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 4, 2026
As of
Active
27/45
19 Core Staff / 8 Community
GitHub Events
1038
maintainer + non-maintainer
Discord
682
messages
PRs Opened
154
117 merged
Issues
2
117 closed
Repos
19
active in shown list
Overview

Global Summary

Codex synthesis
  • Daily window 2026-05-04: GitHub activity concentrated in openclaw/openclaw with additional work across mcporter, wacli, crabbox, Kova, clawsweeper, clawbench, and gogcli; Discord activity was mostly in #maintainers.
Hard Numbers

Activity Mix

codex summaries / 19 Discord mapping gaps
Commit Search Hits
446
Issue/PR comments
0
PR review comments
0
Discord messages
682
Releases

Release Signals In This Window

12 active repos matched ReleaseBar for Daily Report 2026-05-04
Tracked active repos
12
Latest releases in window
1
Latest repo updates in window
0
No release recorded
1
Maintainers

People With Access

showing 27 of 27 active
@steipete
Peter Steinberger
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff adminsecurityrelease
openclaw: 148mcporter: 31wacli: 30crabbox: 29 #maintainers: 81 owns: Core platform, daemon, agentsowns: Internal tools

steipete had heavy activity with 337 GitHub events, including 271 commits and work across openclaw/openclaw, mcporter, wacli, crabbox, and imsg. Focus areas included Codex app-server protocol sync, stale Responses replay state, package update overlays, bundled plugin allowlist discovery, and WSL2 defaults, with 81 #maintainers Discord messages.

GitHub337
Commit Search Hits271
PRs66
Issues0
Discord81
@vincentkoc
Vincent Koc
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff securityrelease
openclaw: 121crabbox: 19crawlkit: 13notcrawl: 4 #maintainers: 195#maintainer-offtopic: 5#clawtributors: 1 owns: Core platform, daemon, agentsowns: Internal toolsowns: Observability, Diag and Telemetryowns: Plugins

vincentkoc had 158 GitHub events, mostly in openclaw/openclaw, with additional crabbox, crawlkit, notcrawl, and slacrawl work. Activity focused on Telegram media placeholders, plugin json5 runtime deps, doctor repair for allow-only official plugins, and related maintainer coordination across 201 Discord messages.

GitHub158
Commit Search Hits116
PRs42
Issues0
Discord201
@BunsDev
Val Alexander
Independent DevRel / builder
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 39 #maintainers: 7#clawtributors: 1

BunsDev had 39 GitHub events in openclaw/openclaw, including 12 commits, 12 PRs opened, and 15 merged. Work centered on dashboard token-auth guidance, Telegram tool-only previews, Control UI action feedback, stale Codex auth routing, and i18n/regression-test discussion in #maintainers.

GitHub39
Commit Search Hits12
PRs27
Issues0
Discord8
@shakkernerd
Gideon Adegbesan
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff
Kova: 16 #maintainers: 29#maintainer-offtopic: 2

shakkernerd had 16 commits in openclaw/Kova, focused on refactoring CLI command handlers, matrix run/plan commands, registry context loading, matrix expansion, and profile gate coverage. Discord activity was 31 messages, mostly in #maintainers, including repro/fix coordination.

GitHub16
Commit Search Hits16
PRs0
Issues0
Discord31
@pgondhi987
Pavan Kumar Gondhi
NVIDIA
Core Staff security
openclaw: 16 #maintainers: 2

pgondhi987 had 16 GitHub events in openclaw/openclaw, including 6 commits, 3 PRs opened, and 6 merged. Focus areas included gateway websocket auth scope clamping, zalouser startup name matching, device-pair pairing scope, and qqbot private command surface hardening, with minimal Discord activity.

GitHub16
Commit Search Hits6
PRs10
Issues0
Discord2
@drobison00
Devin Robison
NVIDIA
Core Staff security
openclaw: 15

drobison00 had 15 GitHub events in openclaw/openclaw, including 4 commits, 4 PRs opened, and 7 merged. Work focused on Windows command wrapper resolution, browser tab export guards, update environment path resolution, and trusted Windows browser helper root; no Discord activity was visible.

GitHub15
Commit Search Hits4
PRs11
Issues0
Discord0
@scoootscooob
Scott Fan
Paradigm
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 5clawbench: 3 #maintainers: 28

scoootscooob had 8 GitHub events across openclaw/openclaw and openclaw/clawbench. Work covered OpenClaw run lifecycle waits in clawbench, doctor group config drift migrations, Gemini realtime voice parity, and WhatsApp group visible reply mode, alongside 28 #maintainers messages.

GitHub8
Commit Search Hits3
PRs5
Issues0
Discord28
@Patrick-Erichsen
Patrick Erichsen
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff release
clawsweeper: 4openclaw: 2 #maintainers: 21 owns: ClawHub

Patrick-Erichsen had 6 GitHub events across clawsweeper and openclaw, including an issue opened, 1 PR opened, and 2 merged. Focus areas included external package updater execution, ClawSweeper close-comment PR links, plugin install hints, and QA-lane/secret coordination in #maintainers.

GitHub6
Commit Search Hits2
PRs3
Issues1
Discord21
@jalehman
Josh Lehman
Martian Engineering
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 5 #maintainers: 20

jalehman had 5 GitHub events in openclaw/openclaw, including 3 commits and 2 merged PRs. Activity focused on plugin SDK session extension slots, finalize retry/run context cleanup, keeping runtime prompt context out of the system prompt, stale source plugin shadow tests, and changelog restoration, with 20 #maintainers messages about repro and validation.

