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// 45d agoOPENSOURCE RELEASE
OpenClaw releases ClawSweeper for autonomous GitHub maintenance
OpenClaw has launched ClawSweeper, a conservative AI bot powered by GPT-5.5 that autonomously reviews and closes stale or invalid GitHub issues. It uses a read-only, proposal-first workflow to safely manage the project's massive backlog without accidentally closing valid contributions.
// ANALYSIS
ClawSweeper proves that AI maintainers are most effective when they follow strict, auditable rules to handle community scale.
- –Built to handle OpenClaw's overwhelming backlog of 7,000+ issues following its rapid rise to 250,000 GitHub stars
- –Operates on a "propose, don't touch" model, writing auditable Markdown records before executing any closure
- –Employs strict closing criteria, targeting only issues that are already fixed, incoherent, or stale (60+ days)
- –Avoids modifying issues from core maintainers and verifies state via snapshot hashes to prevent race conditions
// TAGS
clawsweeperopen-sourceagentautomationdevtool
DISCOVERED
45d ago
2026-04-28
PUBLISHED
45d ago
2026-04-28
RELEVANCE
8/ 10
AUTHOR
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