claudegram

Telegram for Claude Code — but better. An enhanced, self-maintained fork of Anthropic's official Telegram plugin (anthropics/claude-plugins-official → telegram), carrying a set of real-world improvements built while running Telegram as the primary channel for an always-on Claude Code agent.

Upstream is a large plugin catalog (telegram is one of many), the telegram plugin itself is largely feature-static, and external PRs are auto-rejected — so these enhancements live here instead, as first-class code rather than patches reapplied after every upgrade.

What it adds over upstream

The single MCP server (server.ts) extends the stock plugin with:

• 🎙️ Voice notes — send .ogg/.opus/.oga files as native Telegram voice messages (sendVoice), not documents.
• 📥 Durable inbound — inbound messages are persisted and replayed, so nothing is lost if no session is listening the moment they arrive.
• ♻️ Poller hygiene — cleans up zombie/duplicate long-poller processes that otherwise fight over getUpdates.
• 🤫 Headless skip — well-behaved in non-interactive/headless contexts.
• 👍 Inbound reactions — surfaces emoji reactions on your messages as structured inbound events.
• 📝 Transcripts — append-only inbound/outbound transcript logging (with Telegram-side timestamps) for durable history beyond Telegram's no-history Bot API.
• ✍️ Markdown that just works — write natural Markdown (bold, _italic_, ` code , text`); the plugin escapes to MarkdownV2 for you (an audit of historical replies showed a ~13% escape-failure rate when callers hand-rolled escapes — this kills that class of bug).
• 📍 Location ingest — handles inbound location/pin messages.

On the roadmap (from the agent that runs this)

• 🧵 Auto reply-threading — default reply_to to the triggering message so parallel conversation topics thread automatically.
• 🛠️ Live tool-use display — a single self-updating message showing what the agent is doing in real time.

Status

Working baseline mirrors the live, patched plugin. Install/marketplace wiring and the roadmap items above are in progress.

License

MIT (see LICENSE). Built on Anthropic's official Telegram plugin; thanks upstream for the foundation.