<aside> 🦞 Assumes you already have OpenClaw running with a single agent on Telegram. This guide adds sub-agent spawning so your agent can delegate tasks to background workers.

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What Sub-Agents Give You

• Your agent can spawn background workers to handle tasks in parallel
• Instead of researching 5 topics one by one, it spawns 5 workers simultaneously
• Workers report results back to your chat when done
• Each sub-agent gets its own isolated session (can't see your chat history)

First: Get A Cheap Plan

Here’s a referral link for 10% off, I personally use the Plus plan and never run out, but you could start with Starter.

https://platform.minimax.io/subscribe/coding-plan?code=FpNt2OKou7&source=link

Make sure that you see the 10% discount applied. I would go for Monthly because you never know which model you want to change to in the future.

If you don’t want to pay for Minimax, you can use the cheaper model available to you, e.g. Claude Haiku.

Next: Set Up Minimax Config

1. Run openclaw config
2. Click Model
3. Choose MiniMax, then MiniMax OAuth
4. Choose Global (unless you are in China)
5. A link appears in your terminal — open it in the browser where you're logged into MiniMax and complete the auth. Paste the code back if prompted (not always required).
6. Run openclaw gateway restart
7. Verify it worked — type /models in your chat and check that MiniMax appears

What’s Next: Just Tell Your Agent