OpenClaw Maintainer Activity

Evidence report across 87 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 24, 2026
As of
Active
10/45
6 Core Staff / 4 Community
GitHub Events
962
maintainer + non-maintainer
Discord
0
messages
PRs Opened
145
55 merged
Issues
113
65 closed
Repos
9
active in shown list
Overview

Global Summary

Codex synthesis

Most visible work landed in openclaw/openclaw, with broad maintenance across Codex agent behavior, config and recovery paths, channel integrations, TUI/control UI behavior, diagnostics, release quality, and security-sensitive matching. Supporting activity touched openclaw/crabbox, openclaw/crabfleet, openclaw/clawsweeper, and openclaw/Peekaboo; there were no Discord messages or channel records in the evidence.

  • Core platform: openclaw/openclaw carried the largest stream, including merged fixes for browser MCP subprocess cleanup, compaction partial-summary preservation, failed backup-restore recovery retry, native-hook-relay cleanup races, Codex subagent bootstrap parity, gateway restart drain budget, and provider-default preservation during config saves.
  • Security and correctness: Session visibility replaced regex wildcard matching with a linear-time glob, config save handling was tightened for empty strings with minLength, runtime policy matching was fixed for empty session providers, and plugin LLM command auth was preserved in an opened PR.
  • Release and test quality: Windows-safe Vitest scripts, Windows e2e kitchen-sink retries and assertions, conflict-marker prefiltering, Alpine/musl installer fixes, Docker plugin smoke focus, launchd bootstrap failure checks, release memory-indexing failure checks, and upgrade-survivor script hardening formed a sustained quality stream.
  • Channel and interface integrations: Telegram cache migrations and topic-dispatch serialization, iMessage thumb approval reactions and cursor/acknowledgement fixes, Android pairing and voice-mode surface refinements, and TUI/control UI source-reply and optimistic-state fixes moved user-facing surfaces forward.
  • Infrastructure and tooling: openclaw/crabbox saw experimental Wayland desktop environment work, AWS SSH ingress preservation, and macOS AWS run defaults, while openclaw/clawsweeper and openclaw/openclaw tracked AGENTS.md review-policy migration through issues and PRs.
  • Coordination: No Discord activity was recorded, so the report’s coordination trail is entirely GitHub-based through opened/merged/closed PRs, issues, and commits.
Hard Numbers

Activity Mix

codex summaries
Commit Search Hits
228
Issue/PR comments
0
PR review comments
0
Discord messages
0
Releases

Release Signals In This Window

8 active repos matched ReleaseBar for Daily Report 2026-05-24 · 1 untracked here
Tracked active repos
8
Latest releases in window
2
Latest repo updates in window
1
No release recorded
2
Maintainers

People With Access

showing 10 of 10 active
@steipete
Peter Steinberger
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff adminsecurityrelease
openclaw: 129crabfleet: 18crabbox: 11Peekaboo: 8 owns: Core platform, daemon, agentsowns: Internal tools

Peter Steinberger had 178 GitHub actions across `openclaw/openclaw`, `crabfleet`, `crabbox`, `Peekaboo`, and `clawsweeper`, including 145 commits and 27 merged PRs. The work centered on core platform reliability and agents, with merged PRs for browser MCP subprocess cleanup, compaction failure preservation, config recovery retry behavior, Codex subagent bootstrap parity, Telegram topic dispatch serialization, session-visibility security matching, and Crabbox Wayland support.

GitHub178
Commit Search Hits145
PRs33
Issues0
Discord0
@vincentkoc
Vincent Koc
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff securityrelease
openclaw: 44 owns: Core platform, daemon, agentsowns: Internal toolsowns: Observability, Diag and Telemetryowns: Plugins

Vincent Koc recorded 44 commits in `openclaw/openclaw`, focused on release, installer, scripts, and test hardening. Commit titles show Windows-safe Vitest and e2e work, conflict-marker scan prefiltering, Alpine/musl installer fixes, UI runtime chunk splitting, Docker smoke focus, launchd bootstrap failure checks, and release memory-indexing failure checks.

