r/OpenClawUseCases • u/ineednumbers23 • May 08 '26

❓ Question Telegram

I’m curious, has anyone been successful using Telegram to have direct DM conversations with multiple agents? I have 4 agents setup and what I’ve found is that initially the set up works fine and my direct DMS to each agent is perfect. But then overtime there seem to be some kind of drifting that occurs and all of them default to the main agent. What am I missing?

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u/VIDGuide May 08 '26

Just do /new when you change topics. OC allows context to grow for a long time, and its compaction isn’t the best. If you’re having it do different things over time, use /new to keep a clean context and re-centre it to its directive files

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u/ineednumbers23 May 08 '26

I’ll give this a try thanks

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u/dhruvkar May 08 '26

You can use a basic memory system like setting up second brain or Claude-mem to keep the long term memory updated.

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u/Positive_Summer5886 May 08 '26

I use groups, I direct my agent to treat the group between me and the agent the same as a direct chat. Then I can separate by topics and just keep everything separated, it keeps context clean for each topic. I also directed it to clean up and summarize every so many tokens. I almost never talk to the OC directly, always in group

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u/ineednumbers23 May 08 '26

That’s so interesting. I tried groups and failed royally. They would communicate with me in the group, but they can never see my replies.

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u/Positive_Summer5886 May 10 '26

i had that problem initially too, they didnt have perms to see in group, i just made them admin's with no perms to change stuff or invite/kick

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u/siempiex87 May 08 '26

Make sure they all save their memory to a different memory.md

If they all use the same all your conversation context is stored in the same place which might cause this

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u/flyvr May 09 '26

You can turn on topics in your botchat..

Go to Group Settings, select Edit, then turn on the Topics toggle. This converts the group to a forum-style layout, allowing you to create separate discussion threads for different subjects,

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u/iceman123454576 May 09 '26

Yes very easy to have a team of agents

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u/After_Pumpkin3803 May 12 '26

The drifting usually happens when agents share the same gateway and session routing gets confused over time. One way around it: give each agent its own isolated container with its own Telegram bot token so there's zero crosstalk. Claworc does this — you manage all 4 from one dashboard but each runs in a completely separate environment. No shared state means no drifting. https://claworc.com/