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 1-3, 2026
As of
Active
37/45
21 Core Staff / 16 Community
GitHub Events
3527
maintainer + non-maintainer
Discord
1587
messages
PRs Opened
545
348 merged
Issues
202
213 closed
Repos
30
active in shown list
Overview

Global Summary

Codex synthesis
  • Weekly 2026-W18 report window covers 2026-05-01 to 2026-05-04, with visible activity concentrated in GitHub PR/commit work and Discord maintainers discussion.
  • Top visible GitHub activity came from steipete and vincentkoc, while several maintainers had Discord-only activity or no visible activity in the provided evidence.
Hard Numbers

Activity Mix

codex summaries / 3 daily reports / 20 Discord mapping gaps
Commit Search Hits
1706
Issue/PR comments
0
PR review comments
0
Discord messages
1587
Releases

Release Signals In This Window

12 active repos matched ReleaseBar for Weekly Report 2026-W18
Tracked active repos
12
Latest releases in window
2
Latest repo updates in window
0
No release recorded
1
Maintainers

People With Access

showing 37 of 37 active
@steipete
Peter Steinberger
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff adminsecurityrelease
openclaw: 945clawsweeper: 78crabbox: 27discrawl: 18 #maintainers: 273#maintainer-offtopic: 2 owns: Core platform, daemon, agentsowns: Internal tools

steipete had very high visible activity, mostly in openclaw/openclaw with additional work in clawsweeper, crabbox, discrawl, and clawhub: 896 commits, 70 PRs opened, and 118 PRs merged. Focus areas included SSE stream stability, hosted image-generation timeouts, Crabbox remote-testing docs, Discord Carbon parity, session liveness diagnostics, and DM access groups, alongside 273 messages in #maintainers.

GitHub1088
Commit Search Hits896
PRs191
Issues1
Discord275
@vincentkoc
Vincent Koc
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff securityrelease
openclaw: 308crawlkit: 117crawlbar: 81clawhub: 80 #maintainers: 355#maintainer-security-ops: 21#clawtributors: 5 owns: Core platform, daemon, agentsowns: Internal toolsowns: Observability, Diag and Telemetryowns: Plugins

vincentkoc was highly active across openclaw/openclaw, crawlkit, crawlbar, clawhub, and slacrawl, with 639 commits, 30 PRs opened, and 56 PRs merged. Work focused on CLI device fallback state, plugin install/redaction and rebuild behavior, cold inspect registry snapshots, gateway transcript hot paths, and plugin-runtime audit isolation, with Discord activity in #maintainers and #maintainer-security-ops.

GitHub734
Commit Search Hits639
PRs95
Issues0
Discord384
@obviyus
Ayaan Zaidi
AI startup in pharma drug discovery
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 50openclaw-rtt: 7 #maintainers: 85#maintainer-offtopic: 2 owns: Channel Telegram

obviyus showed focused Telegram and RTT activity, with 39 commits, 6 PRs opened, and 12 PRs merged across openclaw/openclaw and openclaw-rtt. Items centered on Telegram reply cold-start latency, RTT sampling/parsing, main package measurements, and CI packaging, with 85 #maintainers messages discussing runs and diff size.

GitHub57
Commit Search Hits39
PRs18
Issues0
Discord87
@shakkernerd
Gideon Adegbesan
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff
Kova: 43openclaw: 19 #maintainers: 73#clawtributors: 2

shakkernerd had visible work mostly in openclaw/Kova, with 58 commits plus 2 PRs opened and 1 merged. Focus areas included live inherited auth scenarios, embedded agent latency evidence, external CLI live auth, gateway message ingress evidence, and splitting agent message ingress surfaces, with 73 messages in #maintainers.

GitHub62
Commit Search Hits58
PRs4
Issues0
Discord75
@BunsDev
Val Alexander
Independent DevRel / builder
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 56clawhub: 7 #maintainers: 18#maintainer-security-ops: 4

BunsDev was active in openclaw/openclaw and clawhub, opening 19 PRs and merging 27, with 13 commits. Work focused on Gateway RPC SDK-facing tools.invoke and artifacts APIs, workspace optional bootstrap configuration, proxy validation, and async music delivery; Discord activity included #maintainers and #maintainer-security-ops.

