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 11-17, 2026
As of
Active
41/45
24 Core Staff / 17 Community
GitHub Events
7431
maintainer + non-maintainer
Discord
5840
messages
PRs Opened
1217
1013 merged
Issues
151
81 closed
Repos
44
active in shown list
Overview

Global Summary

Codex synthesis
  • Weekly window: 2026-05-11 to 2026-05-18, with 3,768 GitHub commits, 1,217 PRs opened, 1,013 PRs merged, and 5,840 Discord messages across maintainer and contributor channels.
  • Most visible GitHub activity concentrated in openclaw/openclaw, with notable adjacent work in clawpatch, gitcrawl, crabbox, clickclack, clawhub, clawsweeper, crabpot, openclaw-windows-node, and maintainer tooling.
  • Discord activity centered on maintainers and clawtributors, with security-ops also visible for dependency, GHSA, redaction, and release-safety work.
Hard Numbers

Activity Mix

codex summaries / 7 daily reports / 20 Discord mapping gaps
Commit Search Hits
3768
Issue/PR comments
0
PR review comments
0
Discord messages
5840
Releases

Release Signals In This Window

12 active repos matched ReleaseBar for Weekly Report 2026-W20
Tracked active repos
12
Latest releases in window
0
Latest repo updates in window
0
No release recorded
3
Maintainers

People With Access

showing 41 of 41 active
@steipete
Peter Steinberger
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff adminsecurityrelease
openclaw: 2026clawpatch: 133gitcrawl: 131crabbox: 124 #maintainers: 369#clawtributors: 336#maintainer-security-ops: 5 owns: Core platform, daemon, agentsowns: Internal tools

Peter had very high visible activity, led by 2,278 commits, 186 PRs opened, and 467 merged PRs, mostly in openclaw/openclaw with additional work in clawpatch, gitcrawl, crabbox, and clickclack. Focus areas included readability lint cleanup, gateway systemd provenance, auto-reply context, browser CDP target filtering, gateway inflight deduplication, and subagent docs, alongside heavy maintainers/clawtributors Discord coordination including CI reliability and PR direction.

GitHub2944
Commit Search Hits2278
PRs659
Issues7
Discord714
@shakkernerd
Gideon Adegbesan
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff
openclaw: 730Kova: 56clickclack: 11 #maintainers: 212#clawtributors: 39#maintainer-offtopic: 8

Gideon showed substantial GitHub activity with 785 commits, mainly in openclaw/openclaw plus Kova and clickclack. Work focused on clickclack chat navigation and storage/privacy plus OpenClaw test specifications for googlechat capability proof, prometheus startup events, nested skill discovery, and oc-path diagnostics; Discord activity was mostly maintainer-channel discussion.

GitHub797
Commit Search Hits785
PRs12
Issues0
Discord259
@vincentkoc
Vincent Koc
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff securityrelease
openclaw: 235crabbox: 101openclaw-rtt: 51crabpot: 19 #maintainers: 337#clawtributors: 15#maintainer-offtopic: 4 owns: Core platform, daemon, agentsowns: Internal toolsowns: Observability, Diag and Telemetryowns: Plugins

Vincent had broad activity across openclaw/openclaw, crabbox, openclaw-rtt, crabpot, and docs, with 352 commits, 51 PRs opened, and 62 merged. Focus areas included dashboard lifecycle install behavior, upstream plugin updates, root-managed VPS upgrade coverage, plugin peer pruning, and release/lockfile/dependency coordination in maintainers and security-ops.

GitHub473
Commit Search Hits352
PRs120
Issues1
Discord358
@obviyus
Ayaan Zaidi
AI startup in pharma drug discovery
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 123openclaw-rtt: 14crabbox: 1 #maintainers: 262#clawtributors: 84#maintainer-offtopic: 2 owns: Channel Telegram

Ayaan was active mainly in openclaw/openclaw, with 67 commits, 24 PRs opened, and 45 merged. The work clustered around Telegram behavior and docs, including thinking status defaults, edited-message and legacy cache handling, group ID clarification, plus browser screenshot extension handling and Mantis home creation; Discord activity included contributor triage and upgrade/day-to-day testing asks.

