download-media

download-media is a skill for Claude Code from terrylica/cc-skills. It costs 28 tokens per session (558 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command-line workflow for downloading photos, videos, documents, and other media from Telegram messages. It first helps locate a message containing media, then saves that item to a chosen directory.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to browse recent Telegram messages, identify media message IDs, and download the selected files to the current or specified folder.
Why use it?
It avoids manually extracting files from Telegram and provides a repeatable way to find media by chat and message ID. It also checks that a Telegram session exists before downloading.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the tlg plugin — 11 skills shipped together , and of cc-skills

Good fit Use it to browse recent Telegram messages, identify media message IDs, and download the selected files to the current or specified folder.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/terrylica/cc-skills/download-media
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add terrylica/cc-skills --skill download-media
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/terrylica/cc-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install tlg, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills.

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Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 558 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Rogue Agent · line 63
    Skill modifies its own code, configuration, or behavior at runtime. Self-modification enables an agent to escalate privileges, disable safety constraints, or install persistent backdoors.
    Fix: Prevent the skill from modifying its own code, SKILL.md, or configuration files. Treat skill files as read-only at runtime.
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 $0.00028 $0.00558
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00279
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00112
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00056

Measured 7d ago against content hash d5462871a536, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

download-media 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 7d 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.

plugins/tlg/skills/download-media/SKILL.md · 66 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 66 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Download Telegram Media

Download photos, videos, documents, and other media from Telegram messages.

Self-Evolving Skill: This skill improves through use. If instructions are wrong, parameters drifted, or a workaround was needed — fix this file immediately, don't defer. Only update for real, reproducible issues.

Preflight

  1. Session must exist: ~/.local/share/gramjs/<profile>.session
    • If missing, run /tlg:setup first

Usage

/usr/bin/env bash << 'EOF'
ROOT="$(cc-plugin-root tlg)"
SCRIPT="$ROOT/scripts/tg-cli.ts"

# Step 1: Find message ID with media
bun "$SCRIPT" read <chat> -n 10

# Step 2: Download by message ID
bun "$SCRIPT" download <chat> <message_id>

# Download to specific directory
bun "$SCRIPT" download 2124832490 471931 -o ./downloads
EOF

Parameters

Parameter Type Description
chat string/int Chat containing the message
message_id int ID of message with media
-o/--output path Output directory (default: current)

Workflow

  1. Use read <chat> -n N to browse messages and find IDs
  2. Messages with media show [media/service] in text
  3. Use download <chat> <id> to save the file

Error Handling

Error Cause Fix
message not found Invalid message ID Check with read first
has no media Text-only message Choose a message with media

Post-Execution Reflection

After this skill completes, check before closing:

  1. Did the command succeed? — If not, fix the instruction or error table that caused the failure.
  2. Did parameters or output change? — If tg-cli.ts's interface drifted, update Usage examples and Parameters table to match.
  3. Was a workaround needed? — If you had to improvise (different flags, extra steps), update this SKILL.md so the next invocation doesn't need the same workaround.

Read the full file on GitHub · 66 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. 7d ago First seen · 66 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A d5462871a536

Subscribe to this mod's changes

download-media is a skill published in the GitHub repository terrylica/cc-skills (73 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 558 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 2026-09-05.

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