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 11, 2026
As of
Active
28/45
20 Core Staff / 8 Community
GitHub Events
1243
maintainer + non-maintainer
Discord
867
messages
PRs Opened
131
146 merged
Issues
20
16 closed
Repos
12
active in shown list
Overview

Global Summary

Codex synthesis
  • Daily window: 2026-05-11, with visible activity concentrated in openclaw/openclaw, clawhub, clickclack, crabbox, imsg, clawsweeper, Peekaboo, and openclaw-windows-node.
  • Overall visible totals: 737 GitHub commits, 131 PRs opened, 146 PRs merged, 193 PRs closed, and 867 Discord messages across clawtributors, maintainers, maintainer-offtopic, and maintainer-security-ops.
Hard Numbers

Activity Mix

codex summaries / 20 Discord mapping gaps
Commit Search Hits
737
Issue/PR comments
0
PR review comments
0
Discord messages
867
Releases

Release Signals In This Window

12 active repos matched ReleaseBar for Daily Report 2026-05-11
Tracked active repos
12
Latest releases in window
0
Latest repo updates in window
0
No release recorded
1
Maintainers

People With Access

showing 28 of 28 active
@steipete
Peter Steinberger
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff adminsecurityrelease
openclaw: 409clawsweeper: 16crabbox: 15clawhub: 6 #clawtributors: 156#maintainers: 47 owns: Core platform, daemon, agentsowns: Internal tools

Heavy OpenClaw activity: 466 GitHub events including 387 commits and 70 merged PRs, mostly in openclaw/openclaw with additional work across clawsweeper, crabbox, clawhub, and Peekaboo. Focus areas included readability lint cleanup, gateway systemd provenance, auto-reply context, browser CDP target filtering, gateway inflight deduplication, and subagent docs; Discord activity was also high in clawtributors and maintainers, including CI/reliability and PR-routing discussion.

GitHub466
Commit Search Hits387
PRs77
Issues2
Discord203
@shakkernerd
Gideon Adegbesan
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff
openclaw: 297clickclack: 9 #maintainers: 8

Visible work was mostly code-heavy: 306 GitHub events with 302 commits, primarily in openclaw/openclaw plus clickclack. Focus areas included clickclack route-driven chat navigation, chat storage scaling/privacy, Google Chat capability proof tests, and Prometheus exporter startup-event tests; Discord activity was limited to 8 maintainer-channel messages around external PR discussion.

GitHub306
Commit Search Hits302
PRs4
Issues0
Discord8
@Patrick-Erichsen
Patrick Erichsen
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff release
clawhub: 50 #clawtributors: 4#maintainers: 4 owns: ClawHub

ClawHub-focused day with 50 GitHub events, 16 PRs opened, and 17 merged PRs in openclaw/clawhub. Work centered on skill summary settings copy, pre-PR validation docs, and full skill descriptions on detail pages, with a small amount of clawtributors and maintainers discussion around review backlog and PR triage.

GitHub50
Commit Search Hits17
PRs33
Issues0
Discord8
@obviyus
Ayaan Zaidi
AI startup in pharma drug discovery
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 30 #maintainers: 24#clawtributors: 22 owns: Channel Telegram

OpenClaw activity centered on Telegram and browser fixes: 30 GitHub events, 10 PRs opened, and 13 merged PRs in openclaw/openclaw. Items included Telegram thinking status defaults, edited-message context cache, legacy message cache recovery, and Chrome MCP screenshot extension handling; Discord activity spanned maintainers and clawtributors with PR review and upgrade-testing discussion.

GitHub30
Commit Search Hits7
PRs23
Issues0
Discord46
@pash-openai
Nik Pash
GitHub: @pash-openai / @pashpashpash
OpenAI
Core Staff
openclaw: 4 #maintainers: 57#clawtributors: 20 owns: Codex

OpenClaw/Codex-facing work included 4 GitHub events, 1 commit, and 2 merged PRs around OpenAI auth login defaulting to ChatGPT and Codex subscription reset-time errors. Discord activity was substantial at 77 messages, mostly in maintainers, with onboarding/video review and merge-readiness discussion.

