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 16, 2026
As of
Active
25/45
17 Core Staff / 8 Community
GitHub Events
1078
maintainer + non-maintainer
Discord
950
messages
PRs Opened
229
181 merged
Issues
25
13 closed
Repos
21
active in shown list
Overview

Global Summary

Codex synthesis
  • Daily window 2026-05-16: GitHub activity was concentrated in openclaw/openclaw, clawpatch, clawsweeper, crabbox, Kova, and openclaw-windows-node, with Discord activity mainly in #maintainers and #clawtributors.
Hard Numbers

Activity Mix

codex summaries / 20 Discord mapping gaps
Commit Search Hits
457
Issue/PR comments
0
PR review comments
0
Discord messages
950
Releases

Release Signals In This Window

11 active repos matched ReleaseBar for Daily Report 2026-05-16 · 1 untracked here
Tracked active repos
11
Latest releases in window
1
Latest repo updates in window
0
No release recorded
3
Maintainers

People With Access

showing 25 of 25 active
@steipete
Peter Steinberger
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff adminsecurityrelease
openclaw: 196clawpatch: 27clawsweeper: 25crabbox: 24 #maintainers: 103#clawtributors: 19 owns: Core platform, daemon, agentsowns: Internal tools

High visible activity across openclaw/openclaw, clawpatch, clawsweeper, crabbox, and Peekaboo, with 190 commits, 34 PRs opened, and 94 PRs merged. Focus areas included issue-to-PR Codex work sessions, Feishu wiki-space validation, crabbox profile presets/proof artifacts, and raw JS runtime preflights, plus active #maintainers and #clawtributors discussion.

GitHub320
Commit Search Hits190
PRs129
Issues1
Discord122
@vincentkoc
Vincent Koc
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff securityrelease
openclaw: 132crabbox: 48openclaw-rtt: 28docs: 15 #maintainers: 129#clawtributors: 5#maintainer-offtopic: 1 owns: Core platform, daemon, agentsowns: Internal toolsowns: Observability, Diag and Telemetryowns: Plugins

Heavy GitHub activity across openclaw/openclaw, crabbox, openclaw-rtt, docs, and clawpatch, with 198 commits, 18 PRs opened, and 27 merged. Work centered on clawpatch project mappers for monorepo Next, Ruby, Python packaging, validation during fixes, and crabbox EC2 Mac image support, with substantial #maintainers discussion around keychain/runtime behavior.

GitHub245
Commit Search Hits198
PRs47
Issues0
Discord135
@giodl73-repo
Gio Della-Libera
Microsoft
Core Staff
openclaw: 54

Visible GitHub work was entirely in openclaw/openclaw, with 17 commits, 10 PRs opened, and 20 merged. Items focused on native subagent cwd handling, bundled channel dist-runtime setup roots, bootstrap truncation warnings, subagent archive defaults, and workspace-only reads for skills; no Discord activity was visible.

GitHub54
Commit Search Hits17
PRs37
Issues0
Discord0
@joshavant
Josh Avant
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff security
openclaw: 35 #maintainers: 19#clawtributors: 1 owns: Security

Active in openclaw/openclaw with 10 commits, 13 PRs opened, and 12 merged. Focus areas included interrupted agent sessions, explicit Docker sandbox env handling, and doctor repair for disabled Codex runtime plugins, with light #maintainers and #clawtributors activity.

GitHub35
Commit Search Hits10
PRs25
Issues0
Discord20
@shakkernerd
Gideon Adegbesan
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff
Kova: 13openclaw: 2 #maintainers: 57

GitHub activity covered Kova and openclaw/openclaw, with 14 commits and 1 merged PR. Work focused on Kova report/dashboard metadata and comparison/dashboard refreshes, plus gateway restart readiness diagnostics in openclaw; Discord activity was in #maintainers.

GitHub15
Commit Search Hits14
PRs1
Issues0
Discord57
@obviyus
Ayaan Zaidi
AI startup in pharma drug discovery
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 8 #maintainers: 71#clawtributors: 9#maintainer-offtopic: 1 owns: Channel Telegram

Openclaw activity centered on Telegram fixes, with 7 commits and 1 merged PR. Items covered Telegram context loss, transcript-backed final replies, polling spool recovery after restart, avoiding live spool claim stealing, and related changelog/test coverage, alongside active #maintainers discussion including bot-message naming feedback.

GitHub8
Commit Search Hits7
PRs1
Issues0
Discord81
@hxy91819
Mason Huang
Tencent
Core Staff security
maintainers: 9openclaw: 5clawsweeper: 2 #maintainers: 6

Visible work spanned maintainers, openclaw, and clawsweeper, with 5 commits, 4 PRs opened, and 5 merged. Focus areas included clawsweeper re-review status comments, plugin setup-time load safety, and activity-report GraphQL/statistics changes, plus #maintainers discussion about auto review-fix loops.

GitHub16
Commit Search Hits5
PRs11
Issues0
Discord6
@Takhoffman
Tak Hoffman
Unnamed .NET employer
Community Maintainer
clawsweeper: 10 #maintainers: 2

Activity was concentrated in openclaw/clawsweeper, with 6 commits, 2 PRs opened, and 2 merged. Work added P0-P3 triage priority labels and adjusted priority label descriptions to fit GitHub limits, with brief #maintainers discussion about those label changes.

