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 18, 2026
As of
Active
29/45
19 Core Staff / 10 Community
GitHub Events
1233
maintainer + non-maintainer
Discord
1314
messages
PRs Opened
268
202 merged
Issues
65
42 closed
Repos
23
active in shown list
Overview

Global Summary

Codex synthesis
  • Daily window: 2026-05-18T00:00:00.000Z to 2026-05-19T00:00:00.000Z.
  • Totals: 542 GitHub commits, 268 PRs opened, 202 PRs merged, 65 issues opened, and 1,314 Discord messages across maintainer channels.
Hard Numbers

Activity Mix

codex summaries / 20 Discord mapping gaps
Commit Search Hits
542
Issue/PR comments
0
PR review comments
0
Discord messages
1314
Releases

Release Signals In This Window

11 active repos matched ReleaseBar for Daily Report 2026-05-18 ยท 1 untracked here
Tracked active repos
11
Latest releases in window
2
Latest repo updates in window
0
No release recorded
2
Maintainers

People With Access

showing 29 of 29 active
@steipete
Peter Steinberger
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff adminsecurityrelease
openclaw: 189clawpatch: 35crabbox: 33crabyard: 25 #maintainers: 85#clawtributors: 56#maintainer-security-ops: 5 owns: Core platform, daemon, agentsowns: Internal tools

High visible activity across openclaw/openclaw, clawpatch, crabbox, crabyard, and clawhub, with 193 commits, 43 PRs opened, and 83 merged; focus included update EACCES recovery, session route projection, notification wake policy, Admin HTTP RPC gateway isolation, and Claude CLI doctor behavior. Discord activity was also high in maintainers, clawtributors, and security ops, including release/social links, mode confusion, and feedback discussion.

GitHub319
Commit Search Hits193
PRs126
Issues0
Discord146
@vincentkoc
Vincent Koc
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff securityrelease
openclaw: 50crabbox: 45crawlbar: 36clawpatch: 35 #maintainers: 88#maintainer-offtopic: 8#clawtributors: 1 owns: Core platform, daemon, agentsowns: Internal toolsowns: Observability, Diag and Telemetryowns: Plugins

High GitHub activity with 164 commits and work across openclaw/openclaw, crabbox, crawlbar, clawpatch, and openclaw-rtt; focus included release gate regression repair, gitcrawl-store changed file path retention, and clawpatch monorepo root mapping. Discord activity was mostly in maintainers, with some off-topic discussion around token efficiency and optimization tradeoffs.

GitHub198
Commit Search Hits164
PRs34
Issues0
Discord97
@shakkernerd
Gideon Adegbesan
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff
Kova: 91 #maintainers: 52#clawtributors: 22#maintainer-lounge: 4

Visible activity centered on openclaw/Kova with 91 commits, including report snapshot refreshes, resolving reports by run id, failed post-ready health sample gating, and compare metric labeling and ordering. Discord discussion touched report improvements and release RSS behavior in maintainers and clawtributors.

GitHub91
Commit Search Hits91
PRs0
Issues0
Discord78
@Takhoffman
Tak Hoffman
Unnamed .NET employer
Community Maintainer
clawsweeper: 77openclaw: 19 #maintainers: 4

Activity focused on clawsweeper and openclaw with 22 commits, 37 PRs opened, and 35 merged; work included preserving proof labels for clawsweeper/Barnacle and explaining human-review pauses. Discord comments in maintainers referenced proof override usage and labels for maintainer review readiness.

GitHub96
Commit Search Hits22
PRs74
Issues0
Discord4
@obviyus
Ayaan Zaidi
AI startup in pharma drug discovery
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 51clawsweeper: 1 #maintainers: 78#clawtributors: 18 owns: Channel Telegram

Openclaw-focused activity with 44 commits and 7 merged PRs, mainly around Telegram/channel delivery, tool-progress drafts, transcript mirroring, topic media completion, Android talk mode relay, final reply delivery, and release stability/auth fallback. Discord activity in maintainers and clawtributors included PR review/landing notes and Codex app progress-update behavior.

GitHub52
Commit Search Hits44
PRs8
Issues0
Discord96
@Patrick-Erichsen
Patrick Erichsen
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff release
clawhub: 17openclaw: 7 #maintainers: 9#clawtributors: 6 owns: ClawHub

ClawHub-focused activity with 5 commits, 9 PRs opened, and 7 merged; work included autoban remediation, owner-scoped skill slugs, and security scan admin tooling. Discord activity in maintainers and clawtributors included overlap checks and discussion around security-related tooling direction.

