/c-telegram

name: c-telegram
description: Bidirectional Telegram bridge — talk to Claude from your phone. Built into OpenPaw.
tags: [telegram, messaging, communication, bot, bridge]

Telegram Bridge

Full bidirectional Claude-from-Telegram. Send messages from your phone, get responses from Claude with all your skills available.

How It Works

The OpenPaw Telegram bridge (`openpaw telegram`) connects a Telegram bot to Claude via the Agent SDK. Every skill installed in `~/.claude/skills/` is available as a bot command.

Starting the Bridge

openpaw telegram

This starts a long-running process. Keep it open in a terminal or tmux session.

Bot Commands

Built-in:

• `/start` — show status and available skills
• `/model sonnet|opus|haiku` — switch Claude model
• `/skills` — list installed skills
• `/stop` — cancel current operation
• `/clear` — reset conversation

Skill commands (auto-generated from your installed skills):

• `/email check my inbox`
• `/music play some jazz`
• `/notes add grocery list`
• `/calendar what's on tomorrow`
• (any installed skill becomes a /command)

Or just send a regular message — Claude will figure out which skill to use.

Setup

Run during `openpaw setup` or separately:

openpaw telegram setup

You'll need: 1. A Telegram bot token (from @BotFather) 2. Your Telegram user ID (from @userinfobot)

Config is saved to `~/.config/openpaw/telegram.json`.

Security

• Only responds to whitelisted user IDs
• Bot token stored with 600 permissions (owner-only)
• All Claude operations run locally on your machine

Guidelines

• The bridge maintains conversation context per user
• Use `/clear` to start fresh if Claude gets confused
• Use `/stop` to cancel long-running operations
• Model can be switched anytime with `/model`