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 3, 2026
As of
Active
21/45
11 Core Staff / 10 Community
GitHub Events
998
maintainer + non-maintainer
Discord
569
messages
PRs Opened
205
138 merged
Issues
0
0 closed
Repos
21
active in shown list
Overview

Global Summary

Codex synthesis
  • Daily window 2026-05-03: 480 GitHub commits, 205 PRs opened, 138 PRs merged, and 569 Discord messages across maintainer channels.
  • Visible activity was concentrated in openclaw/openclaw, with additional work in clawsweeper, crawlkit, clawhub, discrawl, slacrawl, notcrawl, crabbox, and related tooling.
Hard Numbers

Activity Mix

codex summaries / 20 Discord mapping gaps
Commit Search Hits
480
Issue/PR comments
0
PR review comments
0
Discord messages
569
Releases

Release Signals In This Window

12 active repos matched ReleaseBar for Daily Report 2026-05-03
Tracked active repos
12
Latest releases in window
1
Latest repo updates in window
0
No release recorded
0
Maintainers

People With Access

showing 21 of 21 active
@steipete
Peter Steinberger
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff adminsecurityrelease
openclaw: 261clawsweeper: 41discrawl: 11crabbox: 9 #maintainers: 87 owns: Core platform, daemon, agentsowns: Internal tools

Peter had heavy GitHub activity with 337 total events, including 238 commits and 66 merged PRs, mostly in openclaw/openclaw plus clawsweeper, discrawl, crabbox, and clawhub. Work touched daemon/gateway fixes, doctor migrations, optional plugin tool discovery, and crabbox desktop VNC support, alongside 87 maintainer-channel Discord messages around release/debug coordination.

GitHub337
Commit Search Hits238
PRs99
Issues0
Discord87
@vincentkoc
Vincent Koc
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff securityrelease
openclaw: 124crawlkit: 81clawhub: 14slacrawl: 14 #maintainers: 184#maintainer-security-ops: 6#clawtributors: 5 owns: Core platform, daemon, agentsowns: Internal toolsowns: Observability, Diag and Telemetryowns: Plugins

Vincent had 256 GitHub events, including 218 commits and 22 merged PRs, across openclaw/openclaw, crawlkit, clawhub, slacrawl, and notcrawl. Focus areas included ClawHub artifact compatibility, heartbeat/realtime fixes, SecretRef tests, and maintainer/security Discord discussion around pinned builds and local patches.

GitHub256
Commit Search Hits218
PRs38
Issues0
Discord195
@amknight
Alex Knight
Atlassian
Core Staff
openclaw: 27clawsweeper: 2 supports: Automation, hooks & jobs (cron)supports: Interfaces (CLI, TUI, Web UI)

Alex had 29 GitHub events across openclaw/openclaw and clawsweeper, with 10 PRs opened and 8 merged. Activity centered on paused automerge/re-review progress, LLM-only runs, no-tool task runs, and keeping web_search runtime providers visible; no Discord activity was visible.

GitHub29
Commit Search Hits8
PRs21
Issues0
Discord0
@obviyus
Ayaan Zaidi
AI startup in pharma drug discovery
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 14 #maintainers: 27#maintainer-offtopic: 2 owns: Channel Telegram

Ayaan had 14 GitHub events in openclaw/openclaw, including 7 commits and 3 merged PRs. The visible work focused on Telegram reply targeting, forum topic delivery, polling after webhook cleanup, and gateway update continuity, plus 29 Discord messages mostly in maintainers.

GitHub14
Commit Search Hits7
PRs7
Issues0
Discord29
@joshavant
Josh Avant
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff security
openclaw: 9 #maintainers: 19#maintainer-offtopic: 1 owns: Security

Josh had 9 GitHub events in openclaw/openclaw, including SecretRef and Discord runtime-status fixes and external channel contract tests. He also had 20 Discord messages across maintainers and maintainer-offtopic.

GitHub9
Commit Search Hits1
PRs8
Issues0
Discord20
@BunsDev
Val Alexander
Independent DevRel / builder
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 10 #maintainers: 5#maintainer-security-ops: 3

Val had 10 GitHub events in openclaw/openclaw, with 4 merged PRs around control UI archived-session filtering, WebChat send dedupe, and chat-history compaction checkpoints. Discord activity included 8 messages across maintainers and maintainer-security-ops, including discussion of executable suffix boundaries.

GitHub10
Commit Search Hits1
PRs9
Issues0
Discord8
@pash-openai
Nik Pash
GitHub: @pash-openai / @pashpashpash
OpenAI
Core Staff
openclaw: 7 #maintainers: 19 owns: Codex

Nik had 7 GitHub events in openclaw/openclaw, with Codex heartbeat and message-tool Telegram fallback work represented in the item list. He also had 19 maintainer-channel Discord messages discussing Codex harness behavior and bug risk.

GitHub7
Commit Search Hits1
PRs6
Issues0
Discord19
@RomneyDa
Dallin Romney
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff
openclaw: 8 #maintainers: 4

Dallin had 8 GitHub events in openclaw/openclaw, including plugin, ClawHub artifact resolver, CLI logs reconnect, and tooling docs items. Discord activity was 4 maintainer-channel messages, including plugin install failure examples and follow-up coordination.

GitHub8
Commit Search Hits2
PRs6
Issues0
Discord4
@Takhoffman
Tak Hoffman
Unnamed .NET employer
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 2 #maintainers: 5

Tak had 2 GitHub events in openclaw/openclaw, with merged work around active-memory Telegram forum topic behavior and preserving active recall tool agent context. He also had 5 maintainer-channel Discord messages.

GitHub2
Commit Search Hits0
PRs2
Issues0
Discord5
@shakkernerd
Gideon Adegbesan
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff
#maintainers: 12

Gideon had no visible GitHub activity, but had 12 maintainer-channel Discord messages. The provided snippets show short acknowledgements and discussion references, without a specific code focus area.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord12
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff adminsecurityrelease
#maintainers: 7

Shadow had no visible GitHub activity, but had 7 maintainer-channel Discord messages. The snippets mention Discord-related merging and general maintainer discussion, without enough detail for a specific code focus.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord7
@bek91
Bek Akhmedov
Mochary Method; GitHub profile also lists Unblock Labs
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 1 #maintainers: 2

Bek had 1 GitHub event in openclaw/openclaw for a plugin install alias resolution PR. Discord activity included 2 maintainer-channel messages explaining bare plugin ID resolution and coordinating review on a related Brave/plugin issue.

GitHub1
Commit Search Hits0
PRs1
Issues0
Discord2
@mbelinky
Mariano Belinky
Regenerative agriculture farm / asset management setup
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 4

Mariano had no visible GitHub activity, but had 4 maintainer-channel Discord messages. The snippets indicate debugging an update problem affecting his machine, with no linked repo activity provided.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord4
@mcaxtr
Marcus Castro
Unnamed American company
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 4

Marcus had no visible GitHub activity, but had 4 maintainer-channel Discord messages. The snippets reference PR #76757 and a question about splitting a large change, but no GitHub events are included for him.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord4
No matching active maintainer in this report.

No visible activity

24 maintainers
  • @davemorin - Dave Morin
  • @drobison00 - Devin Robison
  • @eleqtrizit - Agustin Rivera
  • @Evizero - Christof Salis
  • @galiniliev - Galin Iliev
  • @giodl73-repo - Gio Della-Libera
  • @gumadeiras - Gustavo Madeira Santana
  • @huntharo - Harold Hunt
  • @jacobtomlinson - Jacob Tomlinson
  • @joshp123 - Josh Palmer
  • @kevinslin - Kevin Lin
  • @momothemage - Zhengnan Niu
  • @odysseus0 - George Zhang
  • @omarshahine - Omar Shahine
  • @onutc - Onur Solmaz
  • @Patrick-Erichsen - Patrick Erichsen
  • @pgondhi987 - Pavan Kumar Gondhi
  • @shanselman - Scott Hanselman
  • @SidU - Sid Uppal
  • @sjf - Sarah Fortune
  • @sliverp - Yuehua Li
  • @velvet-shark - Radek Sienkiewicz
  • @vignesh07 - Vignesh Natarajan
  • @visionik - Jonathan Taylor