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 4-10, 2026
As of
Active
45/45
27 Core Staff / 18 Community
GitHub Events
6820
maintainer + non-maintainer
Discord
4669
messages
PRs Opened
888
797 merged
Issues
57
243 closed
Repos
48
active in shown list
Overview

Global Summary

Codex synthesis
  • Weekly Report 2026-W19 covered 2026-05-04 through 2026-05-11, with GitHub activity concentrated in openclaw/openclaw and Discord activity mostly in #maintainers and #clawtributors.
Hard Numbers

Activity Mix

codex summaries / 7 daily reports / 19 Discord mapping gaps
Commit Search Hits
3830
Issue/PR comments
0
PR review comments
0
Discord messages
4669
Releases

Release Signals In This Window

12 active repos matched ReleaseBar for Weekly Report 2026-W19
Tracked active repos
12
Latest releases in window
0
Latest repo updates in window
0
No release recorded
2
Maintainers

People With Access

showing 45 of 45 active
@steipete
Peter Steinberger
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff adminsecurityrelease
openclaw: 1865Peekaboo: 340crabbox: 110fs-safe: 85 #maintainers: 517#clawtributors: 162#maintainer-security-ops: 2 owns: Core platform, daemon, agentsowns: Internal tools

Very high visible activity: 2,881 GitHub events, including 2,408 commits, 122 PRs opened, and 342 merged, mostly in openclaw/openclaw with additional work in Peekaboo, crabbox, fs-safe, and wacli. Focus areas included Codex app-server protocol sync, stale Responses replay state, package update overlays, and bundled plugin provider allowlists, with 682 Discord messages mostly in #maintainers and #clawtributors.

GitHub2881
Commit Search Hits2408
PRs473
Issues0
Discord682
@vincentkoc
Vincent Koc
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff securityrelease
openclaw: 327crabbox: 68graincrawl: 24crawlkit: 23 #maintainers: 616#clawtributors: 17#maintainer-security-ops: 13 owns: Core platform, daemon, agentsowns: Internal toolsowns: Observability, Diag and Telemetryowns: Plugins

High visible activity: 541 GitHub events across openclaw/openclaw, crabbox, graincrawl, crawlkit, and gitcrawl, including 358 commits, 78 PRs opened, and 91 merged. Work centered on Telegram media placeholders, plugin runtime deps and recovery, doctor repairs, and package-manager upgrade fallout, alongside 653 Discord messages mainly in #maintainers with some security-ops discussion.

GitHub541
Commit Search Hits358
PRs182
Issues1
Discord653
@shakkernerd
Gideon Adegbesan
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff
openclaw: 689Kova: 37clickclack: 31 #maintainers: 254#clawtributors: 8#maintainer-offtopic: 2

High code activity with 757 GitHub events, including 742 commits and 7 merged PRs, mostly in openclaw/openclaw plus Kova and clickclack. The visible item list is Kova-heavy, focused on splitting CLI command handlers, extracting matrix run/plan commands, registry context loading, matrix expansion, and profile gate coverage; Discord activity was 264 messages, mostly #maintainers.

GitHub757
Commit Search Hits742
PRs15
Issues0
Discord264
@obviyus
Ayaan Zaidi
AI startup in pharma drug discovery
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 127clawsweeper: 6crabbox: 1openclaw-rtt: 1 #maintainers: 187#clawtributors: 62#maintainer-offtopic: 8 owns: Channel Telegram

Visible activity included 135 GitHub events, 64 commits, 19 PRs opened, and 51 merged, concentrated in openclaw/openclaw with smaller clawsweeper, crabbox, and openclaw-rtt touches. Focus areas included agents transcript persistence, CLI subprocess timeout copy, postinstall compile-cache warnings, embed reply handling, memory-core daily ingestion, and doctor device-token advice, plus 257 Discord messages across #maintainers and #clawtributors.

GitHub135
Commit Search Hits64
PRs71
Issues0
Discord257
@pash-openai
Nik Pash
GitHub: @pash-openai / @pashpashpash
OpenAI
Core Staff
openclaw: 36clawsweeper: 11 #maintainers: 163#clawtributors: 42 owns: Codex

Visible activity included 47 GitHub events across openclaw/openclaw and clawsweeper, with 14 commits, 13 PRs opened, and 17 merged. Focus areas were Codex harness control surfaces, live dev agent behavior, and real behavior proof requirements in PR reviews, with 205 Discord messages mostly in #maintainers and #clawtributors.

