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.
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.
Global Summary
- 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.
Activity Mix
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openclaw/clawpatch trackedReview code. Patch bugs. Land PRs.
openclaw/clickclack trackedClickClackClaw - The chat app with claws.
openclaw/clawsweeper trackedClawSweeper scans all issues and PRs and suggest what we can close, and why. It runs every PR / Issue once a week.
openclaw/crabbox trackedCrabbox: warm a box, sync the diff, run the suite.
openclaw/openclaw-rtt trackedRTT timing measurements across OpenClaw npm releases.
openclaw/discrawl trackedcli for Discord with sqlite backend
openclaw/Peekaboo trackedPeekaboo is a macOS CLI & optional MCP server that enables AI agents to capture screenshots of applications, or the entire system, with optional visual question answering through local or remote AI models.
People With Access
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
No visible GitHub activity. Discord activity was present in clawtributors and maintainers, focused on desired UX clarification, merge status, and confirming an approach.
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.
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.
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.
Visible GitHub activity was 1 merged openclaw PR: honoring tool policy for inline skill dispatch. No Discord activity was visible.
Visible GitHub activity was 1 closed openclaw PR related to mock-openai qa-channel regressions. No Discord activity was visible.
No visible GitHub activity. Discord activity appeared in maintainers, including discussion of clawpatch deslopify mode and short off-topic/status messages.
Visible GitHub activity was 1 closed openclaw PR about removing a token from qa-lab bootstrap responses and binding Docker ports to loopback. No Discord activity was visible.
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.
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.
No visible GitHub activity. Discord activity was limited to one maintainer-lounge message with no operational code focus.
No visible activity
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- @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