GitHub5
Commit Search Hits3
PRs2
Issues0
Discord20
@RomneyDa
Dallin Romney
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff
openclaw: 9 #maintainers: 4

RomneyDa had 9 GitHub events in openclaw/openclaw, including 3 commits, 3 PRs opened, and 3 merged. Work focused on durable delivery, TUI code-span and identifier preservation, abort handling during pre-event waits, source-only plugin package warnings, and maintainer discussion of message delivery issues.

GitHub9
Commit Search Hits3
PRs6
Issues0
Discord4
@amknight
Alex Knight
Atlassian
Core Staff
openclaw: 7 #maintainers: 1 supports: Automation, hooks & jobs (cron)supports: Interfaces (CLI, TUI, Web UI)

amknight had 7 GitHub events in openclaw/openclaw, including 3 commits, 2 PRs opened, and 2 merged. Focus areas were stabilizing the gateway server shard and adding plugin-state registerIfAbsent keyed store, with one #maintainers message about release/root-cause wording.

GitHub7
Commit Search Hits3
PRs4
Issues0
Discord1
@omarshahine
Omar Shahine
Microsoft
Core Staff
openclaw: 4 #maintainers: 13

omarshahine had 4 GitHub events in openclaw/openclaw, with 2 PRs opened and 2 closed around BlueBubbles typing-indicator cleanup. Discord activity was 13 #maintainers messages discussing iMessage/BlueBubbles behavior and testing direction.

GitHub4
Commit Search Hits0
PRs4
Issues0
Discord13
@kevinslin
Kevin Lin
GitHub: @kevinlin-openai / @kevinslin
OpenAI
Core Staff
openclaw: 6 #maintainers: 4

kevinslin had 6 GitHub events in openclaw/openclaw, including 3 commits, 1 PR opened, and 2 merged. Work focused on Slack onboarding channel smoke coverage, cron run diagnostics, orphaned child process cleanup, and Discord discussion of Codex skills/plugin support and e2e test coverage.

GitHub6
Commit Search Hits3
PRs3
Issues0
Discord4
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff adminsecurityrelease
#maintainers: 27#clawtributors: 1

thewilloftheshadow had no visible GitHub activity, but had 28 Discord messages, mostly in #maintainers. Activity included bumping a specific openclaw PR and maintainer coordination.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord28
@jesse-merhi
Jesse Merhi
Atlassian
Core Staff security
openclaw: 3 #maintainers: 14

jesse-merhi had 3 GitHub events in openclaw/openclaw, including 2 commits and 1 PR opened. Work focused on debug proxy CONNECT guarding and APNs HTTP2 proxy sessions, with 14 #maintainers messages including ClawHub trusted-label discussion and fix coordination.

GitHub3
Commit Search Hits2
PRs1
Issues0
Discord14
@obviyus
Ayaan Zaidi
AI startup in pharma drug discovery
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 15#clawtributors: 8#maintainer-offtopic: 3 owns: Channel Telegram

obviyus had no visible GitHub activity, but had 26 Discord messages across #maintainers, #clawtributors, and #maintainer-offtopic. Discussion included sessions.list behavior and limiting session output.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord26
@pash-openai
Nik Pash
GitHub: @pash-openai / @pashpashpash
OpenAI
Core Staff
openclaw: 1 #maintainers: 11 owns: Codex

pash-openai had 1 GitHub event in openclaw/openclaw, merging work on hardening Codex harness control surfaces. Discord activity was 11 #maintainers messages, including doc-link coordination and a fix note.

GitHub1
Commit Search Hits0
PRs1
Issues0
Discord11
@mbelinky
Mariano Belinky
Regenerative agriculture farm / asset management setup
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 12

mbelinky had no visible GitHub activity, but had 12 #maintainers Discord messages. Activity was support/debug oriented, asking how to provide more debug information and where to start.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord12
@ngutman
Nimrod Gutman
Singular
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 8

ngutman had no visible GitHub activity, but had 8 #maintainers Discord messages. Discussion included update-flow breakage, config mitigation, and related troubleshooting context.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord8
@jacobtomlinson
Jacob Tomlinson
NVIDIA
Core Staff security
#maintainers: 6

jacobtomlinson had no visible GitHub activity, but had 6 #maintainers Discord messages. Activity focused on WhatsApp group no-response reproduction and group allowlist/config migration troubleshooting.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord6
@eleqtrizit
Agustin Rivera
NVIDIA
Core Staff security
openclaw: 1

eleqtrizit had 1 GitHub event in openclaw/openclaw, a commit related to guarding current browser tab exports. No Discord activity was visible.

GitHub1
Commit Search Hits1
PRs0
Issues0
Discord0
@galiniliev
Galin Iliev
Microsoft
Core Staff
#maintainers: 1

galiniliev had no visible GitHub activity and 1 #maintainers Discord message asking whether the context was Molty or GitHub Actions.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord1
@mcaxtr
Marcus Castro
Unnamed American company
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 1

mcaxtr had no visible GitHub activity and 1 #maintainers Discord message. No repo or issue focus area was visible beyond that message.

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

No visible activity

18 maintainers
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  • @bek91 - Bek Akhmedov
  • @Evizero - Christof Salis
  • @giodl73-repo - Gio Della-Libera
  • @gumadeiras - Gustavo Madeira Santana
  • @huntharo - Harold Hunt
  • @hxy91819 - Mason Huang
  • @joshp123 - Josh Palmer
  • @momothemage - Zhengnan Niu
  • @odysseus0 - George Zhang
  • @onutc - Onur Solmaz
  • @shanselman - Scott Hanselman
  • @SidU - Sid Uppal
  • @sjf - Sarah Fortune
  • @sliverp - Yuehua Li
  • @velvet-shark - Radek Sienkiewicz
  • @vignesh07 - Vignesh Natarajan
  • @visionik - Jonathan Taylor