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 20, 2026
As of
Active
33/45
22 Core Staff / 11 Community
GitHub Events
882
maintainer + non-maintainer
Discord
615
messages
PRs Opened
170
80 merged
Issues
131
239 closed
Repos
16
active in shown list
Overview

Global Summary

Codex synthesis
  • Daily window: 2026-05-20, with 145 GitHub commits, 170 PRs opened, 80 PRs merged, and 615 Discord messages across maintainer channels.
Hard Numbers

Activity Mix

codex summaries / 20 Discord mapping gaps
Commit Search Hits
145
Issue/PR comments
0
PR review comments
0
Discord messages
615
Releases

Release Signals In This Window

11 active repos matched ReleaseBar for Daily Report 2026-05-20 · 1 untracked here
Tracked active repos
11
Latest releases in window
1
Latest repo updates in window
0
No release recorded
0
Maintainers

People With Access

showing 33 of 33 active
@steipete
Peter Steinberger
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff adminsecurityrelease
clawpatch: 50openclaw: 37mcporter: 16gogcli: 12 #maintainers: 27 owns: Core platform, daemon, agentsowns: Internal tools

Visible activity centered on clawpatch, openclaw, mcporter, gogcli, and crabbox, with 116 commits, 4 PRs opened, and 25 PRs merged. Work included gogcli docs and sheets primitives such as insert-table, reorder-tab, heading styles, page breaks, markdown table placeholder fixes, and inline markdown expansion, plus maintainer-channel Discord activity.

GitHub145
Commit Search Hits116
PRs29
Issues0
Discord27
@Takhoffman
Tak Hoffman
Unnamed .NET employer
Community Maintainer
clawsweeper: 20 #maintainers: 34

Focused on clawsweeper, with 2 commits, 9 PRs opened, and 9 PRs merged. Activity covered review workflow labels, a merge command alias, and restoring previous comment formatting, alongside maintainer-channel discussion about a pinned GitHub-query dashboard and coordination.

GitHub20
Commit Search Hits2
PRs18
Issues0
Discord34
@RomneyDa
Dallin Romney
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff
openclaw: 15crabbox: 1 #maintainers: 13

Worked mostly in openclaw, with 4 commits, 4 PRs opened, 3 merged, and 5 closed. Focus areas were secret-file symlink rejection and tests, error cause-chain deduplication, and plugin startup index memoization, with Discord discussion explaining the symlink behavior change.

GitHub16
Commit Search Hits4
PRs12
Issues0
Discord13
@Patrick-Erichsen
Patrick Erichsen
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff release
clawhub: 15 #maintainers: 3 owns: ClawHub

Activity was concentrated in clawhub, with 2 commits, 3 issues opened, 4 PRs opened, and 6 PRs merged. Work touched org-scoped skill installs, owner-facing delete/restore controls, account recovery, security audit UI consolidation, and category-aware related skills, plus maintainer discussion about group-chat agent behavior and scheduled-task docs.

GitHub15
Commit Search Hits2
PRs10
Issues3
Discord3
@obviyus
Ayaan Zaidi
AI startup in pharma drug discovery
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 10 #maintainers: 16#clawtributors: 5 owns: Channel Telegram

Worked in openclaw on Android/mobile experience, with 8 commits, 1 PR opened, and 1 PR merged. Items included the Android overhaul, review fixes, canonical UI refactors, gateway callback fixture updates, and v2 separated list rows, with Discord discussion in maintainers and clawtributors around testing and weaker-network behavior.

GitHub10
Commit Search Hits8
PRs2
Issues0
Discord21
@kevinslin
Kevin Lin
GitHub: @kevinlin-openai / @kevinslin
OpenAI
Core Staff
openclaw: 10 #maintainers: 18

Worked in openclaw approval and Codex paths, with 3 commits, 4 PRs opened, and 3 merged. Focus included routing /approve through the approval resolver, normalizing Slack approval user IDs, and bridging Codex computer-use elicitations, with maintainer-channel discussion about buttons, slash commands, reactions, and approval forwarding.

GitHub10
Commit Search Hits3
PRs7
Issues0
Discord18
@joshavant
Josh Avant
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff security
openclaw: 6 #maintainers: 24 owns: Security

Opened and merged 3 openclaw PRs related to agent/security-adjacent behavior: provenance-bound Codex reasoning replay, visible channel reply prompting, and node approval scope requests. Discord activity was in maintainers, including review comments on approval refactoring risk and coordination on chat/link-preview issues.

GitHub6
Commit Search Hits0
PRs6
Issues0
Discord24
@pash-openai
Nik Pash
GitHub: @pash-openai / @pashpashpash
OpenAI
Core Staff
openclaw: 2 #maintainers: 33#clawtributors: 6 owns: Codex

Opened and merged 1 openclaw PR reverting the visible channel replies prompt change. Discord activity spanned maintainers and clawtributors, including discussion of MEMORY.md, prompt cache churn, and related docs files.

GitHub2
Commit Search Hits0
PRs2
Issues0
Discord39
@galiniliev
Galin Iliev
Microsoft
Core Staff
openclaw: 8 #maintainers: 7

Activity in openclaw included 4 issues closed and 4 PRs merged. Focus areas were cron jobs blocking human web-chat turns, strict tool schema diagnostics, AGENTS.md bootstrap truncation, gateway event-loop stalls, runtime version exposure in gateway status, and cron wake-lane isolation, with Discord note that #82767 landed.

GitHub8
Commit Search Hits0
PRs4
Issues4
Discord7
@giodl73-repo
Gio Della-Libera
Microsoft
Core Staff
openclaw: 9

Worked in openclaw with 2 commits, 3 PRs opened, 2 merged, 1 closed, and 1 issue closed. Focus areas included invalid thinking-format migration, plugin discovery refresh during contract retries, startup bench active-node selection, and legacy web search config migration; no Discord activity was visible.

