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 17, 2026
As of
Active
27/45
19 Core Staff / 8 Community
GitHub Events
1235
maintainer + non-maintainer
Discord
559
messages
PRs Opened
262
179 merged
Issues
42
14 closed
Repos
27
active in shown list
Overview

Global Summary

Codex synthesis
  • Daily window 2026-05-17: 588 GitHub commits, 262 PRs opened, 179 PRs merged, and 559 Discord messages across maintainer channels.
  • Activity concentrated in openclaw/openclaw, clawpatch, clickclack, clawsweeper, crabbox, openclaw-rtt, and openclaw-windows-node.
Hard Numbers

Activity Mix

codex summaries / 20 Discord mapping gaps
Commit Search Hits
588
Issue/PR comments
0
PR review comments
0
Discord messages
559
Releases

Release Signals In This Window

11 active repos matched ReleaseBar for Daily Report 2026-05-17 · 1 untracked here
Tracked active repos
11
Latest releases in window
0
Latest repo updates in window
0
No release recorded
2
Maintainers

People With Access

showing 27 of 27 active
@steipete
Peter Steinberger
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff adminsecurityrelease
openclaw: 246clawpatch: 84clickclack: 78crabyard: 25 #maintainers: 39#clawtributors: 24 owns: Core platform, daemon, agentsowns: Internal tools

Heavy GitHub activity: 407 commits, 43 PRs opened, and 83 merged, mostly across openclaw/openclaw, clawpatch, clickclack, crabyard, and Peekaboo. Focus areas included Pi/provider work, Codex context-loss and app-server policy fixes, browser dialog surfacing, ACP provider support, plus maintainer/clawtributor Discord coordination around testing happy paths and installs.

GitHub534
Commit Search Hits407
PRs127
Issues0
Discord63
@vincentkoc
Vincent Koc
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff securityrelease
openclaw: 62crabbox: 29openclaw-rtt: 23graincrawl: 5 #maintainers: 25#maintainer-offtopic: 1 owns: Core platform, daemon, agentsowns: Internal toolsowns: Observability, Diag and Telemetryowns: Plugins

Substantial activity: 122 commits, 10 PRs opened, and 12 merged across openclaw/openclaw, crabbox, openclaw-rtt, graincrawl, and clawpatch. Work touched crawlkit extraction, release update checks across graincrawl/notcrawl/slacrawl, and Discord discussion around macOS runners for crabbox.

GitHub145
Commit Search Hits122
PRs22
Issues1
Discord26
@Takhoffman
Tak Hoffman
Unnamed .NET employer
Community Maintainer
clawsweeper: 39openclaw: 11 #maintainers: 3

Active on clawsweeper and openclaw with 14 commits, 18 PRs opened, and 17 merged. Focus was ClawSweeper repair/automerge behavior, Telegram proof-agent CI allowance, impact labels, and Discord notes about reducing ClawSweeper stalls and review coverage for duplicate behavior and upgrade/settings risks.

GitHub50
Commit Search Hits14
PRs36
Issues0
Discord3
@joshavant
Josh Avant
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff security
openclaw: 45 #maintainers: 17#clawtributors: 3#maintainer-offtopic: 1 owns: Security

Active on openclaw with 8 commits, 18 PRs opened, and 17 merged. Work centered on Codex OAuth sidecar compatibility, subagent completion announce timing, plugin metadata snapshot reuse, and maintainer/security-channel discussion about Codex usage-limit reporting and OAuth metadata fields.

GitHub45
Commit Search Hits8
PRs37
Issues0
Discord22
@obviyus
Ayaan Zaidi
AI startup in pharma drug discovery
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 13 #maintainers: 35#clawtributors: 3 owns: Channel Telegram

Openclaw activity included 9 commits, 1 PR opened, and 3 merged, aligned with Telegram and Android surfaces. Items covered Android TLS thumbprint prompts, Telegram media-group failure warnings, bot reply-chain context, Telegram proof labels, and Discord testing/config discussion for realtime and Android app behavior.

GitHub13
Commit Search Hits9
PRs4
Issues0
Discord38
@giodl73-repo
Gio Della-Libera
Microsoft
Core Staff
openclaw: 22

Openclaw activity included 4 commits, 2 issues opened, 4 PRs opened, and 10 merged. Focus areas were SSH helper path portability, auto state migration for legacy plans, doctor health-check/lint contracts, stale session snapshot detection, and standalone diagnostics; no visible Discord activity.

