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 14, 2026
As of
Active
28/45
17 Core Staff / 11 Community
GitHub Events
616
maintainer + non-maintainer
Discord
908
messages
PRs Opened
146
124 merged
Issues
23
17 closed
Repos
14
active in shown list
Overview

Global Summary

Codex synthesis
  • Daily window 2026-05-14: evidence shows 82 GitHub commits, 146 PRs opened, 124 PRs merged, and 908 Discord messages across maintainer and contributor channels.
Hard Numbers

Activity Mix

codex summaries / 20 Discord mapping gaps
Commit Search Hits
82
Issue/PR comments
0
PR review comments
0
Discord messages
908
Releases

Release Signals In This Window

12 active repos matched ReleaseBar for Daily Report 2026-05-14
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: 43mcporter: 12gogcli: 9proxyline: 5 #maintainers: 33#clawtributors: 10#maintainer-offtopic: 1 owns: Core platform, daemon, agentsowns: Internal tools

High visible activity across openclaw/openclaw plus mcporter, gogcli, proxyline, and gitcrawl, with 38 commits, 10 PRs opened, and 28 merged. Focus areas included Codex wrapper error surfacing, headless OAuth browser suppression, release/beta communication in clawtributors, and maintainer-channel coordination around update feedback.

GitHub82
Commit Search Hits38
PRs40
Issues4
Discord44
@vincentkoc
Vincent Koc
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff securityrelease
openclaw: 21crabpot: 8crabbox: 7plugin-inspector: 4 #maintainers: 84#clawtributors: 10 owns: Core platform, daemon, agentsowns: Internal toolsowns: Observability, Diag and Telemetryowns: Plugins

Active GitHub maintainer work centered on openclaw/openclaw, crabbox, crabpot, and plugin-inspector, with 18 PRs opened and 17 merged. Titles point to web global search providers, security constraints for code bridge upstreams, env fixture cleanup, and dashboard refresh protection, alongside substantial maintainers-channel activity.

GitHub40
Commit Search Hits0
PRs40
Issues0
Discord94
@pash-openai
Nik Pash
GitHub: @pash-openai / @pashpashpash
OpenAI
Core Staff
openclaw: 12 #maintainers: 61#clawtributors: 34 owns: Codex

Visible work was concentrated in openclaw/openclaw Codex flows, with 2 commits, 6 PRs opened, and 4 merged. PRs focused on streaming Codex preambles, message-tool reply routing, preserving rich block replies, and reducing false doctor warnings, with Discord discussion mostly in maintainers and clawtributors.

GitHub12
Commit Search Hits2
PRs10
Issues0
Discord95
@joshavant
Josh Avant
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff security
openclaw: 27 #maintainers: 19#clawtributors: 4#maintainer-lounge: 1 owns: Security

Active in openclaw/openclaw with 5 commits, 10 PRs opened, and 11 merged. Work touched Discord thread sending, native Ollama doctor migration, Telegram polling lease cleanup, and maintainer discussion around reported runtime issues.

GitHub27
Commit Search Hits5
PRs22
Issues0
Discord24
@BunsDev
Val Alexander
Independent DevRel / builder
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 29 #maintainer-lounge: 2

Active in openclaw/openclaw with 1 commit, 11 PRs opened, and 15 merged. Focus areas included Control UI Agents/New Agent work, dashboard keyboard shortcuts, plugin context budget exposure, responsive log stream height, and stale Control UI run status cleanup; Discord visibility was limited to maintainer-lounge.

GitHub29
Commit Search Hits1
PRs26
Issues2
Discord2
@obviyus
Ayaan Zaidi
AI startup in pharma drug discovery
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 12 #maintainers: 51#clawtributors: 17 owns: Channel Telegram

Visible openclaw/openclaw work included 2 commits, 4 PRs opened, and 5 merged. Items focused on Telegram slash commands and cron HTML formatting, Codex status rate-limit formatting, and auto-reply reasoning preview bridging, with active maintainers and clawtributors Discord participation.

GitHub12
Commit Search Hits2
PRs10
Issues0
Discord68
@shanselman
Scott Hanselman
Microsoft
Core Staff
openclaw-windows-node: 22 #maintainers: 2

Active in openclaw/openclaw-windows-node with 9 commits, 1 PR opened, and 12 merged. Work focused on tray menu redesign, toast routing, exec approval validation, shell recognition, and startup setup checks, with brief maintainer-channel discussion about Windows ARM and runtime context.

GitHub22
Commit Search Hits9
PRs13
Issues0
Discord2
@altaywtf
Altay
US-based fintech / put.io
Community Maintainer
crabbox: 15openclaw: 4 #maintainer-offtopic: 5#maintainers: 1

Visible GitHub activity was mostly crabbox plus some openclaw/openclaw, with 15 commits and 4 merged PRs. Focus areas included Cloudflare container/server defaults, provider error rendering, persisted config write responses, CLI runtime providers in model picking, and runner failover error handling.

GitHub19
Commit Search Hits15
PRs4
Issues0
Discord6
@jalehman
Josh Lehman
Martian Engineering
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 14 #maintainers: 4#maintainer-lounge: 1

Active in openclaw/openclaw with 4 commits, 4 PRs opened, and 5 merged. Work focused on changelog restoration, Codex cron bootstrap context, app-server surrogate stalls, and agent event fanout throttling, with maintainer Discord notes describing stuck-session severity and related PR follow-up.

