fix(subagents): pass group context in /subagents spawn

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ Docs: https://docs.openclaw.ai
 - Discord: optimize reaction notification handling to skip unnecessary message fetches in `off`/`all`/`allowlist` modes, streamline reaction routing, and improve reaction emoji formatting. (#18248) Thanks @thewilloftheshadow and @victorGPT.
 - CLI/Pairing: make `openclaw qr --remote` prefer `gateway.remote.url` over tailscale/public URL resolution and register the `openclaw clawbot qr` legacy alias path. (#18091)
 - CLI/QR: restore fail-fast validation for `openclaw qr --remote` when neither `gateway.remote.url` nor tailscale `serve`/`funnel` is configured, preventing unusable remote pairing QR flows. (#18166) Thanks @mbelinky.
+- Auto-reply/Subagents: propagate group context (`groupId`, `groupChannel`, `space`) when spawning via `/subagents spawn`, matching tool-triggered subagent spawn behavior.
 - Agents/Tools/exec: add a preflight guard that detects likely shell env var injection (e.g. `$DM_JSON`, `$TMPDIR`) in Python/Node scripts before execution, preventing recurring cron failures and wasted tokens when models emit mixed shell+language source. (#12836)
 - Agents/Tools: make loop detection progress-aware and phased by hard-blocking known `process(action=poll|log)` no-progress loops, warning on generic identical-call repeats, warning + no-progress-blocking ping-pong alternation loops (10/20), coalescing repeated warning spam into threshold buckets (including canonical ping-pong pairs), adding a global circuit breaker at 30 no-progress repeats, and emitting structured diagnostic `tool.loop` warning/error events for loop actions. (#16808) Thanks @akramcodez and @beca-oc.
 - Agents/Tools: scope the `message` tool schema to the active channel so Telegram uses `buttons` and Discord uses `components`. (#18215) Thanks @obviyus.

src/auto-reply/reply/commands-subagents-spawn.test.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import { beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
-import { resetSubagentRegistryForTests } from "../../agents/subagent-registry.js";
 import type { SpawnSubagentResult } from "../../agents/subagent-spawn.js";
+import { resetSubagentRegistryForTests } from "../../agents/subagent-registry.js";
 
 const hoisted = vi.hoisted(() => {
   const spawnSubagentDirectMock = vi.fn();
@@ -126,6 +126,28 @@ describe("/subagents spawn command", () => {
     expect(spawnParams.task).toBe("do the thing");
   });
 
+  it("passes group context from session entry to spawnSubagentDirect", async () => {
+    spawnSubagentDirectMock.mockResolvedValue(acceptedResult());
+    const params = buildCommandTestParams("/subagents spawn beta do the thing", baseCfg);
+    params.sessionEntry = {
+      sessionId: "session-main",
+      updatedAt: Date.now(),
+      groupId: "group-1",
+      groupChannel: "#group-channel",
+      space: "workspace-1",
+    };
+    const result = await handleSubagentsCommand(params, true);
+    expect(result).not.toBeNull();
+    expect(result?.reply?.text).toContain("Spawned subagent beta");
+
+    const [, spawnCtx] = spawnSubagentDirectMock.mock.calls[0];
+    expect(spawnCtx).toMatchObject({
+      agentGroupId: "group-1",
+      agentGroupChannel: "#group-channel",
+      agentGroupSpace: "workspace-1",
+    });
+  });
+
   it("returns forbidden for unauthorized cross-agent spawn", async () => {
     spawnSubagentDirectMock.mockResolvedValue(
       forbiddenResult("agentId is not allowed for sessions_spawn (allowed: alpha)"),

src/auto-reply/reply/commands-subagents.ts

@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 import crypto from "node:crypto";
+import type { SubagentRunRecord } from "../../agents/subagent-registry.js";
+import type { CommandHandler } from "./commands-types.js";
 import { AGENT_LANE_SUBAGENT } from "../../agents/lanes.js";
 import { abortEmbeddedPiRun } from "../../agents/pi-embedded.js";
-import type { SubagentRunRecord } from "../../agents/subagent-registry.js";
 import {
   clearSubagentRunSteerRestart,
   listSubagentRunsForRequester,
@@ -35,7 +36,6 @@ import {
 } from "../../shared/subagents-format.js";
 import { INTERNAL_MESSAGE_CHANNEL } from "../../utils/message-channel.js";
 import { stopSubagentsForRequester } from "./abort.js";
-import type { CommandHandler } from "./commands-types.js";
 import { clearSessionQueues } from "./queue.js";
 import { formatRunLabel, formatRunStatus, sortSubagentRuns } from "./subagents-utils.js";
 
@@ -681,6 +681,9 @@ export const handleSubagentsCommand: CommandHandler = async (params, allowTextCo
         agentAccountId: params.ctx.AccountId,
         agentTo: params.command.to,
         agentThreadId: params.ctx.MessageThreadId,
+        agentGroupId: params.sessionEntry?.groupId ?? null,
+        agentGroupChannel: params.sessionEntry?.groupChannel ?? null,
+        agentGroupSpace: params.sessionEntry?.space ?? null,
       },
     );
     if (result.status === "accepted") {