telegram-reader

telegram-reader is a skill for Claude Code from himself65/finance-skills. It costs 100 tokens per session (2,032 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 Code

Written for Claude Code: dynamic context !`command`. Also seen: mentions Codex.

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

Good fit Use it to read channels and groups, search their messages, list chats, monitor financial news, and export message history.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/himself65/finance-skills/telegram-reader
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 · 3,460 stars · on GitHub · skills.himself65.com

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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 100 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,032 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan D 3 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 20 Oct 2026
  • Snyk warn 20 Oct 2026
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 $0.00100 $0.02032
Opus 5.5 $0.00040 $0.00813
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00406
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00203

Measured 8d ago against content hash 16cd91e47b4c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 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.

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 · 216 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 216 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Telegram News Skill (Read-Only)

If your host has not already executed the shell probes below (for example, in Codex), run the commands inside the ! wrappers with its shell tool before choosing a setup path. Use the actual output; if shell access is unavailable, report that limitation.

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

Default to Homebrew on macOS. On Linux the install script runs with sudo, so confirm with the user before using it, or offer their package manager instead.


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

Read the full file on GitHub · 216 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. 8d ago Changed · +2 lines 16cd91e47b4c
  2. 1mo ago Changed · -10 lines · -52 tokens per session 36aaba55fdad
  3. 1mo 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 (3,460 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 100 tokens to every session and 2,032 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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