GitHub9
Commit Search Hits2
PRs6
Issues1
Discord0
@shanselman
Scott Hanselman
Microsoft
Core Staff
openclaw-windows-node: 8

Worked in openclaw-windows-node with 3 commits, 2 PRs opened, and 3 merged. Focus areas included Hub gateway nav hiding debounce, chat UI polish across sync/reload/voice/scroll behavior, chat surface selection dedupe, and removing operator-side node pair auto-approve; no Discord activity was visible.

GitHub8
Commit Search Hits3
PRs5
Issues0
Discord0
@vincentkoc
Vincent Koc
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff securityrelease
#maintainers: 22 owns: Core platform, daemon, agentsowns: Internal toolsowns: Observability, Diag and Telemetryowns: Plugins

No visible GitHub activity in the window. Discord activity was present in maintainers, including short coordination messages and links, but no repo or PR focus is visible from the provided evidence.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord22
@jesse-merhi
Jesse Merhi
Atlassian
Core Staff security
#maintainers: 14

No visible GitHub activity in the window. Discord activity in maintainers touched approval-step behavior, requests for review, and identity/context questions around a Discord user.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord14
@shakkernerd
Gideon Adegbesan
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff
#maintainers: 14

No visible GitHub activity in the window. Discord activity was limited to maintainer-channel messages without a clear repo or implementation focus in the provided snippets.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord14
@bek91
Bek Akhmedov
Mochary Method; GitHub profile also lists Unblock Labs
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 2 #maintainers: 4#maintainer-offtopic: 1

GitHub activity consisted of 2 merged openclaw PRs around subagent completion credit and delivery-error announce give-up logs. Discord discussion covered group-chat agent participation timing and load-balancing behavior across parallel requests.

GitHub2
Commit Search Hits0
PRs2
Issues0
Discord5
@sjf
Sarah Fortune
GitHub: @sjf / @sjf-oa
OpenAI
Core Staff
openclaw: 3

Worked in openclaw with 1 commit, 1 PR opened, and 1 merged. The visible focus was accepting execApprovals.enabled="auto" in the config zod schema; no Discord activity was visible.

GitHub3
Commit Search Hits1
PRs2
Issues0
Discord0
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff adminsecurityrelease
#maintainers: 10#clawtributors: 1

No visible GitHub activity in the window. Discord activity spanned maintainers and clawtributors, including routine dependency-bump guidance, a planned Hermit PR-link summary feature, and discussion of Mantis setup.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord11
@hxy91819
Mason Huang
Tencent
Core Staff security
crabbox: 1 #maintainers: 4

Opened 1 crabbox issue for a docker provider for local isolated test runs. Discord activity in maintainers discussed locking in existing behavior before refactoring, black-box smoke coverage for built CLI commands, and Issue #74484.

GitHub1
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues1
Discord4
@mbelinky
Mariano Belinky
Regenerative agriculture farm / asset management setup
Community Maintainer
wacli: 1 #maintainers: 1

Made 1 commit in wacli for read-only media downloads. Discord activity was a single maintainer-channel greeting.

GitHub1
Commit Search Hits1
PRs0
Issues0
Discord1
@scoootscooob
Scott Fan
Paradigm
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 4

No visible GitHub activity in the window. Discord activity in maintainers referenced evaluating a compare harness with controlled tools/plugins and broad testing scope, but no specific repo activity is visible.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord4
@BunsDev
Val Alexander
Independent DevRel / builder
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 2

No visible GitHub activity in the window. Discord activity was limited to two maintainer-channel morning messages with no repo or implementation focus visible.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord2
@ngutman
Nimrod Gutman
Singular
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 2

No visible GitHub activity in the window. Discord activity in maintainers mentioned TestFlight emails and trying to push realtime 2 to the iOS app.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord2
@sallyom
Sally O'Malley
Red Hat
Core Staff
#maintainers: 2

No visible GitHub activity in the window. Discord activity in maintainers discussed whether issue #83626 could cause a problem and noted an openshell plugin install issue involving the wrong npm package and intent to fix it.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord2
@velvet-shark
Radek Sienkiewicz
Consulting / DevRel
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 2

No visible GitHub activity in the window. Discord activity was limited to two maintainer-channel messages, including an idea link for Discord; no repo focus is visible.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord2
@mcaxtr
Marcus Castro
Unnamed American company
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 1

No visible GitHub activity in the window. Discord activity was a single maintainer-channel morning greeting.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord1
@omarshahine
Omar Shahine
Microsoft
Core Staff
#maintainers: 1

No visible GitHub activity in the window. Discord activity was a maintainer-channel question about supporting approvals in iMessage and WhatsApp via reactions.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord1
@onutc
Onur Solmaz
GitHub: @onutc / @osolmaz
Hugging Face
Core Staff
#maintainers: 1 owns: Local Models

No visible GitHub activity in the window. Discord activity was a single maintainer-channel message fragment about dedicated compute, with no clear repo focus visible.

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

No visible GitHub activity in the window. Discord activity was a single maintainer-channel greeting.

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

No visible activity

12 maintainers
  • @drobison00 - Devin Robison
  • @eleqtrizit - Agustin Rivera
  • @Evizero - Christof Salis
  • @gumadeiras - Gustavo Madeira Santana
  • @huntharo - Harold Hunt
  • @jacobtomlinson - Jacob Tomlinson
  • @joshp123 - Josh Palmer
  • @momothemage - Zhengnan Niu
  • @odysseus0 - George Zhang
  • @SidU - Sid Uppal
  • @vignesh07 - Vignesh Natarajan
  • @visionik - Jonathan Taylor