Disconnecting a channel

Remove a channel from Beach — what happens to history, how to reconnect later.

What this is

If you want to stop your agent from responding on a channel — for example, you're rotating to a new bot or you don't need that channel anymore — you can disconnect it from Beach. This removes the connection between Beach and the channel, but it doesn't delete your conversation history or the bot itself.

Beach stores channel tokens in an encrypted vault. Disconnecting deletes the token from that vault. OpenClaw — running on your instance — stops connecting to the channel on the next restart.

Steps

  1. Open the Channels page in Beach.
  2. Find the channel you want to disconnect.
  3. Click Disconnect (or the equivalent action on that card).
  4. Restart your instance to apply the change.

What happens

  • Your token is removed from Beach's encrypted vault. Beach no longer stores it.
  • Your agent stops responding on that channel after the next restart.
  • Your conversation history stays. OpenClaw keeps the messages and memory it already has — disconnecting a channel doesn't wipe history. You'll see it again if you reconnect.
  • The channel side is untouched. Your Telegram bot (or Discord bot, or whatever) still exists in the channel's own system. Beach doesn't delete it. If you want to delete the bot itself, do that in the channel — for Telegram, that's /deletebot to @BotFather.
  • You can reconnect later. Paste the same token back into Beach (or a new one if you regenerated it) and the agent will be back online on that channel.

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