Who Needs Discord? Organizing OpenClaw Agents in Telegram w/ Topics

How do you organize your OpenClaw agents

with Telegram groups? Morning everyone.

I'm Toby from Unchained Vibe Code where

I build in public with my OpenClaw

agents. In today's episode, we'll be

attempting to answer that question as

well as set up the group, give access to

my agents, and then organize tasks with

topics. As always, this is an

unpolished, lightly edited first take

attempt. So, mistakes will be made and

errors will be encountered, but we'll

figure them out and learn together.

Let's get started.

So, there was an update to OpenClaw

recently that allowed you to use

OpenClaw in Discord, which seemed like a

great idea. With the Discord channel or

Discord server, you could set up

different channels, different topics,

and it would be a lot easier to organize

than just having this one Telegram

ongoing conversation.

But there's a lot of people I know who

don't like to use Discord. It's a whole

another app you need to set up or used

to talking with our OpenClaw agents in

Telegram. And some people just prefer

Telegram, which similar to me. So I

wanted to know if I wanted to figure out

a way to organize my conversations with

my different OpenClaw agents in Telegram

instead of having to set up a whole

another server and figure things out in

Discord. So that's what we're going to

do today. It's going to be using

Telegram topics. So, we're going to set

up um a group, Telegram group, have

different servers, different channels

rather, for each of the topics to keep

our conversations organized and to keep

everything very manageable. Right now, I

just have this one long Telegram

message that includes a lot of different

random topics, different projects I'm

working on. Things can get very lost

very easily, so it'll be much easier to

organize it like this.

So, we're going to just start

Okay, let's get started. So, I'm just

going to walk you through this. I

haven't done this myself. This is

complete live look of what we need.

Okay, so step one, open Telegram, new

group, add yourself,

and then name it something. Enable

topics forum mode. Go to group edit. Tab

the toggle for topics. Okay, let's try

this.

Okay. So, we're going to call this

shrimp central for all of my open claw

agents are all shrimp.

Add your member at scampy.

I'm going to add shrimple here

and then just create the group. Now we

have shrimp central. So in the group

you go up here go manage group

and this is a new feature topics enable

topics. So you can choose here how you

want to do it. We're going to just do it

as tabs here.

Step three, you have to make your

openclaw agent an admin. Um add the

openclaw bot to the group. Go to

members, make it an admin with

permission to post messages and manage

topics.

So to create an admin, you just go down.

This is the same manage uh manage group.

You go down to administrators, add an

administrator. Let's add scampy.

And then let's add the other bot.

And there we go.

So, in order to get the ID you need for

your group, uh you need to go to this

user info bot on Telegram and then you

simply click my forum and select select

which form you have and it'll show your

ID and that's what you're going to use

for the allow list. Uh a certain thing

to note is that if you set it up as a

normal group first and then

uh convert it, you enable topics, it's

going to turn into a a super group or a

forum, then you're the ID is going to

change. So something to keep in mind, if

you just create the group and then catch

the the ID and then switch it to a forum

later, the ID is going to change. So

you're going to need to update that in

your the config for the open claw

agents. Once you have the ID, um you

need to change the config. You can try

to do it with your bot itself, but it's

kind of hit or miss depending on the

model and how you have it set up. But

the most sure way is to check in your

openclaw.json

file, which is the main config file.

Under Telegram, make sure group policy

is allow list and check your groups

which is and then under groups your

group chat ID which is what you got from

user infobot

and then allow from your telegram user

ID which is should already be set in the

config if you're using telegram

but you just need to set it here for the

group policy. So this way only you are

allowed to add it to groups and talk to

it in groups.

So in order to get telegram to send the

messages to the bot and connect it to

the group, you need to go in to

botfather which you use to originally

set up your open claw agent in telegram.

You go to bot settings group privacy and

then I've already disabled it but you

can if this is already turned on. If it

says enabled, you need to turn it off.

The telegram will allow group

um group usage for your open claw agent.

But there's not a security issue because

we have the allow list issue.

Yeah. So botfather controls what

messages telegram even sends to your

bot. And then on the open claw side, it

controls what openclaw can do with

messages. So you need both of these

conditions. You need the botfather uh

group privacy off so that it can receive

messages from telegram. And then you

need to make sure that in open claw the

config is correct so that you're on the

allow list and you can actually send

messages in your group.

