Build the thing that builds the thing | BRK245
Peter Steinberger explains how his team built an ecosystem of tooling to maintain OpenClaw faster and with more confidence, focusing on automation for issue review and resolution, maintainer dashboards that combine GitHub and Discord signals, and scaling testing and debugging workflows across platforms.
Overview
This Microsoft Build 2026 breakout (BRK245) covers how a maintainer-focused toolchain can improve the speed and reliability of open source maintenance work.
Scaling automation for issue review and resolution
- Approaches for regularly reviewing and resolving issues at scale.
- Emphasis on building confidence through repeatable processes and tooling.
Maintainer dashboards using GitHub and Discord data
- Building dashboards that integrate signals from:
- GitHub (issues and related project data)
- Discord (community discussion and support context)
- Using combined data to help maintainers prioritize and act on problems.
Crawl system for open source issue management
- Creating a crawl system to collect and organize data relevant to open source issue management.
- Distributing Discord crawl data via GitHub so maintainers can consume it in their existing workflows.
Release and maintenance dashboards
- Developing a “Release Bar” dashboard to track release readiness and maintenance status.
Expanding testing and debugging across platforms
- Expanding to cross-platform testing to catch OS-specific bugs.
- Adding VNC integration to enable:
- Full UI bug reproduction
- Remote debugging workflows
Q&A: ecosystem dependencies and interoperability
- Discussion on balancing ecosystem dependencies.
- Considerations around interoperability between tools and agent-like systems.