GitHub14
Commit Search Hits4
PRs10
Issues0
Discord5
@sjf
Sarah Fortune
GitHub: @sjf / @sjf-oa
OpenAI
Core Staff
openclaw: 14

Visible activity was entirely in openclaw/openclaw, with 7 PRs opened and 6 merged. Focus areas were Codex onboarding and migration paths, including app-server setup race handling, migration message cleanup, and forwarding provider auth flags through the wizard; no Discord activity was visible.

GitHub14
Commit Search Hits0
PRs14
Issues0
Discord0
@shakkernerd
Gideon Adegbesan
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff
#maintainers: 29#clawtributors: 20#maintainer-offtopic: 6

No visible GitHub activity in this window. Discord activity was visible across maintainers, clawtributors, and maintainer-offtopic, with snippets about desktop app installation and terminal/app troubleshooting.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord55
@kevinslin
Kevin Lin
GitHub: @kevinlin-openai / @kevinslin
OpenAI
Core Staff
openclaw: 6clawsweeper: 3 #maintainers: 6#clawtributors: 2#maintainer-lounge: 1

Visible work spanned openclaw/openclaw and clawsweeper, with 2 commits, 3 PRs opened, and 4 merged. Focus areas included exempting docs-only PRs from the real proof gate, consolidating plugin management docs, and carrying Codex migration config through onboarding, with related maintainer-channel coordination.

GitHub9
Commit Search Hits2
PRs7
Issues0
Discord9
@Patrick-Erichsen
Patrick Erichsen
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff release
clawhub: 7 #maintainers: 3 owns: ClawHub

Active in openclaw/clawhub with 2 commits, 2 PRs opened, and 3 merged. Work focused on search loading skeletons, search relevance/count honesty, suspicious-skill UI search, and maintainer discussion about ClawHub appeal flows and plugin scanning signals.

GitHub7
Commit Search Hits2
PRs5
Issues0
Discord3
@bek91
Bek Akhmedov
Mochary Method; GitHub profile also lists Unblock Labs
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 3 #maintainers: 15

Visible GitHub activity in openclaw/openclaw included 1 PR opened and 2 merged. Work touched Slack docs alignment and preserving pending subagent sessions during maintenance, with maintainer-channel discussion around Slack config validation and troubleshooting.

GitHub3
Commit Search Hits0
PRs3
Issues0
Discord15
@mbelinky
Mariano Belinky
Regenerative agriculture farm / asset management setup
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 3 #maintainers: 11

Visible openclaw/openclaw activity included 2 PRs opened and 1 merged. Focus areas were Codex CLI session binding from nodes and keeping the post-tool watchdog armed, with light maintainer-channel coordination around merges.

GitHub3
Commit Search Hits0
PRs3
Issues0
Discord11
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff adminsecurityrelease
#maintainers: 12#clawtributors: 8

No visible GitHub activity in this window. Discord activity appeared in maintainers and clawtributors, with snippets about update status, Discord 1006 disconnects, and contributor-context discussion.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord20
@jesse-merhi
Jesse Merhi
Atlassian
Core Staff security
#maintainers: 11

No visible GitHub activity in this window. Discord activity was in maintainers, with focus on pre/post tool-call tracing, OpenTelemetry interest, and requesting a proxyline release.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord11
@pgondhi987
Pavan Kumar Gondhi
NVIDIA
Core Staff security
openclaw: 2 #maintainer-security-ops: 2

Visible openclaw/openclaw activity included 1 commit and 1 merged PR for binding gateway approval access to requester metadata. Maintainer-security-ops messages referenced security advisory fixes, merged PRs for possible cherry-pick, and plugin scanning improvements.

GitHub2
Commit Search Hits1
PRs1
Issues0
Discord2
@jacobtomlinson
Jacob Tomlinson
NVIDIA
Core Staff security
#maintainers: 3

No visible GitHub activity in this window. Discord activity was limited to maintainers, focused on observability middleware/hooks and tracing requests through OpenClaw.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord3
@scoootscooob
Scott Fan
Paradigm
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 3

No visible GitHub activity in this window. Discord activity was limited to maintainers, with snippets about bumping PRs for review and checking whether a fix had already merged.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord3
@mcaxtr
Marcus Castro
Unnamed American company
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 1

No visible GitHub activity in this window. Discord visibility was a single maintainers-channel greeting.

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

No visible GitHub activity in this window. Discord visibility was a single maintainers-channel greeting.

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

No visible GitHub activity in this window. Discord visibility was a single maintainers-channel question about a Mantis reaction/retraction.

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
  • @gumadeiras - Gustavo Madeira Santana
  • @huntharo - Harold Hunt
  • @hxy91819 - Mason Huang
  • @joshp123 - Josh Palmer
  • @odysseus0 - George Zhang
  • @omarshahine - Omar Shahine
  • @onutc - Onur Solmaz
  • @RomneyDa - Dallin Romney
  • @sallyom - Sally O'Malley
  • @SidU - Sid Uppal
  • @Takhoffman - Tak Hoffman
  • @visionik - Jonathan Taylor