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 19, 2026
As of
Active
31/45
23 Core Staff / 8 Community
GitHub Events
764
maintainer + non-maintainer
Discord
856
messages
PRs Opened
182
80 merged
Issues
172
144 closed
Repos
6
active in shown list
Overview

Global Summary

Codex synthesis
  • Daily Report 2026-05-19 covered 53 commits, 182 PRs opened, 80 PRs merged, 172 issues opened, and 856 Discord messages across maintainer channels.
  • Discord activity was concentrated in maintainers and clawtributors; GitHub work was mostly in openclaw/openclaw, clawhub, clawsweeper, crabbox, openclaw-windows-node, and Kova.
Hard Numbers

Activity Mix

codex summaries / 20 Discord mapping gaps
Commit Search Hits
53
Issue/PR comments
0
PR review comments
0
Discord messages
856
Releases

Release Signals In This Window

6 active repos matched ReleaseBar for Daily Report 2026-05-19
Tracked active repos
6
Latest releases in window
0
Latest repo updates in window
0
No release recorded
1
Maintainers

People With Access

showing 31 of 31 active
@Patrick-Erichsen
Patrick Erichsen
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff release
clawhub: 31openclaw: 2 #maintainers: 3#maintainer-lounge: 2#clawtributors: 1 owns: ClawHub

Patrick-Erichsen was active mainly in openclaw/clawhub with 3 commits, 13 PRs opened, and 14 merged, focused on ClawHub release prep, local dev workflow docs, ClawScan throughput, and self-serve publisher creation. Discord activity was light across maintainers, maintainer-lounge, and clawtributors, including content policy and ClawScan dry-run discussion.

GitHub33
Commit Search Hits3
PRs30
Issues0
Discord6
@Takhoffman
Tak Hoffman
Unnamed .NET employer
Community Maintainer
clawsweeper: 24openclaw: 2 #maintainers: 20

Takhoffman worked mostly in openclaw/clawsweeper, with 8 commits, 8 PRs opened, and 8 merged, covering hatch reconcile record preservation, review label transition explanations, and a PR template motivation-section move in openclaw/openclaw. Discord activity was all in maintainers, with discussion around usage complaints and ClawSweeper behavior.

GitHub26
Commit Search Hits8
PRs16
Issues2
Discord20
@vincentkoc
Vincent Koc
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff securityrelease
crabbox: 6 #maintainers: 77#maintainer-offtopic: 1 owns: Core platform, daemon, agentsowns: Internal toolsowns: Observability, Diag and Telemetryowns: Plugins

vincentkoc had 5 commits and 1 merged PR in openclaw/crabbox, focused on developer image bakes and Windows image prep, Docker installation, reboot, warmup, and OpenSSH preservation. Discord activity was high in maintainers, with additional maintainer-offtopic activity.

GitHub6
Commit Search Hits5
PRs1
Issues0
Discord78
@obviyus
Ayaan Zaidi
AI startup in pharma drug discovery
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 12 #maintainers: 17#clawtributors: 7#maintainer-offtopic: 2 owns: Channel Telegram

obviyus had 11 commits and 1 merged PR in openclaw/openclaw, focused on xAI device-code OAuth login, Telegram proof-session handling, public plugin test runtime, changelog coverage, and Android upload versioning. Discord activity spanned maintainers, clawtributors, and maintainer-offtopic, including Bot API review/landing discussion.

GitHub12
Commit Search Hits11
PRs1
Issues0
Discord26
@joshavant
Josh Avant
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff security
openclaw: 12 #clawtributors: 18#maintainers: 5#maintainer-offtopic: 1 owns: Security

joshavant opened and merged 6 PRs in openclaw/openclaw, focused on agent reply context, stuck Codex-native subagent tasks, and final delivery session refresh guarding. Discord activity was mostly in clawtributors and maintainers, including discussion of direct DM reply defaults and reply suppression.

GitHub12
Commit Search Hits0
PRs12
Issues0
Discord24
@shanselman
Scott Hanselman
Microsoft
Core Staff
openclaw-windows-node: 15

shanselman worked in openclaw/openclaw-windows-node with 2 commits, 3 issues opened, 1 PR opened, and 8 PRs merged, focused on gateway compatibility diagnostics, keyless chat event diagnostics, deterministic node auto-approve tests, README screenshots, and credential fallback cleanup. No Discord activity was visible.

GitHub15
Commit Search Hits2
PRs10
Issues3
Discord0
@RomneyDa
Dallin Romney
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff
openclaw: 12 #maintainers: 8#maintainer-lounge: 2

RomneyDa had 3 commits, 4 PRs opened, and 4 merged in openclaw/openclaw, focused on plugin discovery threading across loader, manifest registry, installed-index, and config contracts, including a revert cycle. Discord activity in maintainers and maintainer-lounge included TUI startup CPU profiling notes and coordination around whether to wait on that work.

