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# @copilotkit/channels-telegram
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The **Telegram `PlatformAdapter`** for [`@copilotkit/channels`](../channels). It connects
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a Telegram bot to any AG-UI agent: ingress via grammY (long-polling or webhook),
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egress as Telegram HTML rendered from the `@copilotkit/channels-ui` JSX vocabulary,
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plus streaming via chunked message edits, opaque-id interactions, and HITL.
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You write your UI as JSX once (`@copilotkit/channels-ui`) and drive the bot with
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`@copilotkit/channels`; this package is the only one that talks to Telegram.
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## Install
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```sh
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pnpm add @copilotkit/channels-telegram @copilotkit/channels @copilotkit/channels-ui
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```
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## Quickstart
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> **File must be `.tsx`** — JSX in TypeScript requires the JSX factory to be
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> configured. Point it at `@copilotkit/channels-ui` in your `tsconfig.json`:
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>
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> ```json
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> {
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> "compilerOptions": {
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> "jsx": "react-jsx",
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> "jsxImportSource": "@copilotkit/channels-ui"
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> }
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> }
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> ```
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```tsx
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import { createBot } from "@copilotkit/channels";
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import {
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telegram,
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defaultTelegramTools,
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defaultTelegramContext,
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} from "@copilotkit/channels-telegram";
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import { Message, Section } from "@copilotkit/channels-ui";
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const bot = createBot({
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adapters: [
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telegram({
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token: process.env.TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN!,
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}),
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],
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agent: (threadId) => makeAgent(threadId),
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tools: [...defaultTelegramTools, ...appTools], // lookup_telegram_user + your tools
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context: [...defaultTelegramContext, ...appContext], // tagging/HTML/thread guidance
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});
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bot.onMention(({ thread }) => thread.runAgent());
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// Optional: greet users when they start a DM
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bot.onThreadStarted(async ({ thread }) => {
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await thread.post(
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<Message>
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<Section>Hi! How can I help?</Section>
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</Message>,
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);
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});
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await bot.start();
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```
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`telegram(opts)` returns a `TelegramAdapter`. By default it runs in
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**long-polling** mode — no public URL needed. Set `mode: "webhook"` (with
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`webhook.domain`) to receive updates via HTTP, or `mode: "auto"` to let the
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adapter pick based on environment variables (prefers webhook in Vercel/Lambda
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environments, falls back to polling).
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### Required env
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| Var | Purpose |
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| -------------------- | ---------------------------------------------- |
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| `TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN` | Bot token from @BotFather (e.g. `123:ABC-xyz`) |
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## What it provides
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### JSX → Telegram HTML rendering + limits
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`renderTelegram(ir)` translates the `@copilotkit/channels-ui` vocabulary to a
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Telegram Bot API payload (`text`, `parseMode: "HTML"`, optional
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`inlineKeyboard`, optional `photos`): `Message → container`, `Header → <b>`,
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`Section/Markdown → telegramHtml()`, `Field(s) → <b>label</b> value`,
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`Context → <i>`, `Actions → inline keyboard rows`, `Select → inline keyboard
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rows`, `Image → photo`, `Table → <pre> monospace grid`, `Divider → ──────`.
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Telegram API limits are enforced via `TELEGRAM_LIMITS` and the helpers:
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| Limit | Value | Element |
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| ------------------- | ----- | ------------------------------- |
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| `messageText` | 4096 | characters per message |
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| `caption` | 1024 | caption characters |
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| `callbackData` | 64 | bytes per callback_data |
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| `buttonsPerRow` | 8 | buttons per inline keyboard row |
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| `buttonsPerMessage` | 100 | total inline keyboard buttons |
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| `buttonText` | 64 | button label characters |
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| `photosPerMessage` | 10 | photos per message |
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### Streaming via chunked edits
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Replies stream through `ChunkedEditStream`: the adapter posts a placeholder
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message and edits it as tokens arrive, throttled to one edit per second. When a
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reply approaches Telegram's 4 096-char limit (~4 000 characters) the stream
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transparently mints a second message and continues — keeping each Telegram
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message within limits with no reflow of already-frozen chunk boundaries.
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### Interactions (ack-first)
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Every Telegram `callback_query` (inline keyboard button click) is acked
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promptly via `answerCallbackQuery` — the adapter's `ackDeadlineMs` is 3 s so
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the client spinner clears quickly, well within Telegram's ~30 s validity
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window for `answerCallbackQuery`. After acking, `decodeInteraction` extracts
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the conversation key and minted opaque id and hands an `InteractionEvent` to
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the engine. Unrelated clicks decode to events the bot harmlessly ignores.
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### HITL via ActionStore
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Use `thread.awaitChoice(<Picker .../>)` to post an interactive inline keyboard
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and block until a click resolves it; the resolved value is the clicked button's
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callback data. Agent interrupts (`on_interrupt`) are captured by the run renderer
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and dispatched to your `onInterrupt` handler, which posts a picker; the click
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resumes the agent via `thread.resume(value)`.
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### `/start` → `onThreadStarted`
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The listener intercepts the Telegram `/start` command in private chats and
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fires `onThreadStarted`, letting the bot post a greeting or configure the
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conversation before the first turn.
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### Files in/out
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Inbound file attachments (photos, audio, video, documents) can be downloaded
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and delivered to the agent as multimodal AG-UI content parts via
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`buildFileContentParts`. The adapter can post files back out via
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`thread.postFile({ bytes, filename })` (sends as a `document`).
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### Built-ins
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- `defaultTelegramTools` — ships `lookup_telegram_user` so the agent can
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resolve a public `@username` handle to a Telegram user id for @-mentions.
