OpenClaw Maintainer Activity

Evidence report across 96 GitHub repos and maintainer Discord channels. Comments count when they are maintainer discussion; dependency-label backfill comments are filtered. Access roster: 58 people / 62 GitHub accounts.

Window
May 3, 2026
As of
Active
25/58
13 Core Staff / 10 Community / 2 Read-only
GitHub
1722
filtered events
Discord
569
messages
PRs Opened
278
155 merged
Security
0
advisory signals
Repos
20
active in shown list
Overview

Global Summary

Codex synthesis

25/58 maintainers had visible activity in this window. 649 commits, 155 merged PRs, 278 opened PRs, 0 GHSAs, and 0 issue/PR comments were captured. 569 Discord maintainer-channel messages were captured.

Hard Numbers

Activity Mix

fallback summaries / 20 Discord mapping gaps
Commits
649
GHSAs
0
Issue/PR comments
0
PR review comments
0
Discord messages
569
Releases

Release Signals In This Window

10 active repos matched ReleaseBar for Daily Report 2026-05-03 · 2 untracked here
Tracked active repos
10
Latest releases in window
1
Latest repo updates in window
0
No release recorded
0
Maintainers

People With Access

showing 25 of 25 active
@steipete
Peter Steinberger
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff adminsecurityrelease
openclaw: 197openclaw-ghsa-cmhr-vr63-2mxr: 106openclaw-ghsa-prwc-c6w5-mmgr: 106clawsweeper: 27 #maintainers: 87 owns: Core platform, daemon, agentsowns: Internal tools

Peter Steinberger focused on openclaw, openclaw-ghsa-cmhr-vr63-2mxr, and openclaw-ghsa-prwc-c6w5-mmgr work, especially [codex] Queue subagent completion announces and fix: isolate WhatsApp direct sessions by account. GitHub activity included 367 commit search hits, 69 merged PRs, 21 opened PRs, and 1 closed PR. Code-owner context: Peter Steinberger owns Core platform, daemon, agents and Internal tools.

GitHub460
Commits367
GHSAs0
PRs91
Issues2
Comments0
Discord87
@vincentkoc
Vincent Koc
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff adminsecurityrelease
openclaw: 89openclaw-ghsa-cmhr-vr63-2mxr: 64openclaw-ghsa-prwc-c6w5-mmgr: 64crawlkit: 27 #maintainers: 184#maintainer-security-ops: 6#clawtributors: 5 owns: Core platform, daemon, agentsowns: Internal toolsowns: Observability, Diag and Telemetryowns: Plugins

Vincent Koc focused on openclaw, openclaw-ghsa-cmhr-vr63-2mxr, and openclaw-ghsa-prwc-c6w5-mmgr work, especially perf(core): trim channel RTT hot paths and fix(agents): preserve full subagent announce output. GitHub activity included 238 commit search hits, 24 merged PRs, 6 opened PRs, and 2 closed PRs. Code-owner context: Vincent Koc owns Core platform, daemon, agents and Internal tools.

GitHub270
Commits238
GHSAs0
PRs32
Issues0
Comments0
Discord195
@obviyus
Ayaan Zaidi
Independent
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 13openclaw-ghsa-cmhr-vr63-2mxr: 7openclaw-ghsa-prwc-c6w5-mmgr: 7 #maintainers: 27#maintainer-offtopic: 2 owns: Channel Telegram

Ayaan Zaidi focused on openclaw, openclaw-ghsa-cmhr-vr63-2mxr, and openclaw-ghsa-prwc-c6w5-mmgr work, especially Clarify reply target context and Fix Telegram forum topic final delivery. GitHub activity included 21 commit search hits, 3 merged PRs, and 3 opened PRs. Code-owner context: Ayaan Zaidi owns Channel Telegram.

GitHub27
Commits21
GHSAs0
PRs6
Issues0
Comments0
Discord29
@amknight
Alex Knight
Atlassian
Core Staff
openclaw: 19clawsweeper: 4 supports: Automation, hooks & jobs (cron)supports: Interfaces (CLI, TUI, Web UI)

Alex Knight focused on openclaw and clawsweeper work, especially fix: session_status 'current' resolves to live run session instead of stale sandbox key (#76708) and Fix LLM-only model runs with inherited allowlists. GitHub activity included 2 commit search hits, 8 merged PRs, 10 opened PRs, and 3 closed PRs. Code-owner context: Alex Knight is listed as support for Automation, hooks & jobs (cron) and Interfaces (CLI, TUI, Web UI).

