OpenClaw Maintainer Activity

Evidence report across 89 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 25, 2026
As of
Active
32/45
21 Core Staff / 11 Community
GitHub Events
1575
maintainer + non-maintainer
Discord
681
messages
PRs Opened
242
176 merged
Issues
102
85 closed
Repos
27
active in shown list
Overview

Global Summary

Codex synthesis

OpenClaw activity was concentrated in openclaw/openclaw, with supporting work across crabbox, clawsweeper, rastermill, gitcrawl, agent-skills, and clawhub. The day combined core platform fixes, release/security hygiene, review tooling, plugin and skills surfaces, and quality work around tests, diagnostics, and runtime behavior.

  • Core platform: openclaw/openclaw dominated the report with compaction checkpoint fixes, realtime output tracking refactors, gateway parameter forwarding, WebChat source reply preservation, Codex auth and timeout handling, Telegram and iMessage fixes, and doctor/security policy updates.
  • Review quality: openclaw/clawsweeper shipped AGENTS policy status in reviews, a review metrics digest, catch-all impact and merge-risk labels, tuned OpenClaw review metrics guidance, and PR merge drift context fixes.
  • Testing and diagnostics: Quality work covered kitchen sink RPC isolation, guard/source scan read bounds, installer and onboarding tests, QA matrix media coverage, OTEL smoke coverage, runtime confidence reports, provider hook mock exports, and doctor health findings.
  • Plugin and skills surfaces: kitchen-sink, crabpot, plugin-inspector, and clawhub saw kitchen sink surface refreshes, registrar classification, a 0.2.6 release, SkillSpector audit UI refinements, nvidia-style skill cards, and paginated plugin count clarification.
  • Tooling and workflow: gitcrawl added clusters reporting and optional TUI focus layout, while maintainers had PR prep documentation alignment and hermit received Cloudflare deploy, lockfile, and appeal review message updates.
  • Discord coordination: The evidence contains zero Discord messages and no active Discord channels, so coordination in this report is represented only by GitHub issues, PRs, merges, and commits.
Hard Numbers

Activity Mix

codex summaries / 20 Discord mapping gaps
Commit Search Hits
373
Issue/PR comments
409
PR review comments
7
Discord messages
681
Releases

Release Signals In This Window

12 active repos matched ReleaseBar for Daily Report 2026-05-25
Tracked active repos
12
Latest releases in window
2
Latest repo updates in window
7
No release recorded
1
openclaw/slacrawl released

cli terminal app for slack with sqlite backend

v0.6.3 latest release May 25, 2026 latest commit May 25, 2026 7 report events
openclaw/kitchen-sink released

Credential-free kitchen-sink OpenClaw plugin fixture covering the public plugin API surface.

v0.2.6 latest release May 25, 2026 latest commit May 25, 2026 4 report events
openclaw/gitcrawl changed

Local-first GitHub issue and pull request crawler for maintainer triage

v0.4.5 latest release May 23, 2026 outside window latest commit May 25, 2026 19 report events
openclaw/agent-skills changed

Useful skills for agents and claws.

unreleased no release recorded latest commit May 25, 2026 13 report events
openclaw/Peekaboo changed

Peekaboo 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.

v3.2.3 latest release May 24, 2026 outside window latest commit May 25, 2026 5 report events
openclaw/Tachikoma changed

One interface, every AI model. A Swift SDK to interface with AI providers.

v0.2.0 latest release Apr 28, 2026 outside window latest commit May 25, 2026 5 report events
openclaw/crabfleet changed

Mission control for agent runs.

v0.1.0 latest release May 24, 2026 outside window latest commit May 25, 2026 4 report events
openclaw/openclaw tracked

Your own personal AI assistant. Any OS. Any Platform. The lobster way. 🦞

v2026.5.25-beta.1 latest release May 26, 2026 outside window 846 report events
Maintainers

People With Access

showing 32 of 32 active
@steipete
Peter Steinberger
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff adminsecurityrelease
openclaw: 370crabbox: 34rastermill: 16agent-skills: 13 #maintainers: 82#maintainer-offtopic: 3#clawtributors: 1 owns: Core platform, daemon, agentsowns: Internal tools

Peter Steinberger had the largest visible GitHub footprint with 403 events, mostly in `openclaw/openclaw` plus `crabbox`, `rastermill`, `agent-skills`, and `slacrawl`. Work centered on compaction checkpoints, active requester steering, gateway parameters, realtime output tracking, runtime metadata performance, bounded memory-wiki reads, source artifact preference, XSS sanitization in `openclaw.ai`, and dependency/version hygiene.

