Discord agent: Create a discord thread and continue the conversation in there

[thick halo]

Is it possible for a discord agent to be mentioned, then have it create a thread on the message it was mentioned in and move to the thread for the rest of the conversation automatically?

[native dragon]

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[atomic oracle]

Yes — for the normal Discord agent flow, use the per-channel autoThread config.

It doesn’t “move” the original message, but it creates a Discord thread attached to that message, sends the agent reply there, and follow-ups in that thread continue as the thread’s own session.

Example:

{
  channels: {
    discord: {
      guilds: {
        "YOUR_GUILD_ID": {
          requireMention: true,
          channels: {
            "YOUR_CHANNEL_ID": {
              enabled: true,

              requireMention: true,
              autoThread: true,
              autoThreadName: "message", // or "generated"
              autoArchiveDuration: 1440
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

A few notes:

• Use the channel ID if possible; it’s safer than name/slug matching.

• The bot needs Discord thread permissions, especially Create Public Threads and Send Messages in Threads.
• autoThreadName: "generated" can rename the thread with an LLM-generated title after creation.
• Parent transcript history is not copied into the thread unless you also enable channels.discord.thread.inheritParent.

Docs: https://docs.openclaw.ai/channels/discord

[thick halo]

How can I allow my agent to use reasoning but only have it send the final thought back to discord?

[atomic oracle]

Yep — “thinking” and “reasoning visibility” are separate knobs.

For Discord final-answer-only:

/think medium
/reasoning off
/verbose off

• /think medium|high|adaptive... lets the model use reasoning.
• /reasoning off hides the reasoning from chat and sends only the final answer.
• /reasoning on would send a separate Reasoning: message — so don’t use that for Discord.
• /reasoning stream is Telegram-only.

To make it the default in ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json:

{
  agents: {
    defaults: {
      thinkingDefault: "medium",
      reasoningDefault: "off",
      verboseDefault: "off",
    },
  },
}

Or per agent:

{