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 13, 2026
As of
Active
29/45
20 Core Staff / 9 Community
GitHub Events
930
maintainer + non-maintainer
Discord
924
messages
PRs Opened
131
111 merged
Issues
7
3 closed
Repos
8
active in shown list
Overview

Global Summary

Codex synthesis
  • Daily window 2026-05-13: GitHub activity was heavy at 545 commits, 131 PRs opened, 111 merged, and Discord had 924 messages, mostly in #clawtributors and #maintainers.
  • Most visible GitHub focus areas were OpenClaw core fixes, ClawHub feature work, Codex migration/runtime issues, plugin/package trust, Telegram/Slack/iMessage/WhatsApp channels, Windows node UI/onboarding, and Discrawl SQLite import memory.
Hard Numbers

Activity Mix

codex summaries / 20 Discord mapping gaps
Commit Search Hits
545
Issue/PR comments
0
PR review comments
0
Discord messages
924
Releases

Release Signals In This Window

8 active repos matched ReleaseBar for Daily Report 2026-05-13
Tracked active repos
8
Latest releases in window
0
Latest repo updates in window
0
No release recorded
0
Maintainers

People With Access

showing 29 of 29 active
@steipete
Peter Steinberger
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff adminsecurityrelease
openclaw: 471crabbox: 14clawhub: 10clawsweeper: 3 #maintainers: 43#clawtributors: 31#maintainer-security-ops: 5 owns: Core platform, daemon, agentsowns: Internal tools

steipete had the largest visible footprint with 501 GitHub events, including 468 commits and 29 merged PRs, mostly in openclaw/openclaw with additional work in crabbox, clawhub, clawsweeper, and discrawl. Focus areas included stale plugin refs after failed updates, live chat ordering, Codex OAuth prompt clarity, Telegram allowlist fallback, incremental chat deltas, and Modal delegated-run provider work; Discord activity was also substantial across #maintainers, #clawtributors, and #maintainer-security-ops, including beta status and OAuth refresh troubleshooting.

GitHub501
Commit Search Hits468
PRs33
Issues0
Discord79
@obviyus
Ayaan Zaidi
AI startup in pharma drug discovery
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 25crabbox: 1 #maintainers: 28#clawtributors: 13#maintainer-offtopic: 1 owns: Channel Telegram

obviyus showed active OpenClaw and crabbox work with 26 GitHub events, including 16 commits, 3 opened PRs, and 6 merged PRs. The visible focus was agent session bootstrap, Telegram polling stall liveness, worktree heavy-check locks, stale AWS SSH ingress cleanup, and Discord discussion in #maintainers/#clawtributors about first-contact sends, A2A delivery scope, and structured tool testing.

GitHub26
Commit Search Hits16
PRs10
Issues0
Discord42
@Patrick-Erichsen
Patrick Erichsen
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff release
clawhub: 32 #maintainers: 18 owns: ClawHub

Patrick-Erichsen was active only in openclaw/clawhub, with 32 GitHub events including 11 opened PRs and 15 merged PRs. Work centered on local dev seeding, redirects, package pinning, ClawScan finding permalinks, canonical profile routes, and Discord discussion around codex migration conflicts and maintainer tooling noise.

GitHub32
Commit Search Hits6
PRs26
Issues0
Discord18
@pash-openai
Nik Pash
GitHub: @pash-openai / @pashpashpash
OpenAI
Core Staff
openclaw: 8 #clawtributors: 68#maintainers: 38 owns: Codex

pash-openai had 8 OpenClaw GitHub events, including PRs around preserving HOME for Codex app-server launches, release branch health, trusting installed Codex for private task runtime, and npm alias override install retries. Discord activity was high at 106 messages across #clawtributors and #maintainers, focused on Codex/web interface behavior, harness mode, message-tool behavior, and likely fix scope.

GitHub8
Commit Search Hits1
PRs7
Issues0
Discord106
@pgondhi987
Pavan Kumar Gondhi
NVIDIA
Core Staff security
openclaw: 29

pgondhi987 had 29 OpenClaw GitHub events, including 12 commits, 5 opened PRs, and 12 merged PRs. The visible work focused on gateway Talk session scope resolution and approval requirements for setup-code device pairing and proxy-scoped Control UI access; no Discord activity was visible in this window.

GitHub29
Commit Search Hits12
PRs17
Issues0
Discord0
@shakkernerd
Gideon Adegbesan
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff
openclaw: 12 #maintainers: 49#clawtributors: 15

shakkernerd had 12 OpenClaw GitHub events, including 7 commits and 4 merged PRs, focused on ACP RequestError detail preservation, CJK memory auto-capture triggers, transient remote media fetch retries, managed plugin peer dependencies, and ACP changelog docs. Discord activity was also visible in #maintainers and #clawtributors, including notes on landed fixes, current beta testing, and deferring feature work while focused on fixes.

