Operation: Telegram Empire

Four Bots, One Babu, Zero Confusion

Weekend Project — Phase 1 of Family Agent Rollout

You (Thota) → @YourMainBot → Agent: main
Family Member 1 → @BotAlex → Agent: alex
Family Member 2 → @BotMia → Agent: mia
Family Member 3 → @BotSam → Agent: sam

Each person gets their own agent brain, own workspace, own memory. Nobody sees anyone else's messages. Completely isolated. Babu handles them all — just with different faces.

1 Create the Telegram Bots

BotFather Registration — ~5 min per bot, you handle this on your phone or desktop

Total time: ~15 minutes

1.Open Telegram → search @BotFather → send /newbot

2.Pick a display name: "Family Agent - Alex", "Family Agent - Mia", etc.

3.Pick a username ending in bot: e.g. @AlexFamilyBot

4.BotFather gives you a token — copy it somewhere safe

5.Repeat for all 3 bots

💡 Pro tip: After creating each bot, run /setprivacy → Disable if you want the agent to see group messages. For DMs, Enable is fine by default.

2 OpenClaw Agent Config

openclaw.json — I handle this

Add each bot as a separate Telegram account, route messages to its agent via bindings

// Each agent gets its own workspace + soul + memory
{
  "agents": {
    "list": [
      { "id": "main",  "workspace": "~/.openclaw/workspace" },
      { "id": "alex",   "workspace": "~/.openclaw/workspace-alex" },
      { "id": "mia",    "workspace": "~/.openclaw/workspace-mia" },
      { "id": "sam",    "workspace": "~/.openclaw/workspace-sam" }
    ]
  },
  "bindings": [
    {
      "agentId": "alex",
      "match": { "channel": "telegram", "peer": { "kind": "direct" }, "accountId": "alex-telegram" }
    }
  ],
  "channels": {
    "telegram": {
      "accounts": {
        "alex-telegram": { "token": "PASTE_ALEX_TOKEN_HERE" },
        "mia-telegram":  { "token": "PASTE_MIA_TOKEN_HERE" },
        "sam-telegram":  { "token": "PASTE_SAM_TOKEN_HERE" }
      }
    }
  }
}

3 Per-Agent Workspaces

I generate these for each family member

Each workspace lives at ~/.openclaw/workspace-<name>

workspace-alex/
├── AGENTS.md      ← Alex's operating rules
├── SOUL.md        ← Alex's personality
├── USER.md        ← Alex's profile: name, prefs, timezone
├── MEMORY.md      ← Alex's long-term memory (private)
└── learnings/    ← Alex's learnings, errors, wins

Just tell me the names and preferred vibes for each person — I'll template everything out.

4 Restart & Verify

Run these commands to bring it all online

openclaw gateway restart
openclaw agents list --bindings

You should see all 4 agents bound to their respective Telegram bots.

📋 Task Division

Task	Effort	Who
Create 3 Telegram bots via BotFather	~15 min	You
Update openclaw.json with tokens + bindings	5 min	Me
Create 3 workspace directories	2 min	Me
Generate per-agent workspace files	5 min	Me
Restart gateway + verify bindings	2 min	Either

🤖 × 3 Telegram bots needed from you

You handle BotFather → hand me the tokens → I handle the rest