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 10, 2026
As of
Active
19/45
12 Core Staff / 7 Community
GitHub Events
1160
maintainer + non-maintainer
Discord
634
messages
PRs Opened
123
119 merged
Issues
25
6 closed
Repos
15
active in shown list
Overview

Global Summary

Codex synthesis
  • Daily window 2026-05-10 had heavy GitHub volume: 715 commits, 123 PRs opened, 119 PRs merged, and 634 Discord messages across maintainer-facing channels.
  • Most visible GitHub activity centered on openclaw/openclaw, with additional work in openclaw-facetime, openclaw-windows-node, clickclack, clawbench, docs, Peekaboo, gogcli, clawsweeper, and crabbox.
  • Discord activity was concentrated in clawtributors and maintainainers, with discussion around contributor access, plugins, Codex harness/native tooling, UX, secrets/URL rotation, and Clawtributor+ style access.
Hard Numbers

Activity Mix

codex summaries / 20 Discord mapping gaps
Commit Search Hits
715
Issue/PR comments
0
PR review comments
0
Discord messages
634
Releases

Release Signals In This Window

11 active repos matched ReleaseBar for Daily Report 2026-05-10 · 1 untracked here
Tracked active repos
11
Latest releases in window
0
Latest repo updates in window
0
No release recorded
3
Maintainers

People With Access

showing 19 of 19 active
@steipete
Peter Steinberger
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff adminsecurityrelease
openclaw: 487gogcli: 11Peekaboo: 11clawsweeper: 7 #clawtributors: 51#maintainers: 42 owns: Core platform, daemon, agentsowns: Internal tools

steipete had very high visible activity: 420 commits, 30 PRs opened, and 80 PRs merged, mostly in openclaw/openclaw with additional work in gogcli, Peekaboo, clawsweeper, and openclaw.ai. Focus areas included pnpm workspace upgrade, config default persistence, gateway restart sentinel probes, outbound docs, and maintainer Discord coordination around access/roles.

GitHub532
Commit Search Hits420
PRs112
Issues0
Discord93
@shakkernerd
Gideon Adegbesan
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff
openclaw: 227clickclack: 3 #maintainers: 34#clawtributors: 8

shakkernerd had 228 commits and one merged PR, primarily in openclaw/openclaw plus clickclack. Work focused on ClickClack chat history/unread navigation and tightening matrix-related tests, with maintainer Discord discussion around access boundaries and rework needs.

GitHub230
Commit Search Hits228
PRs2
Issues0
Discord42
@obviyus
Ayaan Zaidi
AI startup in pharma drug discovery
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 35clawsweeper: 5crabbox: 1 #maintainers: 44#clawtributors: 14 owns: Channel Telegram

obviyus had 17 commits, 7 PRs opened, and 17 PRs merged across openclaw/openclaw, clawsweeper, and crabbox. Focus areas included Codex context map persistence, Telegram stale reply context, native tool diagnostics, and /context map treemap work, alongside maintainer Discord discussion about UX and switching behavior.

GitHub41
Commit Search Hits17
PRs24
Issues0
Discord58
@omarshahine
Omar Shahine
Microsoft
Core Staff
openclaw-facetime: 28openclaw: 4 #maintainers: 1

omarshahine had 29 commits across openclaw-facetime and openclaw/openclaw, with 1 PR opened and 2 merged. Work focused on FaceTime agent-consult brain config, acceptance/audio baseline checks, Codex thread/session ID normalization, and iMessage private API bridge logging.

GitHub32
Commit Search Hits29
PRs3
Issues0
Discord1
@vincentkoc
Vincent Koc
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff securityrelease
openclaw: 9clawbench: 2docs: 2 #maintainers: 10 owns: Core platform, daemon, agentsowns: Internal toolsowns: Observability, Diag and Telemetryowns: Plugins

vincentkoc had 11 commits, 1 PR opened, and 1 merged across openclaw/openclaw, clawbench, and docs. Focus areas included crabbox rule docs, troubleshooting/docs cleanup, CLI response-time contract tests, typing-indicator config path docs, and setup table formatting, with maintainer Discord notes around screenshots and skill/memory narrative.

GitHub13
Commit Search Hits11
PRs2
Issues0
Discord10
@scoootscooob
Scott Fan
Paradigm
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 8 #clawtributors: 3

scoootscooob opened and merged 4 PRs in openclaw/openclaw. Focus areas included Codex transcript/tool-call normalization, dynamic tool transcript shape, SSRF lookup behavior, and clawtributors discussion of plugin auth/media-understanding models.

GitHub8
Commit Search Hits0
PRs8
Issues0
Discord3
@BunsDev
Val Alexander
Independent DevRel / builder
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 8 #maintainers: 2

BunsDev opened 3 PRs and had 5 merged in openclaw/openclaw. Work focused on Control UI CSP for tweakcn theme imports, session list stalls after first message, and Sessions live status, with light maintainer Discord activity.

