Creating your agent

Six steps, about ten minutes. If you refresh the page halfway through, everything you filled in is still there. Keep Telegram open the whole way — two of the steps happen inside it.

Step 1 — Name and settings

The name here is just a label to tell your agents apart on the platform, and you can change it later. The agent’s real name — the one it answers to — is something the two of you settle in your first conversation.

You also pick the language it replies in, your timezone (used for reminders and scheduled tasks), and how much you want to see on screen:

• Basic — the everyday screens: how your agent is doing, its personality and memory, scheduled tasks, and who else may talk to it. Recommended for most people.
• Advanced — adds the technical controls: model and API keys, machine size, storage, backups, logs and environment variables.

Step 2 — Your Telegram bot

Your agent needs a bot of its own, which you create for free with Telegram’s @BotFather. The wizard shows the four commands right there; if anything looks off, the full guide is in Creating your Telegram bot.

1. 1
   Open @BotFather on Telegram (there is a link in this step).
2. 2
   Send /newbot.
3. 3
   Choose a name and a handle ending in bot, e.g. sofia_home_bot.
4. 4
   Copy the token it gives back and paste it here — we check it on the spot.

Step 3 — Link your Telegram

This is what makes sure only you can talk to the agent.

1. 1
   Open your brand new bot on Telegram (there is a link in this step).
2. 2
   Send /start. It will not answer yet — that is expected, the agent does not exist so far.
3. 3
   Come back and click “Detect my Telegram”.
4. 4
   Confirm the name it found is yours and move on.

Step 4 — The brain

This is the intelligence behind your agent, and you have three ways to pay for it:

• Your Myndo credits — recommended, and already selected. Nothing to set up: the intelligence comes from us and is deducted from your balance. You pick an intelligence level; the higher the level, the better it reasons and the more credits it spends per conversation.
• Your own API key — if you already have a key from Anthropic, OpenAI or a compatible provider. That provider bills you directly, and your credits only pay for the machine.
• Your OpenAI or Anthropic account — if you already pay for Claude or ChatGPT, you sign in and your agent runs on that subscription.

Same step, two more things. First the two background routines — the Journal (the agent writes down what happened during the day) and Dreams (at night it revisits conversations and organises what it remembers). They are what make the agent get to know you instead of starting from zero every morning, and they do spend a little intelligence on their own, even on a quiet day. The wizard shows the estimate before you agree.

Then the machine size: how much memory, processing power and disk your agent gets, and how many credits it costs per hour while it is switched on. Start small — you can resize later on the agent page.

Step 5 — Voice messages

Whether your agent can listen to the voice notes you send. If you say yes, you choose who turns the audio into text:

• Your Myndo credits — nothing to set up, each voice note costs a few credits.
• Groq — free tier that comfortably covers everyday use, and it is fast. You create the key at console.groq.com/keys.
• OpenAI — paid, marginally more accurate. Worth it if you already have a key.

Step 6 — Review and create

A summary of everything, plus two optional extras: a fal.ai key if you want the agent to generate images and videos, and voice replies if you want it to answer out loud.

Setting up the machine takes 30 to 90 seconds. When the screen turns green, open the bot on Telegram and say hi — the agent introduces itself and walks you through the rest (its name, its personality, your preferences) by conversation.