GitHub47
Commit Search Hits14
PRs32
Issues1
Discord205
@Patrick-Erichsen
Patrick Erichsen
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff release
clawhub: 65openclaw: 22clawhub-security: 5clawsweeper: 4 #maintainers: 103#clawtributors: 3 owns: ClawHub

Visible activity included 99 GitHub events, 26 commits, 32 PRs opened, and 35 merged across clawhub, openclaw, clawhub-security, clawsweeper, and maintainers. Work touched external updater execution, externalized channel plugin install hints, clawsweeper close-comment fix links, and a security benchmark review workflow, with 106 Discord messages mostly in #maintainers.

GitHub99
Commit Search Hits26
PRs72
Issues1
Discord106
@jesse-merhi
Jesse Merhi
Atlassian
Core Staff security
openclaw: 19fs-safe: 13 #maintainers: 101#maintainer-security-ops: 8#maintainer-meetups: 2

Visible activity included 32 GitHub events, 18 commits, 7 PRs opened, and 4 merged across openclaw and fs-safe. Focus areas included debug proxy CONNECT handling, APNs HTTP2 proxying, bounded filesystem operations, and fs-safe bypass parity/boundary tests, with 111 Discord messages including #maintainers and #maintainer-security-ops.

GitHub32
Commit Search Hits18
PRs14
Issues0
Discord111
@BunsDev
Val Alexander
Independent DevRel / builder
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 95clickclack: 2 #maintainers: 19#clawtributors: 5

Visible activity included 97 GitHub events, 20 commits, 29 PRs opened, and 47 merged, almost entirely in openclaw/openclaw. Focus areas included dashboard token-auth guidance, Telegram previews, Control UI action feedback, stale Codex auth profile routing, responsive chat controls, and i18n tooltip placeholders, plus 24 Discord messages mostly in #maintainers.

GitHub97
Commit Search Hits20
PRs77
Issues0
Discord24
@omarshahine
Omar Shahine
Microsoft
Core Staff
openclaw-facetime: 28openclaw: 27imsg: 14 #maintainers: 48

Visible activity included 69 GitHub events, 34 commits, 6 issues opened, 5 closed, 10 PRs opened, and 9 merged across openclaw-facetime, openclaw, and imsg. Work focused on BlueBubbles typing cleanup and imsg bridge/macOS 26 regressions around typing/read RPC, effects, attachment registration, and send-attachment staging, with 48 Discord messages in #maintainers.

GitHub69
Commit Search Hits34
PRs24
Issues11
Discord48
@scoootscooob
Scott Fan
Paradigm
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 21clawbench: 6 #maintainers: 72#maintainer-offtopic: 6#clawtributors: 4

Visible activity included 27 GitHub events, 7 commits, 9 PRs opened, and 11 merged across openclaw/openclaw and clawbench. Focus areas included OpenClaw run lifecycle waits, doctor group config drift migrations, Gemini realtime voice parity for Twilio Meet joins, WhatsApp visible reply mode, and clawbench queue/config isolation, with 82 Discord messages mostly in #maintainers.

GitHub27
Commit Search Hits7
PRs20
Issues0
Discord82
@joshavant
Josh Avant
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff security
openclaw: 23gogcli: 2 #maintainers: 69#maintainer-offtopic: 6#maintainer-security-ops: 3 owns: Security

Visible activity included 25 GitHub events, 2 commits, 10 PRs opened, 10 merged, and 1 issue closed across openclaw/openclaw and gogcli. Work touched gogcli source-build module versioning, auth profile key refs during provider scrub, optional plugin startup resilience, and live exec output bounding, with 78 Discord messages across #maintainers, #maintainer-offtopic, and #maintainer-security-ops.

GitHub25
Commit Search Hits2
PRs22
Issues1
Discord78
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff adminsecurityrelease
clickclack: 2 #maintainers: 73#clawtributors: 14#maintainer-offtopic: 4

Visible GitHub activity was limited to 2 events in clickclack around a closed PR for per-user Pushover notifications. Discord activity was higher, with 91 messages across #maintainers, #clawtributors, and #maintainer-offtopic, including discussion of an openclaw PR and maintainer coordination.

GitHub2
Commit Search Hits0
PRs2
Issues0
Discord91
@kevinslin
Kevin Lin
GitHub: @kevinlin-openai / @kevinslin
OpenAI
Core Staff
openclaw: 41 #maintainers: 46

Visible activity included 41 GitHub events in openclaw/openclaw, with 8 commits, 13 PRs opened, and 14 merged. Focus areas included Slack onboarding channel smoke tests, cron run diagnostics, orphaned child process cleanup, and Codex skill migration selection, with 46 Discord messages in #maintainers around Codex skills and end-to-end coverage.

