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 8, 2026
As of
Active
31/45
18 Core Staff / 13 Community
GitHub Events
1088
maintainer + non-maintainer
Discord
691
messages
PRs Opened
89
105 merged
Issues
2
10 closed
Repos
19
active in shown list
Overview

Global Summary

Codex synthesis
  • Daily window 2026-05-08: 785 GitHub commits, 89 PRs opened, 105 PRs merged, and 691 Discord messages across maintainers, clawtributors, and maintainer-security-ops.
  • Visible activity concentrated in openclaw/openclaw, with additional work in ClawHub, ClickClack, Discrawl, Wacli, Clawdex, Telecrawl, Crabbox, nix-openclaw, and openclaw-windows-node.
Hard Numbers

Activity Mix

codex summaries / 20 Discord mapping gaps
Commit Search Hits
785
Issue/PR comments
0
PR review comments
0
Discord messages
691
Releases

Release Signals In This Window

12 active repos matched ReleaseBar for Daily Report 2026-05-08
Tracked active repos
12
Latest releases in window
2
Latest repo updates in window
1
No release recorded
1
Maintainers

People With Access

showing 31 of 31 active
@steipete
Peter Steinberger
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff adminsecurityrelease
openclaw: 404wacli: 7clawdex: 6clickclack: 6 #maintainers: 63#clawtributors: 21#maintainer-security-ops: 2 owns: Core platform, daemon, agentsowns: Internal tools

Heavy OpenClaw core/platform activity: 411 commits, 14 PRs opened, and 26 merged, mostly in openclaw/openclaw, plus Wacli, Clawdex, ClickClack, Telecrawl, ClawHub, and Crabbox. Focus areas included gateway Tailscale Funnel handling, Discord realtime voice modes, cron classifier self-healing, ClawHub owner migration, and Azure leases, with 86 Discord messages across maintainers, clawtributors, and security ops.

GitHub453
Commit Search Hits411
PRs42
Issues0
Discord86
@shakkernerd
Gideon Adegbesan
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff
openclaw: 339clickclack: 26 #maintainers: 66

High-volume GitHub activity with 357 commits, 4 PRs opened, and 4 merged across openclaw/openclaw and ClickClack. ClickClack work centered on media previews, message scrolling, composer typing, and web chat structure, with 66 maintainer-channel Discord messages.

GitHub365
Commit Search Hits357
PRs8
Issues0
Discord66
@obviyus
Ayaan Zaidi
AI startup in pharma drug discovery
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 24 #maintainers: 33#clawtributors: 19 owns: Channel Telegram

OpenClaw activity included 11 commits, 3 PRs opened, and 10 merged, focused on Telegram, Feishu reasoning previews, Amazon Bedrock service_tier support, gateway watch logging, and native slash commands. Discord activity spanned maintainers and clawtributors, including Telegram/BotFather discussion.

GitHub24
Commit Search Hits11
PRs13
Issues0
Discord52
@Patrick-Erichsen
Patrick Erichsen
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff release
clawhub: 14openclaw: 6 #maintainers: 7#clawtributors: 3 owns: ClawHub

ClawHub and OpenClaw docs activity included 9 PRs opened and 9 merged, with work on ClawHub staging deploy workflows, canonical publishing docs paths, and the ClawHub publishing page. Discord messages covered ClawHub kickoff and skill/plugin publishing questions.

GitHub20
Commit Search Hits0
PRs20
Issues0
Discord10
@BunsDev
Val Alexander
Independent DevRel / builder
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 17 #clawtributors: 3#maintainers: 1

OpenClaw activity included 1 commit, 5 PRs opened, and 11 merged, focused on UI/control chat, WebView2 native bridge support, Homebrew LaunchAgent environment handling, and changelog cleanup. Discord activity was light across clawtributors and maintainers, including support and dashboard/control UI discussion.

GitHub17
Commit Search Hits1
PRs16
Issues0
Discord4
@vincentkoc
Vincent Koc
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff securityrelease
openclaw: 2discrawl: 1 #maintainers: 52#maintainer-security-ops: 1 owns: Core platform, daemon, agentsowns: Internal toolsowns: Observability, Diag and Telemetryowns: Plugins

Visible GitHub activity was 3 items across OpenClaw and Discrawl, including merged plugin/runtime fixes and a Discrawl embedding/vector extraction item. Discord activity was stronger, with 53 messages mostly in maintainers plus one security-ops message.