GitHub44
Commit Search Hits44
PRs0
Issues0
Discord0
@obviyus
Ayaan Zaidi
AI startup in pharma drug discovery
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 22crabbox: 1 owns: Channel Telegram

Ayaan Zaidi had 23 GitHub actions across `openclaw/openclaw` and `crabbox`, with 18 commits, 3 opened PRs, and 2 merged PRs. The work focused on Telegram cache migration into plugin state, Android voice/gateway pairing and session-state fixes, and a Crabbox PR to preserve active AWS SSH ingress.

GitHub23
Commit Search Hits18
PRs5
Issues0
Discord0
@Takhoffman
Tak Hoffman
Unnamed .NET employer
Community Maintainer
clawsweeper: 11openclaw: 8

Tak Hoffman had 19 GitHub actions across `openclaw/clawsweeper` and `openclaw/openclaw`. The activity centered on AGENTS.md review-policy handling, including opened and closed issues for ClawSweeper reviews and moving OpenClaw-specific review policy into AGENTS.md, plus related PR work and a `test: hello world` PR.

GitHub19
Commit Search Hits5
PRs10
Issues4
Discord0
@giodl73-repo
Gio Della-Libera
Microsoft
Core Staff
openclaw: 16

Gio Della-Libera had 16 GitHub actions in `openclaw/openclaw`, including 4 opened PRs and 11 merged PRs. The visible focus was doctor and update reliability, with PRs for sibling moltbot config recovery, Feishu account bot-name migration, auth-health labeling by agent, read-only hooks model checks, and ignoring inherited macOS XPC during respawn.

GitHub16
Commit Search Hits1
PRs15
Issues0
Discord0
@omarshahine
Omar Shahine
Microsoft
Core Staff
openclaw: 8

Omar Shahine had 8 GitHub actions in `openclaw/openclaw`, spanning iMessage and policy-plugin work. He opened an issue for per-agent scoping of policy plugin tool/exec/sandbox rules and merged iMessage fixes for thumb approval reactions, catchup cursor advancement, and slash command acknowledgements.

GitHub8
Commit Search Hits3
PRs4
Issues1
Discord0
@RomneyDa
Dallin Romney
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff
openclaw: 8

Dallin Romney had 8 GitHub actions in `openclaw/openclaw`. The work focused on TUI/auth/Telegram and plugin-gateway behavior, including an issue and PRs for stale TUI optimistic busy state, preserving optimistic user messages across history reloads, pointing Keychain-only legacy Codex OAuth users at doctor, transient Telegram pairing prompts, and plugin/gateway hot-path metadata work.

GitHub8
Commit Search Hits2
PRs5
Issues1
Discord0
@shakkernerd
Gideon Adegbesan
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff
openclaw: 7

Gideon Adegbesan had 7 GitHub actions in `openclaw/openclaw`, including one merged PR and six commits. The work focused on TUI/control UI source replies and transcript backing, with fixes and tests for rendering Codex source replies, retaining source reply finals, and backing source reply media in transcripts.

GitHub7
Commit Search Hits6
PRs1
Issues0
Discord0
@altaywtf
Altay
US-based fintech / put.io
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 3

Altay had 3 GitHub actions in `openclaw/openclaw`. The work included merged PRs for extracting the GoogleChat config schema and fixing agent runtime policy matching when the session provider is empty, plus the corresponding commit for the runtime policy fix.

GitHub3
Commit Search Hits1
PRs2
Issues0
Discord0
No matching active maintainer in this report.

No visible activity

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  • @Patrick-Erichsen - Patrick Erichsen
  • @pgondhi987 - Pavan Kumar Gondhi
  • @sallyom - Sally O'Malley
  • @scoootscooob - Scott Fan
  • @shanselman - Scott Hanselman
  • @SidU - Sid Uppal
  • @sjf - Sarah Fortune
  • @sliverp - Yuehua Li
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  • @visionik - Jonathan Taylor