Openpaw c-telegram

Bidirectional Telegram bridge — talk to Claude from your phone. Built into OpenPaw.

install

source · Clone the upstream repo

git clone https://github.com/daxaur/openpaw

Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/daxaur/openpaw "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/skills/c-telegram" ~/.claude/skills/daxaur-openpaw-c-telegram && rm -rf "$T"

manifest: skills/c-telegram/SKILL.md

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
```
/clear
```
to start fresh if Claude gets confused
Use
```
/stop
```
to cancel long-running operations
Model can be switched anytime with
```
/model
```