GitHub138
Commit Search Hits67
PRs71
Issues0
Discord348
@pash-openai
Nik Pash
GitHub: @pash-openai / @pashpashpash
OpenAI
Core Staff
openclaw: 31 #maintainers: 258#clawtributors: 192 owns: Codex

Nik’s visible GitHub work was focused in openclaw/openclaw, with 12 PRs opened and 13 merged around OpenAI/Codex auth and media behavior. Items included ChatGPT-default OpenAI auth login, Codex subscription reset-time errors, media tools backed by auth profiles, and message tool delivery hints, with substantial maintainers and clawtributors discussion around onboarding and merge readiness.

GitHub31
Commit Search Hits5
PRs26
Issues0
Discord450
@joshavant
Josh Avant
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff security
openclaw: 116 #maintainers: 128#clawtributors: 8#maintainer-security-ops: 7 owns: Security

Josh had 116 GitHub actions in openclaw/openclaw, including 44 PRs opened and 43 merged, focused on dependency release safety, Discord thread sending, Ollama doctor migration, Telegram polling lease cleanup, and heartbeat fallback delivery. Discord activity covered maintainers, clawtributors, and security-ops, including upstream codex-acp coordination and PR review discussion.

GitHub116
Commit Search Hits26
PRs90
Issues0
Discord148
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff adminsecurityrelease
hermit: 6openclaw-rtt: 2community: 1 #maintainers: 106#clawtributors: 42#maintainer-offtopic: 7

Shadow had lighter GitHub activity across hermit, openclaw-rtt, and community, with 7 commits and one merged PR. Work focused on moderation say snippets, accepted clawtributor announcements, showcase promotion rules, claim review history, Durable Object migration, and claim review settings, with Discord activity mostly in maintainers and clawtributors around PR presentation and moderation context.

GitHub9
Commit Search Hits7
PRs2
Issues0
Discord161
@Patrick-Erichsen
Patrick Erichsen
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff release
clawhub: 97openclaw: 3clawhub-security: 1 #maintainers: 40#clawtributors: 5#maintainer-security-ops: 4 owns: ClawHub

Patrick’s work was concentrated in openclaw/clawhub, with 26 commits, 32 PRs opened, and 42 merged. Focus areas included skill summary/settings copy, pre-PR validation docs, full skill descriptions, summary clamping, dashboard artifact polish, and related maintainer/clawtributor coordination on review backlog and prioritization.

GitHub101
Commit Search Hits26
PRs75
Issues0
Discord52
@kevinslin
Kevin Lin
GitHub: @kevinlin-openai / @kevinslin
OpenAI
Core Staff
openclaw: 43clawsweeper: 3docs: 1 #maintainers: 83#clawtributors: 18#maintainer-lounge: 1

Kevin worked primarily in openclaw/openclaw, with 15 commits, 12 PRs opened, and 17 merged. Activity focused on Codex plugin approval defaults, core test stabilization, tools automation docs reorganization, refactor docs skills, connector app approval matching, and plugin read-tool auto-approval, with maintainer-channel discussion around docs organization and Codex jobs.

GitHub47
Commit Search Hits15
PRs32
Issues0
Discord103
@jesse-merhi
Jesse Merhi
Atlassian
Core Staff security
openclaw: 14proxyline: 5clawhub: 4 #maintainers: 84#maintainer-security-ops: 7#clawtributors: 6

Jesse had focused activity across openclaw/openclaw, proxyline, and clawhub, with 8 commits and 7 merged PRs. Work centered on command approval highlighting, including disabling non-POSIX highlights, making exec highlighting optional, documenting fallback behavior, skipping Windows gateway command spans, and aligning test mocks; Discord activity was mostly maintainer and screenshot/tooling discussion.

