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 6, 2026
As of
Active
28/45
19 Core Staff / 9 Community
GitHub Events
926
maintainer + non-maintainer
Discord
850
messages
PRs Opened
141
117 merged
Issues
3
19 closed
Repos
30
active in shown list
Overview

Global Summary

Codex synthesis
  • Daily window 2026-05-06: GitHub activity was concentrated in openclaw/openclaw plus fs-safe, clawhub, imsg, crabbox, nix-openclaw, and clawsweeper; Discord activity was mostly in maintainers with smaller clawtributors, security-ops, and offtopic activity.
Hard Numbers

Activity Mix

codex summaries / 20 Discord mapping gaps
Commit Search Hits
528
Issue/PR comments
0
PR review comments
0
Discord messages
850
Releases

Release Signals In This Window

12 active repos matched ReleaseBar for Daily Report 2026-05-06
Tracked active repos
12
Latest releases in window
1
Latest repo updates in window
0
No release recorded
2
Maintainers

People With Access

showing 28 of 28 active
@steipete
Peter Steinberger
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff adminsecurityrelease
openclaw: 138fs-safe: 30docs: 24ask-molty: 20 #maintainers: 113#clawtributors: 1 owns: Core platform, daemon, agentsowns: Internal tools

High visible activity: 242 commits, 9 PRs opened, and 31 merged across openclaw/openclaw, fs-safe, docs, ask-molty, and imsg. Focus areas included filesystem boundary guards, ClawSweeper dashboard/link repair fixes, and macOS 26/iMessage bridge work, alongside 114 Discord messages mostly in maintainers.

GitHub283
Commit Search Hits242
PRs41
Issues0
Discord114
@vincentkoc
Vincent Koc
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff securityrelease
openclaw: 82crabbox: 39graincrawl: 23gitcrawl: 18 #maintainers: 166#clawtributors: 15#maintainer-security-ops: 7 owns: Core platform, daemon, agentsowns: Internal toolsowns: Observability, Diag and Telemetryowns: Plugins

High visible activity: 166 commits, 23 PRs opened, and 26 merged across openclaw/openclaw, crabbox, graincrawl, gitcrawl, and discrawl. Focus areas included crabbox CI capacity pressure, AWS regional capacity routing, crawlkit dependency updates, and active maintainers/security-ops Discord discussion.

GitHub216
Commit Search Hits166
PRs50
Issues0
Discord190
@Patrick-Erichsen
Patrick Erichsen
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff release
clawhub: 31openclaw: 6 #maintainers: 33 owns: ClawHub

Visible activity centered on ClawHub: 15 commits, 10 PRs opened, and 11 merged, mostly in openclaw/clawhub. Work included adding a PR template, a friendlier 404 page, and worktree bootstrap fixes, with Discord discussion also mentioning ClawHub 404 work and plugin-owner mismatch checks.

GitHub37
Commit Search Hits15
PRs22
Issues0
Discord33
@shakkernerd
Gideon Adegbesan
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff
openclaw: 22Kova: 6 #maintainers: 61

Visible activity included 26 commits and one merged PR across openclaw/openclaw and Kova. Focus areas included no-proxy undici fetch side effects, manifest registry reuse, Codex native approval prompts, provider auth alias scope, and turn plugin metadata snapshots, with 61 maintainers-channel Discord messages.

GitHub28
Commit Search Hits26
PRs2
Issues0
Discord61
@joshp123
Josh Palmer
Anonymous streaming employer dispute
Community Maintainer
nix-openclaw: 27nix-openclaw-tools: 3openclaw: 2 #maintainers: 6

Visible activity was mostly Nix-related: 31 commits and one merged PR across nix-openclaw, nix-openclaw-tools, and openclaw. Work focused on immutable/declarative workspace and config handling, including automatic write guards for Nix mutators, with a small amount of maintainers Discord discussion.

GitHub32
Commit Search Hits31
PRs1
Issues0
Discord6
@obviyus
Ayaan Zaidi
AI startup in pharma drug discovery
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 20 #maintainers: 39#clawtributors: 4#maintainer-offtopic: 1 owns: Channel Telegram

Visible activity was in openclaw/openclaw with 12 commits, 3 PRs opened, and 5 merged. Focus areas included Telegram transcript gap-fill and picker behavior, guarded fetch dispatcher cleanup, and gateway session-list model refs, plus Discord discussion around doctor behavior, API keys, and setup breakage.

