OpenClaw Maintainer Activity

Evidence report across 149 GitHub repos and maintainer Discord channels. Comments count when they are maintainer discussion; dependency-label backfill comments are filtered. Access roster: 53 people / 58 GitHub accounts.

WindowJul 29, 2026 Partial report Today, as of closes in 11h 28m (00:00 UTC)
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Active 27/53 18 Core Staff / 6 Community / 3 Read-only -7% vs prev day
GitHub 3213 filtered events +17% vs prev day
Discord 209 messages -26% vs prev day
PRs Opened 449 429 merged -25% vs prev day
Security 0 advisory signals no change vs prev day
Repos 20 active in shown list
Overview

Global Summary

Codex synthesis

OpenClaw recorded 3,213 GitHub signals, including 748 commits and 429 merged pull requests, with most activity concentrated in openclaw/openclaw. The day combined high-volume core delivery with Clawsweeper reliability work, Carapace’s v0.6.0 release, QA hardening, agent guidance, and channel/security fixes; Discord carried 209 coordination messages, primarily in #maintainers.

  • Core platform: openclaw/openclaw dominated activity with UI model-picker improvements, Ollama setup refactoring, agent documentation changes, gateway ownership fixes, and channel delivery corrections.
  • Review automation: Clawsweeper merged “double review throughput and weekly coverage,” removed legacy Git state projection, restored apply backlog throughput, and hardened reconciliation and repair state.
  • Release and UI tooling: Carapace v0.6.0 shipped alongside chart primitives, hover readouts, interactive terminal prompts, dynamic previews, and shared identity utilities.
  • QA and CI: Matrix, Slack, Telegram, TUI Gateway, live scenario selection, evidence freshness, checkout stability, and execution sharding were actively repaired or simplified.
  • Archives and operations: Gitcrawl and Gitcrawl Store fixes preserved full PR patch fidelity, recovered cold refreshes, and documented hosted archive setup; Krillswitch added lifecycle-debt tooling.
  • Coordination and security: Discord discussion covered release focus, archive refresh ownership, device-node testing, Carapace adoption, skill workflows, and a merged security fix, with two messages in #maintainer-security-ops.
Hard Numbers

Activity Mix

day in progress / codex summaries / 13 Discord mapping gaps

Commits 748
GHSAs 0
Issue/PR comments 842
PR review comments 1
Discord messages 209
  • Commits 22%
  • Pull requests 36%
  • Issues 11%
  • Comments & reviews 25%
  • Discord 6%
Releases

Release Signals In This Window

7 active repos matched ReleaseBar for Daily Report 2026-07-29 · 5 untracked here

Tracked active repos 7
Latest releases in window 0
Latest repo updates in window 0
No release recorded 2
Maintainers

People With Access

showing 27 of 27 active
@steipete
Peter Steinberger
GitHub: @steipete / @steipete-oai
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff adminsecurityrelease
openclaw: 1480clawsweeper: 30esp-openclaw-node: 3 #maintainers: 19 owns: Core platform, daemon, agentsowns: Internal tools

Drove the largest activity stream across `openclaw/openclaw` and Clawsweeper, including doubled review throughput, removal of legacy Git state projection, resumable apply-budget stops, and reconciliation/backlog fixes. Also opened Ollama setup, disclosure rendering, and Settings documentation work, while coordinating release focus and an ESP room-node concept in `#maintainers`.

GitHub1513
Commits285
GHSAs0
PRs523
Issues8
Comments697
Discord19
@vincentkoc
Vincent Koc
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff adminsecurityrelease
openclaw: 250punchcard: 201krillswitch: 95maintainers: 53 #maintainers: 56#maintainer-security-ops: 1 owns: Core platform, daemon, agentsowns: Internal toolsowns: Observability, Diag and Telemetryowns: Plugins

Worked across OpenClaw, Punchcard, Krillswitch, Maintainers, Carapace, and archive tooling. Shipped Carapace v0.6.0 with chart and terminal-preview primitives, restored Clawsweeper command routing, fixed Gitcrawl archive fidelity and refreshes, and coordinated product, performance, local-inference, and security topics in Discord.

GitHub720
Commits398
GHSAs0
PRs203
Issues15
Comments104
Discord57
@RomneyDa
Dallin Romney
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff
openclaw: 54clawsweeper: 6 #maintainers: 3

Focused on OpenClaw QA and CI reliability, including Matrix state, Telegram scratch access, evidence freshness, live scenario routing, execution sharding, and intermittent checkout/TUI Gateway failures. Clawsweeper repair work also preserved selector decisions and avoided unnecessary blob hydration.

GitHub60
Commits13
GHSAs0
PRs36
Issues4
Comments7
Discord3
@Patrick-Erichsen
Patrick Erichsen
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff release
openclaw: 40carapace: 11clawhub: 1 #maintainers: 20 owns: ClawHub

Improved OpenClaw’s model-picker UI by hiding credential profiles, adding live interaction previews, and containing scrolling; also helped publish `CLAW.md` prompts through ClawHub. Discord discussion centered on declarative scanner mappings and Carapace-based presentation tooling.

GitHub52
Commits20
GHSAs0
PRs18
Issues0
Comments14
Discord20
@obviyus
Ayaan Zaidi
Independent
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 21 #maintainers: 17 owns: Channel Telegram

Restructured root `AGENTS.md` around product doctrine, followed with vision guidance, fixed preservation of MCP image blocks, and landed Telegram durable-ingress debounce coverage. The documentation scope and rationale were actively discussed in `#maintainers`.

