Environment

• OpenClaw version: 2026.2.9
• OS: macOS (arm64)
• Node: v25.5.0
• Slack mode: Socket Mode

Setup

Two Slack apps (accounts) configured in one OpenClaw instance:

• default (primary bot) — handles DMs + multiple channels
• devbot (secondary bot) — bound to one private channel

Config (simplified):

{
  channels: {
    slack: {
      accounts: {
        default: { botToken: 'xoxb-...primary', appToken: 'xapp-...primary', ... },
        devbot: { botToken: 'xoxb-...secondary', appToken: 'xapp-...secondary', requireMention: false, ... }
      }
    }
  },
  bindings: [
    { agentId: 'devbot', match: { channel: 'slack', peer: { kind: 'group', id: 'C0ADQ3A2JUQ' } } }
  ]
}

Expected behavior

Messages in channel C0ADQ3A2JUQ should route to the devbot agent (per binding).

Actual behavior

1. Both accounts start successfully ([default] starting provider, [devbot] starting provider, both socket mode connected)
2. Channel messages in C0ADQ3A2JUQ route to agent:main instead of agent:devbot (confirmed via diagnostic lane logs: lane=session:agent:main:slack:channel:c0adq3a2juq)
3. DMs to the devbot Slack app DO route to devbot correctly
4. Human messages (not just bot messages) also fail to route to devbot in the channel

Additional findings

• Initially tried with accountId: 'devbot' in the binding — same result
• Without accounts.default explicitly defined (only accounts.devbot), the primary bot fails to start entirely — only devbot starts
• After adding both as explicit accounts, both connect but channel routing still goes to main
• No skip or no-mention log entries for devbot — it appears devbot never receives the channel message at all

Steps to reproduce

1. Create two Slack apps with Socket Mode enabled
2. Configure both as accounts under channels.slack.accounts
3. Bind a channel to a non-default agent
4. Send a message in that channel
5. Observe routing goes to default agent, not bound agent

Workaround attempted

None found yet. The only working setup is single-account with agent binding (but then both agents respond as the same Slack bot identity).