GitHub20
Commit Search Hits12
PRs8
Issues0
Discord44
@amknight
Alex Knight
Atlassian
Core Staff
openclaw: 22 supports: Automation, hooks & jobs (cron)supports: Interfaces (CLI, TUI, Web UI)

Visible activity was in openclaw/openclaw with 8 commits, 7 PRs opened, and 7 merged. Focus areas included cron self-introspection, pnpm global root preservation, and ACP streamed progress summary spacing; no Discord activity was visible.

GitHub22
Commit Search Hits8
PRs14
Issues0
Discord0
@pash-openai
Nik Pash
GitHub: @pash-openai / @pashpashpash
OpenAI
Core Staff
clawsweeper: 5openclaw: 5 #maintainers: 41 owns: Codex

Visible activity spanned clawsweeper and openclaw/openclaw with 4 commits, 2 PRs opened, and 2 merged. Focus areas included proof-review nudges toward screenshots/redaction, contributor redaction reminders, channel restart recovery, and same-session Codex reply routing, with 41 maintainers-channel Discord messages.

GitHub10
Commit Search Hits4
PRs6
Issues0
Discord41
@jesse-merhi
Jesse Merhi
Atlassian
Core Staff security
fs-safe: 7openclaw: 3 #maintainers: 23

Visible activity focused on fs-safe and openclaw/openclaw with 4 commits, 3 PRs opened, and 2 merged. Work covered boundary bypass test renames and expanded parity coverage plus narrowing a Gateway proxy bypass target, with Discord discussion around screenshot risk text and allow/block list parsing.

GitHub10
Commit Search Hits4
PRs6
Issues0
Discord23
@kevinslin
Kevin Lin
GitHub: @kevinlin-openai / @kevinslin
OpenAI
Core Staff
openclaw: 14 #maintainers: 6

Visible activity was in openclaw/openclaw with 2 commits, 5 PRs opened, and 2 merged. Focus areas included cron persisted model sentinels, cron default model inheritance, OAuth refresh race gateway proof, and a Discord note about starting on Codex harness issues.

GitHub14
Commit Search Hits2
PRs12
Issues0
Discord6
@omarshahine
Omar Shahine
Microsoft
Core Staff
imsg: 8openclaw: 2 #maintainers: 10

Visible activity focused on imsg with 2 commits, 2 issues opened, 2 issues closed, and 2 PRs opened/closed. Work and discussion centered on macOS 26 send-attachment bridge failures, BlueBubbles private API parity, iMessage/OpenClaw interop, and plugin deprecation/migration concerns.

GitHub10
Commit Search Hits2
PRs4
Issues4
Discord10
@joshavant
Josh Avant
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff security
openclaw: 6 #maintainers: 12#maintainer-offtopic: 1 owns: Security

Visible activity was in openclaw/openclaw with 2 commits, 2 PRs opened, and 2 merged. Focus areas included resilient gateway startup for optional plugin capabilities and bounding live exec output events, echoed in maintainers Discord with commit references and gateway/exec-loop context.

GitHub6
Commit Search Hits2
PRs4
Issues0
Discord13
@sjf
Sarah Fortune
GitHub: @sjf / @sjf-oa
OpenAI
Core Staff
fs-safe: 6openclaw: 3

Visible activity covered fs-safe and openclaw/openclaw with 3 commits, 3 PRs opened, and 2 merged. Focus areas included shell completion profile guards, pnpm workspace prepare fixes, and hardening file store writes against symlink swaps; no Discord activity was visible.

GitHub9
Commit Search Hits3
PRs6
Issues0
Discord0
@scoootscooob
Scott Fan
Paradigm
Community Maintainer
clawbench: 3 #maintainers: 12#maintainer-offtopic: 5

Visible GitHub activity was in clawbench with 2 commits and one merged PR around Kubernetes docs/manifests and sidecar deploy flow. Discord activity included maintainers and offtopic messages, including eval-suite and meeting-join command discussion.

GitHub3
Commit Search Hits2
PRs1
Issues0
Discord17
@sallyom
Sally O'Malley
Red Hat
Core Staff
openclaw: 3clawbench: 1 #maintainers: 7#maintainer-offtopic: 5

Visible activity included one commit, 2 PRs opened, and one merged across openclaw/openclaw and clawbench. Focus areas included Kubernetes docs/manifests in clawbench and a basic-ftp dependency bump, with Discord discussion around CI/test completion.

