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OpenClaw's maintainers now ask for agent transcripts instead of counting contributions
GitHub profiled the project on 2026-08-27 at roughly 388,000 stars, 81,000 forks and over 80,000 commits, grown from a weekend project Peter Steinberger started in November 2025. Contributors were duplicating pull requests to manufacture credibility, which forced the team to stop treating contribution counts as a trust signal and start requiring agent transcripts, screenshots and testing evidence with each PR. Their stated rule is that nobody cares whether you wrote the code, only whether you thought about the feature; they also audited and reduced core dependencies after supply-chain concerns.
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