Add support for creating, editing, closing, reopening, and deleting
Telegram forum topics via the message tool.
New actions:
- topic-create: Create a forum topic (name required, optional iconColor
and iconCustomEmojiId)
- topic-edit: Edit topic name/icon (requires messageThreadId)
- topic-close: Close an open topic
- topic-reopen: Reopen a closed topic
- topic-delete: Delete a topic and all its messages
These actions are gated behind channels.telegram.actions.forumTopics
(defaults to false/disabled). The bot needs can_manage_topics admin
rights in the supergroup.
Implementation:
- Add 5 new action names to message-action-names.ts
- Add target modes in message-action-spec.ts
- Add forum topic API functions in telegram/send.ts using grammY's
built-in createForumTopic/editForumTopic/closeForumTopic/
reopenForumTopic/deleteForumTopic methods
- Wire actions through telegram-actions.ts and the channel plugin
adapter in channels/plugins/actions/telegram.ts
- Add forumTopics flag to TelegramActionConfig type
- Add schema properties (iconColor, iconCustomEmojiId, messageThreadId)
to the message tool schema
- Add 9 new tests covering all actions and validation
Closes#3056
Add support for receiving and sending Telegram stickers:
Inbound:
- Receive static WEBP stickers (skip animated/video)
- Process stickers through dedicated vision call for descriptions
- Cache vision descriptions to avoid repeated API calls
- Graceful error handling for fetch failures
Outbound:
- Add sticker action to send stickers by fileId
- Add sticker-search action to find cached stickers by query
- Accept stickerId from shared schema, convert to fileId
Cache:
- Store sticker metadata (fileId, emoji, setName, description)
- Fuzzy search by description, emoji, and set name
- Persist to ~/.clawdbot/telegram/sticker-cache.json
Config:
- Single `channels.telegram.actions.sticker` option enables both
send and search actions
🤖 AI-assisted: Built with Claude Code (claude-opus-4-5)
Testing: Fully tested - unit tests pass, live tested on dev gateway
The contributor understands and has reviewed all code changes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(telegram): add silent message option (disable_notification)
Add support for sending Telegram messages silently without notification
sound via the `silent` parameter on the message tool.
Changes:
- Add `silent` boolean to message tool schema
- Extract and pass `silent` through telegram plugin
- Add `disable_notification: true` to Telegram API calls
- Add `--silent` flag to CLI `message send` command
- Add unit test for silent flag
Closes#2249
AI-assisted (Claude) - fully tested with unit tests + manual Telegram testing
* feat(telegram): add silent send option (#2382) (thanks @Suksham-sharma)
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Co-authored-by: Pocket Clawd <pocket@Pockets-Mac-mini.local>
The proxy configuration (`channels.telegram.proxy`) was only used for
the gateway monitor (polling), but not for outbound sends (sendMessage,
reactMessage, deleteMessage). This caused outbound messages to bypass
the configured proxy, which is problematic for users behind corporate
proxies or those who want to route all traffic through a specific proxy.
This change ensures that all three outbound functions use the same
proxy configuration as the monitor:
- sendMessageTelegram
- reactMessageTelegram
- deleteMessageTelegram
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add channels.telegram.linkPreview config to control whether link previews
are shown in outbound messages. When set to false, uses Telegram's
link_preview_options.is_disabled to suppress URL previews.
- Add linkPreview to TelegramAccountConfig type
- Add Zod schema validation for linkPreview
- Pass link_preview_options to sendMessage in send.ts and bot/delivery.ts
- Propagate linkPreview config through deliverReplies callers
- Add tests for link preview behavior
Fixes#1675
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Telegram General topic (id=1) has inconsistent API behavior:
- sendMessage: rejects explicit message_thread_id=1
- sendChatAction: requires message_thread_id=1 for typing to show
Split into two helper functions:
- buildTelegramThreadParams: excludes General topic for messages
- buildTypingThreadParams: includes General topic for typing
Add ability to delete messages in Telegram chats via the message tool.
Changes:
- Add deleteMessageTelegram function in send.ts
- Add deleteMessage action handler in telegram-actions.ts
- Add delete action support in telegram message plugin adapter
- Add deleteMessage to TelegramActionConfig type
- Update message tool description to mention delete action
Usage:
- Via message tool: action="delete", chatId, messageId
- Can be disabled via channels.telegram.actions.deleteMessage=false
Limitations (Telegram API):
- Bot can delete its own messages in any chat
- Bot can delete others' messages only if admin with "Delete Messages"
- Messages older than 48h in groups may fail to delete
Use Telegram's sendVoice API for audio files by default, displaying them
as round playable voice bubbles instead of file attachments.
Changes:
- Add asVoice option to TelegramSendOpts (defaults to true)
- When asVoice is true (default): use api.sendVoice() for voice bubbles
- When asVoice is false: use api.sendAudio() for traditional audio files
This gives callers control: voice messages for TTS/quick responses,
audio files for music/podcasts with metadata display.