GitHub63
Commit Search Hits13
PRs48
Issues2
Discord22
@pash-openai
Nik Pash
GitHub: @pash-openai / @pashpashpash
OpenAI
Core Staff
openclaw: 32 #maintainers: 37 owns: Codex

pash-openai worked in openclaw/openclaw with 8 commits, 11 PRs opened, and 12 merged. Focus areas were Codex prompt snapshots, message-tool reply defaults, structured heartbeat responses, Codex tool replies, and heartbeat changelog tagging, with #maintainers discussion around auditing Codex context and consolidating related PRs.

GitHub32
Commit Search Hits8
PRs24
Issues0
Discord37
@amknight
Alex Knight
Atlassian
Core Staff
openclaw: 51clawsweeper: 2 #maintainers: 2 supports: Automation, hooks & jobs (cron)supports: Interfaces (CLI, TUI, Web UI)

amknight had 15 commits, 19 PRs opened, and 15 merged, primarily in openclaw/openclaw. Work focused on persistence for msteams, matrix, discord, and slack state, active-hours-aware heartbeat scheduling, and async transcript I/O to unblock the gateway event loop; Discord activity was minimal at 2 #maintainers messages.

GitHub53
Commit Search Hits15
PRs38
Issues0
Discord2
@joshavant
Josh Avant
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff security
openclaw: 17gogcli: 2 #maintainers: 28#maintainer-offtopic: 2 owns: Security

joshavant had 3 commits, 8 PRs opened, and 6 merged across openclaw/openclaw and gogcli. Visible work included published upgrade survivor tests, a generic dev version fallback, hatch TUI timeout bounds, and memoizing plugin descriptor config keys, with 28 #maintainers messages and 2 #maintainer-offtopic messages.

GitHub19
Commit Search Hits3
PRs16
Issues0
Discord30
@jesse-merhi
Jesse Merhi
Atlassian
Core Staff security
openclaw: 3 #maintainers: 27#maintainer-security-ops: 6

jesse-merhi had light GitHub activity in openclaw/openclaw, with 1 commit, 1 PR opened, and 1 closed. Items covered exec-safe-bin option abbreviation resolution and managed proxy TLS hostname validation, while Discord activity included #maintainers and #maintainer-security-ops discussion around malicious skills and a proxy validation PR.

GitHub3
Commit Search Hits1
PRs2
Issues0
Discord33
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff adminsecurityrelease
#maintainers: 29#clawtributors: 4#maintainer-offtopic: 1

thewilloftheshadow had no visible GitHub activity in the provided window. Visible activity was Discord-only, with 34 messages across #maintainers, #clawtributors, and #maintainer-offtopic, including discussion around server questions and infrastructure for a backup machine.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord34
@scoootscooob
Scott Fan
Paradigm
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 6clawbench: 3 #maintainers: 22#maintainer-offtopic: 2

scoootscooob had 5 commits, 2 PRs opened, and 2 merged across openclaw/openclaw and clawbench. Work focused on gateway startup control-plane retries, OpenClaw container sweep stabilization, tool profile propagation through the eval harness, run lifecycle waits, and doctor persistence for group visible reply defaults, with 22 #maintainers messages.

GitHub9
Commit Search Hits5
PRs4
Issues0
Discord24
@RomneyDa
Dallin Romney
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff
openclaw: 13gitcrawl: 3 #maintainers: 7

RomneyDa had 2 commits, 7 PRs opened, and 6 merged across openclaw/openclaw and gitcrawl. Focus areas included CLI log gateway reconnect notices, embedded-run abort leak handling and harnesses, transient embedding retries, pagination logging, and GitHub API rate-limit handling, with #maintainers discussion linking the memory-leak PR and validation approach.

GitHub16
Commit Search Hits2
PRs14
Issues0
Discord7
@ngutman
Nimrod Gutman
Singular
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 5 #maintainers: 13#maintainer-offtopic: 4

ngutman had 2 PRs opened, 2 merged, and 1 closed in openclaw/openclaw, with no commits recorded in the evidence. Work items covered macOS exec approval dialog layout, moving sessions into a context submenu, and group message-tool reply delivery, plus 17 Discord messages split between #maintainers and #maintainer-offtopic.

GitHub5
Commit Search Hits0
PRs5
Issues0
Discord17
@mbelinky
Mariano Belinky
Regenerative agriculture farm / asset management setup
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 6 #maintainers: 12

mbelinky had 2 commits, 2 PRs opened, and 2 merged in openclaw/openclaw. Work focused on adding agent visibility to skills check and fixing the Codex OAuth status auth label, with 12 messages in #maintainers.

