Why Your OpenClaw Telegram Bot Goes Silent

The silent failures, the two-switch approval trap, and the config gaps that kept adding sessions. TL;DR: The OpenClaw Telegram integration guide gives you five steps. They work. What they skip: groupPolicy: "allowlist" is the right setting for group chat access, but it needs a companion — groupAllowFrom , the actual sender allowlist. groupAllowFrom takes your numeric Telegram user ID, which the app never shows you. If groupAllowFrom is absent, OpenClaw falls back to allowFrom . If that is also e