GitHub23
Commit Search Hits8
PRs15
Issues0
Discord97
@pgondhi987
Pavan Kumar Gondhi
NVIDIA
Core Staff security
openclaw: 107 #maintainer-security-ops: 4

Pavan had 107 GitHub actions in openclaw/openclaw, including 39 commits and 41 merged PRs, with security-heavy items. Work focused on secret payload redaction, Matrix allowlist hardening, safe-bin argument validation, plugin runtime entry scanning, browser CDP relay auth, and carried exec command detection; Discord activity was entirely in security-ops and referenced advisory fixes and cherry-pick candidates.

GitHub107
Commit Search Hits39
PRs68
Issues0
Discord4
@shanselman
Scott Hanselman
Microsoft
Core Staff
openclaw-windows-node: 87 #maintainers: 9

Scott’s visible GitHub activity was entirely in openclaw/openclaw-windows-node, with 33 commits and 50 merged PRs. Focus areas included repository artifact hygiene, usage toggle and Fluent SelectorBar redesign, native WinUI chat, ExecApprovalsStore read paths, AppContainer sandboxing for system.run, sandbox settings, and gateway auto-reconnect; maintainer Discord snippets centered on Windows ARM, WSL, and related release/runtime context.

GitHub87
Commit Search Hits33
PRs54
Issues0
Discord9
@giodl73-repo
Gio Della-Libera
Microsoft
Core Staff
openclaw: 88

Gio had 88 GitHub actions in openclaw/openclaw, including 24 commits, 2 issues opened, 19 PRs opened, and 30 merged. Work focused on config dry-run/unset behavior, wildcard self-hosted provider discovery, doctor archive handling, plugin channel schema use, persisted config write responses, and Discord unresolved token-ref startup reporting; no Discord activity was visible in the evidence.

GitHub88
Commit Search Hits24
PRs62
Issues2
Discord0
@BunsDev
Val Alexander
Independent DevRel / builder
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 68clawhub: 1 #maintainers: 6#maintainer-lounge: 4#maintainer-security-ops: 4

Val worked mostly in openclaw/openclaw with one clawhub item, totaling 13 commits, 21 PRs opened, and 30 merged. Focus areas included iOS operator bootstrap diagnostics, secret-bearing Mantis CI fork protection, localized chat panel strings, responsive control-ui channel statuses, ClawHub settings redesign, and static mount fallback; Discord activity included security-ops handoff process notes and maintainer-channel product/runtime observations.

GitHub69
Commit Search Hits13
PRs54
Issues2
Discord16
@mbelinky
Mariano Belinky
Regenerative agriculture farm / asset management setup
Community Maintainer
clawpatch: 8openclaw: 6 #maintainers: 54#maintainer-offtopic: 1

Mariano had activity in clawpatch and openclaw, with 5 commits, 6 PRs opened, and 3 merged. Work focused on Codex subagent task registry mirroring, quiet completed app-server turns, CLI session binding from nodes, post-tool watchdog behavior, and JVM role mapping in clawpatch, with maintainer Discord coordination around testing credentials and merge SHA follow-up.

GitHub14
Commit Search Hits5
PRs9
Issues0
Discord55
@Takhoffman
Tak Hoffman
Unnamed .NET employer
Community Maintainer
clawsweeper: 49openclaw: 11 #maintainers: 9

Tak’s activity was mostly in openclaw/clawsweeper, with 20 commits, 20 PRs opened, and 19 merged. Work centered on ClawSweeper triage priority labels and GitHub label description limits, with some openclaw activity; maintainer Discord discussion focused on issue triage, model/harness diagnosis, and a recently merged related PR.

GitHub60
Commit Search Hits20
PRs40
Issues0
Discord9
@hxy91819
Mason Huang
Tencent
Core Staff security
openclaw: 12maintainers: 9clawsweeper: 6discrawl: 2 #maintainers: 14#clawtributors: 5#maintainer-security-ops: 5

Mason worked across openclaw/openclaw, maintainers, clawsweeper, and discrawl, with 9 commits and 8 merged PRs. Focus areas included transcript append redaction, large SQLite snapshot import memory bounds, changelog crediting, config meta path rejection, and maintainer/security-ops coordination around conflicted security fixes and landing replacement PRs.

