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How to spawn new session

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How to spawn new session (agent:main:main)

Solution

In OpenClaw,

agent:main:main

agent:main:main

is the session key for the main agent’s “main” DM bucket. To start a fresh session (new

sessionId

sessionId

) for that key, you don’t “spawn” a new key — you reset it:

- In the chat, send: /new
/new
(or /reset
/reset
)

You can also include text after it (it will reset, then pass the rest through):

- /new <your prompt here>
/new <your prompt here>

- /reset <your prompt here>
/reset <your prompt here>

Notes / gotchas:

- In DMs, by default everything collapses into

agent:<agentId>:main

agent:<agentId>:main

for continuity, so you won’t get multiple parallel DM session keys unless you change DM scoping (

session.dmScope

session.dmScope

) or use different chat locations (e.g. separate Discord threads/channels).
- If what you meant is “spawn a worker run in an isolated session”, that’s a different feature: sessions_spawn
sessions_spawn
(sub-agent session), not