GitHub12
Commit Search Hits7
PRs5
Issues0
Discord64
@vincentkoc
Vincent Koc
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff securityrelease
crabpot: 6openclaw: 5 #maintainers: 58#maintainer-offtopic: 1 owns: Core platform, daemon, agentsowns: Internal toolsowns: Observability, Diag and Telemetryowns: Plugins

vincentkoc had 11 GitHub events across crabpot and openclaw, including 5 commits and 3 merged PRs. Work focused on crabpot dashboard lifecycle installs with track pnpm, upstream plugin updates, reverting a CLI root refusal, plus Discord discussion in #maintainers about plugin-enabled diagnostics, Codex harness defaults, and a Telegram bubble fix on main.

GitHub11
Commit Search Hits5
PRs6
Issues0
Discord59
@shanselman
Scott Hanselman
Microsoft
Core Staff
openclaw-windows-node: 24

shanselman had 24 GitHub events, all in openclaw/openclaw-windows-node, including 13 commits and 9 merged PRs. The visible focus was WinUI clipboard copy refactoring, CopyDiagnostic extraction, skills redesign, workspace caching, sidebar/voice width fixes, and onboarding Finish recovery; no Discord activity was visible.

GitHub24
Commit Search Hits13
PRs11
Issues0
Discord0
@sjf
Sarah Fortune
GitHub: @sjf / @sjf-oa
OpenAI
Core Staff
openclaw: 18

sjf had 18 OpenClaw GitHub events, including 5 commits, 6 opened PRs, and 6 merged PRs. Work focused on codex-migrate preview/result UX polish, raising plugin install scan limits, and onboarding flow cleanup when no key config settings are detected; no Discord activity was visible.

GitHub18
Commit Search Hits5
PRs13
Issues0
Discord0
@jesse-merhi
Jesse Merhi
Atlassian
Core Staff security
openclaw: 6clawhub: 4 #maintainers: 12#clawtributors: 2

jesse-merhi had 10 GitHub events across openclaw and clawhub, including 3 commits, 4 opened PRs, and 2 merged PRs. The visible focus was ClawHub package trust and plugin install trust checks, including a revert, plus exact release package trust endpoints and admin dry-run plugin scan jobs; Discord activity included maintainer consultation and browser-use clarification in #clawtributors.

GitHub10
Commit Search Hits3
PRs7
Issues0
Discord14
@joshavant
Josh Avant
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff security
openclaw: 3 #maintainers: 21#maintainer-offtopic: 2#maintainer-security-ops: 1 owns: Security

joshavant had 3 OpenClaw GitHub events around dependency release safety evidence and PR awareness, including 1 commit and 1 merged PR. Discord activity in #maintainers and #maintainer-security-ops focused on dependency planning and pnpm install behavior.

GitHub3
Commit Search Hits1
PRs2
Issues0
Discord24
@kevinslin
Kevin Lin
GitHub: @kevinlin-openai / @kevinslin
OpenAI
Core Staff
openclaw: 5 #maintainers: 15#clawtributors: 1

kevinslin had 5 OpenClaw GitHub events, including docs consolidation for plugin install docs and closed or merged Codex/native plugin runtime PRs. Discord activity focused on migration conflicts, webchat versus TUI assumptions, first-time setup impact, and a possible PR plan.

GitHub5
Commit Search Hits1
PRs4
Issues0
Discord16
@altaywtf
Altay
US-based fintech / put.io
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 7 #maintainer-offtopic: 2#maintainer-security-ops: 1

altaywtf had 7 OpenClaw GitHub events, including 1 commit and 5 merged PRs. Work touched Slack timestamp bounds, stale plugin doctor config reporting, ACP backend provider failover, auth profile secret isolation in tests, and pnpm source update builds; Discord activity was light, with one #maintainer-security-ops scan-related message and off-topic messages.

GitHub7
Commit Search Hits1
PRs6
Issues0
Discord3
@hxy91819
Mason Huang
Tencent
Core Staff security
openclaw: 4discrawl: 2 #maintainers: 5#clawtributors: 1#maintainer-security-ops: 1

hxy91819 had 6 GitHub events across openclaw and discrawl, including 2 commits and 2 merged PRs. Focus areas included bounding SQLite import memory to avoid OOM during large snapshots, changelog credit for transcript redaction, config protections for auto-managed meta.lastTouched paths, and Discord notes with measured RSS reduction and low-risk plugin SDK landing discussion.

