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120 lines
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# `e2e/telegram-*` — live end-to-end test harness for the Telegram bot
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True end-to-end coverage: send real messages to a real Telegram chat, poll
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the bot's reply via the Bot API, and verify what landed.
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> **Why this exists.** Unit tests (under `app/**/__tests__/`) lock in internal
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> module contracts. They don't catch issues that only surface end-to-end: an
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> unbalanced code fence leaking through, a Markdown→HTML translation that
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> looks correct in tests but renders wrong in Telegram, or an agentic reply
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> that truncates when the LLM hits a tool call boundary.
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## What's in here
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```
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e2e/
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├── TELEGRAM-README.md this
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├── telegram-cases.ts catalog of test cases (expand liberally)
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├── telegram-api.ts Telegram Bot API helpers (send, poll, balance check)
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└── telegram-run.ts harness entrypoint — sends prompts, polls replies
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```
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Results land under `e2e/results/<timestamp>/report.json` (shared with the
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Slack harness).
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## Approach chosen: (b) MANUAL-TRIGGER smoke with automated upgrade path
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The Telegram Bot API does **not** allow impersonating a human user to send
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messages. This creates a bootstrapping problem that Slack avoids via its
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user-token (`xoxp-`) mechanism:
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- A bot can call `sendMessage` as itself, but the CopilotKit bot's loop guard
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ignores messages from other bots to prevent infinite loops.
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- MTProto-based user automation (TDLib, Telethon) requires a verified
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Telegram account, a registered API app (`api_id` + `api_hash`), a session
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file, and significant additional infrastructure.
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Therefore the default flow is **manual-trigger**:
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1. The harness prints the test prompt.
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2. You open the Telegram chat with the bot and send that text.
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3. The harness polls `getUpdates` on the bot token and validates the reply.
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### Automated upgrade (approach a)
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Set `TELEGRAM_SENDER_BOT_TOKEN` in `.env` to a second ("sender") bot token.
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The test chat must be a **group or supergroup** with both the sender bot and
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the main bot as members. In this mode the harness posts prompts
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programmatically via the sender bot and the main bot replies to the group.
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> Note on coverage: the manual-trigger flow does NOT reduce assertion
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> coverage. All expectations (`finalContains`, `finalNotContains`,
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> `balancedBrackets`, `minLength`, `perReplyChecks`) — plus the optional
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> `followUp` second turn — are evaluated against the real bot reply. What it
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> reduces is _automation_: you need to type (or paste) each prompt once.
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## Prerequisites
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| Variable | Required | Description |
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| --------------------------- | -------- | ------------------------------------------------- |
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| `TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN` | Yes | The main bot's token from BotFather |
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| `TELEGRAM_TEST_CHAT_ID` | Yes | Numeric chat ID of the test chat (DM or group) |
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| `TELEGRAM_SENDER_BOT_TOKEN` | No | Second bot token for full automation (group mode) |
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### Finding your `TELEGRAM_TEST_CHAT_ID`
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- **DM with the bot:** Start a chat with the bot, then call
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`https://api.telegram.org/bot<TOKEN>/getUpdates` — the `chat.id` in your
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message is your user ID (a positive integer).
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- **Group:** Add the bot to a group, send a message, call `getUpdates` — the
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`chat.id` is a negative integer.
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## Running
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```bash
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# from examples/slack/
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# Copy the example env and fill in the required vars:
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cp .env.example .env # edit TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN + TELEGRAM_TEST_CHAT_ID
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# Run all cases (manual-trigger mode by default):
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pnpm e2e:telegram
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# Run a single case by name filter:
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CASE_FILTER='C1' pnpm e2e:telegram
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```
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In manual-trigger mode the harness will pause before each case and print the
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prompt to send. You have ~15 seconds to paste it into the Telegram chat before
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the harness starts polling.
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## How polling works
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For each case the harness:
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1. Calls `getUpdates` to drain any stale messages from the bot's queue.
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2. (Automated) Sends the prompt via the sender bot, OR (manual) waits for the
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operator to send it.
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3. Polls `getUpdates` on the main bot token every `sampleIntervalMs` until
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`maxWaitMs` elapses or the reply stabilises.
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4. Runs expectations on the final reply text.
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5. Writes `results/<timestamp>/report.json`.
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### Streaming via message edits
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The example bot uses chunked-edit mode (`editMessageText`) to stream replies:
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it posts a `_thinking…_` placeholder and then edits it repeatedly as chunks
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arrive from the LLM. To observe this, the harness subscribes to both
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`message` and `edited_message` update types in `getUpdates` and tracks the
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**latest text for each bot `message_id`**. This means `finalText` in
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expectations reflects the last edit (the completed reply), not the initial
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placeholder.
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Mid-stream samples may still show intermediate edited texts between polls,
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but the `balancedBrackets` check is applied only to the final stable text.
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## Adding cases
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Edit `telegram-cases.ts`. The bar is low — anything you'd want to _see_ working in
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Telegram belongs in the catalog.
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