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Archiving a bot turns it off without losing anything. An archived bot keeps its chat, its files, its settings and its scheduled tasks. It stops taking new messages and its tasks stop running until you unarchive it. Nothing brings it back by itself: only an owner or admin can unarchive it. Only owners and admins can archive or unarchive a bot.

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Archive a bot

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Open Bots

Go to Bots in the sidebar.
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Open the bot's menu

Click the ⋮ button on the bot’s row and choose Archive.
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Undo if you need to

A message confirms the bot is archived. Click Undo in it to bring the bot straight back.
The bot moves to the Archived list at the bottom of the Bots page, with the date you archived it.

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What changes while a bot is archived

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Unarchive a bot

Go to Bots, find the bot under Archived, open its ⋮ menu and choose Unarchive. You can also click Unarchive in the note at the bottom of the bot’s chat. The bot takes messages again right away and shows up in the sidebar and in @mentions. Nothing that came in while the bot was archived is waiting for it. Tasks that came due do not all run at once when you unarchive it: each one is marked as skipped in its run history, with the reason “its bot was archived when it was due”, and runs again at its next scheduled time. A one-time task whose time passed while the bot was archived does not run.

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Archiving or deleting

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Limits

  • Unarchive is on the web only. The mobile app does not list archived bots and cannot unarchive them. Use the Bots page on the web.
  • Follow-ups the bot planned for itself are dropped. If the bot had set itself a reminder, or was waiting for a long job to finish, and that comes due while it is archived, it does not pick it up after you unarchive it. Ask the bot to pick the work up again.
  • An archived bot still counts toward your bot limit, because it keeps everything it had.