GitHub3
Commit Search Hits0
PRs2
Issues1
Discord53
@pash-openai
Nik Pash
GitHub: @pash-openai / @pashpashpash
OpenAI
Core Staff
openclaw: 5 #clawtributors: 11#maintainers: 8 owns: Codex

OpenClaw activity included 2 PRs opened and 3 merged, focused on Codex migrations, runtime routing, harness updates, service-tier tolerance, and Telegram model status labeling. Discord activity covered Codex session rollout inspection, subagent model setups, and related clawtributors discussion.

GitHub5
Commit Search Hits0
PRs5
Issues0
Discord19
@sallyom
Sally O'Malley
Red Hat
Core Staff
openclaw: 8 #maintainers: 2

OpenClaw activity included 3 PRs opened and 5 merged, focused on status JSON channel detection, gateway self-pairing auth mode handling, gateway version mismatch warnings, and CLI root-guard coverage. Discord activity was limited to 2 maintainer-channel messages.

GitHub8
Commit Search Hits0
PRs8
Issues0
Discord2
@omarshahine
Omar Shahine
Microsoft
Core Staff
openclaw: 6 #maintainers: 4

OpenClaw iMessage activity included 1 commit, 2 PRs opened, and 3 merged, covering includeAttachments documentation, group allowlist logging, and private-API support via imsg JSON-RPC. Discord messages discussed the iMessage plugin PR, migration guide, and CI drift.

GitHub6
Commit Search Hits1
PRs5
Issues0
Discord4
@jesse-merhi
Jesse Merhi
Atlassian
Core Staff security
openclaw: 3 #maintainers: 13

OpenClaw activity was focused on security-adjacent regression coverage, with 1 commit, 1 PR opened, and 1 merged for a download parent symlink race test. Discord activity included 13 maintainer-channel messages around PR follow-up and coordination.

GitHub3
Commit Search Hits1
PRs2
Issues0
Discord13
@joshp123
Josh Palmer
Anonymous streaming employer dispute
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 3nix-openclaw: 1 #maintainers: 4

Activity spanned OpenClaw and nix-openclaw with 2 commits, 1 PR opened, and 1 merged, focused on Nix store plugin hardlinks and packaging npm runtime plugins for Nix. Discord messages discussed declarative installs, plugin hardlink policy, and SQLite/configuration implications.

GitHub4
Commit Search Hits2
PRs2
Issues0
Discord4
@kevinslin
Kevin Lin
GitHub: @kevinlin-openai / @kevinslin
OpenAI
Core Staff
openclaw: 4 #maintainers: 3

OpenClaw Codex activity included 1 PR opened, 2 merged, and 1 closed, focused on app-server workspace policy, defaults, and native plugin app support. Discord messages discussed API priority tier and valid Codex app-server modes.

GitHub4
Commit Search Hits0
PRs4
Issues0
Discord3
@amknight
Alex Knight
Atlassian
Core Staff
openclaw: 4 #maintainers: 1 supports: Automation, hooks & jobs (cron)supports: Interfaces (CLI, TUI, Web UI)

OpenClaw activity included 1 PR opened and 3 merged around ACP exec approval permissions, fetch-timeout context, and ACP session load event ledger work. Discord activity was a single maintainer-channel message about reviewing community PRs and policy.

GitHub4
Commit Search Hits0
PRs4
Issues0
Discord1
@momothemage
Zhengnan Niu
Tencent
Core Staff
clawhub: 2openclaw: 2

Activity spanned ClawHub and OpenClaw with 2 PRs opened and 2 merged, including ClawHub skill owner migration, moderator-hidden skill undelete blocking, and adding Maurice Niu as maintainer. No Discord activity was visible in this window.