GitHub41
Commit Search Hits8
PRs33
Issues0
Discord46
@joshp123
Josh Palmer
Anonymous streaming employer dispute
Community Maintainer
nix-openclaw: 46openclaw: 6nix-openclaw-tools: 5 #maintainers: 19

Visible activity included 57 GitHub events, 52 commits, 1 PR opened, 2 merged, and 1 issue closed across nix-openclaw, openclaw, and nix-openclaw-tools. Work focused on Nix-native workspace bootstrap, immutable OpenClaw config, QMD bundling, public-surface hardlinks, and release pin separation, with 19 Discord messages in #maintainers.

GitHub57
Commit Search Hits52
PRs4
Issues1
Discord19
@sallyom
Sally O'Malley
Red Hat
Core Staff
openclaw: 32clawbench: 1 #maintainers: 17#maintainer-offtopic: 10

Visible activity included 33 GitHub events, 5 commits, 12 PRs opened, and 15 merged, mostly in openclaw/openclaw with one clawbench item. Focus areas included OpenRouter DeepSeek reasoning effort, gateway-token doctor warnings, sandbox skill prompt rebuilds, k8s docs/manifests for clawbench, and a basic-ftp dependency bump, plus 27 Discord messages across #maintainers and #maintainer-offtopic.

GitHub33
Commit Search Hits5
PRs28
Issues0
Discord27
@jalehman
Josh Lehman
Martian Engineering
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 12 #maintainers: 40#maintainer-offtopic: 4

Visible activity included 12 GitHub events in openclaw/openclaw, with 4 commits and 8 merged PRs. Work centered on plugin SDK session extension slots, finalize retry/run cleanup, runtime prompt context handling, stale source plugin shadow tests, changelog restoration, and VSCode debugging support, with 44 Discord messages mostly in #maintainers.

GitHub12
Commit Search Hits4
PRs8
Issues0
Discord44
@ngutman
Nimrod Gutman
Singular
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 4 #maintainers: 39#maintainer-offtopic: 5

Visible activity included 4 GitHub events in openclaw/openclaw, with 2 commits, 1 PR opened, and 1 merged. Work focused on iOS rotated gateway certificate recovery and related changelog documentation, with 44 Discord messages across #maintainers and #maintainer-offtopic.

GitHub4
Commit Search Hits2
PRs2
Issues0
Discord44
@amknight
Alex Knight
Atlassian
Core Staff
openclaw: 39 #maintainers: 4 supports: Automation, hooks & jobs (cron)supports: Interfaces (CLI, TUI, Web UI)

Visible activity included 39 GitHub events in openclaw/openclaw, with 12 commits, 12 PRs opened, and 15 merged. Focus areas included gateway server shard stabilization, plugin-state registerIfAbsent storage, session_status live-run resolution, cron restricted self-introspection, and discussion of ACP/session coverage in 4 #maintainers messages.

GitHub39
Commit Search Hits12
PRs27
Issues0
Discord4
@pgondhi987
Pavan Kumar Gondhi
NVIDIA
Core Staff security
openclaw: 36 #maintainers: 2

Visible activity included 36 GitHub events in openclaw/openclaw, with 13 commits, 6 PRs opened, and 16 merged. Work was security-leaning, including websocket auth scope clamping, startup name matching, device-pair pairing scope, QQBot command authorization, and backend message action gateway routing, with 2 Discord messages in #maintainers.

GitHub36
Commit Search Hits13
PRs23
Issues0
Discord2
@mcaxtr
Marcus Castro
Unnamed American company
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 9 #maintainers: 14#maintainer-offtopic: 6

Visible activity included 9 GitHub events in openclaw/openclaw, with 2 commits, 1 PR opened, and 5 merged. Focus areas included reply-path runtime surface reuse, prepared runtime foundation, WhatsApp captioned media auto-reply dedupe, PN-to-LID forwarding, and outbound echo handling, with 20 Discord messages across #maintainers and #maintainer-offtopic.

GitHub9
Commit Search Hits2
PRs7
Issues0
Discord20
@odysseus0
George Zhang
Stealth startup
Community Maintainer
crabpot: 4openclaw: 3 #maintainers: 20

Visible activity included 7 GitHub events across crabpot and openclaw, with 2 commits, 1 PR opened, and 4 merged. Work touched Weixin catalog discovery fixtures, channel catalog install-record forwarding, raw reasoning stream preservation, and abort-path session lock release, with 20 Discord messages in #maintainers around crabpot and WeChat plugin context.

