Telegram

Category	Communication
CLI	telegram-send
Auth	Bot token (telegram-send --configure)
Config	TELEGRAM_CONFIG (optional)

What it does

Wraps telegram-send to let CodeBuddy send messages to Telegram chats. Useful for sending notifications, build results, and alerts to personal or group chats.

Prerequisites

Install and configure:

pip install telegram-send
telegram-send --configure

The configure step walks you through creating a Telegram bot and linking it to a chat. Optionally set a custom config path:

export TELEGRAM_CONFIG="~/.config/telegram-send.conf"

Capabilities

• Messages — send text messages to configured chats
• Files — send files and images
• Formatting — Markdown and HTML message formatting
• Groups — send to group chats (configure with --configure-group)

Example prompts

• “Send a Telegram message that the deployment to production succeeded”
• “Notify the team chat that the build failed with the error details”
• “Send today’s standup summary to my Telegram”