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 15, 2026
As of
Active
24/45
16 Core Staff / 8 Community
GitHub Events
1116
maintainer + non-maintainer
Discord
921
messages
PRs Opened
187
188 merged
Issues
27
11 closed
Repos
30
active in shown list
Overview

Global Summary

Codex synthesis
  • Daily window 2026-05-15: GitHub activity was concentrated in openclaw/openclaw plus gitcrawl, crabbox, Kova, openclaw-rtt, openclaw-windows-node, and clawhub; Discord activity was mainly in #maintainers and #clawtributors.
  • Several maintainers had visible GitHub work around Codex/runtime fixes, UI/chat polish, security/config validation, RTT tracking, crabbox routing, and Windows node refactors; many listed maintainers had no visible activity in this evidence window.
Hard Numbers

Activity Mix

codex summaries / 20 Discord mapping gaps
Commit Search Hits
569
Issue/PR comments
0
PR review comments
0
Discord messages
921
Releases

Release Signals In This Window

12 active repos matched ReleaseBar for Daily Report 2026-05-15
Tracked active repos
12
Latest releases in window
0
Latest repo updates in window
0
No release recorded
3
Maintainers

People With Access

showing 24 of 24 active
@steipete
Peter Steinberger
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff adminsecurityrelease
openclaw: 335gitcrawl: 116crabbox: 61slacrawl: 41 #clawtributors: 95#maintainers: 73#maintainer-offtopic: 3 owns: Core platform, daemon, agentsowns: Internal tools

High-volume activity across openclaw/openclaw, gitcrawl, crabbox, slacrawl, and acpx, with 471 commits, 88 PRs opened, and 153 merged. Visible focus included security roadmap/content work, Proxyline managed proxy routing, threat-model XSS escaping, and shared subagent cron fallback selection, plus active Discord coordination in #clawtributors and #maintainers.

GitHub713
Commit Search Hits471
PRs242
Issues0
Discord171
@vincentkoc
Vincent Koc
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff securityrelease
crabbox: 17openclaw: 15 #maintainers: 22#maintainer-offtopic: 1#maintainer-security-ops: 1 owns: Core platform, daemon, agentsowns: Internal toolsowns: Observability, Diag and Telemetryowns: Plugins

Worked in crabbox and openclaw with 27 commits, 2 PRs opened, and 3 merged, focused on delegated runner syncing, brokered AWS proof routing for crabbox, rate-limit bucket display, and malformed media sniff base64 rejection. Discord activity was mostly in #maintainers, with one message in #maintainer-security-ops.

GitHub32
Commit Search Hits27
PRs5
Issues0
Discord24
@obviyus
Ayaan Zaidi
AI startup in pharma drug discovery
Community Maintainer
openclaw-rtt: 14openclaw: 6 #maintainers: 32#clawtributors: 13 owns: Channel Telegram

Focused on RTT/QA work across openclaw-rtt and openclaw, with 10 commits, 4 PRs opened, and 6 merged. Items covered Discord RTT tracking, Discord trigger timing artifacts, release-version queuing, and retest data, with Discord coordination around review and trigger timestamp measurement.

GitHub20
Commit Search Hits10
PRs10
Issues0
Discord45
@BunsDev
Val Alexander
Independent DevRel / builder
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 20 #maintainer-lounge: 2

Worked in openclaw with 6 commits, 5 PRs opened, and 8 merged, focused on Sessions control UI polish, chat composer usability, chat header controls, and per-agent bootstrap profiles. Discord activity was limited to two maintainer-lounge messages around Codex/Windows ARM links.

GitHub20
Commit Search Hits6
PRs14
Issues0
Discord2
@pash-openai
Nik Pash
GitHub: @pash-openai / @pashpashpash
OpenAI
Core Staff
openclaw: 2 #clawtributors: 20#maintainers: 17 owns: Codex

Opened and merged one openclaw PR and had visible Codex-focused items around stable hooks feature flags and native-thread compaction. Discord activity in #clawtributors and #maintainers discussed OpenAI/Codex runtime naming, merge status, and legacy support cleanup.

GitHub2
Commit Search Hits0
PRs2
Issues0
Discord37
@kevinslin
Kevin Lin
GitHub: @kevinlin-openai / @kevinslin
OpenAI
Core Staff
openclaw: 2docs: 1 #maintainers: 22#clawtributors: 9

Had light GitHub activity across openclaw and docs, including a Codex migration warning fix and R2 docs metadata canonicalization. Discord activity was split between #maintainers and #clawtributors, including re-review coordination and discussion around writing style.

GitHub3
Commit Search Hits1
PRs2
Issues0
Discord31
@shanselman
Scott Hanselman
Microsoft
Core Staff
openclaw-windows-node: 10

Worked in openclaw-windows-node with 6 commits and 4 merged PRs, focused on extracting OpenClaw.Connection for testability, rebuilding the Nodes page as cross-platform Instances, extracting an OnUiThread helper, and visual refinement/bug fixes. No Discord activity was visible.

