How do i set "requireMention" to false in discord chatting? | Friends of the Crustacean 🦞🤝 | Page 1

faint kestrel Apr 21, 2026, 1:02 PM

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How do i also give it the ability to chat in my session proactively? I need it to chat in one channel every few heartbeats or so.
@mint urchin

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mint urchinBOT Apr 21, 2026, 1:06 PM

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Yep, requireMention: false only affects incoming group replies.
For proactive posting, you want heartbeat or cron.

For your case, heartbeat + a tasks: block is probably the right fit.

{
  channels: {
    discord: {
      guilds: {
        "GUILD_ID": {
          channels: {
            "CHANNEL_OR_THREAD_ID": {
              allow: true,
              requireMention: false,
            },

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          },
        },
      },
    },
  },
  agents: {
    defaults: {
      heartbeat: {
        every: "30m",
        target: "discord",
        to: "channel:CHANNEL_OR_THREAD_ID",
        lightContext: true,
      },
    },
  },

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Then in HEARTBEAT.md:

tasks:
- name: proactive-discord-checkin
  interval: 2h
  prompt: "Post a short proactive check-in to the configured Discord channel."

So if heartbeat runs every 30m, interval: 2h is roughly every 4 heartbeats.

A couple gotchas:

heartbeat is interval-based, not literally “every 3rd heartbeat”

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default heartbeat target is none, so you must set target/to
if you need an exact schedule, use cron instead

Docs:

If you want, paste your guild ID + channel/thread ID + pnpm openclaw --version and I’ll turn that into an exact JSON5 snippet.

faint kestrel Apr 21, 2026, 1:12 PM

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im not exactly technical, you might want to guide me through this very literally. 1495780264973045813 is the channel id right now.

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@mint urchin

mint urchinBOT Apr 21, 2026, 1:14 PM

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No worries, let’s do the simplest literal setup.

This will make it proactively post into channel 1495780264973045813 about every 2 hours, assuming your heartbeat is every 30 minutes.

Step 1, open your config file

Open this file:

~/.openclaw/openclaw.json

Step 2, add this heartbeat config

Inside your config, find agents.defaults.

If you already have a heartbeat section there, replace just that part with this:

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heartbeat: {
  every: "30m",
  target: "discord",
  to: "channel:1495780264973045813",
  lightContext: true,
}

If you do not already have agents.defaults, then this is the full shape you want somewhere in the file:

{
  agents: {
    defaults: {
      heartbeat: {

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        every: "30m",
        target: "discord",
        to: "channel:1495780264973045813",
        lightContext: true,
      },
    },
  },
}

Step 3, create the heartbeat instructions file

Create this file:

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~/.openclaw/workspace/HEARTBEAT.md

Put this in it:

tasks:
- name: proactive-discord-checkin
  interval: 2h
  prompt: "Post a short friendly check-in message in the configured Discord channel. Keep it brief."

That means:

heartbeat runs every 30m
this specific task runs every 2h
so it posts roughly every 4 heartbeats

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Step 4, restart OpenClaw

Run:

pnpm openclaw gateway restart

Step 5, test it right away

Run:

pnpm openclaw system event --text "Run heartbeat now" --mode now

That should trigger a heartbeat immediately.

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Important note

This is only for proactive posting.

If you also want it to reply in that channel without needing an @mention, that is a second setting (requireMention: false).

If you want, send me your current openclaw.json and I’ll tell you exactly where to paste these bits, line by line.

Docs I’m following:

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I’m here 🦐

If you want the least confusing path, do this next:

open ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json
paste the part of that file here
I’ll point to the exact spot where the heartbeat block should go

If you’d rather try it yourself first, start with this exact bit inside agents.defaults:

heartbeat: {
  every: "30m",
  target: "discord",
  to: "channel:1495780264973045813",
  lightContext: true,

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And if you want, after that I can give you the second piece too, which is making it reply in that channel without needing @mentions.

faint kestrel Apr 21, 2026, 1:20 PM

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"pnpm is not recognized as a command."

mint urchinBOT Apr 21, 2026, 1:21 PM

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That’s fine, it just means pnpm isn’t installed / on PATH.

Try these exact commands instead:

openclaw --version
openclaw gateway restart
openclaw system event --text "Run heartbeat now" --mode now

Please send me the output of:

openclaw --version

If openclaw is also not recognized, then paste the exact command you normally use to start OpenClaw, and I’ll adjust the instructions from there.

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Heartbeat docs: https://docs.openclaw.ai/gateway/heartbeat

faint kestrel Apr 21, 2026, 1:21 PM

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it works. How now do i set up the responding without needing a mention?

mint urchinBOT Apr 21, 2026, 1:22 PM

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Nice, glad we got the proactive part working 🎉

For replying without an @mention, the safest setup is to do it for just that one channel.

You need one more number: the server ID

You already have the channel ID:

1495780264973045813

Now get the server ID like this:

In Discord, turn on Developer Mode if it isn’t already on
User Settings → Advanced → Developer Mode
Right-click your server icon
Click Copy Server ID

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Then add this to `~/.openclaw/openclaw.json`

Replace YOUR_SERVER_ID with the number you copied:

{
  channels: {
    discord: {
      guilds: {
        "YOUR_SERVER_ID": {
          channels: {
            "1495780264973045813": {
              allow: true,
              requireMention: false,
            },
          },

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        },
      },
    },
  },
}

Important

If your config file already has channels, discord, or guilds, don’t add a second copy.
Just add the missing inner part.

Then restart OpenClaw

openclaw gateway restart

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Test it

Go into that channel and send a normal message without tagging the bot.

If you want, send me your server ID and I’ll paste back the exact finished block with both numbers filled in for you.

Docs:

faint kestrel Apr 21, 2026, 1:28 PM

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Intresting. it stopped working. its now not logging even with mention or no mention. IM looking at the dashboard, no traces of my messages appear.

mint urchinBOT Apr 21, 2026, 1:29 PM

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Ah, that’s helpful, and a bit reassuring actually, because it points to routing/config, not the model.

If nothing shows up in the dashboard at all, the most likely cause is:

the new Discord guilds config is blocking the server/channel, or
the server ID in channels.discord.guilds is wrong

That would explain why it stopped working for both mention and non-mention messages.

Please do these 3 things exactly

Run:

openclaw --version

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Run:

openclaw channels status --probe

Paste only your channels.discord config block here
Do not paste your bot token

If you want, you can paste something like this shape:

channels: {
  discord: {
    guilds: {
      ...

#How do i set "requireMention" to false in discord chatting?