GitHub23
Commits2
GHSAs0
PRs21
Issues0
Comments0
Discord0
@RomneyDa
Dallin Romney
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff
openclaw: 11openclaw-ghsa-cmhr-vr63-2mxr: 3openclaw-ghsa-prwc-c6w5-mmgr: 3 #maintainers: 4

Dallin Romney focused on openclaw, openclaw-ghsa-cmhr-vr63-2mxr, and openclaw-ghsa-prwc-c6w5-mmgr work, especially fix(clawhub): accept live artifact resolver kind/sha256 field names and docs(tools): scope loop detection recommendation to smaller models. GitHub activity included 9 commit search hits, 5 merged PRs, and 3 opened PRs. Discord activity added 4 messages, mostly in #maintainers.

GitHub17
Commits9
GHSAs0
PRs8
Issues0
Comments0
Discord4
@joshavant
Josh Avant
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff security
openclaw: 8openclaw-ghsa-cmhr-vr63-2mxr: 1openclaw-ghsa-prwc-c6w5-mmgr: 1 #maintainers: 19#maintainer-offtopic: 1 owns: Security

Josh Avant focused on openclaw, openclaw-ghsa-cmhr-vr63-2mxr, and openclaw-ghsa-prwc-c6w5-mmgr work, especially fix(discord): handle SecretRef runtime status and test(secrets): audit externalized channel SecretRefs. GitHub activity included 3 commit search hits, 3 merged PRs, 3 opened PRs, and 1 closed PR. Code-owner context: Josh Avant owns Security.

GitHub10
Commits3
GHSAs0
PRs7
Issues0
Comments0
Discord20
@BunsDev
Val Alexander
Independent
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 11openclaw-ghsa-cmhr-vr63-2mxr: 1openclaw-ghsa-prwc-c6w5-mmgr: 1 #maintainers: 5#maintainer-security-ops: 3

Val Alexander focused on openclaw, openclaw-ghsa-cmhr-vr63-2mxr, and openclaw-ghsa-prwc-c6w5-mmgr work, especially fix(daemon): prefer system Node for gateway services and fix(control-ui): filter archived sessions. GitHub activity included 3 commit search hits, 6 merged PRs, 3 opened PRs, and 1 closed PR. Discord activity added 8 messages, mostly in #maintainers and #maintainer-security-ops.

GitHub13
Commits3
GHSAs0
PRs10
Issues0
Comments0
Discord8
@pash-openai
Nik Pash
GitHub: @pash-openai / @pashpashpash
OpenAI
Core Staff
openclaw: 7openclaw-ghsa-cmhr-vr63-2mxr: 1openclaw-ghsa-prwc-c6w5-mmgr: 1 #maintainers: 19 owns: Codex

Nik Pash focused on openclaw, openclaw-ghsa-cmhr-vr63-2mxr, and openclaw-ghsa-prwc-c6w5-mmgr work, especially Scope Codex heartbeat guidance to heartbeat turns and Stop heartbeat tool turns from asking for HEARTBEAT_OK. GitHub activity included 3 commit search hits, 4 merged PRs, and 2 opened PRs. Code-owner context: Nik Pash owns Codex.

GitHub9
Commits3
GHSAs0
PRs6
Issues0
Comments0
Discord19
@jesse-merhi
Jesse Merhi
Atlassian
Core Staff security
openclaw: 2 #maintainers: 12#maintainer-security-ops: 6

Jesse Merhi focused on openclaw work, especially docs: clarify IRC managed proxy coverage and Fix managed proxy TLS hostname validation. GitHub activity included 2 opened PRs. Discord activity added 18 messages, mostly in #maintainers and #maintainer-security-ops.

GitHub2
Commits0
GHSAs0
PRs2
Issues0
Comments0
Discord18
@pgondhi987
Pavan Kumar Gondhi
NVIDIA
Core Staff security
openclaw: 4

Pavan Kumar Gondhi focused on openclaw work, especially fix(device-pair): require pairing scope for pair command [AI] and fix: harden backend message action gateway routing [AI]. GitHub activity included 4 opened PRs.

GitHub4
Commits0
GHSAs0
PRs4
Issues0
Comments0
Discord0
@sallyom
Sally O'Malley
Red Hat
Core Staff
openclaw: 2openclaw-ghsa-cmhr-vr63-2mxr: 1openclaw-ghsa-prwc-c6w5-mmgr: 1

Sally O'Malley focused on openclaw, openclaw-ghsa-cmhr-vr63-2mxr, and openclaw-ghsa-prwc-c6w5-mmgr work, especially fix(macos): mask sensitive wizard cli prompts and fix(macos): mask sensitive wizard cli prompts (#76746). GitHub activity included 3 commit search hits and 1 merged PR.

