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 5, 2026
As of
Active
29/45
16 Core Staff / 13 Community
GitHub Events
636
maintainer + non-maintainer
Discord
686
messages
PRs Opened
123
115 merged
Issues
5
68 closed
Repos
25
active in shown list
Overview

Global Summary

Codex synthesis
  • Daily window 2026-05-05: GitHub activity totaled 167 commits, 123 PRs opened, 115 PRs merged, and 686 Discord messages across maintainers, clawtributors, and maintainer-offtopic.
  • Visible activity concentrated in openclaw/openclaw, fs-safe, acpx, crabbox, wacli, ClawHub, ClawSweeper, Nix packaging, Slack/WhatsApp QA, runtime/session fixes, security, plugins, and maintainer workflow tooling.
Hard Numbers

Activity Mix

codex summaries / 20 Discord mapping gaps
Commit Search Hits
167
Issue/PR comments
0
PR review comments
0
Discord messages
686
Releases

Release Signals In This Window

11 active repos matched ReleaseBar for Daily Report 2026-05-05 · 1 untracked here
Tracked active repos
11
Latest releases in window
0
Latest repo updates in window
0
No release recorded
1
Maintainers

People With Access

showing 29 of 29 active
@steipete
Peter Steinberger
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff adminsecurityrelease
openclaw: 53fs-safe: 32acpx: 12crabbox: 11 #maintainers: 123#clawtributors: 1 owns: Core platform, daemon, agentsowns: Internal tools

Peter had broad activity across openclaw/openclaw, fs-safe, acpx, crabbox, and wacli, with 98 commits, 16 PRs opened, and 46 PRs merged. Work touched companion integration docs, live worker capacity probes, duplicate generated media fallback sends, Discord reasoning progress drafts, and active maintainer-channel coordination around Discrawl, deprecation, plugins, and triage expectations.

GitHub160
Commit Search Hits98
PRs62
Issues0
Discord124
@vincentkoc
Vincent Koc
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff securityrelease
openclaw: 68crabbox: 6crabpot: 4plugin-inspector: 4 #maintainers: 124 owns: Core platform, daemon, agentsowns: Internal toolsowns: Observability, Diag and Telemetryowns: Plugins

Vincent was active mainly in openclaw/openclaw, with 23 commits, 29 PRs opened, and 25 PRs merged. Focus areas included CLI/session runtime visibility, filtering runtime context from context engines, preventing orphaned TUI terminal sessions, and maintainer-channel coordination around release batches, PR review, and crabbox usage.

GitHub87
Commit Search Hits23
PRs64
Issues0
Discord124
@Patrick-Erichsen
Patrick Erichsen
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff release
openclaw: 8clawhub: 6clawhub-security: 5maintainers: 3 #maintainers: 30 owns: ClawHub

Patrick worked across openclaw/openclaw, clawhub, clawhub-security, and maintainers, with 8 commits, 7 PRs opened, and 6 merged. Activity centered on security benchmark review workflow, privileged CLI help gating, corrupt plugin tolerance during update, and maintainer discussion of nightly QA lanes, TLS injection e2e coverage, and review follow-up.

GitHub22
Commit Search Hits8
PRs14
Issues0
Discord30
@joshp123
Josh Palmer
Anonymous streaming employer dispute
Community Maintainer
nix-openclaw: 17nix-openclaw-tools: 2 #maintainers: 4

Josh was focused on Nix packaging, with 18 commits across nix-openclaw and nix-openclaw-tools plus one issue closed. Work covered Darwin QMD bundle handling, immutable OpenClaw config, opt-in local memory bundling, package hardlinks, release pin decoupling, and Discord discussion of declarative installs and config mutation.

GitHub19
Commit Search Hits18
PRs0
Issues1
Discord4
@pash-openai
Nik Pash
GitHub: @pash-openai / @pashpashpash
OpenAI
Core Staff
clawsweeper: 6openclaw: 6 #maintainers: 32 owns: Codex

Nik worked in ClawSweeper and openclaw/openclaw, opening 4 PRs, merging 3, and opening one issue. Focus areas were live dev agent behavior tracking, real behavior proof requirements and labeling, ClawSweeper proof judgment, and maintainer-channel discussion of proof tags and external signals.