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The tool calls `getChat` with the supplied query and only works for public
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`@username` handles; arbitrary display-name queries are not supported and
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return undefined. Spread into `tools`.
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- `defaultTelegramContext` — tagging procedure, Markdown-vs-HTML guidance, and
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the Telegram DM / forum-topic / group-per-user conversation model. Spread into
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`context`.
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### Commands via `setMyCommands`
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`registerCommands(specs)` calls `bot.api.setMyCommands`, registering the
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command menu visible in the Telegram UI. The listener forwards every bot
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command to the engine's `onCommand` handlers.
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## Ingress modes
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| Mode | How it works |
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| --------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| `polling` | **Default.** grammY long-polling. No public URL needed. |
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| `webhook` | grammY webhook + minimal Node HTTP server. Requires `webhook.domain`. |
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| `auto` | Webhook when `VERCEL`/`AWS_LAMBDA_FUNCTION_NAME`/`NETLIFY` is set, else polling. |
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## Reactions
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`message_reaction` updates are enabled automatically. The adapter exports
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`TELEGRAM_ALLOWED_UPDATES` (the full update-type list it subscribes to) and
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passes it to grammY's long-polling `start()` call.
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**Group chats:** the bot must be an **administrator** to receive
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`message_reaction` events. Private chats and channels work without any
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extra permissions.
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**Webhook deployments:** pass the same list to `setWebhook`:
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```ts
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import { TELEGRAM_ALLOWED_UPDATES } from "@copilotkit/channels-telegram";
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await bot.api.setWebhook(url, {
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allowed_updates: [...TELEGRAM_ALLOWED_UPDATES],
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});
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```
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## What's NOT in v1
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- **Modals / native form submit** — Telegram has no modal surface; multi-step
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forms must be conversation-driven. `openModal` resolves `{ ok: false }` on
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this adapter — the engine gates the method off because `supportsModals` is
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`false`.
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- **Native ephemeral messages** — Telegram has no per-user-visible messages;
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`supportsEphemeral` is `false`. Use `thread.postEphemeral(user, ui, { fallbackToDM: true })`
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to send a private DM as a fallback instead. **DMing requires the user to have
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previously started a DM with the bot** (sent it at least one message directly);
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if they have not, the DM `sendMessage` call will fail and `postEphemeral`
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resolves `{ ok: false }` rather than throwing.
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- **Native streaming** — Telegram has no server-push streaming; streaming is
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approximated via throttled `editMessageText` calls.
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- **Durable (Redis/DB) conversation store** — `TelegramConversationStore` is
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in-memory; sessions and message history are lost on restart.
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- **Multi-bot install** — one bot token per adapter instance.
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- **`<Select>` option-value round-trip** — Telegram `callback_data` is limited
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to 64 bytes. If an option's `value` or `id` serializes to more than 64 bytes
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the renderer silently drops (degrades) that option — the button simply does
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not appear in the keyboard. Use short `id` strings on `<Option>` elements
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when option values are large objects.
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## Known limitations
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- **Group conversation model** — in ordinary (non-forum) group chats the bot
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keys each conversation per-user-per-group (`user:<userId>`): each member's
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@mentions form one ongoing conversation for that user, and button clicks
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resolve to the clicking user's conversation. The bot does **not** maintain
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a single shared group thread. Forum supergroups use per-topic threads
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(`topic:<threadId>`); DMs are a single flat conversation (`dm`).
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- **`update()` does not change media** — editing a previously-posted message
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via `thread.update(ref, ir)` calls `editMessageText` and updates text plus
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inline keyboard only. Photos attached to the original message are not
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changed.
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- **Inbound files** — file attachments (photos, audio, video, documents) are
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downloaded and delivered to the agent as multimodal AG-UI content parts.
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Large files that exceed Telegram's size cap for `getFile` are skipped with
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a note in their place.
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- **`lookup_telegram_user` is `@username`-only** — the tool resolves public
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`@username` handles by calling `getChat`. Queries that do not start with
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`@` return undefined immediately; arbitrary display-name or real-name
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searches are not supported.
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- **Group HITL (interactive buttons) are per-user** — because non-forum group
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conversations are keyed per sender, an inline-keyboard prompt posted for one
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user is only resolved when _that_ user clicks it. A different group member
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clicking the same button is acked but does not resolve the original user's
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pending choice.
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- **Concurrency** — the in-memory conversation store does not serialize
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concurrent turns for the same conversation. Rapid back-to-back messages in
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one conversation may interleave. This is acceptable for typical use; a
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durable/locking store is out of v1 scope.
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## Exports
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`telegram`, `TelegramAdapter`, `TelegramAdapterOptions`;
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`createRunRenderer`, `CreateRunRendererArgs`;
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`decodeInteraction`, `conversationKeyOf`, `deriveConversationKey`, `toPlatformUser`;
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`renderTelegram`; `TELEGRAM_LIMITS`, `truncateText`, `clampArray`, `byteLen`;
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`defaultTelegramTools`, `lookupTelegramUserTool`;
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`defaultTelegramContext`, `telegramTaggingContext`, `telegramFormattingContext`,
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`telegramConversationModelContext`;
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`telegramHtml`, `escapeHtml`; `withTelegramFormatFallback`, `stripHtml`;
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`TelegramConversationStore`; `ChunkedEditStream`, `ChunkedEditStreamConfig`;
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`attachTelegramListener`, `ListenerConfig`;
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`buildFileContentParts`, `TelegramFileRef`, `AgentContentPart`, `FileDeliveryConfig`;
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types: `ConversationKey`, `ReplyTarget`, `TelegramMessageRef`, `TelegramInlineButton`,
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`TelegramPayload`; value `DM_SCOPE`.
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