GitHub4
Commit Search Hits1
PRs3
Issues0
Discord12
@BunsDev
Val Alexander
Independent DevRel / builder
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 6 #maintainers: 3

Visible activity was in openclaw/openclaw with 3 PRs opened and 3 merged, without commits recorded in this window. Focus areas included restoring Control UI /new hooks, preserving mixed assistant history text, and repairing iOS LAN pairing, plus a few maintainers Discord messages.

GitHub6
Commit Search Hits0
PRs6
Issues0
Discord3
@jalehman
Josh Lehman
Martian Engineering
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 5 #maintainer-offtopic: 4#maintainers: 3

Visible activity was in openclaw/openclaw with one commit and 4 merged PRs. Focus areas included compaction max token clamping, context engine cache invalidation, doctor load-path plugin contracts, and Pi auto-compaction safeguards, with Discord noting ongoing compaction/context-engine fixes.

GitHub5
Commit Search Hits1
PRs4
Issues0
Discord7
@sliverp
Yuehua Li
Tencent
Core Staff
openclaw: 4 #maintainers: 9

Visible activity was in openclaw/openclaw with 2 commits and one merged PR. Focus areas included recovering externalized channel plugins from stale config and a matching changelog entry, with Discord discussion about channel listing and configured/enabled channel state.

GitHub4
Commit Search Hits2
PRs2
Issues0
Discord9
@jacobtomlinson
Jacob Tomlinson
NVIDIA
Core Staff security
openclaw: 3 #maintainers: 1

Visible activity was in openclaw/openclaw with one commit and one merged PR. Focus area was Mattermost wizard setup URL collection, with a maintainers Discord message describing rough-edge work on Mattermost as an agent chat surface.

GitHub3
Commit Search Hits1
PRs2
Issues0
Discord1
@mcaxtr
Marcus Castro
Unnamed American company
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 1 #maintainer-offtopic: 5#maintainers: 3

Visible GitHub activity was one closed openclaw/openclaw PR on reply-path runtime surface reuse. Discord activity was mostly maintainer-offtopic with a few maintainers-channel messages, but no concrete technical focus beyond the closed PR title was visible.

GitHub1
Commit Search Hits0
PRs1
Issues0
Discord8
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff adminsecurityrelease
#maintainers: 12

No visible GitHub activity in this window. Visible Discord activity was 12 maintainers-channel messages, including discussion of conference timing and breakage from an external safety-system error.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord12
@shanselman
Scott Hanselman
Microsoft
Core Staff
openclaw-windows-node: 2 #maintainers: 1

Visible activity was in openclaw-windows-node with one commit and one merged PR for agent events UI cleanup/redesign. Discord context described moving windows-node toward parity with the Mac Companion for install, pairing, and settings management.

GitHub2
Commit Search Hits1
PRs1
Issues0
Discord1
@odysseus0
George Zhang
Stealth startup
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 6

No visible GitHub activity in this window. Visible Discord activity was 6 maintainers-channel messages focused on whether a Feishu package was community-maintained, official, buggy, or should be removed.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord6
@huntharo
Harold Hunt
GIPHY / PwrDrvr LLC
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 1 #maintainers: 1

Visible GitHub activity was one closed openclaw/openclaw PR about xAI auth reuse and configure UX polish. One maintainers Discord message discussed a generic message bus in another project and possible application to OpenClaw.

GitHub1
Commit Search Hits0
PRs1
Issues0
Discord1
@Evizero
Christof Salis
VertifyMed
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 1

No visible GitHub activity in this window. One maintainers Discord message asked about stale skill-list updates in channels such as Signal after OpenClaw skill changes.

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

No visible activity

17 maintainers
  • @altaywtf - Altay
  • @bek91 - Bek Akhmedov
  • @davemorin - Dave Morin
  • @eleqtrizit - Agustin Rivera
  • @galiniliev - Galin Iliev
  • @giodl73-repo - Gio Della-Libera
  • @gumadeiras - Gustavo Madeira Santana
  • @mbelinky - Mariano Belinky
  • @momothemage - Zhengnan Niu
  • @ngutman - Nimrod Gutman
  • @onutc - Onur Solmaz
  • @RomneyDa - Dallin Romney
  • @SidU - Sid Uppal
  • @Takhoffman - Tak Hoffman
  • @velvet-shark - Radek Sienkiewicz
  • @vignesh07 - Vignesh Natarajan
  • @visionik - Jonathan Taylor