GitHub29
Commit Search Hits9
PRs20
Issues0
Discord26
@sjf
Sarah Fortune
GitHub: @sjf / @sjf-oa
OpenAI
Core Staff
openclaw: 51

Sarah had 51 GitHub actions in openclaw/openclaw, including 9 commits, 20 PRs opened, and 19 merged. Work focused on shell completion source-line guard behavior, portable provider-http test-helper exports, Discord model picker runtime simplification, and Codex tool-dispatch instructions for GPT-5-family models; no Discord activity was visible in the evidence.

GitHub51
Commit Search Hits9
PRs42
Issues0
Discord0
@jalehman
Josh Lehman
Martian Engineering
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 28 #maintainers: 17#clawtributors: 2#maintainer-lounge: 2

Josh had 28 GitHub actions in openclaw/openclaw, with 8 commits and 11 merged PRs. Work focused on Codex context engine projection, code-mode follow-up tool display and replay, Telegram verbose tool-result separation, and directory-backed session storage, with Discord discussion around claude-cli testing, Pi harness behavior, and tool search behavior.

GitHub28
Commit Search Hits8
PRs20
Issues0
Discord21
@scoootscooob
Scott Fan
Paradigm
Community Maintainer
clawbench: 4openclaw: 1 #maintainers: 33#maintainer-offtopic: 9#clawtributors: 1

Scott had light GitHub activity in clawbench and openclaw, with one commit and two merged PRs. Work focused on OpenClaw Codex OpenAI eval auth flow, public eval runtime hardening, and gateway startup auth preflight reuse, with maintainer Discord discussion around eval costs, partner keys, and related runtime coordination.

GitHub5
Commit Search Hits1
PRs4
Issues0
Discord43
@altaywtf
Altay
US-based fintech / put.io
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 20crabbox: 15 #maintainer-offtopic: 7#maintainers: 2#maintainer-security-ops: 1

Altay worked in openclaw/openclaw and crabbox, with 16 commits and 17 merged PRs. Focus areas included pnpm 11 follow-up surfaces, provider internal error handling, subagent heartbeat wake behavior, Slack timestamp bounds, stale plugin doctor config reporting, and ACP provider failover for unavailable errors, plus brief maintainer/security-ops Discord coordination.

GitHub35
Commit Search Hits16
PRs19
Issues0
Discord10
@galiniliev
Galin Iliev
Microsoft
Core Staff
openclaw: 26crabbox: 1 #maintainers: 12#clawtributors: 1

Galin worked mainly in openclaw/openclaw with one crabbox item, opening 4 issues and merging 10 PRs. Focus areas included Azure login and Windows sync, Azure OpenAI response stalls, split provider stream frame draining, ACP runtime metadata, chat bubble inline-code wrapping, and local transcript usage estimation, with maintainer Discord notes on Azure/Windows changes and stalled session investigation.

GitHub27
Commit Search Hits3
PRs20
Issues4
Discord13
@bek91
Bek Akhmedov
Mochary Method; GitHub profile also lists Unblock Labs
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 4 #maintainers: 29

Bek had light GitHub activity in openclaw/openclaw, with one PR opened and three merged. Work items covered Slack root-message threading, Slack socket-mode/troubleshooting/threading docs, and preserving pending subagent sessions during maintenance, with maintainer Discord discussion around behavior proof and session maintenance details.

GitHub4
Commit Search Hits0
PRs4
Issues0
Discord29
@mcaxtr
Marcus Castro
Unnamed American company
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 11 #maintainers: 17

Marcus worked in openclaw/openclaw, with 2 commits, 3 PRs opened, and 5 merged. Focus areas included WhatsApp watchdog disconnect handling, draining debounced inbound messages before close, allowFrom fallback transition work, group-prefixed WhatsApp targets, and document fallback extensions, with maintainer Discord notes about investigation and OOM kills.

