Claude Telegram Supercharged
Server Configuration
Describes the environment variables required to run the server.
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
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| OPENAI_API_KEY | No | OpenAI API key used for voice message transcription via OpenAI Whisper API (recommended, fastest and highest quality, non-blocking). Set in ~/.claude/channels/telegram/.env. | |
| autoTranscribe | No | When enabled (the default), the server transcribes all voice/audio messages in group chats, even ones that don't mention the bot, so history and context include the spoken text. Disable with /telegram:access set autoTranscribe false. | true |
| TELEGRAPH_ENABLED | No | Whether to enable publishing long-form content to Telegraph (telegra.ph). Disabled by default because posts are publicly accessible by URL. Set to true to enable. | false |
| TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN | Yes | Your Telegram bot token from BotFather (e.g. 123456789:AAHfiqksKZ8...). Written to ~/.claude/channels/telegram/.env, or set in your shell environment (shell takes precedence). Required for the server to connect. | |
| OPENAI_WHISPER_MODEL | No | The OpenAI transcription model to use. Defaults to whisper-1 ($0.006/min); you can switch to a different model such as gpt-4o-transcribe. | whisper-1 |
| TELEGRAM_ROUTER_MODEL | No | Configurable router model for two-tier model routing: Haiku (fast, 200K), Sonnet (balanced, 1M), or Opus (deep, 1M). | |
| TELEGRAM_ESCALATION_MODEL | No | The target model for complex tasks that auto-escalate via subagents (change from the default). |
Instructions
Guidance the server publishes about itself, which clients place ahead of the tool catalog so the model reads it before choosing anything.
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Tools
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Prompts
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Resources
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