search-messages

search-messages is a skill for Claude Code from terrylica/cc-skills. It costs 32 tokens per session (719 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Telegram message search tool for finding text across all chats or within one chat. Telegram is a messaging service for personal and group conversations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find past discussions, decisions, links, or messages from a particular person in Telegram.
Why use it?
It removes the need to browse long conversation histories manually. You can also narrow results by chat or sender and limit how many are returned.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the tlg plugin — 15 skills shipped together , and of cc-skills

Good fit Use it to find past discussions, decisions, links, or messages from a particular person in Telegram.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/terrylica/cc-skills/search-messages
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 terrylica/cc-skills --skill search-messages
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 15 skills.

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README.md
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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 719 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.
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 $0.00719
Opus 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00288
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00144
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00072

Measured 24d ago against content hash ff23cbf81db1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

search-messages 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 24d 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/search-messages/SKILL.md · 84 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 84 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Search Telegram Messages

Search messages globally across all chats or within a specific chat.

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"

# Global search (all chats)
bun "$SCRIPT" search "search term" -n 20

# Search in specific chat
bun "$SCRIPT" search "keyword" --chat 2124832490

# Filter by sender
bun "$SCRIPT" search "topic" --from @username

# Combined: search in chat from specific sender
bun "$SCRIPT" search "query" --chat @groupname --from @sender -n 10
EOF

Parameters

Parameter Type Description
query string Search text (required)
--chat string/int Limit to specific chat (omit for global)
--from string/int Filter by sender
-n/--limit int Max results (default: 20)
--preview int Truncate each body to N chars (default: full text, multi-line indented).

Output Format

Default (full text, multi-line indented):

[YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM] [Chat Name] (id:12345) Sender: First line of body
    continuation line 1 (indented under header)
    continuation line 2

With --preview 100:

[YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM] [Chat Name] (id:12345) Sender: First line of body ⏎ continuation collapsed onto…

Use --preview N only for high-volume scans where you want one row per message. Default = full text — long bodies are no longer silently truncated at 150 chars (the prior default forced manual workarounds when content actually mattered).

Read the full file on GitHub · 84 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. 24d ago First seen · 84 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A ff23cbf81db1

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search-messages is a skill published in the GitHub repository terrylica/cc-skills (0 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 719 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-02.