install-hermes-telegram-ads-watcher

install-hermes-telegram-ads-watcher is a skill for Claude Code from sh0tn1k/telegram-ads. It costs 71 tokens per session (5,748 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An installation and setup procedure for a Telegram Ads watcher, a tool that regularly reads advertising-account data. It connects the watcher to Hermes in read-only mode and can perform separately approved checks against a real account.

In plain words
What is it for?
Installing a specific watcher version, checking its available capabilities, preparing Hermes integration, running an approved login or account smoke test, and starting approved background monitoring.
Why use it?
It avoids repeating the setup needed to install a pinned watcher version and connect its storage, service, scheduler, and read-only reader. It also keeps real-account checks and long-running monitoring behind approval.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: built for hermes-agent.

Not installable: its command points at a path on the author’s own machine, so it runs nowhere else. The line is /home/hermes/.hermes/telegram_ads.yaml.

Part of the telegram-ads plugin — 13 skills shipped together

Good fit Installing a specific watcher version, checking its available capabilities, preparing Hermes integration, running an approved login or account smoke test, and starting approved background monitoring.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add sh0tn1k/telegram-ads
Claude Code
/plugin install telegram-ads

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install telegram-ads, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills.

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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,748 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00071 $0.05748
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.02874
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.01150
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00575

Measured 10d ago against content hash 355c7f5b37f3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

install-hermes-telegram-ads-watcher 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 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 6 executable files (scripts/ads_watcher_smoke.py, scripts/create-restart-marker.sh, templates/real_adapter_smoke.py, …), 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.

Runs shell commandslowCapability

Expected in a hook, worth knowing in a rule or an instructions file.

- **Operator activation via systemd env vars — `_global_lifecycle` is never lazy-initialised.** Setting `TELEGRAM_ADS_OPERATOR_ENABLED=1` + `TELEGRAM_ADS_OPERATOR_POLLING_ENABLED=1` in the systemd override is necessary b
skills/install-hermes-telegram-ads-watcher/SKILL.md · 182 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 182 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Install hermes_telegram_ads.watcher (pinned) into Hermes

When to use

  • Нужно подтянуть изменения watcher из upstream example/telegram-ads-upstream на pinned commit.
  • Нужно проверить import hermes_telegram_ads.watcher + list_tool_coverage() (~62 capabilities).
  • Нужно подготовить Hermes wiring (store / service / scheduler / read-only adapter / consumer stub) без запуска против реального Telegram Ads кабинета.
  • Нужен one-shot real adapter smoke (detect_login_state / browser_healthy / list_accounts) — отдельный approval gate, не выполняется автоматически.
  • Нужен долгий WatcherScheduler.run_forever() background process — отдельный approval gate.

When NOT to use

  • Любая задача, которая в итоге вызовет WatcherScheduler.run_forever() против реального кабинета — это требует отдельного явного одобрения оператора.
  • Mutating Telegram Ads actions (create/edit/stop/CPM/budget/apply_approved_action) — запрещены в этом skill.
  • Запуск real_adapter_smoke.py без явного одобрения оператора на конкретный список вызовов (smoke сам по себе read-only, но инициирует real Chromium launch + GET к ads.telegram.org).
  • Watches of any kind — adding a watch is a separate approval gate that transitions the scheduler from idle to active (real adapter calls per tick).

Strict approval-scope discipline (HARD rule)

When the operator approves an approval-gated operation with an explicit list of allowed commands/tools, execute ONLY those — nothing else.

This is non-negotiable even when extra read-only tool calls would be helpful for the report:

  • ✅ Allowed: one telegram_ads_login_check() → report based on its return value alone.
  • ❌ NOT allowed even if read-only: "while I'm at it, let me also call telegram_ads_status and telegram_ads_get_browser_profile_info for cross-verification."

Why: the operator treats every additional tool call as a separate side-effect surface. Even a read-only telegram_ads_* call initiates Chromium IPC, navigates to ads.telegram.org, and consumes a request slot — each call is a separate action with its own risk profile. "Helpful cross-verification" is scope drift and will be flagged.

Read the full file on GitHub · 182 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. 10d ago First seen · 182 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 355c7f5b37f3

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install-hermes-telegram-ads-watcher is a skill published in the GitHub repository sh0tn1k/telegram-ads (0 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 5,748 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (runs shell commands). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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