dump-channel

dump-channel is a skill for Claude Code from terrylica/cc-skills. It costs 32 tokens per session (1,200 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Telegram archive tool that saves the history of a channel, group, or chat as newline-delimited JSON records and can download its photos, videos, and documents. Telegram is a messaging service, and newline-delimited JSON stores one JSON record per line.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to archive a subscribed Telegram channel or chat, either with all media or with message records only.
Why use it?
It creates a local copy of chat history and media rather than leaving the material only inside Telegram.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is bun "$SCRIPT" dump @ChannelName ./output/ChannelName.

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

Good fit Use it to archive a subscribed Telegram channel or chat, either with all media or with message records only.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/terrylica/cc-skills
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/terrylica/cc-skills/dump-channel

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 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,200 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: 2 findings, 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 127
    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.
  • medium Output Handling · line 68
    Output size or generation rate is not bounded. Unbounded output enables denial-of-service through resource exhaustion, log flooding, or context-window stuffing.
    Fix: Set explicit limits on output length, generation count, and rate. Use max_tokens and truncation to prevent unbounded output.
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 $0.00032 $0.01200
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00600
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00240
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00120

Measured 4d ago against content hash 6a64d6ac5d48, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dump-channel 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 4d 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/dump-channel/SKILL.md · 130 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 130 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dump Telegram Channel History

Archive a complete Telegram channel/group/chat to NDJSON + downloaded media files.

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
  2. User must be subscribed to (or a member of) the target channel/chat

Usage

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

# Full dump: NDJSON + all media (photos, videos, documents)
bun "$SCRIPT" dump @ChannelName ./output/ChannelName

# NDJSON only (skip media downloads — much faster)
bun "$SCRIPT" dump @ChannelName ./output/ChannelName --no-media

# Dump by numeric chat ID
bun "$SCRIPT" dump -1001234567890 ./output/MyChannel

# Use a different profile
bun "$SCRIPT" -p missterryli dump @ChannelName ./output/ChannelName
EOF

Parameters

Parameter Type Description
chat string/int Channel username (@name) or numeric chat ID
output path Output directory (messages.ndjson + media/ created inside)
--no-media flag Skip media downloads, produce NDJSON only

Output Structure

output/ChannelName/
├── messages.ndjson   ← one JSON object per line, chronological (oldest first)
└── media/
    ├── 6.jpg         ← named by message ID for cross-referencing
    ├── 12.png
    ├── 45.mp4
    └── ...

NDJSON Record Schema

Each line is a JSON object with these fields:

Field Type Description
id int Telegram message ID
date string ISO 8601 timestamp with timezone
text string/null Full message text (no truncation)
has_media bool Whether message contains media
media_type string/null GramJS class name (MessageMediaPhoto, etc.)
media_file string/null Filename in media/ dir (e.g., "6.jpg")
views int/null View count (channels only)
forwards int/null Forward count
reply_to_msg_id int/null Parent message ID if reply
grouped_id int/null Album group ID (shared across album messages)
edit_date string/null ISO 8601 timestamp of last edit
sender.id int Sender's Telegram user/channel ID
sender.name string Display name (channel title or user first name)
sender.username string/null @username if set

Read the full file on GitHub · 130 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. 4d ago First seen · 130 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 6a64d6ac5d48

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dump-channel is a skill published in the GitHub repository terrylica/cc-skills (66 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 1,200 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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