GitHub4
Commit Search Hits1
PRs3
Issues0
Discord77
@BunsDev
Val Alexander
Independent DevRel / builder
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 19clawhub: 1 #maintainers: 5#maintainer-security-ops: 1

OpenClaw activity included 20 GitHub events, 6 commits, and 7 merged PRs across openclaw/openclaw and clawhub. Focus areas included iOS operator bootstrap diagnostics, secret-bearing Mantis CI guardrails, chat panel localization, and responsive channel statuses, plus maintainer-security-ops discussion around GHSA/private fork permissions and handoff format.

GitHub20
Commit Search Hits6
PRs14
Issues0
Discord6
@kevinslin
Kevin Lin
GitHub: @kevinlin-openai / @kevinslin
OpenAI
Core Staff
openclaw: 16 #maintainers: 12

OpenClaw activity included 16 GitHub events, 5 commits, and 6 merged PRs. Work covered Codex plugin destructive-action defaults, core fast-test stabilization, tools automation docs navigation, and a refactor docs skill; Discord discussion focused on docs organization, PR notification, and Codex job kickoff.

GitHub16
Commit Search Hits5
PRs11
Issues0
Discord12
@jesse-merhi
Jesse Merhi
Atlassian
Core Staff security
openclaw: 7 #maintainers: 13#clawtributors: 4#maintainer-security-ops: 1

OpenClaw activity included 7 GitHub events, 4 commits, and 2 merged PRs around command approval highlighting: disabling non-POSIX highlights, making exec command highlighting optional, Windows gateway command span handling, and related tests/docs. Discord activity appeared in maintainers, clawtributors, and maintainer-security-ops, with snippets mostly around screenshots/tooling discussion.

GitHub7
Commit Search Hits4
PRs3
Issues0
Discord18
@sjf
Sarah Fortune
GitHub: @sjf / @sjf-oa
OpenAI
Core Staff
openclaw: 11

OpenClaw activity included 11 GitHub events, 3 commits, 4 PRs opened, and 3 merged PRs. Focus areas included shell completion profile source-line guards, provider-http test-helper dts build fixes, and removing a harness runtime dropdown from the Discord /models picker; no Discord activity was visible.

GitHub11
Commit Search Hits3
PRs8
Issues0
Discord0
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff adminsecurityrelease
#maintainers: 24#clawtributors: 5#maintainer-offtopic: 2

No visible GitHub activity in the window. Discord activity totaled 31 messages across maintainers, clawtributors, and maintainer-offtopic, including guidance on PR links needing short summaries and discussion in maintainer/offtopic channels.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord31
@jalehman
Josh Lehman
Martian Engineering
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 7 #clawtributors: 1

OpenClaw activity included 7 GitHub events, 2 commits, and 3 merged PRs. Focus areas included Codex context engine projection scaling, code-mode follow-up tool display/replay stabilization, Telegram verbose tool result handling, and a directory-backed session store; Discord activity was a single clawtributors reply about testing against claude-cli.

GitHub7
Commit Search Hits2
PRs5
Issues0
Discord1
@mbelinky
Mariano Belinky
Regenerative agriculture farm / asset management setup
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 2 #maintainers: 14

OpenClaw activity was small but visible: 2 GitHub events, 1 commit, and 1 merged PR for mirroring Codex native subagents into the task registry. Discord activity included 14 maintainer-channel messages around taking an item, AWS credentials for testing, and a merge commit SHA.

GitHub2
Commit Search Hits1
PRs1
Issues0
Discord14
@omarshahine
Omar Shahine
Microsoft
Core Staff
openclaw: 3imsg: 1 #maintainers: 2

Activity spanned openclaw/openclaw and openclaw/imsg with 4 GitHub events, including 2 commits, 1 opened PR, and 1 closed issue. Focus areas included iMessage/BlueBubbles migration docs, inbound tapbacks as reactions, channel status filtering, and an imsg threaded-reply attachment issue; Discord messages referenced plugin SDK work and the migration draft PR.

GitHub4
Commit Search Hits2
PRs1
Issues1
Discord2
@momothemage
Zhengnan Niu
Tencent
Core Staff
clawhub: 2 #maintainers: 6

ClawHub activity included 2 GitHub events, 1 opened PR, and 1 merged PR for search recall of non-first-token matches via full-text indexes. Discord activity in maintainers discussed the search fix, consistent clawhub submissions, and what counts as inactive across repos.