Okay, so we got both of my bots. You can

add as many as you want. I only have two

right now. I might add more later, but

let's try to set up this uh this group.

So I'm not going to set up the topics.

I'm just going to have my openclaw agent

do it. I said scampy can you add topics

for the GitHub radar YouTube channel

analysis security news which is going to

be shrimp's domain and one of my

projects lobster lobby. So we'll just

start with these right now

and you can add obviously whichever

products. These are kind of the daily

chrome jobs I have for it on it.

Creating all four topics now.

And there you go. She created all of

these.

These are all now different topics.

that you can you can do. And obviously

you can do anything. You can customize

this for your needs. This is going to be

for my project, one of my projects. And

then for all the different Chrome jobs I

have, I can have it send the report here

instead of it just getting lost in just

a general thread, just a single thread.

But you can see it all here. Then you

can just tell it uh Scampy.

So this is the YouTube channel analysis.

analysis topic. Please put a daily

YouTube analysis here

in your Chrome job.

Uh so this will be I have a daily crone

job analyzing my YouTube channel and

analyzing other YouTube videos about AI

and openclaw. So instead of um that

getting lost in the main thread, I can

just put it here and check it out.

And there you go. It'll send directly to

this thread using the message tool with

the group and topic ID. So you won't

have to go hunting. So you can just do

do it like this. You set up each uh

group.

Gampy,

please put your GitHub

radar updates here

from your heartbeat. So, this is

actually a heartbeat task that I have it

doing is checking a couple times a day

uh to find out trending GitHubs

in in my genre. So, see, got it.

And so, now those reports will just go

into each channel and then you can talk

to it here.

Uh, done. GitHub radar updates for my

heartbeat will now post here. And there

you go.

It's important to note that these topics

are separate sessions from the main

session. So that's good in the sense

that you have it your own context window

here. You're not getting mixed up with

other projects or other tasks. You can

keep everything isolated here. So I had

it run one task here. And this is the

GitHub radar. You can see what we have

the trending topics. A lot of

interesting stuff. So you can have the

conversation here about these these

topics

and keep it separated and not connected

with the rest of your conversations or

with the general chat. There you go. So

this is a separate session. Um but if

you set the visibility of the sessions

in your config uh to agent tools

sessions visibility agent

you're able this is my main the main

chat that I usually chat in with my

openclaw agent. She can now see

everything. She can see all of the

different topics lobster lobby github

radar. So you can configure this however

you want. If you set up the chrome job,

you could send it set it up to send it

to the topic itself.

Um, and then send a little just a little

oneline note to the main session.

But this is the same agent. These aren't

like sub agents or anything. It's the

same agent uh just with running

different sessions and organized in a

way that just makes things a lot easier.

So you could continue um like here

one of these. Tell me more about

anthropic skills.

And you don't have to ping the the open

claw agent. You can just write it once

you're in the session with it.

And you can continue the conversation

here inside the topic itself.

And this is a separate session. So it's

not

not necessarily messing up the context,

not taking up all your context for your

main session. But never nevertheless in

this is the main se session, it won't

take up the context, but if I ask it

what GitHub did I ask about in GitHub

radar, it will have the answer. So it

can see it when it needs to, but it's

not constantly taking up the context

window in your main main chat. And like

I said, you can use multiple agents

here. Here's Shrimple, my other OpenClaw

agent. So, I I kept this security news

topic just for him. So, I set up his

Chone job. I just ran in here, but I set

up his Chrome job to search openclaw

security issues or general AI issues.

So, he'll send me this once a day with

different topics that I can look at. Um,

and that's how you can do it with

separate agents. Now, Shrimple is a

completely separate agent, so I would

have to kind of point Scampy to this

this post. Uh but that's how you can

maneuver with multiple agents in the

same in the same group. So that's how

you do it. That's how you set up a

telegram group with topics to help

organize your conversations and your

crone jobs and you can use multiple

agents in these groups. I think it's a

good alternative to Discord. I know

Discord has other functions, but some

people who don't want to set up the

whole separate Discord. You can just

keep using Telegram,

keep using your main chat, uh, but just

have this this group as a separate

to, uh, organize everything nicely.

There we go. Uh, so I hope this video

was helpful. I just saw this topic

today. I thought it was interesting. So,

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open claw agents to work together in

telegram or discord? Uh let me know.

Thank you for watching.