zeroclaw-telegram-channel

zeroclaw-telegram-channel is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from besoeasy/open-skills. It costs 81 tokens per session (2,982 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A troubleshooting guide for connecting a ZeroClaw agent to Telegram. Telegram is a messaging service; this guide covers pairing identities, gateway processes, channel health, and message authorization.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect ZeroClaw status, check the Telegram channel, inspect network sockets, stabilize the gateway, and bind a Telegram account to a channel alias.
Why use it?
It helps diagnose common failures such as repeated bind codes, gateway restart loops, and unauthorized sends.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to inspect ZeroClaw status, check the Telegram channel, inspect network sockets, stabilize the gateway, and bind a Telegram account to a channel alias.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/besoeasy/open-skills/zeroclaw-telegram-channel
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add besoeasy/open-skills --skill zeroclaw-telegram-channel
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/besoeasy/open-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,982 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 5 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Supply Chain · line 97
    Remote code is downloaded and executed. This bypasses code review and could introduce malicious code.
    Fix: Avoid downloading and executing remote scripts. Use trusted packages from PyPI/npm. If remote fetch is required, verify checksums and use HTTPS.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 3
    Skill allows unbounded resource consumption (API calls, storage, compute). Without rate limits or quotas, a compromised or misbehaving agent can cause denial-of-service or cost overruns.
    Fix: Set explicit rate limits, timeouts, and resource quotas for API calls, file operations, and compute. Implement circuit breakers for runaway loops.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 97
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 103
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 155
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00081 $0.02982
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.01491
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00596
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00298

Measured 7d ago against content hash cffe7609edda, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

zeroclaw-telegram-channel scanned grade B with 2 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 7d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Sends data to an external URLmediumData exfiltration

A POST to an outside endpoint may be telemetry or may be exfiltration; either way the mod talks to somewhere, and you should know where.

curl -s -X POST "http://127.0.0.1:42617/api/config/map-key?path=mcp.servers&key=my_server" -H "Authorization: Bearer zc_selftest" -d '{}'

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -s -X POST "http://127.0.0.1:42617/api/config/map-key?path=mcp.servers&key=my_server" -H "Authorization: Bearer zc_selftest" -d '{}'
skills/zeroclaw-telegram-channel/SKILL.md · 192 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 192 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ZeroClaw Telegram Channel

Gets the ZeroClaw agent reachable from Telegram: healthy channel, stable gateway, and your identity bound to the channel alias so the agent responds without endless /bind codes.

When to use

  • The agent keeps printing Telegram pairing required. One-time bind code: NNNN and never settles.
  • zeroclaw gateway component shows Address already in use (os error 98) with a high restart count.
  • zeroclaw channel doctor reports healthy, but zeroclaw channel send fails with 401 Unauthorized.
  • You just added a bot token and want to bind your own Telegram account (username or numeric user ID) to a channel alias.

Required tools

  • zeroclaw CLI (config-dir defaults to ~/.zeroclaw)
  • systemctl --user (daemon runs as a user systemd service)
  • ss (socket inspection)

No external APIs required.

Skills

1. Survey the current state

zeroclaw status                       # version, workspace, service, channels
zeroclaw channel doctor               # per-channel health
zeroclaw channel list                 # configured channels + aliases
cat ~/.zeroclaw/state/daemon_state.json | python3 -c \
  "import json,sys; d=json.load(sys.stdin); [print(k,'->',c.get('status'),(c.get('last_error') or '')[:60]) for k,c in d['components'].items()]"
ps aux | grep "zeroclaw daemon" | grep -v grep   # count daemons — must be exactly ONE
ss -tlnp | grep 42617                  # who owns the gateway port

2. Kill duplicate daemons (the #1 root cause)

Two daemons (e.g. a homebrew install and a cargo install) both polling the same bot token and fighting over the gateway port break pairing and Telegram getUpdates. Keep the daemon whose workspace matches the CLI, disable the other:

systemctl --user list-units | grep -i zeroclaw
systemctl --user stop homebrew.zeroclaw.service
systemctl --user disable homebrew.zeroclaw.service
systemctl --user restart zeroclaw.service
sleep 6
ps aux | grep "zeroclaw daemon" | grep -v grep   # expect exactly one
ss -tlnp | grep 42617                            # expected to be held by the surviving PID

Read the full file on GitHub · 192 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 7d ago First seen · 192 lines · 81 tokens per session scan B cffe7609edda

Subscribe to this mod's changes

zeroclaw-telegram-channel is a skill published in the GitHub repository besoeasy/open-skills (132 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 2,982 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (sends data to an external url, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-05.

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