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A For a group agent lives in a Telegram group, a WhatsApp group or a Slack channel, and anyone in it can talk to it. It’s great for a family sorting out the shopping, friends planning a trip or a team that wants shared reminders.
The Who it's for step with the For a group option selected

When you create the agent, you choose For a group

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What to know first

  • You choose it when you create it, and it can’t be changed. In the Who it’s for step you tap For a group (“The whole group talks to it, on Telegram, WhatsApp or Slack.”). A personal agent can’t become a group one, or the other way around.
  • It doesn’t use the minai chat. Only Telegram, WhatsApp or Slack.
  • It stays in its group. It can’t change channels: “A group agent stays in its group. For another group, make another agent.”
  • Some plugins aren’t available. The personal-only ones (like WhatsApp, Gmail or the banks) can’t be added to it.

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How to set it up on each platform

1

Create its bot

Same as a Telegram agent: Open Telegram → Start → Create Clara → open the new bot and tap Start.
2

Create the group

In the bot’s chat, tap the button below, Create Clara’s group. Telegram asks you for a name: put anything, it then gets renamed “Clara Group”, with the agent’s picture.
3

Done

The bot joins as an admin and tells you “Done ✅ I now talk in the group “…”. Add whoever you want.”. In minai you see “Clara is in its group”.
How people join: from Telegram, with the group’s invite link.If the bot isn’t an admin, it’ll ask you to make it one (“To read everything written here, make me an admin of the group.”). If someone messages the bot privately, it answers “Clara only answers in the group “…”.”.
minai doesn’t manage who’s in the group: people come and go from the platform. In Overview → Where it talks, the agent shows “The whole group talks to it” and how to add people.

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How it behaves

  • It listens to everyone equally. For it, “its person” is the whole group. For now it answers every message: you don’t need to mention it.
  • It learns who’s who. Since minai doesn’t give it the member list, it keeps a participants section in its memory as people write: each person’s name, what they like to be called, what they do.
  • It says who it’s answering. It doesn’t assume that whoever’s writing now is the one who asked for something before.
  • What’s said there belongs to the group. Schedules requested in the group are announced in the group.
  • Accounts have an owner. If it connects an account (GitHub, Google…), it says whose it is and doesn’t use it for other people’s things without the group knowing.
  • If two people ask for things that clash, it says so and asks the group.
  • It speaks the group’s language: it answers in the language people write to it in.

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Examples

  • Ana: “Remind us on Friday at 6 pm to buy the gift.” → on Friday at 6 pm it posts a reminder in the group.
  • Juan: “What did Ana ask for yesterday?” → it answers addressing Juan and tells him what Ana asked.
  • Ana: “Connect the calendar.” → “I connected Google Calendar with Ana’s account.”
  • Ana: “Set the meeting for Tuesday.” Juan: “No, Wednesday.” → it points out they don’t match and asks which day it is.
  • “Make the grocery list for the weekend and split it among the four of us.”

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Limits

  • It doesn’t use the minai chat and can’t change channels.
  • For another group, another agent.
  • No personal-only plugins.
  • If you rename it, the group or channel keeps its own name (on Telegram, the bot does change its name). The picture does update.
  • The whole group shares what the agent remembers and does: don’t keep things there you don’t want everyone to see.

Create an agent

Step by step, with For me and For a group.

Compare channels

What changes from one channel to another.