GitHub4
Commits3
GHSAs0
PRs1
Issues0
Comments0
Discord0
@scoootscooob
Scott Fan
Paradigm
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 3 #maintainers: 1

Scott Fan focused on openclaw work, especially fix(whatsapp): honor group visible reply mode and fix(doctor): persist group visible reply default. GitHub activity included 1 merged PR and 2 opened PRs. Discord activity added 1 message, mostly in #maintainers.

GitHub3
Commits0
GHSAs0
PRs3
Issues0
Comments0
Discord1
@brokemac79
brokemac79
N/A
Read-only maintainer
openclaw: 3

brokemac79 focused on openclaw work, especially [Bug]: v2026.5.2 gateway install --force regenerates nvm/inline-token systemd service on upgraded install and [AI-assisted] fix(feishu): probe status with account credentials. GitHub activity included 1 closed PR, 1 opened issue, and 1 closed issue.

GitHub3
Commits0
GHSAs0
PRs1
Issues2
Comments0
Discord0
@shakkernerd
Gideon Adegbesan
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff
#maintainers: 12

Gideon Adegbesan was mainly active in maintainer discussion across #maintainers. Discord activity added 12 messages, mostly in #maintainers.

GitHub0
Commits0
GHSAs0
PRs0
Issues0
Comments0
Discord12
@Takhoffman
Tak Hoffman
Independent
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 1 #maintainers: 5

Tak Hoffman focused on openclaw work, especially fix(active-memory): skip scoped topic channelId for embedded recall run in Telegram forum topics (#76704). GitHub activity included 1 merged PR. Discord activity added 5 messages, mostly in #maintainers.

GitHub1
Commits0
GHSAs0
PRs1
Issues0
Comments0
Discord5
@jalehman
Josh Lehman
Martian Engineering
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 2

Josh Lehman focused on openclaw work, especially pnpm check fails on main with tsgo errors in irc/mattermost/msteams/nextcloud-talk and fix: restore verbose tool progress in chats. GitHub activity included 1 merged PR and 1 closed issue.

GitHub2
Commits0
GHSAs0
PRs1
Issues1
Comments0
Discord0
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff adminsecurityrelease
#maintainers: 7

Shadow was mainly active in maintainer discussion across #maintainers. Discord activity added 7 messages, mostly in #maintainers.

GitHub0
Commits0
GHSAs0
PRs0
Issues0
Comments0
Discord7
@mbelinky
Mariano Belinky
Independent
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 4

Mariano Belinky was mainly active in maintainer discussion across #maintainers. Discord activity added 4 messages, mostly in #maintainers.

GitHub0
Commits0
GHSAs0
PRs0
Issues0
Comments0
Discord4
@bek91
Bek Akhmedov
Independent
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 2

Bek Akhmedov was mainly active in maintainer discussion across #maintainers. Discord activity added 2 messages, mostly in #maintainers.

GitHub0
Commits0
GHSAs0
PRs0
Issues0
Comments0
Discord2
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33 maintainers
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  • @alauppe - AndyML - Independent
  • @Asleep123 - Asleep - Independent
  • @Evizero - Christof Salis - Independent
  • @davemorin - Dave Morin - OpenClaw Foundation
  • @drobison00 - Devin Robison - NVIDIA
  • @galiniliev - Galin Iliev - Microsoft
  • @odysseus0 - George Zhang - Independent
  • @giodl73-repo - Gio Della-Libera - Microsoft
  • @gumadeiras - Gustavo Madeira Santana - Yale University
  • @huntharo - Harold Hunt - Giphy
  • @jacobtomlinson - Jacob Tomlinson - NVIDIA
  • @jzakirov - Jamil Zakirov - N/A
  • @fuller-stack-dev - Jason Json - N/A
  • @visionik - Jonathan Taylor - Independent
  • @joshp123 - Josh Palmer - Independent
  • @julianengel - Julian Engel - Independent
  • @kevinslin - Kevin Lin - OpenAI
  • @lanzhi-lee - Lanzhi Lee - Xiaomi
  • @mukhtharcm - Muhammed Mukhthar CM - N/A
  • @Spectorian - Nir Paz - NVIDIA
  • @ai-hpc - NVIDIAN - N/A
  • @onutc - Onur Solmaz - Hugging Face
  • @Patrick-Erichsen - Patrick Erichsen - OpenClaw Foundation
  • @velvet-shark - Radek Sienkiewicz - Independent
  • @purpshell - Rajeh Taher - N/A
  • @sjf - Sarah Fortune - OpenAI
  • @shanselman - Scott Hanselman - Microsoft
  • @SidU - Sid Uppal - Microsoft
  • @SinOfStrife - Strife - Independent
  • @vignesh07 - Vignesh Natarajan - Snowflake
  • @sliverp - Yuehua Li - Tencent
  • @momothemage - Zhengnan Niu - Tencent