Control who can use your agent
Open the agent → Access. One screen holds all of it: Add to a group, Who can interact, Allowed users, Respond when, See other bots and Administrators.
Private or public
Section titled “Private or public”- Private — only you and the people on the allowed-users list can talk to the bot.
- Public — anyone who finds the bot can talk to it.
Allowed users
Section titled “Allowed users”While the bot is private, Allowed users is the list of people who may chat with it. You’re always allowed. Add someone in either of two ways:
- Type their Telegram @username and tap Add. This works for anyone who has used TeleClaw before.
- Tap Choose from Telegram contacts. Telegram’s own people picker opens right over the app: choose up to 10 people and they’re added right away, even if they’ve never used TeleClaw.
Remove someone and they lose access immediately.
Admins
Section titled “Admins”Admins co-manage the agent: they can change any setting except deleting the agent, resetting it, billing, and managing admins. Add them on the Administrators page the same two ways: by @username, or with Choose from Telegram contacts. Only the owner can add admins.
If you’re an admin of someone else’s agent, Leave agent removes your access; the owner can add you again.
Who pays
Section titled “Who pays”On a Public agent, Pay for decides whose credits a conversation uses:
- Everyone (the default for new agents): anyone who can talk to the bot does so for free, on your balance.
- Me + admins: you cover yourself and the agent’s admins. Everyone else spends their own credits.
When your balance runs out, the bot tells the people you cover that its owner needs to top up, and stays unavailable to them until you do. They are never charged in your place. A Private agent has no Pay for control: you always cover the people you allow.