GitHub12
Commit Search Hits4
PRs7
Issues1
Discord32
@obviyus
Ayaan Zaidi
AI startup in pharma drug discovery
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 13 #maintainers: 20 owns: Channel Telegram

Ayaan had openclaw/openclaw activity with 6 commits and 7 merged PRs. Work covered embedded session transcript persistence, CLI subprocess timeout copy, postinstall compile-cache warning handling, embed reply emission behavior, memory daily ingestion, doctor advice, and maintainer-channel discussion of preview/answer lane cleanup and crabbox login.

GitHub13
Commit Search Hits6
PRs7
Issues0
Discord20
@kevinslin
Kevin Lin
GitHub: @kevinlin-openai / @kevinslin
OpenAI
Core Staff
openclaw: 6 #maintainers: 14

Kevin worked in openclaw/openclaw with 2 commits, 2 PRs opened, and 2 merged. Focus areas were Codex skill migration UX, Slack live QA coverage, and maintainer-channel discussion of Codex plugin support and follow-up ownership after refactor work.

GitHub6
Commit Search Hits2
PRs4
Issues0
Discord14
@jesse-merhi
Jesse Merhi
Atlassian
Core Staff security
fs-safe: 1openclaw: 1 #maintainers: 28

Jesse had limited GitHub activity in fs-safe and openclaw/openclaw, including a PR for OpenClaw bypass parity coverage and a closed bounded filesystem operations PR. Discord activity focused on security/vulnerability assessment around symlink-dependent behavior and whether an issue should be accepted as real.

GitHub2
Commit Search Hits0
PRs2
Issues0
Discord28
@odysseus0
George Zhang
Stealth startup
Community Maintainer
crabpot: 4openclaw: 1 #maintainers: 14

George worked mainly in crabpot, with 2 commits, 1 PR opened, and 2 merged PRs. Activity centered on Weixin catalog discovery fixtures, forwarding plugin install records to the channel catalog registry, and maintainer-channel notes about WeChat plugin findings and plugin usage patterns.

GitHub5
Commit Search Hits2
PRs3
Issues0
Discord14
@shakkernerd
Gideon Adegbesan
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff
#maintainers: 27

Gideon had no visible GitHub activity in this window. Discord activity was present in maintainers, including brief triage/status comments and discussion snippets.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord27
@joshavant
Josh Avant
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff security
openclaw: 1 #maintainers: 18#maintainer-offtopic: 2 owns: Security

Josh had one merged openclaw/openclaw item, #77489 on preserving auth profile key refs during provider scrub. Discord activity in maintainers and maintainer-offtopic included security/benchmarking-related coordination and short follow-up comments.

GitHub1
Commit Search Hits0
PRs1
Issues0
Discord20
@shanselman
Scott Hanselman
Microsoft
Core Staff
openclaw-windows-node: 5

Scott worked in openclaw-windows-node with 4 commits and one merged PR. Focus areas were standardizing titlebar treatment, titlebar reload accessibility, tray menu sizing on DPI changes, and focusing chat input when a popup opens; no Discord activity was visible.

GitHub5
Commit Search Hits4
PRs1
Issues0
Discord0
@sallyom
Sally O'Malley
Red Hat
Core Staff
openclaw: 3 #maintainer-offtopic: 4#maintainers: 3

Sally had openclaw/openclaw activity with one PR opened and two merged. Work touched doctor warnings for OPENCLAW_GATEWAY_TOKEN overrides and sandbox skill prompt rebuilding, with Discord discussion around QA/test setup, Kind plus MLflow, and release gate expectations.

GitHub3
Commit Search Hits0
PRs3
Issues0
Discord7
@bek91
Bek Akhmedov
Mochary Method; GitHub profile also lists Unblock Labs
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 4 #maintainers: 1

Bek worked in openclaw/openclaw with one issue opened, 2 PRs opened, and one merged. Focus areas were Slack delivery correlation, Slack mention-gating thread participation, resumed sends staying in thread, and a maintainer-channel request for review on Slack thread participation recording.