GitHub12
Commit Search Hits3
PRs9
Issues0
Discord10
@shakkernerd
Gideon Adegbesan
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff
Kova: 4openclaw: 3 #maintainers: 23#clawtributors: 1#maintainer-offtopic: 1

shakkernerd had 6 commits and 1 merged PR across openclaw/openclaw and openclaw/Kova, focused on provider timeout handling, changelog/tests, Kova parent metrics failures, RSS row dedupe, and imported state fixtures. Discord activity was mostly in maintainers, including ClawSweeper labeling discussion.

GitHub7
Commit Search Hits6
PRs1
Issues0
Discord25
@steipete
Peter Steinberger
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff adminsecurityrelease
openclaw: 7 #maintainers: 19 owns: Core platform, daemon, agentsowns: Internal tools

steipete had 6 commits and 1 merged PR in openclaw/openclaw, focused on Codex sandbox shell tools for SSH backends, beta validation gate stabilization, prerelease shard expectations, deferred dynamic tool names, and Mac voice settings layout. Discord activity was in maintainers, including status and release-adjacent links.

GitHub7
Commit Search Hits6
PRs1
Issues0
Discord19
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff adminsecurityrelease
#maintainers: 42#maintainer-offtopic: 1#maintainer-security-ops: 1

thewilloftheshadow had no visible GitHub activity, but 44 Discord messages across maintainers, maintainer-offtopic, and maintainer-security-ops. Topics included trusted publishing and onboard command behavior with existing config.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord44
@kevinslin
Kevin Lin
GitHub: @kevinlin-openai / @kevinslin
OpenAI
Core Staff
openclaw: 6 #maintainers: 15

kevinslin had 2 commits, 1 PR opened, and 3 merged PRs in openclaw/openclaw, focused on Codex plugin documentation navigation, plugin list enable/disable commands, and guarding against stale Codex app snapshots causing plugin invocation failure. Discord activity was in maintainers, including enterprise-readiness coordination and TUI/messaging app discussion.

GitHub6
Commit Search Hits2
PRs4
Issues0
Discord15
@pash-openai
Nik Pash
GitHub: @pash-openai / @pashpashpash
OpenAI
Core Staff
openclaw: 2 #maintainers: 29#clawtributors: 1#maintainer-lounge: 1 owns: Codex

pash-openai had 1 commit and 1 merged PR in openclaw/openclaw, tied to deferred dynamic tool names and moving Codex soul context to developer instructions. Discord activity was mostly in maintainers, including review/merge coordination and guidance to fix root causes rather than flip config.

GitHub2
Commit Search Hits1
PRs1
Issues0
Discord31
@giodl73-repo
Gio Della-Libera
Microsoft
Core Staff
openclaw: 9

giodl73-repo had 1 commit, 1 PR opened, and 7 merged PRs in openclaw/openclaw, focused on config warning dedupe, CLI --no-prefix-cwd behavior, bundled provider timeout overlays, migration provider resolution, and Telegram groups diagnostics. No Discord activity was visible.

GitHub9
Commit Search Hits1
PRs8
Issues0
Discord0
@galiniliev
Galin Iliev
Microsoft
Core Staff
openclaw: 7 #maintainers: 5

galiniliev closed 3 issues and merged 4 PRs in openclaw/openclaw, focused on agent diagnostics for trajectory flush timeouts, stale subagent completion announces, and duplicate embedded-run clear noise. Discord activity was in maintainers, including enterprise-readiness discussion and work on the trajectory flush PR.

GitHub7
Commit Search Hits0
PRs4
Issues3
Discord5
@jesse-merhi
Jesse Merhi
Atlassian
Core Staff security
openclaw: 2 #maintainers: 19#maintainer-clawhub: 1#maintainer-offtopic: 1

jesse-merhi opened 1 PR and closed 1 PR in openclaw/openclaw, covering command authorization planner work and duplicate Discord approval prompt suppression. Discord activity spanned maintainers, maintainer-clawhub, and maintainer-offtopic, including ClawHub discussion and stale-count questions.

GitHub2
Commit Search Hits0
PRs2
Issues0
Discord21
@jalehman
Josh Lehman
Martian Engineering
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 4

jalehman opened 1 PR, merged 2 PRs, and closed 1 PR in openclaw/openclaw, focused on plugin hook timeout defaults, context-engine compaction safety timeouts, and mutating tool error warning suppression. No Discord activity was visible.