GitHub10
Commit Search Hits6
PRs4
Issues0
Discord2
@mbelinky
Mariano Belinky
Regenerative agriculture farm / asset management setup
Community Maintainer
clawpatch: 8 #maintainers: 7

Visible GitHub work was in openclaw/clawpatch, with 4 commits and 4 PRs opened. Focus areas were mapper and detection support for JVM/Gradle, FastAPI, and Flask route mapping, with #maintainers messages linking those clawpatch PRs.

GitHub8
Commit Search Hits4
PRs4
Issues0
Discord7
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff adminsecurityrelease
#maintainers: 18#clawtributors: 10#maintainer-offtopic: 3

No GitHub activity was visible for this window. Discord activity included 31 messages across #maintainers, #clawtributors, and #maintainer-offtopic, mostly channel discussion rather than repo-specific work in the provided evidence.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord31
@amknight
Alex Knight
Atlassian
Core Staff
openclaw: 6 #maintainers: 1 supports: Automation, hooks & jobs (cron)supports: Interfaces (CLI, TUI, Web UI)

Openclaw activity included 2 commits and 3 PRs opened. Work focused on OpenAI Codex auth order for explicit PI runs, Claude CLI runtime migration for gateway turns, and Kimi Coding tool-call replay, with one #maintainers message visible.

GitHub6
Commit Search Hits2
PRs4
Issues0
Discord1
@eleqtrizit
Agustin Rivera
NVIDIA
Core Staff security
openclaw: 6

Openclaw activity included 2 commits, 1 PR opened, and 2 merged. Focus areas were gateway request-target validation, malformed canvas request URL rejection, and exec allowlist wildcard target normalization; no Discord activity was visible.

GitHub6
Commit Search Hits2
PRs4
Issues0
Discord0
@shanselman
Scott Hanselman
Microsoft
Core Staff
openclaw-windows-node: 4

Visible GitHub activity was in openclaw/openclaw-windows-node, with 4 merged PRs. Work covered rebuilding the Connection page, extracting tray menu builder code, sandbox naming/scope clarity, and V2 setup conversion; no Discord activity was visible.

GitHub4
Commit Search Hits0
PRs4
Issues0
Discord0
@jesse-merhi
Jesse Merhi
Atlassian
Core Staff security
#maintainers: 15

No GitHub activity was visible for this window. Discord activity included 15 #maintainers messages, including discussion around reviewing openclaw/openclaw PR #79171 and testing a PI code-review loop.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord15
@huntharo
Harold Hunt
GIPHY / PwrDrvr LLC
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 3

Visible GitHub activity in openclaw/openclaw consisted of 3 closed PRs. The closed items involved bundled extension linting, extension package root boundaries, and blocking legacy plugin SDK imports in xai; no Discord activity was visible.

GitHub3
Commit Search Hits0
PRs3
Issues0
Discord0
@pash-openai
Nik Pash
GitHub: @pash-openai / @pashpashpash
OpenAI
Core Staff
#maintainers: 11#clawtributors: 1 owns: Codex

No GitHub activity was visible for this window. Discord activity included 12 messages, mainly in #maintainers, with discussion around status features and Molty/status updates.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord12
@joshp123
Josh Palmer
Anonymous streaming employer dispute
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 5

No GitHub activity was visible for this window. Discord activity included 5 #maintainers messages, including discussion of codex.app conversation context and nix-openclaw updating after a pnpm version bump.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord5
@kevinslin
Kevin Lin
GitHub: @kevinlin-openai / @kevinslin
OpenAI
Core Staff
#maintainers: 4#maintainer-whois: 1

No GitHub activity was visible for this window. Discord activity included 5 messages across #maintainers and #maintainer-whois, focused on Codex plugins, first-party plugin testing, and enterprise-readiness introductions.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord5
@scoootscooob
Scott Fan
Paradigm
Community Maintainer
#maintainer-offtopic: 3#maintainers: 2

No GitHub activity was visible for this window. Discord activity included 5 messages split between #maintainer-offtopic and #maintainers, with no repo-specific work evident in the provided snippets.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord5
@omarshahine
Omar Shahine
Microsoft
Core Staff
#maintainer-offtopic: 2#maintainers: 1

No GitHub activity was visible for this window. Discord activity included 3 messages across #maintainer-offtopic and #maintainers, including HomeClaw/OpenClaw webhook discussion and a question about updating CONTRIBUTING.md with maintainers.

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

No GitHub activity was visible for this window. Discord activity consisted of 1 #maintainers greeting, with no repo-specific work in the provided evidence.

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

No visible activity

20 maintainers
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  • @bek91 - Bek Akhmedov
  • @BunsDev - Val Alexander
  • @davemorin - Dave Morin
  • @drobison00 - Devin Robison
  • @Evizero - Christof Salis
  • @gumadeiras - Gustavo Madeira Santana
  • @jacobtomlinson - Jacob Tomlinson
  • @momothemage - Zhengnan Niu
  • @ngutman - Nimrod Gutman
  • @odysseus0 - George Zhang
  • @onutc - Onur Solmaz
  • @Patrick-Erichsen - Patrick Erichsen
  • @RomneyDa - Dallin Romney
  • @sallyom - Sally O'Malley
  • @SidU - Sid Uppal
  • @sjf - Sarah Fortune
  • @velvet-shark - Radek Sienkiewicz
  • @vignesh07 - Vignesh Natarajan
  • @visionik - Jonathan Taylor