Telegram Skill for Claude

Send Telegram messages, files, and alerts via bot API; read replies; ask questions with inline buttons and wait for the answer (approve-from-phone). Supports multiple bots and named chat targets. Use when the user wants to send a Telegram message or alert, get notified on Telegram when a task finishes or needs input, ask for approval via Telegram, or wire Telegram notifications into hooks, cron jobs, or CI. Triggers: 'telegram', 'send me a telegram', 'alert me on telegram', 'ask me on telegram', 'notify me when done'.

6k tokens

context cost

the whole folder, loaded on every use

files

ships runnable scripts

copies elsewhere

how many repositories repackaged it

363

stars on the repo

on the repository, not the skill itself

Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository

npx skills add https://github.com/sanjay3290/ai-skills --skill telegram

The instruction itself

4 sections, as written by the author

Send updates, alerts, and files to Telegram; read replies; run ask-and-wait

approval flows. Pure bash + curl + jq — no install beyond a bot token.

First run: scripts/telegram.sh setup (guided BotFather walkthrough).

Commands

scripts/telegram.sh send "Deploy finished ✅"                    # basic alert
scripts/telegram.sh send "low priority" --silent                # no notification sound
scripts/telegram.sh send "*bold* alert" --format md             # MarkdownV2 (falls back to plain)
scripts/telegram.sh send "hi" --to alerts --bot work            # named target + named bot
scripts/telegram.sh file report.pdf "Q3 report"                 # document (photos auto-detected)
scripts/telegram.sh read                                        # new incoming messages since last read
ANSWER=$(scripts/telegram.sh ask "Deploy to prod?" --options "Yes,No" --timeout 300)
# exit 0 = answered (stdout = answer), 2 = timeout

Config

Env vars win, then ~/.config/telegram/config (mode 600):

TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN=123:ABC...     # default bot
TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID=987654321        # default target
BOT_ALERTS_TOKEN=456:DEF...       # --bot alerts   (add via: setup --bot alerts)
TARGET_FAMILY=-100987...          # --to family    (any chat/group/channel id)

Replies and answers are only accepted from configured chat IDs.

Claude Code hooks (settings.json)

Ping your phone when Claude needs input, and when it finishes:

{
  "hooks": {
    "Notification": [{"hooks": [{"type": "command",
      "command": "~/.claude/skills/telegram/scripts/telegram.sh send \"🔔 Claude needs input in $(basename \\\"$PWD\\\")\""}]}],
    "Stop": [{"hooks": [{"type": "command",
      "command": "~/.claude/skills/telegram/scripts/telegram.sh send \"✅ Claude finished in $(basename \\\"$PWD\\\")\" --silent"}]}]
  }
}

Approval gate in any script/automation:

if [ "$(scripts/telegram.sh ask 'Deploy to prod?' --options 'Yes,No')" = "Yes" ]; then
  ./deploy.sh
fi

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How to use it

Copy the folder

Take sanjay3290/telegram from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

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