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 12, 2026
As of
Active
29/45
18 Core Staff / 11 Community
GitHub Events
1213
maintainer + non-maintainer
Discord
711
messages
PRs Opened
131
84 merged
Issues
7
7 closed
Repos
9
active in shown list
Overview

Global Summary

Codex synthesis
  • Daily window 2026-05-12: GitHub activity was concentrated in openclaw/openclaw, with 790 commits, 131 PRs opened, and 84 PRs merged across all tracked maintainers.
  • Discord activity was highest in maintainers and clawtributors, with additional security discussion in maintainer-security-ops.
Hard Numbers

Activity Mix

codex summaries / 20 Discord mapping gaps
Commit Search Hits
790
Issue/PR comments
0
PR review comments
0
Discord messages
711
Releases

Release Signals In This Window

8 active repos matched ReleaseBar for Daily Report 2026-05-12 ยท 1 untracked here
Tracked active repos
8
Latest releases in window
0
Latest repo updates in window
0
No release recorded
3
Maintainers

People With Access

showing 29 of 29 active
@shakkernerd
Gideon Adegbesan
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff
openclaw: 417clickclack: 2 #maintainers: 32

shakkernerd had heavy GitHub activity with 419 commits, almost entirely in openclaw/openclaw, focused on tests for payload error text, loop compaction logs, incomplete turn warnings, context events, fs bridge output, and GitHub config hint behavior. They also posted 32 messages in maintainers, discussing Codex behavior and limits.

GitHub419
Commit Search Hits419
PRs0
Issues0
Discord32
@steipete
Peter Steinberger
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff adminsecurityrelease
openclaw: 326crabbox: 2 #maintainers: 31#clawtributors: 1 owns: Core platform, daemon, agentsowns: Internal tools

steipete had 328 GitHub events, including 317 commits and 10 merged PRs, focused on OpenClaw update convergence, doctor plugin peer-link repair, bundled plugin metadata handling, TUI gateway disconnect exit behavior, and stableStringify refactoring. Discord activity covered maintainer coordination and the OpenClaw 2026.5.12-beta.2 announcement in maintainers and clawtributors.

GitHub328
Commit Search Hits317
PRs11
Issues0
Discord32
@pgondhi987
Pavan Kumar Gondhi
NVIDIA
Core Staff security
openclaw: 63 #maintainer-security-ops: 1

pgondhi987 opened and merged 21 OpenClaw PRs with 21 commits, focused on security-advisory fixes including safe-bin argument validation, plugin runtime entry scanning, and sandbox browser CDP relay auth. They also posted in maintainer-security-ops summarizing the merged security work and cherry-pick candidates.

GitHub63
Commit Search Hits21
PRs42
Issues0
Discord1
@obviyus
Ayaan Zaidi
AI startup in pharma drug discovery
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 29 #maintainers: 21#clawtributors: 7 owns: Channel Telegram

obviyus had 29 GitHub events in openclaw/openclaw, including 16 commits, 2 opened PRs, and 11 merged PRs, covering agent post-compaction context, Telegram DM classification, read-offset recovery, Telnyx voice-call streaming, Codex auth onboarding, and PR workflow docs. Discord activity in maintainers and clawtributors touched AGENTS.md, credentials, and cloudflared work.

GitHub29
Commit Search Hits16
PRs13
Issues0
Discord28
@pash-openai
Nik Pash
GitHub: @pash-openai / @pashpashpash
OpenAI
Core Staff
openclaw: 5 #maintainers: 71#clawtributors: 37 owns: Codex

pash-openai had 5 GitHub events in openclaw/openclaw, with PRs around Codex media tools backed by auth profiles and message tool delivery hints. They were highly active on Discord with 108 messages across maintainers and clawtributors, discussing beta troubleshooting and narrowing issues.

GitHub5
Commit Search Hits1
PRs4
Issues0
Discord108
@kevinslin
Kevin Lin
GitHub: @kevinlin-openai / @kevinslin
OpenAI
Core Staff
openclaw: 11 #maintainers: 22#clawtributors: 5

kevinslin had 11 GitHub events in openclaw/openclaw, including work on Codex migration selector enter behavior, plugin docs navigation, and canvas bundle hash tracking. Discord activity in maintainers and clawtributors included PR feedback, plugin testing reminders, and CI-check guidance.

