Customising your agent
So far Louis has been talking to you alone. This lesson puts them where they belong: in a group chat with other people, doing the job.
Nothing new gets installed here. Everything happens in Telegram and Notion, with the agent you already have.
Before you start, finish Setting up data sources. Louis must already be answering you and writing to your Notion page or the next steps won't work.
The steps
Each step has its own page:
| Step | What you do | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Create a Telegram group | Make a group and put your bot in it. | A community agent needs a community to sit in. |
| Add your agent to the group | Connect Louis to that group, then give them work. | The bot is the phone line. Louis is who answers it, and connecting them is a step of its own. |
| Add humans to the group | Invite neighbours, and see what each of them may do. | Louis treats a stranger, a verified neighbour and an admin differently. This is where that shows. |
| Update your agent's personality | Change how they write, and make it stick. | The template is a starting point, not the finished agent. |
| Schedule a message | Have them post in the group every 5 minutes, then switch it off. | A community agent speaks up on its own too: a morning summary, a weekly look ahead. |
What you'll see along the way
- Louis writes things down while you chat. Every answer that matters lands in your Notion page, and you can read it there.
- They check who is asking. Not by name — by the account the message came from.
- They ask before they post. Being allowed to do something and being told to do it now are two different things to them.
- They can work on a clock. A scheduled task wakes them up with nobody asking.