GitHub7
Commit Search Hits2
PRs5
Issues0
Discord20
@mbelinky
Mariano Belinky
Regenerative agriculture farm / asset management setup
Community Maintainer
spogo: 1 #maintainers: 21

Visible GitHub activity was limited to 1 closed spogo PR around connect status metadata and device UX. Discord activity included 21 #maintainers messages, mainly asking for debug guidance and next steps from the provided snippets.

GitHub1
Commit Search Hits0
PRs1
Issues0
Discord21
@shanselman
Scott Hanselman
Microsoft
Core Staff
openclaw-windows-node: 20 #maintainers: 1

Visible activity included 20 GitHub events in openclaw-windows-node, with 12 commits and 8 merged PRs. Work focused on Windows companion parity and UI polish, including titlebar standardization, reload accessibility, tray menu DPI sizing, popup chat focus, and agent events UI cleanup/redesign; Discord activity was 1 #maintainers message about windows-node direction.

GitHub20
Commit Search Hits12
PRs8
Issues0
Discord1
@drobison00
Devin Robison
NVIDIA
Core Staff security
openclaw: 19

Visible activity included 19 GitHub events in openclaw/openclaw, with 5 commits, 4 PRs opened, and 10 merged. Work focused on Windows and security hardening: command wrapper resolution, current browser tab exports, update environment path resolution, trusted browser helper roots, QQBot command authorization, and blocking sensitive Windows env overrides; no Discord activity was visible.

GitHub19
Commit Search Hits5
PRs14
Issues0
Discord0
@sliverp
Yuehua Li
Tencent
Core Staff
openclaw: 7 #maintainers: 12

Visible activity included 7 GitHub events in openclaw/openclaw, with 3 commits, 1 PR opened, and 3 merged. Focus areas included onboard recovery for externalized channel plugins, channels list behavior, bundled/catalog channel visibility, and Yuanbao channel plugin version updates, with 12 Discord messages in #maintainers.

GitHub7
Commit Search Hits3
PRs4
Issues0
Discord12
@sjf
Sarah Fortune
GitHub: @sjf / @sjf-oa
OpenAI
Core Staff
fs-safe: 9openclaw: 6

Visible activity included 15 GitHub events across fs-safe and openclaw, with 6 commits, 4 PRs opened, and 4 merged. Work included Slack QA setup instructions, shell completion profile guards, fs-safe workspace package metadata, and symlink-swap hardening for file store writes; no Discord activity was visible.

GitHub15
Commit Search Hits6
PRs9
Issues0
Discord0
@RomneyDa
Dallin Romney
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff
openclaw: 9gitcrawl: 1 #maintainers: 4

Visible activity included 10 GitHub events across openclaw and gitcrawl, with 3 commits, 3 PRs opened, 3 merged, and 1 issue closed. Focus areas included durable session delivery, TUI code span/identifier preservation, aborting runs during pre-event waits, and plugin source-only package warnings, with 4 Discord messages in #maintainers.

GitHub10
Commit Search Hits3
PRs6
Issues1
Discord4
@hxy91819
Mason Huang
Tencent
Core Staff security
openclaw: 8 #maintainer-security-ops: 4#maintainers: 2

Visible activity included 8 GitHub events in openclaw/openclaw, with 2 commits, 2 PRs opened, and 4 merged. Work focused on temp-dir cleanup in scripts/update tests, safe CLI model ref canonicalization, and Feishu group_topic reply behavior, with 6 Discord messages split between #maintainers and #maintainer-security-ops.

GitHub8
Commit Search Hits2
PRs6
Issues0
Discord6
@velvet-shark
Radek Sienkiewicz
Consulting / DevRel
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 6 #maintainers: 8

Visible activity included 6 GitHub events in openclaw/openclaw, with 1 commit, 1 PR opened, and 4 merged. Focus areas included webchat reset behavior, WhatsApp repeated tool preambles and audio transcript routing, plus Slack interactive reply wakeups, with 8 Discord messages in #maintainers.

GitHub6
Commit Search Hits1
PRs5
Issues0
Discord8
@jacobtomlinson
Jacob Tomlinson
NVIDIA
Core Staff security
openclaw: 4 #maintainers: 8#maintainer-security-ops: 1

Visible activity included 4 GitHub events in openclaw/openclaw, with 1 commit, 1 issue opened, 1 PR opened, and 1 merged. Work centered on Mattermost setup URL collection and a local user sandbox backend feature issue, with 9 Discord messages across #maintainers and #maintainer-security-ops.