GitHub11
Commit Search Hits2
PRs9
Issues0
Discord17
@sallyom
Sally O'Malley
Red Hat
Core Staff
openclaw: 11 #maintainers: 7#maintainer-offtopic: 4#maintainer-security-ops: 4

Sally had focused openclaw/openclaw activity, with 2 commits and 7 merged PRs. Work covered config-audit secret scrubbing, Dockerfile frontend pull avoidance, doctor migration preview behavior, explicit LLM idle-timeout errors, config-audit scrub rename guarding, and all-caps provider API keys, with security-ops discussion around redaction approach and race handling.

GitHub11
Commit Search Hits2
PRs9
Issues0
Discord16
@omarshahine
Omar Shahine
Microsoft
Core Staff
openclaw: 7imsg: 1 #maintainers: 5#maintainer-offtopic: 3#maintainer-lounge: 1

Omar had light activity across openclaw/openclaw and imsg, including one issue opened, one PR opened, and four merged PRs. Focus areas included iMessage threaded attachments, BlueBubbles-to-iMessage migration docs, inbound tapback reactions, channel status filtering, health probe failure reporting, and avoiding visible media placeholder text; Discord discussion included plugin SDK sharing and migration planning.

GitHub8
Commit Search Hits2
PRs5
Issues1
Discord9
@sliverp
Yuehua Li
Tencent
Core Staff
openclaw: 3 #maintainers: 12#maintainer-offtopic: 1

Yuehua had light openclaw/openclaw activity, with one commit, one PR opened, and one merged PR. Work focused on Yuanbao group-chat reply delivery mode and stripping response-only reasoning fields from OpenAI Completions requests, with maintainer Discord discussion around dynamically installed plugins, breaking changes, and release-time plugin inspection.

GitHub3
Commit Search Hits1
PRs2
Issues0
Discord13
@amknight
Alex Knight
Atlassian
Core Staff
openclaw: 12 #maintainers: 1 supports: Automation, hooks & jobs (cron)supports: Interfaces (CLI, TUI, Web UI)

Alex had 12 GitHub actions in openclaw/openclaw, with 5 commits and 6 PRs opened but no merged PRs in this window. Work items focused on OpenAI Codex auth ordering for explicit PI runs, Claude CLI runtime migration, Kimi Coding tool-call replay, and releasing embedded session write locks before model I/O; Discord activity was a single maintainer-channel catch-up message.

GitHub12
Commit Search Hits5
PRs7
Issues0
Discord1
@momothemage
Zhengnan Niu
Tencent
Core Staff
clawhub: 6 #maintainers: 6

Zhengnan’s visible GitHub work was in openclaw/clawhub, with one commit, two PRs opened, and three merged. Focus areas included search recall via full-text indexes, custom lucide icons for skill publishers, and package delete failures for capability-tagged packages, with maintainer Discord notes about search-prefix limitations and ongoing clawhub contributions.

GitHub6
Commit Search Hits1
PRs5
Issues0
Discord6
@ngutman
Nimrod Gutman
Singular
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 2 #maintainers: 9

Nimrod had one openclaw/openclaw PR opened and closed around WhatsApp upload-file media sends, with no commits or merges visible. Maintainer Discord activity discussed the WhatsApp media-send issue and clanker upgrade cleanup after an older OpenClaw install caused problems.

GitHub2
Commit Search Hits0
PRs2
Issues0
Discord9
@onutc
Onur Solmaz
GitHub: @onutc / @osolmaz
Hugging Face
Core Staff
maintainers: 4gitcrawl: 2openclaw: 2 #maintainers: 3 owns: Local Models

Onur had light activity across maintainers, gitcrawl, and openclaw, with one commit, two PRs opened, and three merged. Work focused on surfacing silent model fallback failures, maintainer account updates, testing CI policy docs, gitcrawl README formatting, and provider conversation state error classification, with Discord discussion around local model dogfooding and error display for misconfigured channels or corrupted sessions.