GitHub480
Commit Search Hits240
PRs148
Issues1
Discord86
@omarshahine
Omar Shahine
Microsoft
Core Staff
openclaw: 86 #maintainers: 6

Omar Shahine had 5 GitHub events in `openclaw/openclaw`, focused on iMessage and path handling. The evidence shows issue work on automatic ack tapbacks and deep `openclaw.json` paths, plus a merged fix for anchorless iMessage watch payload routing.

GitHub86
Commit Search Hits1
PRs2
Issues1
Discord6
@vincentkoc
Vincent Koc
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff securityrelease
openclaw: 68kitchen-sink: 4crabpot: 2plugin-inspector: 1 #maintainers: 33#maintainer-security-ops: 3#maintainer-offtopic: 1 owns: Core platform, daemon, agentsowns: Internal toolsowns: Observability, Diag and Telemetryowns: Plugins

Vincent Koc recorded 70 GitHub events across `openclaw/openclaw`, `kitchen-sink`, `crabpot`, and `plugin-inspector`. The focus was kitchen sink surface refresh and release work, bounded file reads, test hardening, QA media and OTEL coverage, installer/onboarding smoke tests, gateway stale-run cleanup, and plugin registrar classification.

GitHub75
Commit Search Hits67
PRs3
Issues0
Discord37
@giodl73-repo
Gio Della-Libera
Microsoft
Core Staff
openclaw: 84

Gio Della-Libera had 14 GitHub events in `openclaw/openclaw`, with merged work on preserving provider hook mock exports, agent-scoped policy overlays, doctor shell completion and UI freshness findings, and Windows config shell-env fallback behavior.

GitHub84
Commit Search Hits6
PRs14
Issues0
Discord0
@Takhoffman
Tak Hoffman
Unnamed .NET employer
Community Maintainer
clawsweeper: 42openclaw: 31 #maintainers: 8

Tak Hoffman had 25 GitHub events across `clawsweeper` and `openclaw`, centered on review process quality. He opened and merged work for AGENTS policy status, review metrics digest, catch-all review labels, PR merge drift context, and config default review policy documentation.

GitHub73
Commit Search Hits7
PRs11
Issues7
Discord8
@galiniliev
Galin Iliev
Microsoft
Core Staff
openclaw: 40 #maintainers: 5

Galin Iliev had 23 GitHub events in `openclaw/openclaw`, mainly bug triage and fixes around session checkpoint I/O pressure, Telegram polling stall detection, session write-lock timeouts, gateway shutdown aliases, subagent terminal reconciliation, and missing daily memory file logs.

GitHub40
Commit Search Hits6
PRs9
Issues8
Discord5
@RomneyDa
Dallin Romney
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff
gitcrawl: 17openclaw: 10clawsweeper: 4 #maintainers: 14

Dallin Romney had 17 GitHub events across `gitcrawl` and `openclaw`. Work included merged `gitcrawl` PRs for clusters reporting and optional TUI focus layout, plus closing OpenClaw issues on Telegram pairing-store read failures and legacy Codex OAuth sidecars.

GitHub31
Commit Search Hits7
PRs8
Issues2
Discord14
@sallyom
Sally O'Malley
Red Hat
Core Staff
openclaw: 23 #maintainers: 3

Sally O'Malley had 9 GitHub events in `openclaw/openclaw`, focused on doctor, security, agent execution policy, and Docker setup. Notable work included skipping restart prompts after healthy gateway restarts, auditing Claude permission overrides under YOLO, honoring effective exec policy for Claude live Bash, and fixing Docker config directory ownership.

GitHub23
Commit Search Hits4
PRs5
Issues0
Discord3
@jesse-merhi
Jesse Merhi
Atlassian
Core Staff security
openclaw: 17 #maintainers: 16

Jesse Merhi had 4 GitHub events in `openclaw/openclaw`, all PR activity. The work involved Codex host execution policy, stale approval prompt dismissal, and a normalized exec auto mode PR that was closed.

GitHub17
Commit Search Hits0
PRs5
Issues0
Discord16
@shakkernerd
Gideon Adegbesan
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff
openclaw: 7 #maintainers: 41#clawtributors: 3

Gideon Adegbesan had 10 GitHub events in `openclaw/openclaw`, focused on WebChat and UI test routing. He opened and resolved issues around WebChat tool replies and image upload history, then opened and merged source reply detail preservation work.

