Agent with Channel

[spiral jackal]

is there a way too connect one singular agent to a chatting channel??

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[willow halo]

Yes, in your own Discord server you can have one OpenClaw agent connected to a chat channel.

Basic shape:

• Set up Discord for OpenClaw with channels.discord.enabled: true and a bot token.
• Allowlist your server/channel under channels.discord.guilds.
• By default, each Discord guild channel gets its own isolated session: agent:<agentId>:discord:channel:<channelId>.
• If you want that channel permanently routed to a specific persistent ACP agent/session, use a top-level bindings[] entry with type: "acp" and match.channel: "discord" + the channel id.

Docs:
https://docs.openclaw.ai/channels/discord
https://docs.openclaw.ai/tools/acp-agents

One important bit: we don’t recommend adding personal bots to this OpenClaw Discord server. This setup is meant for your own server/private workspace. If you run into setup weirdness, first check openclaw --version and include that in #help.

[spiral jackal]

thats not what i meant for example connect one agent called CMO to whatsapp and one agent called Josh to telegram

[willow halo]

Ah, yes. That is multi-agent routing.

For normal OpenClaw agents, define multiple agents.list[] entries, then add top-level bindings[] that route a channel/account to an agent:

{
  agents: {
    list: [
      { id: "CMO", default: true, workspace: "~/.openclaw/workspace-cmo" },
      { id: "Josh", workspace: "~/.openclaw/workspace-josh" },
    ],
  },
  bindings: [
    { agentId: "CMO", match: { channel: "whatsapp", accountId: "default" } },
    { agentId: "Josh", match: { channel: "telegram", accountId: "default" } },
  ],

[willow halo]

}

If you have multiple WhatsApp/Telegram accounts, use their account ids instead of default. You can also route more narrowly with match.peer, for example one Telegram group/topic or one WhatsApp chat to a specific agent.

Docs:
https://docs.openclaw.ai/gateway/configuration-reference#multi-agent-routing
https://docs.openclaw.ai/concepts/multi-agent

If this is for persistent Codex/Claude-style ACP agents rather than normal OpenClaw chat agents, use type: "acp" bindings instead. That requires matching a concrete conversation (match.peer.id) rather than just the whole channel.

[spiral jackal]

okay thanks

[willow halo]

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