openclaw - 💡(How to fix) Fix Telegram thread-bound subagent sessions fail because subagent_spawning hooks are not registered [1 comments, 2 participants]

Summary

Telegram appears to have thread/conversation binding infrastructure, but thread-bound subagent session spawning is unavailable because the Telegram channel plugin does not register subagent_spawning hooks.

Environment

• OpenClaw: 2026.4.23
• Channel: Telegram
• Context: direct chat

Repro

Attempt to spawn a thread/session-bound subagent from a Telegram DM, for example via:

• sessions_spawn(runtime:"subagent", agentId:"main", mode:"session", thread:true, ...)

Actual

The spawn fails immediately with:

thread=true is unavailable because no channel plugin registered subagent_spawning hooks.

Expected

One of these should be true:

1. Telegram supports thread/current-conversation-bound subagent sessions, with the necessary hook registration and delivery binding behavior.
2. If Telegram is intentionally unsupported here, the limitation should be documented explicitly and the tool/runtime surface should make that clear.

Notes

What makes this confusing is that Telegram appears to already include conversation/thread-binding pieces, including thread-binding/session-binding infrastructure, but unlike some other channels, the Telegram channel entry on main does not appear to register subagent hooks analogous to the ones used elsewhere.

At a high level, this looks like:

• subagent-spawn requires subagent_spawning hooks for thread:true
• Telegram has binding-related infrastructure
• but the Telegram channel entry does not register the hooks needed to make that path operable

That makes Telegram look partially implemented for this capability while still failing at runtime before handoff.

If helpful, I can also open a follow-up with a minimal patch sketch for Telegram hook registration / delivery binding behavior.