GitHub8
Commit Search Hits0
PRs8
Issues0
Discord2
@pash-openai
Nik Pash
GitHub: @pash-openai / @pashpashpash
OpenAI
Core Staff
openclaw: 3 #maintainers: 12#clawtributors: 5 owns: Codex

pash-openai had 1 commit and 2 merged PRs in openclaw/openclaw. Focus areas were Codex native code mode for harness runs and keeping migrated OpenAI Codex OAuth runs on native Codex auth, with Discord activity linking PRs and discussing main/beta state.

GitHub3
Commit Search Hits1
PRs2
Issues0
Discord17
@ngutman
Nimrod Gutman
Singular
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 4 #maintainers: 8

ngutman had 2 commits, 1 PR opened, and 1 merged in openclaw/openclaw. Work focused on iOS gateway certificate rotation recovery and related changelog/docs, with maintainer Discord mentions of clawsweeper WhatsApp issues and follow-up reading.

GitHub4
Commit Search Hits2
PRs2
Issues0
Discord8
@shanselman
Scott Hanselman
Microsoft
Core Staff
openclaw-windows-node: 6

shanselman had 6 commits in openclaw/openclaw-windows-node. Focus areas included connection architecture documentation, tray menu label/tooltip refresh, pairing fallbacks, MCP-only startup, and gateway registry migration blockers; no Discord activity was visible.

GitHub6
Commit Search Hits6
PRs0
Issues0
Discord0
@kevinslin
Kevin Lin
GitHub: @kevinlin-openai / @kevinslin
OpenAI
Core Staff
openclaw: 4 #maintainers: 4

kevinslin opened and merged 2 PRs in openclaw/openclaw. Focus areas included removing the Codex dynamic tools profile option and reorganizing Codex harness docs, with maintainer Discord discussion around plugins, marketing caution, and docs style-guide work.

GitHub4
Commit Search Hits0
PRs4
Issues0
Discord4
@bek91
Bek Akhmedov
Mochary Method; GitHub profile also lists Unblock Labs
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 2

bek91 opened 1 PR in openclaw/openclaw that was closed, focused on Slack DM delivery mirror session splitting around bare IM channel IDs. No Discord activity was visible.

GitHub2
Commit Search Hits0
PRs2
Issues0
Discord0
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff adminsecurityrelease
#clawtributors: 4#maintainers: 4

thewilloftheshadow had no visible GitHub activity, but had 8 Discord messages split between clawtributors and maintainers. Discussion focused on moving items to ClawHub plugins and access concepts such as a Clawtributor+ role without broad maintainer access.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord8
@joshavant
Josh Avant
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff security
#maintainers: 5 owns: Security

joshavant had no visible GitHub activity, but had 5 maintainer Discord messages. Visible discussion touched security/ops-flavored topics including negative keyword matching, CI secret rotation, and production URL change controls.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord5
@joshp123
Josh Palmer
Anonymous streaming employer dispute
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 1

joshp123 had 1 visible GitHub event in openclaw/openclaw, a closed PR titled “fix: restore current iOS simulator builds.” No Discord activity was visible.

GitHub1
Commit Search Hits0
PRs1
Issues0
Discord0
@sallyom
Sally O'Malley
Red Hat
Core Staff
#maintainer-offtopic: 1

sallyom had no visible GitHub activity and 1 maintainer-offtopic Discord message. No project focus area is visible in the provided evidence.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord1
@sliverp
Yuehua Li
Tencent
Core Staff
#maintainers: 1

sliverp had no visible GitHub activity and 1 maintainer Discord message asking about commit timing. No project focus area is visible beyond that thread context.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord1
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No visible activity

26 maintainers
  • @altaywtf - Altay
  • @amknight - Alex Knight
  • @davemorin - Dave Morin
  • @drobison00 - Devin Robison
  • @eleqtrizit - Agustin Rivera
  • @Evizero - Christof Salis
  • @galiniliev - Galin Iliev
  • @gumadeiras - Gustavo Madeira Santana
  • @huntharo - Harold Hunt
  • @hxy91819 - Mason Huang
  • @jacobtomlinson - Jacob Tomlinson
  • @jalehman - Josh Lehman
  • @jesse-merhi - Jesse Merhi
  • @mbelinky - Mariano Belinky
  • @momothemage - Zhengnan Niu
  • @odysseus0 - George Zhang
  • @onutc - Onur Solmaz
  • @Patrick-Erichsen - Patrick Erichsen
  • @pgondhi987 - Pavan Kumar Gondhi
  • @RomneyDa - Dallin Romney
  • @SidU - Sid Uppal
  • @sjf - Sarah Fortune
  • @Takhoffman - Tak Hoffman
  • @velvet-shark - Radek Sienkiewicz
  • @vignesh07 - Vignesh Natarajan
  • @visionik - Jonathan Taylor