GitHub11
Commit Search Hits4
PRs7
Issues0
Discord27
@Patrick-Erichsen
Patrick Erichsen
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff release
clawhub: 6openclaw: 3clawhub-security: 1 #maintainers: 13#maintainer-security-ops: 4#maintainer-lounge: 3 owns: ClawHub

Patrick-Erichsen had 10 GitHub events across clawhub, openclaw, and clawhub-security, with merged work on heartbeat cadence, tool-result middleware, duplicate slug handling, memory-core staging, and ClawHub publisher breadcrumbs. Discord discussion focused on onboarding and quick-start flow concerns, with some security-ops and lounge activity.

GitHub10
Commit Search Hits1
PRs9
Issues0
Discord21
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff adminsecurityrelease
hermit: 6community: 1 #maintainers: 17#clawtributors: 8#maintainer-security-ops: 6

thewilloftheshadow had 7 GitHub events across hermit and community, focused on moderation snippets, accepted clawtributor announcements, showcase promotion rules, claim review history, Durable Object migration, and claim review settings. Discord activity included maintainer coordination around an opt-in role and related clawtributors/security-ops messages.

GitHub7
Commit Search Hits6
PRs1
Issues0
Discord31
@shanselman
Scott Hanselman
Microsoft
Core Staff
openclaw-windows-node: 13 #maintainers: 3

shanselman had 13 GitHub events in openclaw-windows-node, including 2 commits and 11 merged PRs focused on usage toggle UI, native WinUI chat, ExecApprovalsStore, AppContainer sandboxing, auto-reconnect, and WSL gateway uninstall work. Discord activity was limited to 3 maintainer messages, including a Windows-node PR link.

GitHub13
Commit Search Hits2
PRs11
Issues0
Discord3
@jesse-merhi
Jesse Merhi
Atlassian
Core Staff security
proxyline: 5 #maintainers: 10#maintainer-security-ops: 6

jesse-merhi had 5 GitHub events in openclaw/proxyline, opening 2 PRs and merging 3 around managed bypass policy, Proxyline 0.1.1 release, and runtime module refactoring. Discord activity in maintainers and security-ops discussed dependency-upgrade policy, code owner/reviewer concerns, and a Proxyline release request.

GitHub5
Commit Search Hits0
PRs5
Issues0
Discord16
@joshavant
Josh Avant
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff security
#maintainers: 29#maintainer-security-ops: 5 owns: Security

joshavant had no visible GitHub activity in this window. Discord activity was 34 messages across maintainers and maintainer-security-ops, focused on UX onboarding judgment, supply-chain hardening, sqlite impact, and validation from reported issues.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord34
@sallyom
Sally O'Malley
Red Hat
Core Staff
openclaw: 6 #maintainer-security-ops: 4#maintainer-offtopic: 3#maintainers: 3

sallyom had 6 GitHub events in openclaw/openclaw, including work on config-audit argv scrubbing, Dockerfile frontend pull avoidance, doctor legacy migration preview behavior, LLM idle timeout errors, and config-audit temp-write rename handling. Discord activity centered on maintainer-security-ops review of config-audit handling, with some maintainer and off-topic messages.

GitHub6
Commit Search Hits1
PRs5
Issues0
Discord10
@sjf
Sarah Fortune
GitHub: @sjf / @sjf-oa
OpenAI
Core Staff
openclaw: 8

sjf had 8 GitHub events in openclaw/openclaw, with 3 opened PRs and 4 merged PRs focused on onboarding and Codex migration after harness install, onboarding hang handling, and treating already-installed Codex as success. No Discord activity was visible.

GitHub8
Commit Search Hits1
PRs7
Issues0
Discord0
@vincentkoc
Vincent Koc
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff securityrelease
#maintainers: 19#maintainer-security-ops: 1 owns: Core platform, daemon, agentsowns: Internal toolsowns: Observability, Diag and Telemetryowns: Plugins

vincentkoc had no visible GitHub activity in this window. Discord activity was 20 messages, mostly in maintainers, focused on lockfile code ownership and dependency-related discussion, with one maintainer-security-ops message.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord20
@hxy91819
Mason Huang
Tencent
Core Staff security
openclaw: 2 #clawtributors: 4#maintainer-security-ops: 2

hxy91819 had 2 GitHub events in openclaw/openclaw for a closed PR centralizing transcript append redaction. Discord activity in clawtributors and maintainer-security-ops discussed preserving original credits, an XL PR in progress, and prioritizing bug fixes and architecture polish.

