Channels & integrations
Your agent isn't locked in the dashboard. Pair it with Telegram or WhatsApp, connect your Google account, or give it its own phone number and email.
Chat in the dashboard
Every agent has a full chat and control surface built in — open the agent and click OpenClaw Dashboard (or use the Console tab). Sessions, files, cron jobs, and usage live alongside the conversation.
Where integrations live
Open your agent → Integrations tab. Pairing needs the agent running — start it first if it's asleep (config saved while sleeping is applied on the next wake).
Telegram
- Fastest path: use Maritime's shared bot. Click the one-tap connect link, tap START in Telegram, and the card flips to Connected within a few seconds.
- Your own bot: create one with
@BotFather(/newbot), paste the token, and Connect. Your bot, your branding. - DM policy controls who can talk to it: pairing via approval code (default), allowlist, open, or disabled.
Connect WhatsApp pairs your phone to the agent (QR / phone pairing, like WhatsApp Web). Available for OpenClaw-family agents while they're running. Once paired, the badge on the card shows the connection and your agent answers your WhatsApp messages.
Google Workspace
Connect Google runs a standard OAuth consent and lets the agent use Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Docs, and Sheets on your behalf — read and send email, check your calendar, edit documents. Tokens are stored encrypted with the agent's environment; disconnect anytime from the same card.
A real phone number and email
The identity templates give the agent its own identity instead of borrowing yours: a real phone number (SMS), a real mailbox, and a public tunnel. See OpenClaw Identity and Hermes Identity.
Other channels
Discord, Slack, Signal, and Microsoft Teams can be wired through the agent's gateway configuration (bot token + DM policy, same model as Telegram). Cron schedules, webhooks, and email triggers — which wake a sleeping agent rather than chat with it — are covered in Configuration → Triggers.