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Force responses in slack threads

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I want every resposne in slack to be in a thread, never the main channel. How can i achive that

Solution

To force all Slack replies to go into threads (so the bot never posts a “top-level” reply in the channel), set Slack’s reply-to mode to

all

all

.

In

~/.openclaw/openclaw.json

~/.openclaw/openclaw.json

{
  channels: {
    slack: {
      // simplest: apply everywhere Slack supports reply threading
      replyToMode: "all",
    },
  },
}

{
  channels: {
    slack: {
      // simplest: apply everywhere Slack supports reply threading
      replyToMode: "all",
    },
  },
}

If you only mean public channels (but not DMs), use the per-chat-type override: