add-telegram

add-telegram is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from DingyangLyu/MatClaw. It costs 41 tokens per session (1,779 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for adding Telegram as a communication channel to MatClaw. Telegram can be used alongside WhatsApp, as a replacement, or only for sending notifications or receiving control commands.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add Telegram support, connect a bot token, configure control-only or passive operation, register the channel, add its tests, and complete the interactive setup.
Why use it?
It applies the channel changes in a repeatable way and checks whether Telegram is already configured. This avoids manually editing several related files and tests.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dingyanglyu/matclaw/add-telegram
Any agent
npx skills add DingyangLyu/MatClaw --skill add-telegram
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DingyangLyu/MatClaw

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,779 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00041 $0.01779
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00890
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00356
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00178

Measured 5d ago against content hash 856500e624e7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

add-telegram scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 4 executable files (add/src/channels/telegram.test.ts, add/src/channels/telegram.ts, modify/src/channels/index.ts, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

- Verify token: `curl -s "https://api.telegram.org/bot${TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN}/getMe"`
.claude/skills/add-telegram/SKILL.md · 232 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 232 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Add Telegram Channel

This skill adds Telegram support to MatClaw using the skills engine for deterministic code changes, then walks through interactive setup.

Phase 1: Pre-flight

Check if already applied

Read .matclaw/state.yaml. If telegram is in applied_skills, skip to Phase 3 (Setup). The code changes are already in place.

Ask the user

Use AskUserQuestion to collect configuration:

AskUserQuestion: Do you have a Telegram bot token, or do you need to create one?

If they have one, collect it now. If not, we'll create one in Phase 3.

Phase 2: Apply Code Changes

Run the skills engine to apply this skill's code package. The package files are in this directory alongside this SKILL.md.

Initialize skills system (if needed)

If .matclaw/ directory doesn't exist yet:

npx tsx scripts/apply-skill.ts --init

Or call initSkillsSystem() from skills-engine/migrate.ts.

Apply the skill

npx tsx scripts/apply-skill.ts .claude/skills/add-telegram

This deterministically:

  • Adds src/channels/telegram.ts (TelegramChannel class with self-registration via registerChannel)
  • Adds src/channels/telegram.test.ts (46 unit tests)
  • Appends import './telegram.js' to the channel barrel file src/channels/index.ts
  • Installs the grammy npm dependency
  • Updates .env.example with TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN
  • Records the application in .matclaw/state.yaml

If the apply reports merge conflicts, read the intent file:

  • modify/src/channels/index.ts.intent.md — what changed and invariants

Validate code changes

npm test
npm run build

All tests must pass (including the new telegram tests) and build must be clean before proceeding.

Phase 3: Setup

Create Telegram Bot (if needed)

If the user doesn't have a bot token, tell them:

I need you to create a Telegram bot:

  1. Open Telegram and search for @BotFather
  2. Send /newbot and follow prompts:
    • Bot name: Something friendly (e.g., "Andy Assistant")
    • Bot username: Must end with "bot" (e.g., "andy_ai_bot")
  3. Copy the bot token (looks like 123456:ABC-DEF1234ghIkl-zyx57W2v1u123ew11)

Read the full file on GitHub · 232 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 5d ago First seen · 232 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 856500e624e7

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add-telegram is a skill published in the GitHub repository DingyangLyu/MatClaw (89 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 1,779 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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