GitHub22
Commit Search Hits4
PRs16
Issues2
Discord0
@galiniliev
Galin Iliev
Microsoft
Core Staff
openclaw: 20 #maintainers: 7

Openclaw activity included 2 commits, 3 issues opened, 7 PRs opened, and 6 merged. Work focused on Telegram polling diagnostic severity, prompt-cache read drops, daily memory ENOENT noise, OpenAI tool payload ordering, and Discord coordination around PRs #82940, #82942, and #82804.

GitHub20
Commit Search Hits2
PRs15
Issues3
Discord7
@shanselman
Scott Hanselman
Microsoft
Core Staff
openclaw-windows-node: 13 #maintainers: 4

Openclaw-windows-node activity included 3 commits, 1 PR opened, and 9 merged. Focus areas included AppDispatcherQueue/AppLogger refactoring, Channels page rebuild, hub title bar initialization, async loading states, Diagnostics page reorganization, and Fluent sidebar icon/UI work, with light maintainer Discord activity.

GitHub13
Commit Search Hits3
PRs10
Issues0
Discord4
@shakkernerd
Gideon Adegbesan
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff
Kova: 6openclaw: 2 #maintainers: 10#maintainer-offtopic: 2

Activity spanned Kova and openclaw with 6 commits, 1 PR opened, and 1 merged. Work included safe plugin manifest metadata reuse plus Kova renderer snapshots, comparison detail ordering, and finding evidence text, alongside maintainer Discord discussion about PR editing and closed PR follow-up.

GitHub8
Commit Search Hits6
PRs2
Issues0
Discord12
@scoootscooob
Scott Fan
Paradigm
Community Maintainer
clawbench: 4openclaw: 1 #maintainers: 9#maintainer-offtopic: 2#clawtributors: 1

Activity touched clawbench and openclaw with 1 commit, 1 PR opened, 2 merged, and 1 closed. Focus was OpenClaw Codex OpenAI eval auth flow, public eval runtime hardening, gateway startup auth preflight reuse, and maintainer Discord discussion around eval difficulty and naming/metaphor ideas.

GitHub5
Commit Search Hits1
PRs4
Issues0
Discord12
@onutc
Onur Solmaz
GitHub: @onutc / @osolmaz
Hugging Face
Core Staff
maintainers: 4gitcrawl: 2openclaw: 1 #maintainers: 1 owns: Local Models

Activity spanned maintainers, gitcrawl, and openclaw with 1 commit, 2 PRs opened, 2 merged, and 2 closed. Work included maintainer account/docs updates, gitcrawl README formatting, provider conversation state error classification, and a Discord update on local model dogfooding and related error-display fixes.

GitHub7
Commit Search Hits1
PRs6
Issues0
Discord1
@amknight
Alex Knight
Atlassian
Core Staff
openclaw: 6 supports: Automation, hooks & jobs (cron)supports: Interfaces (CLI, TUI, Web UI)

Openclaw activity included 3 commits and 3 PRs opened, with no merged/closed PRs in the window. Focus areas were embedded session write-lock release before model I/O, brew-only skill installs in Docker, and isolated best-effort cron delivery with active subagents; no visible Discord activity.

GitHub6
Commit Search Hits3
PRs3
Issues0
Discord0
@hxy91819
Mason Huang
Tencent
Core Staff security
clawsweeper: 4openclaw: 1 #maintainers: 1

Activity covered clawsweeper and openclaw with 2 commits, 1 PR opened, 1 merged, and 1 closed. Work focused on command status comment trust config in ClawSweeper and stale cursor fallback in long-poll QA, with one maintainer Discord greeting.

GitHub5
Commit Search Hits2
PRs3
Issues0
Discord1
@mcaxtr
Marcus Castro
Unnamed American company
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 4 #maintainers: 2

Openclaw activity included 1 commit, 1 PR opened, and 2 merged. Focus was WhatsApp document fallback extensions and forceDocument behavior, with maintainer Discord discussion requesting review on a security-related PR.

