telegram-formatting

telegram-formatting is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from EricTechPro/startup-claude-skills. It costs 51 tokens per session (623 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A formatting guide for replies sent by Telegram bots, using Telegram's MarkdownV2 text style.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when sending Telegram replies that need headings, bold text, emojis, bullet points, or correctly escaped punctuation.
Why use it?
It keeps bot messages short and readable on a phone and prevents special characters from breaking the formatting.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it when sending Telegram replies that need headings, bold text, emojis, bullet points, or correctly escaped punctuation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/erictechpro/startup-claude-skills/telegram-formatting
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 EricTechPro/startup-claude-skills --skill telegram-formatting
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/EricTechPro/startup-claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 623 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00051 $0.00623
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00311
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00125
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00062

Measured 8d ago against content hash 93e12f4f5e90, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

telegram-formatting scanned grade A with 0 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 8d 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.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/telegram-formatting/SKILL.md · 83 lines

What it actually says

Telegram Formatting — Claude Code Reply Style

Ensures every Telegram reply is short, concise, and mobile-friendly using MarkdownV2.

When to Use

Apply this skill whenever replying via mcp__plugin_telegram_telegram__reply. Every reply must use format: "markdownv2".

Rules

Rule Requirement
Length Under ~800 chars when possible
Format Always set format: "markdownv2"
Structure Emojis as section headers + bullet points
Emphasis Bold key terms and outcomes
Tone Direct, no filler, no preamble

MarkdownV2 Syntax

Entity Syntax
Bold *bold text*
Italic _italic text_
Underline __underline__
Strikethrough ~strikethrough~
Spoiler ||spoiler||
Inline code `code`
Pre block ```pre```
Link [text](URL)
Bold italic *_bold italic_*

Escaping (CRITICAL)

These characters MUST be escaped with \ when they appear outside formatting entities:

_ * [ ] ( ) ~ ` > # + - = | { } . !

Escaping by context

Context What to escape
Plain text All 18 special chars listed above
Inside (...) of links ) and \ only
Inside code/pre ` and \ only

Common gotchas

  • Done! must be Done\!
  • file.txt must be file\.txt
  • A - B must be A \- B
  • key=val must be key\=val
  • (test) must be \(test\)

Message Template

✅ *Done\!* Brief outcome summary

📋 *What changed:*
• Item one
• Item two

⚡ *Next:* What happens now

Anti-Patterns

Don't Do
Wall of text Bullets with emoji headers
Repeat what user said Jump to the answer
Plain text format Always MarkdownV2
Unescaped special chars Escape every . ! - ( ) etc.
Long explanations Max 3-5 bullet points per section
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. 8d ago First seen · 83 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A 93e12f4f5e90

Subscribe to this mod's changes

telegram-formatting is a skill published in the GitHub repository EricTechPro/startup-claude-skills (55 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 623 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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