A separate chat for every skill your agent has

One agent, several roles

An agent can pick up several skills: a nutrition coach today, social media posting tomorrow, short video editing the day after. Skills add up rather than replace each other — connect a second one and the first is still there.

That is where a familiar annoyance starts, the one everyone who has run a long assistant thread knows. The roles bleed together. You were discussing protein and calories, and your next message asks for a launch announcement — while the dinner context is still hanging in the conversation. The agent remembers the whole thread, so the more mixed the feed, the more often it pulls the wrong thing into an answer.

The fix is simple, and it lives in the messenger rather than in any settings screen: one skill, one chat.

Why it works

For the agent, every chat, every group and every topic is a separate context: its own session and its own working folder. That is how the bridge is built, not a tidiness suggestion. Three consequences follow:

• Memory does not blend. In the nutrition chat the agent remembers your limits and goals; in the social chat, your tone and platforms. Neither seeps into the other.
• Files stay put. Each chat has its own working folder, so video footage is not tangled up with a meal spreadsheet, and "send me the last file" means exactly what you think it means.
• You can come back a week later. Open the right chat and carry on from where you stopped, without re-explaining who you are and what you are doing.

Here is how to set it up. MAX and Telegram differ: in MAX each skill gets its own group, in Telegram each skill gets its own topic inside a single group.

Before you start

Write to the agent in a private chat first and accept the terms — a one-time step. In a group the agent only answers people who already have access, so a group created before that first private message will stay silent, and the reason will not be obvious.

MAX: a separate group per skill

1. Create the group

On the chat list screen, tap the round plus button in the top right corner and choose "Create group" (some app versions say "Create group chat"). You can skip picking participants. Give the group a name you will recognise later: "Nutrition", "Social", "Video".

2. Add the agent to the group

Open the group, tap its title → "Add participants" and find the bot lite by its username id7743449007_2_bot. Alternatively, open the bot's profile and add it to the group from there.

3. Make the bot an administrator

Open the group info, scroll to "Administrators" → "Add administrator" → pick the bot.

This step is required, not an optional tweak: without admin rights the messenger does not pass group messages to the bot. From the outside it looks as if the agent is ignoring you. No extra permissions are needed — the administrator role itself is enough.

4. Send the first message

Write an ordinary task into the group, the same way you would in a private chat. No @ mention is needed: while the group is just you and the bot, the agent answers every message.

A good first message is one that sets the role: "This chat is about food only. Remember my limits: no lactose, training on Tuesdays and Thursdays." From then on this chat knows about meals — and only about meals.

5. Check that the agent is connected

There is exactly one signal, and it is unambiguous: an ordinary message gets an answer. The agent does not post a greeting when it is added to a group.

If nothing comes back, it is almost always one of three things:

1. The bot was not given administrator rights — go back to step 3.
2. You have not written to the agent in a private chat and accepted the terms.
3. The group has more than two participants — see the common mistakes below.

Repeat these five steps for every skill. Five skills, five groups.

Telegram: one group, a topic per skill

Telegram has topics (a forum inside a group), which is more convenient: every skill lives in one group instead of scattering your chat list. For the agent, each topic is just as separate a context as a separate group.

1. Create a group

An ordinary group. You alone are enough — there is no need to add anybody else.

2. Turn on "Topics"

Open the group settings ("Edit" in the top right corner) and switch "Topics" on. The old member threshold is gone — topics can be enabled in a group of any size, even a group of one. Only the group's creator can turn them on or off.

Do this in a fresh, empty group: when topics are switched on, the existing conversation is not distributed into threads, and sorting it out afterwards is painful.

Telegram then creates the General topic — the group's common thread.

3. Add the bot and make it an administrator

Add the bot to the group, then give it the administrator role, exactly as you would to a person.

This step is required. By default Telegram runs bots in privacy mode: the bot only sees commands, replies to its own messages and @mentions, while ordinary messages in a topic never reach it. Admin rights lift that restriction.

4. Create a topic per skill

In the group, tap "Create topic", give it a name and an icon: "Nutrition", "Social", "Video". The icon earns its keep — topics become distinguishable at a glance.

5. Write inside the topic

Open the topic you need and put the task there. The agent replies into the same topic you wrote from, so answers do not scatter across the group. No @ mention is needed while the group is just you and the agent.

Common mistakes

The bot is not an administrator. The most common one by far. The agent looks broken, when in fact it is not receiving the messages at all: neither MAX nor Telegram shows a bot the group conversation by default.

Writing in General instead of a topic. General is a separate thread with its own memory, not a "shared folder" for the topics. Messages there land in the group's common context, not in the skill's one. If you started in General, just move to the right topic and repeat the task there.

A third participant in the group. As soon as the group grows past two people, the agent stops answering ordinary messages — yours included, not just the newcomer's. Access for other group members is currently granted by the service owner only, so a skill group is exactly two: you and the agent. A colleague needs their own agent, not a seat in your group.

One chat for every role. It works, but worse: the agent drags context from neighbouring tasks into its answers, and files from all skills pile up in one folder. Splitting chats costs nothing and removes the problem entirely.

The group was created before the private chat. Until you have written to the agent privately and accepted the terms, it stays silent in groups.

In short

• One skill, one chat: a group in MAX, a topic in Telegram.
• The bot must be a group administrator, otherwise it does not see the messages.
• Private chat and terms first, group second.
• While the group is just you and the agent, no @ mention is needed.
• Keep a skill group to two people — a third participant switches answers off for everyone.

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