GitHub2
Commit Search Hits0
PRs2
Issues0
Discord6
@mbelinky
Mariano Belinky
Regenerative agriculture farm / asset management setup
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 1 #maintainers: 6

mbelinky had 1 GitHub event, a merged OpenClaw PR fixing Codex quiet completed app-server turns. Discord activity in maintainers referenced that Codex harness fix and PR status.

GitHub1
Commit Search Hits0
PRs1
Issues0
Discord6
@galiniliev
Galin Iliev
Microsoft
Core Staff
openclaw: 2 #maintainers: 1

galiniliev had 2 GitHub events in openclaw/openclaw: one issue on Azure OpenAI Responses stalling before first event when memory tools are exposed, and one Azure provider stream-frame drain fix. Their maintainer Discord message reported stalled sessions on main.

GitHub2
Commit Search Hits1
PRs0
Issues1
Discord1
@jalehman
Josh Lehman
Martian Engineering
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 8#clawtributors: 1

jalehman had no visible GitHub activity in this window. Discord activity was 9 messages across maintainers and clawtributors, focused on OpenClaw Pi harness behavior, tool search, and skill discovery behavior with many skills.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord9
@odysseus0
George Zhang
Stealth startup
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 2

odysseus0 had 2 GitHub events in openclaw/openclaw, both merged PRs, focused on Windows native require fast path for plugin-sdk root aliases and injecting isHeartbeat into gateway agent event broadcasts. No Discord activity was visible.

GitHub2
Commit Search Hits0
PRs2
Issues0
Discord0
@BunsDev
Val Alexander
Independent DevRel / builder
Community Maintainer
#maintainer-security-ops: 3#maintainers: 1

BunsDev had no visible GitHub activity in this window. Discord activity was 4 messages across maintainer-security-ops and maintainers, focused on the /goal slash command and cautious handling of security-sensitive material.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord4
@onutc
Onur Solmaz
GitHub: @onutc / @osolmaz
Hugging Face
Core Staff
openclaw: 1 owns: Local Models

onutc had 1 GitHub event in openclaw/openclaw: a merged PR surfacing silent model fallback failures. No Discord activity was visible.

GitHub1
Commit Search Hits0
PRs1
Issues0
Discord0
@scoootscooob
Scott Fan
Paradigm
Community Maintainer
#maintainer-offtopic: 4

scoootscooob had no visible GitHub activity in this window. Discord activity was 4 maintainer-offtopic messages discussing agent eval, clawbench, harness adapters, plugin ablation, and a PR reminder.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord4
@bek91
Bek Akhmedov
Mochary Method; GitHub profile also lists Unblock Labs
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 3

bek91 had no visible GitHub activity in this window. Discord activity was 3 maintainer messages discussing behavior proof screenshots, validation, and session maintenance behavior around protected sessions and maxEntries.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord3
@sliverp
Yuehua Li
Tencent
Core Staff
#maintainer-offtopic: 1#maintainers: 1

sliverp had no visible GitHub activity in this window. Discord activity was 2 messages, one maintainer-offtopic meeting link and one maintainer greeting.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord2
@mcaxtr
Marcus Castro
Unnamed American company
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 1

mcaxtr had no visible GitHub activity in this window. Discord activity was limited to 1 maintainer greeting.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord1
@vignesh07
Vignesh Natarajan
Snowflake
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 1

vignesh07 had no visible GitHub activity in this window. Discord activity was limited to 1 maintainer message pinging another user for later follow-up.

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

visionik had no visible GitHub activity in this window. Discord activity was 1 maintainer-security-ops message asking about security-posture updates and mentioning a local scan script.

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

No visible activity

16 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
  • @jacobtomlinson - Jacob Tomlinson
  • @joshp123 - Josh Palmer
  • @momothemage - Zhengnan Niu
  • @ngutman - Nimrod Gutman
  • @RomneyDa - Dallin Romney
  • @SidU - Sid Uppal
  • @Takhoffman - Tak Hoffman
  • @velvet-shark - Radek Sienkiewicz