A Telegram AI bot is only useful if it works inside real chats. Here’s how OpenClaw v2026.6.9 improves mentions, rich HTML replies, progress previews, and delivery recovery for Telegram-first agents.
AI agent hook policies need to survive plugin composition, retries, and channel handoffs. OpenClaw 2026.6.10 keeps trusted tool policies attached to approval-sensitive flows.
Self-hosted Telegram bot polling silently dies when the main event loop stalls. v2026.5.12 moves ingress to an isolated worker with a durable local spool, so your AI agent stops missing messages.
Discord voice capture cuts you off mid-sentence? v2026.5.7 ships a 2.5s silence grace by default and a tunable voice.captureSilenceGraceMs for noisy channels. Here is what changed and how to use it.
The /steer command lets you redirect a running agent without queueing or starting a new turn. Here is what it does, when it works, and where it fits in the agent control flow.