GitHub4
Commit Search Hits0
PRs3
Issues1
Discord1
@BunsDev
Val Alexander
Independent DevRel / builder
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 3 #maintainers: 5

Val had openclaw/openclaw activity with one PR opened and two merged. Work covered SDK environment discovery RPCs and hiding heartbeat acknowledgements in the UI, with maintainer-channel coordination around priority review and a short thanks on a related commit.

GitHub3
Commit Search Hits0
PRs3
Issues0
Discord5
@scoootscooob
Scott Fan
Paradigm
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 3 #maintainers: 4#maintainer-offtopic: 1

Scott had openclaw/openclaw activity with one commit, one PR opened, and one merged. Work focused on improving the realtime Meet voice agent, with Discord notes about realtime model meeting joins and related locally held architecture/tasks.

GitHub3
Commit Search Hits1
PRs2
Issues0
Discord5
@jalehman
Josh Lehman
Martian Engineering
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 1 #maintainers: 7

Josh had one merged openclaw/openclaw item for out-of-the-box VSCode-based IDE debugging support. Discord discussion referenced lossless impact, an existing PR with manual testing, and timing around a lower-priority auth/model cleanup path.

GitHub1
Commit Search Hits0
PRs1
Issues0
Discord7
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff adminsecurityrelease
#clawtributors: 6#maintainers: 4

Shadow had no visible GitHub activity in this window. Discord activity appeared in clawtributors and maintainers, with short comments about discord.js, agent communication, and related channel chatter.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord10
@omarshahine
Omar Shahine
Microsoft
Core Staff
#maintainers: 9

Omar had no visible GitHub activity in this window. Discord activity in maintainers referenced imsg, cleanup work, and a trakt-plugin link.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord9
@mbelinky
Mariano Belinky
Regenerative agriculture farm / asset management setup
Community Maintainer
spogo: 1 #maintainers: 4

Mariano had one closed spogo PR related to hydrating status metadata and improving device UX. Discord activity referenced /goal, addressing issues, and uncertainty about whether OAuth/API key path fixes had been pushed.

GitHub1
Commit Search Hits0
PRs1
Issues0
Discord4
@mcaxtr
Marcus Castro
Unnamed American company
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 4#maintainer-offtopic: 1

Marcus had no visible GitHub activity in this window. Discord activity in maintainers and maintainer-offtopic referenced rebasing/catching up, a broader discussion after a private ping, and an external video link.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord5
@ngutman
Nimrod Gutman
Singular
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 5

Nimrod had no visible GitHub activity in this window. Discord activity focused on config file and upgrade-flow issues, including HOME folder changes for an agent and a possible doctor improvement.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord5
@Evizero
Christof Salis
VertifyMed
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 1

Christof had no visible GitHub activity in this window. Discord activity was limited to one maintainers-channel comment about wording around trying OpenClaw.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord1
@jacobtomlinson
Jacob Tomlinson
NVIDIA
Core Staff security
#maintainers: 1

Jacob had no visible GitHub activity in this window. Discord activity was limited to one maintainers-channel note about ongoing group reply issues on Mattermost and willingness to look if nobody else was working on it.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord1
@visionik
Jonathan Taylor
PhotoDay / Sighthound / Deft; contractor for NASA/SpaceX/Blue Origin via Mars Scientific
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 1

Jonathan had no visible GitHub activity in this window. Discord activity was limited to one short maintainers-channel message.

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

No visible activity

16 maintainers
  • @altaywtf - Altay
  • @amknight - Alex Knight
  • @davemorin - Dave Morin
  • @eleqtrizit - Agustin Rivera
  • @galiniliev - Galin Iliev
  • @giodl73-repo - Gio Della-Libera
  • @gumadeiras - Gustavo Madeira Santana
  • @hxy91819 - Mason Huang
  • @momothemage - Zhengnan Niu
  • @onutc - Onur Solmaz
  • @pgondhi987 - Pavan Kumar Gondhi
  • @SidU - Sid Uppal
  • @sliverp - Yuehua Li
  • @Takhoffman - Tak Hoffman
  • @velvet-shark - Radek Sienkiewicz
  • @vignesh07 - Vignesh Natarajan