GitHub4
Commit Search Hits0
PRs4
Issues0
Discord0
@pgondhi987
Pavan Kumar Gondhi
NVIDIA
Core Staff security
openclaw: 3 #maintainers: 2

pgondhi987 had 1 commit, 1 PR opened, and 1 merged PR in openclaw/openclaw, focused on hardening update restart script creation. Discord activity was light in maintainers, including security advisory access troubleshooting and confirmation that something was working.

GitHub3
Commit Search Hits1
PRs2
Issues0
Discord2
@sjf
Sarah Fortune
GitHub: @sjf / @sjf-oa
OpenAI
Core Staff
openclaw: 3

sjf had 1 commit, 1 PR opened, and 1 merged PR in openclaw/openclaw, focused on preventing native Windows install from getting stuck on setup and preserving Windows onboarding TUI behavior. No Discord activity was visible.

GitHub3
Commit Search Hits1
PRs2
Issues0
Discord0
@mbelinky
Mariano Belinky
Regenerative agriculture farm / asset management setup
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 9

mbelinky had no visible GitHub activity, but 9 Discord messages in maintainers. Discussion included user experience feedback, willingness to PR a change, and general maintainer-channel conversation.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord9
@sallyom
Sally O'Malley
Red Hat
Core Staff
openclaw: 1 #maintainers: 3#clawtributors: 2

sallyom merged 1 PR in openclaw/openclaw focused on keeping the default OpenAI harness plugin in release Docker images. Discord activity appeared in maintainers and clawtributors, including confirmation of the Docker pruning fix and thanks to a contributor.

GitHub1
Commit Search Hits0
PRs1
Issues0
Discord5
@visionik
Jonathan Taylor
PhotoDay / Sighthound / Deft; contractor for NASA/SpaceX/Blue Origin via Mars Scientific
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 9

visionik had no visible GitHub activity, but 9 Discord messages in maintainers. Activity focused on wording and announcement copy around Grok/X Premium integration with OpenClaw agents.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord9
@hxy91819
Mason Huang
Tencent
Core Staff security
#maintainers: 6#maintainer-offtopic: 1

hxy91819 had no visible GitHub activity, but 7 Discord messages across maintainers and maintainer-offtopic. Topics included ClawSweeper automerge workflow permission diagnosis, Tencent Cloud provider discussion, and an OpenClaw stability tracking link.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord7
@amknight
Alex Knight
Atlassian
Core Staff
openclaw: 1 #maintainers: 1 supports: Automation, hooks & jobs (cron)supports: Interfaces (CLI, TUI, Web UI)

amknight opened 1 PR in openclaw/openclaw focused on managed Gateway updates across CLI and service Node skew. Discord activity was one maintainers message sharing the PR for awareness and describing the update breakage scenario.

GitHub1
Commit Search Hits0
PRs1
Issues0
Discord1
@bek91
Bek Akhmedov
Mochary Method; GitHub profile also lists Unblock Labs
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 1

bek91 merged 1 PR in openclaw/openclaw focused on allowing trusted plugin keyed state. No Discord activity was visible.

GitHub1
Commit Search Hits0
PRs1
Issues0
Discord0
@momothemage
Zhengnan Niu
Tencent
Core Staff
#maintainers: 2

momothemage had no visible GitHub activity, but 2 Discord messages in maintainers. Activity referenced investigating how crabbox works.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord2
@onutc
Onur Solmaz
GitHub: @onutc / @osolmaz
Hugging Face
Core Staff
#maintainers: 2 owns: Local Models

onutc had no visible GitHub activity, but 2 Discord messages in maintainers. Activity referenced a merged localModelLean configuration setup for agent-specific local model behavior.

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

omarshahine had no visible GitHub activity and 1 Discord message in maintainer-offtopic, with no snippet available. No further focus area is visible from the provided evidence.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord1
@sliverp
Yuehua Li
Tencent
Core Staff
#maintainers: 1

sliverp had no visible GitHub activity and 1 Discord message in maintainers. The visible activity was a brief channel greeting.

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

No visible activity

14 maintainers
  • @altaywtf - Altay
  • @BunsDev - Val Alexander
  • @drobison00 - Devin Robison
  • @eleqtrizit - Agustin Rivera
  • @Evizero - Christof Salis
  • @gumadeiras - Gustavo Madeira Santana
  • @huntharo - Harold Hunt
  • @jacobtomlinson - Jacob Tomlinson
  • @joshp123 - Josh Palmer
  • @odysseus0 - George Zhang
  • @scoootscooob - Scott Fan
  • @SidU - Sid Uppal
  • @velvet-shark - Radek Sienkiewicz
  • @vignesh07 - Vignesh Natarajan