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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

2h ago

2026-04-28

PUBLISHED

2h ago

2026-04-28

RELEVANCE

8/ 10

AUTHOR

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