By 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:
- A Telegram bot token (from @BotFather)
- 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
/clearto start fresh if Claude gets confused - Use
/stopto cancel long-running operations - Model can be switched anytime with
/model