GitHub24
Commit Search Hits5
PRs19
Issues0
Discord15
@shanselman
Scott Hanselman
Microsoft
Core Staff
openclaw-windows-node: 23 #maintainers: 3

Activity was concentrated in openclaw/openclaw-windows-node, with 3 commits, 7 PRs opened, 9 merged, and 1 issue opened; focus included WSL gateway validation tray output paths, onboarding blockers, chat revamp work, tray disconnected behavior, and v2 wizard reload mode handling. Discord activity was minimal in maintainers.

GitHub23
Commit Search Hits3
PRs17
Issues3
Discord3
@joshavant
Josh Avant
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff security
openclaw: 17 #maintainers: 13#clawtributors: 3 owns: Security

Openclaw activity included 4 commits, 6 PRs opened, and 7 merged, with focus on rejecting empty CLI subprocess replies, Codex harness provider ownership, Telegram/Ollama image passing, and stalled isolated spool handler recovery. Discord activity in maintainers and clawtributors included release tweet discussion and bug-worth-fixing triage.

GitHub17
Commit Search Hits4
PRs13
Issues0
Discord16
@jesse-merhi
Jesse Merhi
Atlassian
Core Staff security
openclaw: 3proxyline: 3 #maintainers: 32#clawtributors: 8#maintainer-lounge: 1

Visible GitHub work covered openclaw and proxyline with 2 commits, 2 PRs opened, and 2 merged, focused on approval runtime gateway calls and pinning a managed fetch dispatcher. Discord activity was moderate in maintainers and clawtributors, including crabbox/local VM setup discussion and local workflow pain points.

GitHub6
Commit Search Hits2
PRs4
Issues0
Discord41
@giodl73-repo
Gio Della-Libera
Microsoft
Core Staff
openclaw: 15

Openclaw activity included 4 commits and 8 merged PRs, with focus on doctor repairs for channel model providers, export trajectory session keys, read-only health checks, WhatsApp TUI process matching, and legacy package upgrade handoff. No Discord activity was visible in the provided window.

GitHub15
Commit Search Hits4
PRs11
Issues0
Discord0
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff adminsecurityrelease
hermit: 2community: 1 #maintainers: 28#clawtributors: 10

Light GitHub activity across hermit and community included 2 commits and 1 merged PR, focused on deduplicating clawtributor claim requests, documenting hermit D1 deploy flow, and Cloudflare Builds deploy command use. Discord activity in maintainers and clawtributors covered npm package freshness/plugin discovery, filtering, telemetry, and log-gathering concerns.

GitHub3
Commit Search Hits2
PRs1
Issues0
Discord38
@ngutman
Nimrod Gutman
Singular
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 8 #maintainers: 6#maintainer-offtopic: 2#maintainer-security-ops: 2

Openclaw activity included 3 commits, 2 PRs opened, and 3 merged, focused on iOS live activity lifecycle, WhatsApp media sends, and mobile OS metadata refresh. Discord discussion included iOS/Android QR bootstrap operator scopes and related security-ops coordination.

GitHub8
Commit Search Hits3
PRs5
Issues0
Discord10
@scoootscooob
Scott Fan
Paradigm
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 3graincrawl: 2 #maintainers: 9

Activity covered openclaw and graincrawl with 1 commit, 2 PRs opened, and 1 merged, focused on sync skip flags, plugin diagnostics nonfatal handling, and pending exec approval resolution. Discord maintainers discussion referenced model behavior, context corruption, and message tool behavior.

GitHub5
Commit Search Hits1
PRs4
Issues0
Discord9
@hxy91819
Mason Huang
Tencent
Core Staff security
openclaw: 1 #maintainers: 14#maintainer-offtopic: 5

Minimal GitHub activity: 1 merged openclaw item focused on resolving lmstudio env-template API keys. Discord activity was mostly in maintainers and off-topic, with discussion around token use, OpenClaw framing, and misinformation.

GitHub1
Commit Search Hits0
PRs1
Issues0
Discord19
@RomneyDa
Dallin Romney
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff
openclaw: 2 #maintainers: 11#maintainer-lounge: 1

Light openclaw activity included 1 PR opened and 1 merged around skipping the real-behavior-proof gate for private maintainers. Discord maintainers discussion covered a TUI final-response display issue and proof override/maintainer status behavior.

GitHub2
Commit Search Hits0
PRs2
Issues0
Discord12
@mbelinky
Mariano Belinky
Regenerative agriculture farm / asset management setup
Community Maintainer
clawpatch: 2 #maintainers: 9

Light clawpatch activity included 1 commit and 1 closed PR, with items around deslopify review mode and ranked report clusters. Discord maintainers messages included a wacli media-file PR pointer and off-topic travel/location discussion.