GitHub21
Commits8
GHSAs0
PRs7
Issues0
Comments6
Discord17
@joshavant
Josh Avant
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff security
openclaw: 13 #maintainers: 8#maintainer-security-ops: 1 owns: Security

Worked on channel delivery and security behavior: Mattermost terminal settlement, shared Slack live QA flows, and Teams preview hooks. Also reported a merged fix in `#maintainer-security-ops` and participated in maintainer coordination.

GitHub13
Commits4
GHSAs0
PRs8
Issues1
Comments0
Discord9
@kevinslin
Kevin Lin
GitHub: @kevinlin-openai / @kevinslin
OpenAI
Core Staff
openclaw: 10openclaw.ai: 1rfcs: 1 #maintainers: 2

Fixed gateway model ownership after plugin activation, enabled configured apps in Codex service sessions, and aligned snapshot configuration defaults. Also opened the extended stable-release and maturity-scorecard announcement and coordinated contributor onboarding in Discord.

GitHub12
Commits3
GHSAs0
PRs5
Issues0
Comments4
Discord2
@omarshahine
Omar Shahine
Microsoft
Core Staff
openclaw: 5rfcs: 4imsg: 1 #maintainers: 1

Advanced policy and product terminology through merged RFC 0026 for the Automations rename and corrections to RFC 0002. Opened follow-up features for allowlist-derived routing probes and policy-owned security posture, and requested RFC review in `#maintainers`.

GitHub10
Commits2
GHSAs0
PRs2
Issues2
Comments4
Discord1
@shakkernerd
Gideon Adegbesan
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff
openclaw: 6 #maintainers: 12

Clarified Codex native subagent completion handoff behavior through code and documentation changes. Discord activity focused on preserving the skill workshop as the canonical lifecycle path and following up on related implementation.

GitHub6
Commits3
GHSAs0
PRs2
Issues0
Comments1
Discord12
@momothemage
Zhengnan Niu
Tencent
Core Staff
openclaw: 4plugin-inspector: 3clawhub: 1

Opened Claude CLI fast-mode support and custom-provider reasoning-tier work in OpenClaw, while merging a Plugin Inspector compatibility-floor fix. No Discord activity was visible.

GitHub8
Commits1
GHSAs0
PRs5
Issues0
Comments2
Discord0
@hannesrudolph
Hannes Rudolph
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff
openclaw: 2 #maintainers: 15

Closed the false no-reply fallback bug and contributed the scoped plugin reply-hook recovery commit. Most visible activity was discussion in `#maintainers` about loop behavior and the broader OpenClaw release direction.

GitHub2
Commits1
GHSAs0
PRs0
Issues1
Comments0
Discord15
@amknight
Alex Knight
Atlassian
Core Staff
openclaw: 5 #maintainers: 1 supports: Automation, hooks & jobs (cron)supports: Interfaces (CLI, TUI, Web UI)

Opened a gateway fix for missing tool-approval prompts, closed the expired Claude CLI OAuth-profile bug, and contributed native Claude CLI login reuse. Discord activity supplied beta-testing context for the authentication regression.

GitHub5
Commits1
GHSAs0
PRs3
Issues1
Comments0
Discord1
@jesse-merhi
Jesse Merhi
Atlassian
Core Staff security
openclaw: 2clawscan: 1 #maintainers: 7

Opened operator-header support for generic web fetches and Gemini web search, and commented on Clawscan’s OpenClaw install gate. Discord discussion covered declarative scanner configuration.

GitHub3
Commits0
GHSAs0
PRs2
Issues0
Comments1
Discord7
@giodl73-repo
Gio Della-Libera
Microsoft
Core Staff
openclaw: 3clawhub: 1

Opened planning work for claw harness extensions and resources, and contributed commits for publishing `CLAW.md` prompts, plugin setup readiness, and Telegram draft-delivery warning visibility. No Discord activity was visible.

GitHub4
Commits3
GHSAs0
PRs1
Issues0
Comments0
Discord0
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff moderation
#maintainers: 3

No GitHub activity was visible. Participated in `#maintainers` discussion about hosting artifacts and difficulties setting up an iPad node.

GitHub0
Commits0
GHSAs0
PRs0
Issues0
Comments0
Discord3
@Solvely-Colin
Colin Johnson
Independent
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 2

No GitHub activity was visible. Coordinated in `#maintainers` on iPad-specific UI changes and fresh-install testing.

GitHub0
Commits0
GHSAs0
PRs0
Issues0
Comments0
Discord2

No visible activity

26 maintainers
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  • @alauppe - AndyML - Independent
  • @Asleep123 - Asleep - Independent
  • @davemorin - Dave Morin - OpenClaw Foundation
  • @drobison00 - Devin Robison - NVIDIA
  • @jacobtomlinson - Jacob Tomlinson - NVIDIA
  • @jzakirov - Jamil Zakirov - N/A
  • @joshp123 - Josh Palmer - Independent
  • @julianengel - Julian Engel - Independent
  • @mcaxtr - Marcus Castro - Independent
  • @mbelinky - Mariano Belinky - Independent
  • @mukhtharcm - Muhammed Mukhthar CM - Independent
  • @pash-openai - Nik Pash - OpenAI
  • @ngutman - Nimrod Gutman - Independent
  • @Spectorian - Nir Paz - NVIDIA
  • @onutc - Onur Solmaz - Hugging Face
  • @purpshell - Rajeh Taher - Independent
  • @sallyom - Sally O'Malley - Red Hat
  • @sjf - Sarah Fortune - OpenAI
  • @scoootscooob - Scott Fan - Paradigm
  • @thewilloftheshadow - Shadow - OpenClaw Foundation
  • @SinOfStrife - Strife - Independent
  • @Takhoffman - Tak Hoffman - Independent
  • @vyctorbrzezowski - Vyctor Hugo Brzezowski - Independent
  • @sliverp - Yuehua Li - Tencent