telegram-reader

telegram-reader is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from himself65/finance-skills. It costs 152 tokens per session (2,084 once invoked), scanned D, original, MIT.

A read-only guide for researching financial news and market discussions in Telegram channels and groups, using tdl, a command-line Telegram reader.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to read channels and groups, search their messages, list chats, monitor financial news, and export message history.
Why use it?
It provides a way to inspect and export messages without sending messages or changing group and channel memberships.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the finance-social-readers plugin — 6 skills shipped together

About the project

Finance Skills is a collection of agent skills for financial analysis and trading, covering activities such as company valuation, earnings research, market analysis, and options calculations. It is for users who want coding agents to perform structured finance workflows, and the catalogue contains its skills, plugins, instructions, and MCP integration.

himself65/finance-skills · 3,279 stars · on GitHub

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/himself65/finance-skills/telegram-reader
Any agent
npx skills add himself65/finance-skills --skill telegram-reader
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/himself65/finance-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install finance-social-readers, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 152 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,084 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan D 3 findings. 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 $0.00152 $0.02084
Opus 5 $0.00076 $0.01042
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00417
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00208

Measured 5d ago against content hash 0bbcc24af850, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade D, and why

telegram-reader scanned grade D with 3 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 5d 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

| macOS / Linux | `curl -sSL https://docs.iyear.me/tdl/install.sh \| sudo bash` |

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

| macOS / Linux | `curl -sSL https://docs.iyear.me/tdl/install.sh \| sudo bash` |

Makes network callslowCapability

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

| macOS / Linux | `curl -sSL https://docs.iyear.me/tdl/install.sh \| sudo bash` |
plugins/social-readers/skills/telegram-reader/SKILL.md · 224 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 224 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Telegram News Skill (Read-Only)

Reads Telegram channels and groups for financial news and market research using tdl, a Telegram CLI tool.

This skill is read-only. It is designed for financial research: reading channel messages, monitoring financial news channels, and exporting message history. It does NOT support sending messages, joining/leaving channels, or any write operations.


Step 1: Ensure tdl Is Installed

Current environment status:

!`(command -v tdl && tdl version 2>&1 | head -3 || echo "TDL_NOT_INSTALLED") 2>/dev/null`

If the status above shows a version number, tdl is installed — skip to Step 2.

If TDL_NOT_INSTALLED, install tdl based on the user's platform:

Platform Install Command
macOS / Linux curl -sSL https://docs.iyear.me/tdl/install.sh | sudo bash
macOS (Homebrew) brew install telegram-downloader
Linux (Termux) pkg install tdl
Linux (AUR) yay -S tdl
Linux (Nix) nix-env -iA nixos.tdl
Go (any platform) go install github.com/iyear/tdl@latest

Ask the user which installation method they prefer. Default to Homebrew on macOS, curl script on Linux.


Step 2: Ensure tdl Is Authenticated

Current auth status:

!`(tdl chat ls --limit 1 2>&1 >/dev/null && echo "AUTH_OK" || echo "AUTH_NEEDED") 2>/dev/null`

If AUTH_OK, skip to Step 3.

If AUTH_NEEDED, guide the user through login. Login requires interactive input — the user must enter their phone number and verification code manually.

Login methods

Method A: QR Code (recommended — fastest)

tdl login -T qr

A QR code will be displayed in the terminal. The user scans it with their Telegram mobile app (Settings > Devices > Link Desktop Device).

Method B: Phone + Code

tdl login -T code

The user enters their phone number, then the verification code sent to their Telegram app.

Method C: Import from Telegram Desktop

Read the full file on GitHub · 224 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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 · 224 lines · 152 tokens per session scan D 0bbcc24af850

Subscribe to this mod's changes

telegram-reader is a skill published in the GitHub repository himself65/finance-skills (3,279 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 152 tokens to every session and 2,084 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it D with 3 findings (asks for root, downloads and executes remote code, 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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