GitHub8
Commit Search Hits1
PRs7
Issues0
Discord3
@joshp123
Josh Palmer
Anonymous streaming employer dispute
Community Maintainer
nix-openclaw: 2 #maintainers: 6

Josh had two commits in openclaw/nix-openclaw, focused on pinning OpenClaw stable with pnpm 11 and renaming the stable pin workflow. Discord activity in maintainers referenced updating nix-openclaw to the latest version after the pnpm bump.

GitHub2
Commit Search Hits2
PRs0
Issues0
Discord6
@eleqtrizit
Agustin Rivera
NVIDIA
Core Staff security
openclaw: 7

Agustin had light openclaw/openclaw activity, with 2 commits and 3 merged PRs. Work focused on gateway malformed request target rejection, canvas request URL validation, exec allowlist wildcard target normalization, and skill inline dispatch tool policy; no Discord activity was visible in the evidence.

GitHub7
Commit Search Hits2
PRs5
Issues0
Discord0
@velvet-shark
Radek Sienkiewicz
Consulting / DevRel
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 3 #maintainers: 4

Radek had light openclaw/openclaw activity, with one commit, one PR opened, and one merged PR. Work items included WhatsApp status reactions and emoji categories plus stabilizing a Codex hooks feature flag; Discord activity was limited to short maintainer-channel discussion around PR readiness and automation watching commits.

GitHub3
Commit Search Hits1
PRs2
Issues0
Discord4
@jacobtomlinson
Jacob Tomlinson
NVIDIA
Core Staff security
#maintainers: 5#maintainer-security-ops: 1

Jacob had no visible GitHub activity in the evidence, but had 6 Discord messages across maintainers and security-ops. The visible discussion touched GHSA triage automation delays, local classifier ideas for analysis, and brief maintainer-channel check-ins.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord6
@huntharo
Harold Hunt
GIPHY / PwrDrvr LLC
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 3

Harold had no commits, opened PRs, or merged PRs visible, but had three closed openclaw/openclaw items. Those items related to bundled extension linting, extension package root boundaries, and blocking legacy plugin SDK imports in xai; no Discord activity was visible in the evidence.

GitHub3
Commit Search Hits0
PRs3
Issues0
Discord0
@RomneyDa
Dallin Romney
OpenClaw Foundation
Core Staff
#maintainers: 2

Dallin had no visible GitHub activity in the evidence and 2 maintainer-channel Discord messages. The only provided snippet references ClawCon Shanghai, so no technical focus area is visible beyond that Discord context.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord2
@odysseus0
George Zhang
Stealth startup
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 2

George had no commits or PRs opened, with two merged openclaw/openclaw items visible. The items focused on native require fast path for Windows plugin-sdk root aliasing and adding isHeartbeat to gateway agent event broadcasts; no Discord activity was visible in the evidence.

GitHub2
Commit Search Hits0
PRs2
Issues0
Discord0
@vignesh07
Vignesh Natarajan
Snowflake
Community Maintainer
#maintainers: 2

Vignesh had no visible GitHub activity in the evidence and 2 maintainer-channel Discord messages. The snippets were brief coordination/reactivity notes, with no specific repo or technical focus area visible.

GitHub0
Commit Search Hits0
PRs0
Issues0
Discord2
@gumadeiras
Gustavo Madeira Santana
Yale University
Community Maintainer
openclaw: 1

Gustavo had no commits, opened PRs, or merged PRs visible, with one closed openclaw/openclaw item. The only listed item was a QA fix for mock-openai qa-channel regressions, and no Discord activity was visible in the evidence.

GitHub1
Commit Search Hits0
PRs1
Issues0
Discord0
@visionik
Jonathan Taylor
PhotoDay / Sighthound / Deft; contractor for NASA/SpaceX/Blue Origin via Mars Scientific
Community Maintainer
#maintainer-security-ops: 1

Jonathan had no visible GitHub activity in the evidence and one security-ops Discord message. The message discussed security posture, CI/local-machine upgrade questions, and a fast local scan script, but no repo activity was visible.

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

No visible activity

4 maintainers
  • @Evizero - Christof Salis
  • @davemorin - Dave Morin
  • @drobison00 - Devin Robison
  • @SidU - Sid Uppal