GitHub2
Commit Search Hits1
PRs1
Issues0
Discord9
@eleqtrizit
Agustin Rivera
NVIDIA
Core Staff security
openclaw: 4

Openclaw activity included 1 commit, 2 merged PRs, and 1 closed PR, focused on Mattermost missing channel types, browser current-tab route guarding, and tagging NVIDIA NIM requests with app origin. No Discord activity was visible in the provided window.

GitHub4
Commit Search Hits1
PRs3
Issues0
Discord0
@pash-openai
Nik Pash
GitHub: @pash-openai / @pashpashpash
OpenAI
Core Staff
#maintainers: 15#clawtributors: 1 owns: Codex

No GitHub activity was visible. Discord activity in maintainers and clawtributors included asking for an openclaw PR for review and discussing deferred dynamic tool registration and shorthand tool names in developer instructions.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord16
@altaywtf
Altay
US-based fintech / put.io
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 3

Light openclaw activity included 3 merged PRs, focused on flaky config set help text tests, sidebar tree collapse behavior, and exposing reload kind in config schema lookup. No Discord activity was visible in the provided window.

GitHub3
Commit Search Hits0
PRs3
Issues0
Discord0
@onutc
Onur Solmaz
GitHub: @onutc / @osolmaz
Hugging Face
Core Staff
acpx: 1 #maintainers: 7 owns: Local Models

Minimal GitHub activity: 1 merged acpx item adding slophammer TypeScript constraints. Discord maintainers discussion referenced local-model/tool-schema behavior, context bloat, Gemma prompt/schema optimization, and contact routing.

GitHub1
Commit Search Hits0
PRs1
Issues0
Discord7
@jalehman
Josh Lehman
Martian Engineering
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 1 #maintainers: 4

Minimal openclaw GitHub activity: 1 commit for bypassing npm freshness during managed installs. Discord maintainers messages referenced PR #83761 and a locally reproduced release-distance-related issue.

GitHub1
Commit Search Hits1
PRs0
Issues0
Discord4
@bek91
Bek Akhmedov
Mochary Method; GitHub profile also lists Unblock Labs
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 1 #maintainers: 3

Minimal GitHub activity: 1 closed openclaw PR around optional Slack speaker labels for group threads. Discord maintainers discussion referenced a small plugin-related fix, issue #83762, and thread participation persistence affecting Slack, Discord, Matrix, and Teams.

GitHub1
Commit Search Hits0
PRs1
Issues0
Discord3
@sallyom
Sally O'Malley
Red Hat
Core Staff
#maintainers: 5#maintainer-lounge: 2

No GitHub activity was visible. Discord activity in maintainers and maintainer-lounge included Red Hat-related release-image discussion, a Codex module error traced to a live app-server child process, and whether to add codex to OPENCLAW_EXTENSIONS.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord7
@pgondhi987
Pavan Kumar Gondhi
NVIDIA
Core Staff security
#maintainer-security-ops: 3#maintainers: 2#maintainer-lounge: 1

No GitHub activity was visible. Discord activity in security ops, maintainers, and lounge included stable release impact discussion, affected-user pattern investigation, and automation to find GitHub issues caused by PRs.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord6
@BunsDev
Val Alexander
Independent DevRel / builder
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 2#maintainer-offtopic: 1

No GitHub activity was visible. Discord activity in maintainers and off-topic included asking for current priorities around bugs, stability, and usability, plus discussion of OpenClaw content creation.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord3
@kevinslin
Kevin Lin
GitHub: @kevinlin-openai / @kevinslin
OpenAI
Core Staff
#maintainers: 2

No GitHub activity was visible. Discord maintainers activity referenced investigating account switching and plugin use being blocked by Cloudflare bot detection, with backend WAF rule updates for OpenClaw originator bypass.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord2
@mcaxtr
Marcus Castro
Unnamed American company
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 2

No GitHub activity was visible. Discord activity was minimal in maintainers, including a greeting and a note about adding an entry in the middle of a section.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord2
No matching active maintainer in this report.

No visible activity

16 maintainers
  • @amknight - Alex Knight
  • @davemorin - Dave Morin
  • @drobison00 - Devin Robison
  • @Evizero - Christof Salis
  • @gumadeiras - Gustavo Madeira Santana
  • @huntharo - Harold Hunt
  • @jacobtomlinson - Jacob Tomlinson
  • @joshp123 - Josh Palmer
  • @momothemage - Zhengnan Niu
  • @odysseus0 - George Zhang
  • @omarshahine - Omar Shahine
  • @SidU - Sid Uppal
  • @sjf - Sarah Fortune
  • @velvet-shark - Radek Sienkiewicz
  • @vignesh07 - Vignesh Natarajan
  • @visionik - Jonathan Taylor