GitHub2
Commit Search Hits0
PRs2
Issues0
Discord6
@joshavant
Josh Avant
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff security
#maintainers: 12 owns: Security

No visible GitHub activity in the window. Discord activity totaled 12 maintainer-channel messages, including approval-style feedback and discussion of an upstream codex-acp PR at Zed Industries.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord12
@scoootscooob
Scott Fan
Paradigm
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 10

No visible GitHub activity in the window. Discord activity totaled 10 maintainer-channel messages, with snippets around reactions, partner keys, and eval spend.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord10
@mcaxtr
Marcus Castro
Unnamed American company
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 1 #maintainers: 5

GitHub activity was limited to 1 merged OpenClaw PR, focused on downgrading recovered WhatsApp watchdog disconnects. Discord activity included 5 maintainer-channel messages, including investigation of an issue and OOM kill discussion.

GitHub1
Commit Search Hits0
PRs1
Issues0
Discord5
@sliverp
Yuehua Li
Tencent
Core Staff
openclaw: 1 #maintainers: 2

GitHub activity was limited to 1 merged OpenClaw PR adding Yuanbao support for sourceReplyDeliveryMode automatic in group chat. Discord activity included 2 maintainer-channel messages about dynamically installed npm-hosted plugins and whether plugin-inspector is run before releases.

GitHub1
Commit Search Hits0
PRs1
Issues0
Discord2
@altaywtf
Altay
US-based fintech / put.io
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 1 #maintainers: 1

Visible activity was 1 opened OpenClaw PR to align pnpm 11 follow-up surfaces. Discord activity was a single maintainer-channel message linking the pnpm@11 follow-up PR.

GitHub1
Commit Search Hits0
PRs1
Issues0
Discord1
@galiniliev
Galin Iliev
Microsoft
Core Staff
crabbox: 1 #maintainers: 1

Visible activity was 1 opened crabbox PR to streamline Azure login and fix Windows/WSL sync. Discord activity was a single maintainer-channel message linking those Azure and Windows changes.

GitHub1
Commit Search Hits0
PRs1
Issues0
Discord1
@hxy91819
Mason Huang
Tencent
Core Staff security
#maintainer-offtopic: 2#maintainer-security-ops: 2#maintainers: 1

No visible GitHub activity in the window. Discord activity totaled 5 messages across maintainer-offtopic, maintainer-security-ops, and maintainers, including security-ops discussion of conflicts and a replacement PR being worked toward landing.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord5
@shanselman
Scott Hanselman
Microsoft
Core Staff
openclaw-windows-node: 1

GitHub activity was limited to 1 merged PR in openclaw/openclaw-windows-node to keep squad artifacts out of git. No Discord activity was visible.

GitHub1
Commit Search Hits0
PRs1
Issues0
Discord0
@onutc
Onur Solmaz
GitHub: @onutc / @osolmaz
Hugging Face
Core Staff
#maintainers: 2 owns: Local Models

No visible GitHub activity in the window. Discord activity was limited to 2 maintainer-channel messages, including discussion of a review/fix loop and a personal-status update; no repo focus area is visible from the provided evidence.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord2
@RomneyDa
Dallin Romney
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff
#maintainers: 2

No visible GitHub activity in the window. Discord activity was limited to 2 maintainer-channel messages, including a mention related to ClawCon Shanghai.

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

No visible GitHub activity in the window. Discord activity was limited to 1 maintainer-security-ops message noting automation issues and delayed GHSA triage.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord1
@sallyom
Sally O'Malley
Red Hat
Core Staff
#maintainer-offtopic: 1

No visible GitHub activity in the window. Discord activity was limited to 1 maintainer-offtopic message about being busy with llm-d observability and planning to return focus to OpenClaw afterward.

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

No visible activity

17 maintainers
  • @amknight - Alex Knight
  • @davemorin - Dave Morin
  • @drobison00 - Devin Robison
  • @eleqtrizit - Agustin Rivera
  • @Evizero - Christof Salis
  • @giodl73-repo - Gio Della-Libera
  • @gumadeiras - Gustavo Madeira Santana
  • @huntharo - Harold Hunt
  • @joshp123 - Josh Palmer
  • @ngutman - Nimrod Gutman
  • @odysseus0 - George Zhang
  • @SidU - Sid Uppal
  • @Takhoffman - Tak Hoffman
  • @velvet-shark - Radek Sienkiewicz
  • @vignesh07 - Vignesh Natarajan
  • @vincentkoc - Vincent Koc
  • @visionik - Jonathan Taylor