GitHub4
Commit Search Hits1
PRs3
Issues0
Discord2
@altaywtf
Altay
US-based fintech / put.io
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 4

Openclaw activity showed 4 merged PRs and no commits or Discord messages in the window. Items covered bundling zod for pnpm global install resolution, guard budget behavior, Moonshot 429 billing classification, and lowering extra gateway advisory severity.

GitHub4
Commit Search Hits0
PRs4
Issues0
Discord0
@kevinslin
Kevin Lin
GitHub: @kevinlin-openai / @kevinslin
OpenAI
Core Staff
openclaw: 3 #maintainers: 2#clawtributors: 1

Openclaw activity included 2 commits and 1 merged PR, focused on building-plugins documentation and a TypeBox import fix. Discord activity touched plugin PR planning, marketplace/plugin subcommand work, and licensing concerns around a documentation skill repo.

GitHub3
Commit Search Hits2
PRs1
Issues0
Discord3
@pash-openai
Nik Pash
GitHub: @pash-openai / @pashpashpash
OpenAI
Core Staff
#clawtributors: 12#maintainers: 3 owns: Codex

No visible GitHub activity. Discord activity was present in clawtributors and maintainers, focused on desired UX clarification, merge status, and confirming an approach.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord15
@jesse-merhi
Jesse Merhi
Atlassian
Core Staff security
openclaw: 1 #maintainers: 10

Minimal GitHub activity: 1 openclaw commit for HTTPS managed proxy CA trust. Discord activity was maintainer-channel only and did not expose a clear code focus beyond short coordination messages.

GitHub1
Commit Search Hits1
PRs0
Issues0
Discord10
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff adminsecurityrelease
#clawtributors: 6#maintainers: 6

No visible GitHub activity. Discord activity appeared in clawtributors and maintainers, including categorizing a fix and flagging PR #82374 as P0 from a DM report.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord12
@joshp123
Josh Palmer
Anonymous streaming employer dispute
Community Maintainer
nix-openclaw: 2 #maintainers: 1

Nix-openclaw activity included 2 commits focused on pinning OpenClaw stable with pnpm 11 and renaming the stable pin workflow. Discord noted nix-openclaw fixes after the pnpm 10 to 11 bump and related bug fixes.

GitHub2
Commit Search Hits2
PRs0
Issues0
Discord1
@gumadeiras
Gustavo Madeira Santana
Yale University
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 1

Visible GitHub activity was 1 closed openclaw PR related to mock-openai qa-channel regressions. No Discord activity was visible.

GitHub1
Commit Search Hits0
PRs1
Issues0
Discord0
@mbelinky
Mariano Belinky
Regenerative agriculture farm / asset management setup
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 4

No visible GitHub activity. Discord activity appeared in maintainers, including discussion of clawpatch deslopify mode and short off-topic/status messages.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord4
@sallyom
Sally O'Malley
Red Hat
Core Staff
#maintainers: 2#maintainer-lounge: 1

No visible GitHub activity. Discord activity appeared in maintainers and maintainer-lounge, with discussion of a docs companion agent idea and testing from main with a legacy Codex OAuth sidecar setup.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord3
@Patrick-Erichsen
Patrick Erichsen
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff release
#maintainers: 2 owns: ClawHub

No visible GitHub activity. Discord activity was maintainer-channel only, touching gitcrawl-store PRs/issues to watch and a 403 while installing the Discord plugin on beta 5.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord2
@omarshahine
Omar Shahine
Microsoft
Core Staff
#maintainer-lounge: 1

No visible GitHub activity. Discord activity was limited to one maintainer-lounge message with no operational code focus.

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

No visible activity

18 maintainers
  • @bek91 - Bek Akhmedov
  • @BunsDev - Val Alexander
  • @davemorin - Dave Morin
  • @drobison00 - Devin Robison
  • @Evizero - Christof Salis
  • @huntharo - Harold Hunt
  • @jacobtomlinson - Jacob Tomlinson
  • @jalehman - Josh Lehman
  • @momothemage - Zhengnan Niu
  • @ngutman - Nimrod Gutman
  • @odysseus0 - George Zhang
  • @RomneyDa - Dallin Romney
  • @SidU - Sid Uppal
  • @sjf - Sarah Fortune
  • @sliverp - Yuehua Li
  • @velvet-shark - Radek Sienkiewicz
  • @vignesh07 - Vignesh Natarajan
  • @visionik - Jonathan Taylor