Telegram Inbox Assistant Agent Skill

Read-only Telegram inbox summaries, messages awaiting a reply, and conversation context.

Context cost
7.4k tokensestimated from the bundle, loaded when it triggers
Bundle
8 files · 29.7 kBtext throughout, nothing executable
Licence
Apache-2.0the author’s own terms
Last change
7 days agov0.1.3
Servers it uses
1 serverTelegram MCP Server (TDLib)

What it does

Read-only Telegram inbox summaries, messages awaiting a reply, and conversation context.

What this skill changes about the agent has not been set out here as a list. Its SKILL.md, shown below, says it in the author’s own words.

Workflow

Runs a procedure end to end.

The skill itself

A skill is instructions the model reads, so you can see what you are getting: below is the start of its SKILL.md. The front matter loads with every session, the body loads when the skill triggers, and the whole file comes with the install.

SKILL.md7.8 kB · preview
--- name: telegram-inbox-assistant license: Apache-2.0 metadata: version: "0.1.3" ---
9# Telegram Inbox Assistant
10
11Help the user understand their Telegram inbox without changing Telegram state.
12The separately installed [telegram-mcp-tdlib](https://github.com/tolboy/telegram-mcp-tdlib)
13server supplies the tools. If it is missing or unauthenticated, read
14[SETUP.md](SETUP.md); installing this skill alone does not connect an account.
15Requires server 1.17.2 or later; server 1.19.0 is recommended. For a shared daemon, client setup differs by
16host; SETUP.md covers the optional Claude Desktop tools bridge and Hermes HTTP.
17If bundled references are unavailable in the host's delivery surface, use the
18[public setup guide](https://github.com/tolboy/telegram-mcp-tdlib/blob/master/skills/telegram-inbox-assistant/SETUP.md).
19
20## Account and scope
21
22Discover the connected Telegram server's tools by their base names below; the
23host may prefix them with its configured server name. Do not assume telegram
24or any particular username is the server identifier.
25
26Use list_accounts (or the host's list_telegram_accounts alias) when account selection is unclear. Respect the
27user's selected account; if several accounts are available with no selection,
This is a preview of SKILL.md. Download or install the skill to get the whole thing.
In the file
SKILL.md1,126 words
Files8
LicenceApache-2.0
Why you can read it

Nothing in a skill executes. The client loads the text and the model follows it, so a skill can be audited the way a runbook is — by reading it.

What it costs in context

Skills are not billed by the call. They are paid for in context: every token the instructions occupy is a token your code, your diff and your conversation cannot use. Here is what this one takes and when it takes it.

≈80
always loaded
The name and description, so the model knows the skill exists and when to reach for it.
7,345
on trigger
The instruction body and 7 supporting files, read only when the skill fires.
3.7%
of a 200k window
Ten skills this size would take about 37% of the window before you open a file.
050k100k150k200k context window

7.4k tokens, estimated from the bundle at four bytes to the token, held for the rest of the session once it triggers. Heavy. Teams tend to install this one per project rather than globally, and load it only when the job comes up.

Servers bill, skills cost

A server charges by the month. A skill charges once per session, in context, and then keeps charging it for as long as the session lives.

Before and after

The same question, put to the same model twice: once as it comes, and once with these instructions loaded.

No worked example has been published for this skill yet.

The procedure it runs

The procedure has not been set out here step by step. It is in the body of its SKILL.md: the start of it is shown above, and the whole file comes with the install.

Prose, not code

These steps are written for a model to follow, not executed by a runtime. It can still be told to skip one, and it will say so when it does.

Servers it uses

It expects 1 MCP server to be connected. Each step names the tool it needs, so a missing server stops the skill with a plain message rather than an invented answer.

What it asks for
Writes filesnot declared
Network accessnot declared

This SKILL.md carries no allowed-tools line, so neither is declared. A skill grants no permissions of its own — it can only ask for tools your client already has.

What it will not do

Every skill is narrow, and the useful ones say where they stop. These are the jobs this one is the wrong tool for.

What this skill is not for has not been published here. Nothing is implied by that: it is a section the author has not filled in.

What is in the bundle

8 files, 29.7 kB on disk. A bundle is text throughout: the instructions the model reads, plus the templates it fills in.

  • LICENSE11.0 kB
  • SETUP.md9.0 kB
  • SKILL.md7.8 kB
  • templates/claude-code.json0.4 kB
  • templates/claude-desktop-bridge.json0.3 kB
  • templates/codex.toml0.4 kB
  • templates/cursor.json0.4 kB
What is not in it

No dependencies and nothing executable: a skill is text the agent reads, so the bundle is 8 files you can review in full before installing. The Apache-2.0 licence covers the templates and examples as well as the instructions.

Install

Installing copies the bundle into your project. Nothing runs at install time — the files sit on disk until the model reads them.

# Telegram Inbox Assistant · 7.4k tokens when loaded · macOS, Linux mkdir -p .claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/telegram-inbox-assistant/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/telegram-inbox-assistant" ] && { [ ! -e .claude/skills/telegram-inbox-assistant ] || { mv .claude/skills/telegram-inbox-assistant "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/telegram-inbox-assistant" .claude/skills/ && echo "Installed .claude/skills/telegram-inbox-assistant"
On Windows, or any OS with Node 20+
npx mcprush@latest skill add tolboy/telegram-inbox-assistant

Windows PowerShell says 'running scripts is disabled on this system'? Run Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope CurrentUser RemoteSigned once, or type npx.cmd instead of npx (codex.cmd, gemini.cmd, grok.cmd likewise). PowerShell 7 needs neither. Writes to .claude/skills/telegram-inbox-assistant/ in the current project. For every project instead, run mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/telegram-inbox-assistant/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/telegram-inbox-assistant" ] && { [ ! -e ~/.claude/skills/telegram-inbox-assistant ] || { mv ~/.claude/skills/telegram-inbox-assistant "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/telegram-inbox-assistant" ~/.claude/skills/ && echo "Installed ~/.claude/skills/telegram-inbox-assistant" (macOS, Linux) — or add --global to the npx line. The curl line replaces .claude/skills/telegram-inbox-assistant/ only after the download succeeds, so files left there by another skill of the same name, or by an older release, do not mix in. A copy already there is moved aside, not deleted, and the line prints where.

Which clients pick it up on their own

A skill is a folder of text. Most of these read a skills folder and pick it up without being told; the rest take the same folder another way — an upload in the app, a parameter on an API call — and then choose it by its description just the same.

Claude Code.claude/skills/
Claude DesktopCustomize › Skills
ChatGPTSkills › Create › Upload
Cursor.cursor/skills/
VS Code.github/skills/
Codex CLI.agents/skills/
Gemini CLI.gemini/skills/
Grok Build.grok/skills/
Microsoft CopilotSkills › Upload a skill
PerplexityComputer › Skills › Upload a skill
DeepSeek Harness.dsh/skills/
Zed.agents/skills/
Devin Desktop.devin/skills/
Windsurf (legacy).windsurf/skills/
OpenAI Agents SDKInstructions or sandbox Skills
HTTP / APIa request parameter
This release
Version0.1.3
Published7 days ago
PriceFree
Referencetolboy/telegram-inbox-assistant

Versions

v0.1.3 shipped 7 days ago. Instructions change more often than APIs do — a skill can be rewritten entirely without anything it depends on moving.

v0.1.3
2 Nov 2026
  • The version this listing went live with, after review.
Pinning

The install command always fetches the release that is current the day you run it — v0.1.3 today — and cannot ask for an earlier one. The copy on your disk does not change until you run it again.

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