security
openclaw: 3

Openclaw/openclaw activity was limited but concrete: 1 commit and 1 merged PR blocking workspace state-directory environment override in infra. No visible Discord activity in the provided window.

GitHub3
Commit Search Hits1
PRs2
Issues0
Discord0
@omarshahine
Omar Shahine
Microsoft
Core Staff
openclaw: 1 #maintainer-offtopic: 2#maintainers: 2

GitHub activity was 1 openclaw/openclaw commit adding a 2026.4.30 changelog highlight for the file-transfer plugin. Discord activity spanned #maintainer-offtopic and #maintainers, mainly around M365 workspace/channel mapping and monitoring.

GitHub1
Commit Search Hits1
PRs0
Issues0
Discord4
@sallyom
Sally O'Malley
Red Hat
Core Staff
openclaw: 1 #maintainers: 3#maintainer-offtopic: 1

Openclaw/openclaw activity showed 1 merged PR replacing curl|bash Bun installation in Docker with a pinned multi-stage COPY. Discord activity included #maintainers and #maintainer-offtopic messages, with one maintainer-channel note calling the change small but important.

GitHub1
Commit Search Hits0
PRs1
Issues0
Discord4
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff adminsecurityrelease
#maintainers: 5#clawtributors: 2

No visible GitHub activity. Discord activity included 7 messages across #maintainers and #clawtributors, including rebase guidance and maintainer-channel discussion.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord7
@jesse-merhi
Jesse Merhi
Atlassian
Core Staff security
#maintainers: 6

No visible GitHub activity. Discord activity included 6 #maintainers messages, including proxy/APNs validation context tied to a referenced PR and follow-up maintainer discussion.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord6
@ngutman
Nimrod Gutman
Singular
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 3#maintainer-offtopic: 1

No visible GitHub activity. Discord activity included 4 messages across #maintainers and #maintainer-offtopic, including a go-ahead on an execution item and general off-topic reaction.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord4
@vignesh07
Vignesh Natarajan
Snowflake
Community Maintainer
#maintainer-offtopic: 2#maintainers: 1

No visible GitHub activity. Discord activity included 3 messages across #maintainer-offtopic and #maintainers, focused on security/IAM-style scope mapping and a note about stray previews.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord3
@mcaxtr
Marcus Castro
Unnamed American company
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 1

No visible GitHub activity. Discord activity was limited to 1 #maintainers greeting.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord1
No matching active maintainer in this report.

No visible activity

24 maintainers
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  • @bek91 - Bek Akhmedov
  • @davemorin - Dave Morin
  • @drobison00 - Devin Robison
  • @eleqtrizit - Agustin Rivera
  • @Evizero - Christof Salis
  • @giodl73-repo - Gio Della-Libera
  • @gumadeiras - Gustavo Madeira Santana
  • @huntharo - Harold Hunt
  • @jacobtomlinson - Jacob Tomlinson
  • @jalehman - Josh Lehman
  • @joshp123 - Josh Palmer
  • @kevinslin - Kevin Lin
  • @momothemage - Zhengnan Niu
  • @odysseus0 - George Zhang
  • @onutc - Onur Solmaz
  • @Patrick-Erichsen - Patrick Erichsen
  • @shanselman - Scott Hanselman
  • @SidU - Sid Uppal
  • @sjf - Sarah Fortune
  • @sliverp - Yuehua Li
  • @Takhoffman - Tak Hoffman
  • @velvet-shark - Radek Sienkiewicz
  • @visionik - Jonathan Taylor