GitHub4
Commit Search Hits1
PRs2
Issues1
Discord9
@bek91
Bek Akhmedov
Mochary Method; GitHub profile also lists Unblock Labs
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 9 #maintainers: 1

Visible activity included 9 GitHub events in openclaw/openclaw, with 1 issue opened, 4 PRs opened, and 3 merged. Work focused on Slack thread/session behavior: message_sent hook correlation, mention-gating participation, resumed sends staying in thread, thread-session docs, implicit conversation routing, and DM delivery mirror session splitting; Discord activity was 1 #maintainers message requesting review.

GitHub9
Commit Search Hits0
PRs8
Issues1
Discord1
@galiniliev
Galin Iliev
Microsoft
Core Staff
#maintainers: 10

No visible GitHub activity in the provided window. Discord activity included 10 #maintainers messages, including GitHub Actions/Molty discussion and review coordination around an openclaw PR path unification scheme.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord10
@Evizero
Christof Salis
VertifyMed
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 3 #maintainers: 3#maintainer-offtopic: 2

Visible activity included 3 GitHub events in openclaw/openclaw, with 1 commit, 1 PR opened, and 1 merged. Work focused on clearing reset skills snapshots, with 5 Discord messages across #maintainers and #maintainer-offtopic including stale skill-list discussion.

GitHub3
Commit Search Hits1
PRs2
Issues0
Discord5
@momothemage
Zhengnan Niu
Tencent
Core Staff
clawhub: 5openclaw: 2

Visible activity included 7 GitHub events across clawhub and openclaw, with 1 commit, 2 PRs opened, and 4 merged. Work focused on ClawHub slug validation, skill publishing owner migration, moderator-hidden skill undelete protection, suspicious search result disclosure, and an openclaw maintainer-add PR; no Discord activity was visible.

GitHub7
Commit Search Hits1
PRs6
Issues0
Discord0
@huntharo
Harold Hunt
GIPHY / PwrDrvr LLC
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 1Tachikoma: 1 #maintainers: 1

Visible GitHub activity was limited to 2 closed items across openclaw/openclaw and Tachikoma, covering current MCP tool content resources and xAI auth/configure UX. Discord activity was 1 #maintainers message about a generic message bus in another project and possible OpenClaw applicability.

GitHub2
Commit Search Hits0
PRs2
Issues0
Discord1
@Takhoffman
Tak Hoffman
Unnamed .NET employer
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 3

Visible activity included 3 GitHub events in openclaw/openclaw, with 1 commit and 2 merged PRs. Work focused on active-memory behavior, including graceful sub-agent skipping when no memory tools are registered and support for custom recall tools; no Discord activity was visible.

GitHub3
Commit Search Hits1
PRs2
Issues0
Discord0
@vignesh07
Vignesh Natarajan
Snowflake
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 3

No visible GitHub activity in the provided window. Discord activity included 3 #maintainers messages on general OpenClaw instance/model/account discussion.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord3
@davemorin
Dave Morin
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff admin
openclaw: 2

Visible activity was limited to 2 GitHub events in openclaw/openclaw: 1 PR opened and 1 merged for simplifying the TUI stale response notice. No Discord activity was visible.

GitHub2
Commit Search Hits0
PRs2
Issues0
Discord0
@giodl73-repo
Gio Della-Libera
Microsoft
Core Staff
openclaw: 2

Visible activity was limited to 2 GitHub events in openclaw/openclaw for a closed PR titled "Oc-path: add document API seam." No Discord activity was visible.

GitHub2
Commit Search Hits0
PRs2
Issues0
Discord0
@gumadeiras
Gustavo Madeira Santana
Yale University
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 2

No visible GitHub activity in the provided window. Discord activity included 2 #maintainers messages, from the snippets about testing from a Mac Studio and model selection.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord2
@onutc
Onur Solmaz
GitHub: @onutc / @osolmaz
Hugging Face
Core Staff
#maintainer-meetups: 2 owns: Local Models

No visible GitHub activity in the provided window. Discord activity included 2 #maintainer-meetups messages about AI Engineer Singapore dates and extra tickets.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord2
@eleqtrizit
Agustin Rivera
NVIDIA
Core Staff security
openclaw: 1

Visible activity was limited to 1 commit/event in openclaw/openclaw: "Guard current browser tab exports (#75731)." No Discord activity was visible.

GitHub1
Commit Search Hits1
PRs0
Issues0
Discord0
@visionik
Jonathan Taylor
PhotoDay / Sighthound / Deft; contractor for NASA/SpaceX/Blue Origin via Mars Scientific
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 1

No visible GitHub activity in the provided window. Discord activity was limited to 1 #maintainers message.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord1
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