A local archive and command-line tool for searching Telegram chats, messages, contacts, folders, and topics. Telegram is a messaging service; the archive can import data from Telegram Desktop or the native macOS app.

Use it to search messages, list chats or contacts, inspect folders and topics, check archive status, verify a Telegram data source, or import and refresh history.

It lets an agent answer questions from saved Telegram history and distinguishes an empty local database from an archive that has not yet been imported. It can also check the archive's status and freshness.

telecrawl — Skill by steipete

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/steipete/agent-scripts/telecrawl

Any agent

npx skills add steipete/agent-scripts --skill telecrawl

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/steipete/agent-scripts

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 410 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5	$0.00023	$0.00410
Opus 5	$0.00012	$0.00205
Sonnet 5	$0.00005	$0.00082
Haiku 4.5	$0.00002	$0.00041

Measured 2d ago against content hash 4db095814333, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

telecrawl 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 2d 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/telecrawl/SKILL.md · 61 lines

What it actually says

Telecrawl

Use this for Telegram history questions. Local archive first; the Telegram apps only for live/current state.

Sources

DB: ~/.telecrawl/telecrawl.db
Import source: Telegram Desktop tdata or native macOS Telegram Postbox (auto-detected)
CLI: telecrawl
Archive host: the populated archive currently lives on clawmac (~200 chats). Local DBs on other Macs may be empty — check status first and prefer SSH to the archive host over answering from an empty DB:

ssh -o RequestTTY=no -o RemoteCommand=none steipete@clawmac 'zsh -lc "telecrawl --json status"'

Freshness

telecrawl --json status

Empty counts mean no import has run on this machine, not "no Telegram data".

Queries

All read commands take --json.

telecrawl --json chats --limit 20
telecrawl --json chats --unread
telecrawl --json messages --chat <ID> --limit 50 --after 2026-01-01
telecrawl --json search "query" [--chat ID]
telecrawl --json contacts --limit 50
telecrawl --json folders
telecrawl --json topics --chat <ID>

Import / Refresh

telecrawl doctor                 # verify a Telegram data source is readable
telecrawl import                 # merge-import from detected local Telegram app
telecrawl import --fetch-media   # also pull Telegram cloud media

Imports merge by default; --restore replaces the archive — treat as destructive and confirm first.

Backup

Encrypted age shards to a git repo:

telecrawl backup status
telecrawl backup push

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.

2d ago First seen · 61 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A 4db095814333

Subscribe to this mod's changes

telecrawl is a skill published in the GitHub repository steipete/agent-scripts (6,590 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 410 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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