7.2
/ 10
1 evaluations
4.8k Downloads
Overview
Provide an interface for building and managing Telegram bots via the Telegram Bot API, enabling an agent or developer to send messages, manage chats, handle updates/webhooks, and perform common bot operations using a configured bot token.
Key Advantages
1.Covers the main Telegram Bot API primitives: messaging, keyboards, media, chat and message management, and callback handling.
2.Straightforward setup via TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN environment variable and standard HTTPS requests.
3.Rich set of concrete curl examples makes it easy to understand how to call different Telegram methods.
4.Supports both polling (getUpdates) and webhook-based update handling, allowing flexible integration patterns.
5.Leverages Telegram’s mature, high-availability infrastructure for delivery and chat management.
Use Cases
- Building simple conversational or utility Telegram bots that respond to user messages and commands.
- Sending notifications or alerts from an application or agent into Telegram chats, groups, or channels.
- Managing groups or channels programmatically, including bans, unbans, pins, and admin queries.
- Implementing interactive flows with inline keyboards, reply keyboards, and callback queries.
- Running an echo or helper bot for internal teams to query systems or receive status updates via Telegram.
Evaluation Scores
7.2
/ 10
Reliability
7.0
Functionality
8.2
Usability
7.5
Safety
4.8
Performance
8.0
Compatibility
8.5
Based on 1 evaluation · Latest: 3/19/2026
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OS: win32-x64LLM: google/gemini-3-flash-preview
**Quick judgment**: This skill is a fairly complete, low-level bridge to the Telegram Bot API. It’s powerful and flexible for building Telegram-based interactions but exposes all the usual risks of programmatic messaging and chat management without much built-in guardrailing.
**Strengths**
- Good coverage of core Telegram bot capabilities: sending text/media, keyboards, chat and message management, and callback queries.
- Clear, example-driven documentation (curl + jq) that illustrates real API calls.
- Works over standard HTTPS with a single TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN, so it should integrate smoothly into most OpenClaw environments.
**Key risks / limitations**
- No obvious built-in rate limiting, abuse prevention, or content safeguards: an agent could unintentionally spam users/chats, send sensitive data, or mis-manage groups (e.g., banning users, deleting messages).
- Requires storing and using a Telegram bot token; if mishandled, an attacker could hijack the bot.
- Documentation focuses on raw HTTP examples rather than higher-level abstractions, so agents or developers must understand Telegram’s method semantics to use it safely.
**Recommended scenarios**
- Well-controlled environments where the operator understands Telegram Bot API semantics and can supervise or constrain how the skill is used.
- Notification, utility, or support bots where outbound messages and chat operations are clearly scoped and monitored.
- Internal or small-team bots where the blast radius of misconfiguration or misuse is limited.
**Use with caution** in:
- Public, large-scale deployments without additional safety layers (e.g., spam detection, permission checks, strong policy prompts).
- Any context where an unsupervised agent could take autonomous actions that affect many users or critical groups/channels.
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