Splitting OpenClaw into 3 Agents sent efficiency through the roof

🤔 Why Use Multiple Agents?

Pain Points:

• One Agent doing everything often results in “doing nothing well”
• Different tasks require different personas, knowledge bases, and Skills
• When tasks pile up, a single Agent gets “overwhelmed”

Solution: Split one AI into multiple Agents, each managing its own domain.

• Each Bot has independent Memory, Persona, and Skills
• Tailored to handle specific work scenarios

🛠️ The 3-Agent Golden Combo

Agent 1: Information Gatherer 📡

Role: Responsible for searching, collecting, and organizing information

Configuration Steps:

# 1. Create new Agent
openclaw agents create researcher

# 2. Configure Persona
# Write in SOUL.md:
- Role: Professional Researcher
- Strengths: Information gathering, speed reading, key point extraction
- Style: Rigorous, objective, no personal bias

Recommended Skills:

• web-search (Search)
• fetch (Web scraping)
• summarizer (Summarization)

Agent 2: Content Creator ✍️

Role: Responsible for writing and generating content

Configuration Steps:

# 1. Create new Agent
openclaw agents create writer

# 2. Configure Persona
# Write in SOUL.md:
- Role: Professional Copywriter
- Strengths: Written expression, storytelling
- Style: Vivid, engaging

Recommended Skills:

• humanizer (Remove robotic AI tone)
• copywriter (Copywriting)
• editor (Editing and proofreading)

Agent 3: Quality Reviewer 🔍

Role: Responsible for checking, auditing, and suggesting improvements

Configuration Steps:

# 1. Create new Agent
openclaw agents create reviewer

# 2. Configure Persona
# Write in SOUL.md:
- Role: Senior Editor
- Strengths: Spotting issues, suggesting improvements
- Style: Strict, critical, perfectionist

Recommended Skills:

• fact-checker (Fact checking)
• grammar-checker (Grammar checking)
• code-review (Code review)

⚙️ Complete Configuration Example

1. Main Agent Configuration (main)

# ~/.openclaw/agents/main/agent.yaml
name: main
description: Main dispatcher, allocates tasks to sub-Agents

subAgents:
  enabled: true
  maxConcurrent: 3
  agents:
    - researcher
    - writer
    - reviewer

2. Create Sub-Agent Directories

mkdir -p ~/.openclaw/agents/researcher
mkdir -p ~/.openclaw/agents/writer
mkdir -p ~/.openclaw/agents/reviewer

3. Basic Files for Each Sub-Agent

Each sub-Agent needs:

• SOUL.md - Role definition
• USER.md - User information (optional)
• AGENTS.md - Work guidelines (optional)

🚀 Practical Workflow

Complete Workflow Example:

User Input: Write an article about AI in gaming

↓
【Main Agent】Analyzes task and dispatches to sub-Agents

↓
【Research Agent】
- Search AI gaming related info
- Fetch trending articles
- Organize key points

↓
【Writer Agent】
- Write first draft based on research
- Use humanizer to remove AI tone

↓
【Reviewer Agent】
- Check factual accuracy
- Suggest revisions
- Confirm output is error-free

↓
【Final Output】Delivered to user

💡 Advanced Tips

1. Nested Calls

Main Agent
├── Research Agent 1 (Search Twitter)
├── Research Agent 2 (Search Xiaohongshu)
└── Writer Agent

2. Conditional Logic

If Task = Write Code
  → Dispatch to coder Agent
If Task = Write Copy
  → Dispatch to writer Agent
If Task = Research
  → Dispatch to researcher Agent

3. Parallel Processing

subAgents:
  maxConcurrent: 3
  # Call multiple Agents simultaneously to gather from different sources

📊 Performance Comparison

	Single Agent	Multi-Agent
Efficiency	Low	High
Quality	Unstable	Stable
Professionalism	Jack of all trades, master of none	Specialized
Cost	Low	Slightly Higher

⚠️ Important Notes

1. More isn’t better - 2-3 Agents are sufficient
2. Clear division of labor - Each Agent should do only one thing
3. Configure memory properly - Each Agent has independent memory
4. Watch costs - Multi-Agent setups consume more tokens

📎 Quick Start Template

# ~/.openclaw/config.yaml
agents:
  defaults:
    subAgents:
      enabled: true
      maxConcurrent: 3
      agents:
        - researcher  # Info gathering
        - writer      # Content creation
        - reviewer    # Review and proofreading

Save this for reference next time you configure📎

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