GitHub6
Commit Search Hits2
PRs4
Issues0
Discord7
@jalehman
Josh Lehman
Martian Engineering
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 6 #maintainers: 4

jalehman had 6 OpenClaw GitHub events, including 2 commits and 2 merged PRs. Work focused on restoring Codex cron automation compatibility and rotating incompatible context-engine threads, with #maintainers discussion explaining cron bootstrap timeouts in Codex harness and troubleshooting context around cache behavior and upcoming fixes.

GitHub6
Commit Search Hits2
PRs4
Issues0
Discord4
@giodl73-repo
Gio Della-Libera
Microsoft
Core Staff
openclaw: 6

giodl73-repo had 6 OpenClaw GitHub events, opening 3 PRs and closing 3, with no commits shown. The visible PR focus was config unset dry-run support, wildcard self-hosted provider endpoint discovery, and doctor auto-archiving orphan transcripts with yes; no Discord activity was visible.

GitHub6
Commit Search Hits0
PRs6
Issues0
Discord0
@sallyom
Sally O'Malley
Red Hat
Core Staff
openclaw: 5 #maintainers: 2

sallyom had 5 OpenClaw GitHub events, including 1 commit and 3 merged PRs. Work focused on preserving all-caps provider API keys, self-hosted wildcard provider discovery, security redaction of persisted tool result details, and avoiding broad provider env marker inference; Discord activity was minimal in #maintainers.

GitHub5
Commit Search Hits1
PRs4
Issues0
Discord2
@omarshahine
Omar Shahine
Microsoft
Core Staff
openclaw: 3

omarshahine had 3 OpenClaw GitHub events, all merged PRs around iMessage behavior. The visible focus was avoiding visible media placeholder text, making inbound image attachments readable by agents, and preserving pasted links while ignoring Apple preview blobs; no Discord activity was visible.

GitHub3
Commit Search Hits0
PRs3
Issues0
Discord0
@bek91
Bek Akhmedov
Mochary Method; GitHub profile also lists Unblock Labs
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 11

bek91 had no visible GitHub activity in this window. Discord activity was limited to 11 #maintainers messages around device-control testing, offering a Pi 4 for testing, and sending logs.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord11
@mbelinky
Mariano Belinky
Regenerative agriculture farm / asset management setup
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 8#maintainer-offtopic: 1

mbelinky had no visible GitHub activity in this window. Discord activity included 9 messages in #maintainers and #maintainer-offtopic, discussing usage budget expectations, working while mobile, and a possible adapter.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord9
@scoootscooob
Scott Fan
Paradigm
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 9

scoootscooob had no visible GitHub activity in this window. Discord activity in #maintainers focused on plugin SDK changes, plugin auth/control-plane contracts, host-owned structured LLM runtime, ClawBench/install setup flows, and local config use for main evaluation.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord9
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff adminsecurityrelease
#maintainers: 3#clawtributors: 1#maintainer-offtopic: 1

thewilloftheshadow had no visible GitHub activity in this window. Discord activity was light, with 5 messages across #maintainers, #clawtributors, and #maintainer-offtopic, but no clear operational focus beyond the provided snippets.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord5
@BunsDev
Val Alexander
Independent DevRel / builder
Community Maintainer
#clawtributors: 2

BunsDev had no visible GitHub activity in this window. Discord activity was limited to 2 #clawtributors messages acknowledging shared context and being summoned.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord2
@jacobtomlinson
Jacob Tomlinson
NVIDIA
Core Staff security
#maintainers: 2

jacobtomlinson had no visible GitHub activity in this window. Discord activity was 2 #maintainers messages, including discussion of training a local classifier for local analysis and a greeting.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord2
@galiniliev
Galin Iliev
Microsoft
Core Staff
#clawtributors: 1

galiniliev had no visible GitHub activity in this window. Discord activity was a single #clawtributors message saying a couple of small fixes were merged and linking PRs #81235 and #81215.

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

sliverp had no visible GitHub activity in this window. Discord activity was a single #maintainers greeting.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord1
@velvet-shark
Radek Sienkiewicz
Consulting / DevRel
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 1

velvet-shark had no visible GitHub activity in this window. Discord activity was a single #maintainers message about automated scanning of commits.

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
  • @gumadeiras - Gustavo Madeira Santana
  • @huntharo - Harold Hunt
  • @joshp123 - Josh Palmer
  • @ngutman - Nimrod Gutman
  • @odysseus0 - George Zhang
  • @onutc - Onur Solmaz
  • @RomneyDa - Dallin Romney
  • @SidU - Sid Uppal
  • @Takhoffman - Tak Hoffman
  • @vignesh07 - Vignesh Natarajan
  • @visionik - Jonathan Taylor