GitHub7
Commit Search Hits3
PRs2
Issues1
Discord44
@amknight
Alex Knight
Atlassian
Core Staff
openclaw: 14 #maintainers: 7#maintainer-offtopic: 3 supports: Automation, hooks & jobs (cron)supports: Interfaces (CLI, TUI, Web UI)

Alex Knight had 8 GitHub events in `openclaw/openclaw`, focused on Codex auth and UI ergonomics. Work included stale OpenAI key warnings, scoped chat session picker behavior, Codex usage-limit recovery copy, and Codex preflight compaction auth routing.

GitHub14
Commit Search Hits2
PRs7
Issues0
Discord10
@obviyus
Ayaan Zaidi
AI startup in pharma drug discovery
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 11crabbox: 1 #maintainers: 11#maintainer-offtopic: 2 owns: Channel Telegram

Ayaan Zaidi had 11 GitHub events across `openclaw/openclaw` and `crabbox`. The work focused on Telegram entity preservation, Telegram lease cleanup on startup failure, Android media permission hardening, external Codex auth scoping, and preserving active AWS SSH ingress in `crabbox`.

GitHub12
Commit Search Hits10
PRs1
Issues0
Discord13
@BunsDev
Val Alexander
Independent DevRel / builder
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 11 #maintainers: 4

Val Alexander had 7 GitHub events across `openclaw/openclaw` and `clawhub`. The work covered making compaction reinjection opt-in, adding an ephemeral Control UI Activity tab, stabilizing WebChat live transcript run state, and clarifying paginated plugin counts.

GitHub11
Commit Search Hits3
PRs3
Issues0
Discord4
@kevinslin
Kevin Lin
GitHub: @kevinlin-openai / @kevinslin
OpenAI
Core Staff
openclaw: 7 #maintainers: 4

Kevin Lin had 4 GitHub events in `openclaw/openclaw`. Work included merged support for Signal reaction approvals and documentation updates replacing the OpenClaw docs skill and adding a plugin permissions guide.

GitHub7
Commit Search Hits2
PRs2
Issues0
Discord4
@pash-openai
Nik Pash
GitHub: @pash-openai / @pashpashpash
OpenAI
Core Staff
openclaw: 5 #maintainers: 7 owns: Codex

Nik Pash had 3 GitHub events in `openclaw/openclaw`, focused on Codex boundaries. He opened work to keep Codex turn timeouts inside Codex and merged the fix to fail Codex compaction at the Codex boundary.

GitHub5
Commit Search Hits1
PRs2
Issues0
Discord7
@jalehman
Josh Lehman
Martian Engineering
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 1 #maintainers: 6

Josh Lehman had 1 GitHub event in `openclaw/maintainers`, opening PR `#76` to align PR prep with release-owned changelog handling.

GitHub1
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord6
@momothemage
Zhengnan Niu
Tencent
Core Staff
#maintainers: 6

Zhengnan Niu had no visible GitHub or Discord activity in the provided evidence.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord6
@sliverp
Yuehua Li
Tencent
Core Staff
openclaw: 1 #maintainers: 1

Yuehua Li had no visible GitHub or Discord activity in the provided evidence.

GitHub1
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord1
@scoootscooob
Scott Fan
Paradigm
Community Maintainer
#maintainer-offtopic: 2#maintainers: 1

Scott Fan had no visible GitHub or Discord activity in the provided evidence.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord3
@visionik
Jonathan Taylor
PhotoDay / Sighthound / Deft; contractor for NASA/SpaceX/Blue Origin via Mars Scientific
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 2

Jonathan Taylor had no visible GitHub or Discord activity in the provided evidence.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord2
@huntharo
Harold Hunt
GIPHY / PwrDrvr LLC
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 1

Harold Hunt had no visible GitHub or Discord activity in the provided evidence.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord1
@mbelinky
Mariano Belinky
Regenerative agriculture farm / asset management setup
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 1

Mariano Belinky had no visible GitHub or Discord activity in the provided evidence.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord1
@mcaxtr
Marcus Castro
Unnamed American company
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 1

Marcus Castro had no visible GitHub or Discord activity in the provided evidence.

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

No visible activity

13 maintainers
  • @bek91 - Bek Akhmedov
  • @davemorin - Dave Morin
  • @drobison00 - Devin Robison
  • @eleqtrizit - Agustin Rivera
  • @Evizero - Christof Salis
  • @gumadeiras - Gustavo Madeira Santana
  • @jacobtomlinson - Jacob Tomlinson
  • @joshp123 - Josh Palmer
  • @odysseus0 - George Zhang
  • @SidU - Sid Uppal
  • @sjf - Sarah Fortune
  • @velvet-shark - Radek Sienkiewicz
  • @vignesh07 - Vignesh Natarajan