GitHub10
Commit Search Hits6
PRs4
Issues0
Discord0
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff adminsecurityrelease
openclaw-rtt: 2 #maintainers: 26#clawtributors: 4#maintainer-offtopic: 1

Had one commit and one open PR in openclaw-rtt for Discord RTT tracking. Discord activity was mostly in #maintainers, but the provided snippets do not show additional technical focus beyond the RTT PR reference.

GitHub2
Commit Search Hits1
PRs1
Issues0
Discord31
@joshavant
Josh Avant
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff security
openclaw: 6 #maintainers: 11#maintainer-lounge: 1 owns: Security

Worked in openclaw with 2 commits, 2 PRs opened, and 2 merged, focused on gateway auth logout aborting active runs and Codex app-server notification projection. Discord activity was mostly in #maintainers, including a Codex CLI reauth note.

GitHub6
Commit Search Hits2
PRs4
Issues0
Discord12
@pgondhi987
Pavan Kumar Gondhi
NVIDIA
Core Staff security
openclaw: 8 #maintainer-security-ops: 1

Worked in openclaw with 4 commits and 4 merged PRs focused on security/config hardening: shell script operand binding, canvas snapshot response validation, provider catalog path constraints, and canonical node platform IDs. Discord activity was a single #maintainer-security-ops message.

GitHub8
Commit Search Hits4
PRs4
Issues0
Discord1
@jesse-merhi
Jesse Merhi
Atlassian
Core Staff security
#maintainers: 13

No visible GitHub activity. Discord activity was limited to 13 #maintainers messages, with snippets showing general reactions rather than specific technical work.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord13
@velvet-shark
Radek Sienkiewicz
Consulting / DevRel
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 2 #maintainers: 2

Opened one openclaw PR and commit for using the stable Codex hooks feature flag. Discord activity in #maintainers referenced that deprecated `features.codex_hooks` setting surfaced through OpenClaw’s Codex integration and review coordination.

GitHub2
Commit Search Hits1
PRs1
Issues0
Discord2
@mcaxtr
Marcus Castro
Unnamed American company
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 1 #maintainers: 5

Had one closed openclaw PR related to `allowFrom` fallback transition foundation. Discord activity in #maintainers discussed splitting the fallback/migration work across multiple PRs and the confusion between `groupAllowFrom` and `allowFrom`.

GitHub1
Commit Search Hits0
PRs1
Issues0
Discord5
@galiniliev
Galin Iliev
Microsoft
Core Staff
openclaw: 1 #maintainers: 1

Had one merged openclaw PR fixing long inline code wrapping in chat bubbles. Discord activity was one #maintainers message discussing an opt-in `openclaw cron run --wait` flag and wait/poll settings.

GitHub1
Commit Search Hits0
PRs1
Issues0
Discord1
@mbelinky
Mariano Belinky
Regenerative agriculture farm / asset management setup
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 4

No visible GitHub activity. Discord activity was limited to four #maintainers messages, with snippets not showing a concrete repo or issue focus.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord4
@Takhoffman
Tak Hoffman
Unnamed .NET employer
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 4

No visible GitHub activity. Discord activity in #maintainers focused on issue #82254, model/harness troubleshooting, and clarifying whether a latest-release issue related to an earlier merged PR.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord4
@omarshahine
Omar Shahine
Microsoft
Core Staff
#maintainers: 2#maintainer-offtopic: 1

No visible GitHub activity. Discord activity was light across #maintainers and #maintainer-offtopic, including reaction to a blog post and an iMessage-related link.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord3
@jalehman
Josh Lehman
Martian Engineering
Community Maintainer
#maintainer-lounge: 1#maintainers: 1

No visible GitHub activity. Discord activity included one #maintainers note saying something breaks and that details would follow with a PR, plus one #maintainer-lounge link.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord2
@hxy91819
Mason Huang
Tencent
Core Staff security
#maintainers: 1

No visible GitHub activity. Discord activity was one #maintainers greeting with no technical focus shown.

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

No visible activity

21 maintainers
  • @amknight - Alex Knight
  • @bek91 - Bek Akhmedov
  • @davemorin - Dave Morin
  • @drobison00 - Devin Robison
  • @eleqtrizit - Agustin Rivera
  • @Evizero - Christof Salis
  • @gumadeiras - Gustavo Madeira Santana
  • @huntharo - Harold Hunt
  • @jacobtomlinson - Jacob Tomlinson
  • @joshp123 - Josh Palmer
  • @momothemage - Zhengnan Niu
  • @ngutman - Nimrod Gutman
  • @odysseus0 - George Zhang
  • @onutc - Onur Solmaz
  • @RomneyDa - Dallin Romney
  • @sallyom - Sally O'Malley
  • @scoootscooob - Scott Fan
  • @SidU - Sid Uppal
  • @sjf - Sarah Fortune
  • @vignesh07 - Vignesh Natarajan
  • @visionik - Jonathan Taylor