GitHub4
Commit Search Hits0
PRs4
Issues0
Discord0
@joshavant
Josh Avant
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff security
openclaw: 2 #maintainers: 4#maintainer-security-ops: 1 owns: Security

OpenClaw activity included 1 PR opened and 1 merged for exec filesystem policy drift clarification. Discord activity included 5 messages across maintainers and maintainer-security-ops, touching telemetry and review concerns.

GitHub2
Commit Search Hits0
PRs2
Issues0
Discord5
@bek91
Bek Akhmedov
Mochary Method; GitHub profile also lists Unblock Labs
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 3

OpenClaw activity included 1 PR opened and 2 merged, focused on Slack thread session documentation and implicit-conversation thread routing. No Discord activity was visible in this window.

GitHub3
Commit Search Hits0
PRs3
Issues0
Discord0
@pgondhi987
Pavan Kumar Gondhi
NVIDIA
Core Staff security
openclaw: 3

OpenClaw activity consisted of 3 merged PRs focused on Discord and Microsoft Teams allowlist name-resolution gating plus macOS shell wrapper allowlist parsing hardening. No Discord activity was visible in this window.

GitHub3
Commit Search Hits0
PRs3
Issues0
Discord0
@scoootscooob
Scott Fan
Paradigm
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 2 #maintainers: 3#clawtributors: 1

OpenClaw Codex activity included 1 PR opened and 1 merged to preserve recent tail content for empty manual compact. Discord activity covered the PR, investigation follow-up, and a clawtributors request for traces/use cases where agents perform poorly.

GitHub2
Commit Search Hits0
PRs2
Issues0
Discord4
@jalehman
Josh Lehman
Martian Engineering
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 1 #maintainers: 4

OpenClaw activity was one merged PR adding an LLM completion API to the plugin SDK. Discord activity included 4 maintainer-channel messages about joining discussion and offering to help on a SQLite comparison prompt request.

GitHub1
Commit Search Hits0
PRs1
Issues0
Discord4
@odysseus0
George Zhang
Stealth startup
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 2

OpenClaw activity consisted of 2 merged PRs focused on preserving raw reasoning streams and improving abort behavior by skipping idle wait to release session locks. No Discord activity was visible in this window.

GitHub2
Commit Search Hits0
PRs2
Issues0
Discord0
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff adminsecurityrelease
#maintainers: 7

No visible GitHub activity in this window. Discord activity consisted of 7 maintainer-channel messages, including general status/chat messages.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord7
@galiniliev
Galin Iliev
Microsoft
Core Staff
#maintainers: 6

No visible GitHub activity in this window. Discord activity included 6 maintainer-channel messages discussing Telegram thread breakage, a family agent issue, and waiting on a larger item.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord6
@hxy91819
Mason Huang
Tencent
Core Staff security
openclaw: 1

OpenClaw activity consisted of 1 merged PR to canonicalize infer model refs safely in the CLI. No Discord activity was visible in this window.

GitHub1
Commit Search Hits0
PRs1
Issues0
Discord0
@mbelinky
Mariano Belinky
Regenerative agriculture farm / asset management setup
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 3

No visible GitHub activity in this window. Discord activity included 3 maintainer-channel messages, including taskregistry fix discussion and general maintainer chat.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord3
@vignesh07
Vignesh Natarajan
Snowflake
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 2

No visible GitHub activity in this window. Discord activity consisted of 2 maintainer-channel messages, including a comment on an OpenClaw instance and a shared X link.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord2
@jacobtomlinson
Jacob Tomlinson
NVIDIA
Core Staff security
#maintainer-security-ops: 1

No visible GitHub activity in this window. Discord activity was one maintainer-security-ops message about a merge timing detail.

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

No visible activity

14 maintainers
  • @davemorin - Dave Morin
  • @drobison00 - Devin Robison
  • @eleqtrizit - Agustin Rivera
  • @Evizero - Christof Salis
  • @giodl73-repo - Gio Della-Libera
  • @gumadeiras - Gustavo Madeira Santana
  • @huntharo - Harold Hunt
  • @ngutman - Nimrod Gutman
  • @onutc - Onur Solmaz
  • @RomneyDa - Dallin Romney
  • @SidU - Sid Uppal
  • @sjf - Sarah Fortune
  • @sliverp - Yuehua Li
  • @visionik - Jonathan Taylor