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Agent Personas & Chatbots for your OpenClaw Team

Published

Mar 8, 2026

This video covers two of the more fun parts of setting up an OpenClaw multi-agent team: creating Telegram bots for each agent and developing unique personas with custom avatar images. You'll see why Telegram works better than Slack for agent communication — no threading confusion, good markdown support, and a typing indicator — plus the security considerations around bot pairing.

On the persona side, you'll walk through the actual process of creating agent characters using Claude for personalities and communication styles, then Google Gemini for generating avatar images. There's a live demo showing an agent responding in Telegram and the dashboard updating between idle and active states in real time.

Topics covered in this video:

  • Setting up Telegram bots using BotFather
  • Why Telegram over Slack (no threads, typing indicator, markdown support)
  • Bot security and DM policy pairing to prevent unauthorized access
  • Creating agent personas with Claude and generating avatar images with Google Gemini
  • Idle and active state images in the dashboard with a live demo
  • Starting with more agents and pairing down (eight to four)
  • Flexibility in chat platform choice (Telegram, Slack, WhatsApp)

Additional assets

This video comes with a PDF cheat sheet, which covers all the specifics shown in the video including:

  1. The Big Picture: Why Multiple Agents?
  2. Configuring Multiple Agents in openclaw.json
  3. The Workspace Decision: Shared vs. Separate
  4. Setting Up Telegram Chatbots
  5. Creating Agent Personas
  6. Model Configuration Per Agent
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