GitHub6
Commit Search Hits2
PRs4
Issues0
Discord12
@sallyom
Sally O'Malley
Red Hat
Core Staff
openclaw: 9 #maintainers: 6#maintainer-offtopic: 2

sallyom had 2 commits, 1 PR opened, and 6 PRs merged in openclaw/openclaw. Items focused on config recovery logging, CLI argv secret redaction, pairing stat-error handling, Docker runtime python3 restoration, and Docker apt GPG key validation, with light Discord discussion in #maintainers and #maintainer-offtopic.

GitHub9
Commit Search Hits2
PRs7
Issues0
Discord8
@Patrick-Erichsen
Patrick Erichsen
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff release
clawhub: 10clawhub-security: 1 #maintainers: 4 owns: ClawHub

Patrick-Erichsen had 8 commits, 2 PRs merged, and 1 PR closed, mostly in openclaw/clawhub with one item in clawhub-security. Work centered on ClawScan artifact prompt boundaries, ClawHub logo assets, security eval pipelines, and securityPrompt updates, with 4 #maintainers messages discussing prompt findings and mirror cleanup.

GitHub11
Commit Search Hits8
PRs3
Issues0
Discord4
@mcaxtr
Marcus Castro
Unnamed American company
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 11#maintainer-offtopic: 1

mcaxtr had no visible GitHub activity in the provided window. Visible activity was Discord-only, with 12 messages mostly in #maintainers and one in #maintainer-offtopic.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord12
@omarshahine
Omar Shahine
Microsoft
Core Staff
openclaw: 7 #maintainer-offtopic: 2#maintainers: 2

omarshahine had 2 commits, 2 PRs opened, 2 merged, and 1 closed in openclaw/openclaw. Work focused on BlueBubbles audio attachment detection, inbound audio enrichment, reply-context API fallback, and a changelog highlight for the file-transfer plugin, with light Discord discussion around M365 workspace mapping and monitoring.

GitHub7
Commit Search Hits2
PRs5
Issues0
Discord4
@pgondhi987
Pavan Kumar Gondhi
NVIDIA
Core Staff security
openclaw: 10

pgondhi987 had 4 commits, 1 PR opened, 4 merged, and 1 closed in openclaw/openclaw. Work focused on security and infra hardening around workspace .env injection, STATE_DIRECTORY, CLOUDSDK_PYTHON, Windows system path variables, and ambient Homebrew env vars; no Discord activity was visible.

GitHub10
Commit Search Hits4
PRs6
Issues0
Discord0
@huntharo
Harold Hunt
GIPHY / PwrDrvr LLC
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 9

huntharo had no visible GitHub activity in the provided window. Visible activity was Discord-only, with 9 #maintainers messages discussing cost expectations for a proposed approach.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord9
@jalehman
Josh Lehman
Martian Engineering
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 9

jalehman had 2 commits, 1 PR opened, 5 merged, and 1 issue closed in openclaw/openclaw. Work items included a main build failure around tsdown LINE modules, context engine initialization before subagent spawn prep, compaction model fallback, backup restore copy failure logging, and prompt authority handling in context-engine precheck; no Discord activity was visible.

GitHub9
Commit Search Hits2
PRs6
Issues1
Discord0
@hxy91819
Mason Huang
Tencent
Core Staff security
openclaw: 7 #maintainer-security-ops: 2

hxy91819 had 1 commit, 1 PR opened, and 5 merged in openclaw/openclaw. Work focused on blocking package updates from a running gateway service, adding redaction patterns for several API key types, timing-safe comparison for Nextcloud Talk, and rejecting missing plugin IDs before config writes, with 2 messages in #maintainer-security-ops.

GitHub7
Commit Search Hits1
PRs6
Issues0
Discord2
@shanselman
Scott Hanselman
Microsoft
Core Staff
openclaw-windows-node: 9

shanselman had 3 commits and 6 PRs merged in openclaw/openclaw-windows-node. Work focused on Windows node structural input validation for exec approvals, richer device.status health sections, text-to-speech, tray cleanup and onboarding, and a winnode CLI for local MCP commands; no Discord activity was visible.

GitHub9
Commit Search Hits3
PRs6
Issues0
Discord0
@odysseus0
George Zhang
Stealth startup
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 7

odysseus0 had no visible GitHub activity in the provided window. Visible activity was Discord-only, with 7 #maintainers messages discussing cost and unit economics.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord7
@Takhoffman
Tak Hoffman
Unnamed .NET employer
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 2 #maintainers: 5

Takhoffman had 1 PR opened and 1 merged in openclaw/openclaw, with no commits recorded in the evidence. Work items covered active-memory behavior for Telegram forum topics and preserving active recall tool agent context, with 5 messages in #maintainers.

GitHub2
Commit Search Hits0
PRs2
Issues0
Discord5
@jacobtomlinson
Jacob Tomlinson
NVIDIA
Core Staff security
#maintainer-security-ops: 6

jacobtomlinson had no visible GitHub activity in the provided window. Visible activity was in #maintainer-security-ops, with 6 messages around GHSA access for NVIDIA maintainers and catching up on backlog.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord6
@vignesh07
Vignesh Natarajan
Snowflake
Community Maintainer
#maintainer-offtopic: 3#maintainers: 3

vignesh07 had no visible GitHub activity in the provided window. Visible activity was Discord-only, with 6 messages across #maintainers and #maintainer-offtopic discussing slug redirects and plugin discoverability concerns.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord6
@eleqtrizit
Agustin Rivera
NVIDIA
Core Staff security
openclaw: 5

eleqtrizit had 1 commit and 4 PRs opened in openclaw/openclaw. Work focused on malformed canvas request URL rejection, exec allowlist wildcard target normalization, wiki session visibility enforcement, current browser tab exports, and Mattermost slash callback validation; no Discord activity was visible.

GitHub5
Commit Search Hits1
PRs4
Issues0
Discord0
@altaywtf
Altay
US-based fintech / put.io
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 4

altaywtf had 4 PRs merged in openclaw/openclaw, with no commits recorded in the evidence. Work items focused on failover/session attribution, internal server error classification, duplicate user persistence suppression on fallback retries, and graceful ENOSPC file watcher handling; no Discord activity was visible.

GitHub4
Commit Search Hits0
PRs4
Issues0
Discord0
@bek91
Bek Akhmedov
Mochary Method; GitHub profile also lists Unblock Labs
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 1 #maintainers: 2

bek91 had 1 PR opened in openclaw/openclaw. The visible focus was plugin install alias resolution for official plugins, with #maintainers messages describing bare plugin IDs falling through to npm package resolution and asking for review.

GitHub1
Commit Search Hits0
PRs1
Issues0
Discord2
@visionik
Jonathan Taylor
PhotoDay / Sighthound / Deft; contractor for NASA/SpaceX/Blue Origin via Mars Scientific
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 3

visionik had no visible GitHub activity in the provided window. Visible activity was Discord-only, with 3 #maintainers messages about document revision format, tracked changes or comments, and audience clarification.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord3
@velvet-shark
Radek Sienkiewicz
Consulting / DevRel
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 3

velvet-shark had no visible GitHub activity in the provided window. Visible activity was Discord-only, with 3 #maintainers messages around update issues and whether a linked item was worth deeper exploration.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord3
@Evizero
Christof Salis
VertifyMed
Community Maintainer
#maintainer-offtopic: 1#maintainers: 1

Evizero had no visible GitHub activity in the provided window. Visible activity was Discord-only, with 2 messages split between #maintainers and #maintainer-offtopic.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord2
@drobison00
Devin Robison
NVIDIA
Core Staff security
openclaw: 2

drobison00 had 2 PRs merged in openclaw/openclaw, with no commits recorded in the evidence. Work items focused on blocking Windows shell trust-root variables from workspace .env and refreshing Mattermost slash callback command validation; no Discord activity was visible.

GitHub2
Commit Search Hits0
PRs2
Issues0
Discord0
@giodl73-repo
Gio Della-Libera
Microsoft
Core Staff
openclaw: 1

giodl73-repo had 1 PR merged in openclaw/openclaw. The visible work item was allowing config includes from approved roots; no Discord activity was visible.

GitHub1
Commit Search Hits0
PRs1
Issues0
Discord0
No matching active maintainer in this report.

No visible activity

8 maintainers
  • @davemorin - Dave Morin
  • @gumadeiras - Gustavo Madeira Santana
  • @joshp123 - Josh Palmer
  • @onutc - Onur Solmaz
  • @sjf - Sarah Fortune
  • @SidU - Sid Uppal
  • @sliverp - Yuehua Li
  • @momothemage - Zhengnan Niu