Telegram Post

What it does

When your agent uses it

• The user asks to draft a Telegram channel post
• Preview a draft before sending
• Publish a draft from Channels//drafts/ to saved messages
• Post to Telegram

Example prompts

• “post to Telegram”
• “send to saved messages”
• “publish draft”
• “/telegram-post”

Requirements

• Python 3

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1Read the draft file from Channels/{channel}/drafts/
2. 2Strip YAML frontmatter (everything between --- markers)
3. 3Strip ![[image.png]] wikilink embeds (handle images separately via --file)
4. 4Resolve media paths: check Attachments/, Channels/{channel}/attachments/, Channels/{channel}/videos/, vault root
5. 5Check text length
6. 6Always use --markdown flag for draft content

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 7524dff. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  Ships 1 file in scripts/ (Python), which the agent can run.

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • python3

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  Hosts in commands or code, which the agent is likely to contact:

  • t.me

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Telegram Post loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 87 tokens; SKILL.md has 477 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~87

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.4k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from glebis/claude-skills at commit 7524dff, republished under its MIT licence (© glebis). 477 words, ~1,422 tokens.

name

telegram-post

description

Create, preview, and send formatted Telegram posts from draft markdown files. Use when the user asks to draft a Telegram channel post, preview a draft before sending, or publish a draft from Channels/*/drafts/ to saved messages or a channel. Triggers on "post to Telegram", "send to saved messages", "publish draft", "telegram post".

# Send draft content with formatting to saved messages
python3 ~/.Codex/skills/telegram/scripts/telegram_fetch.py send \
  --chat "@glebkalinin" \
  --text "DRAFT_BODY_HERE" \
  --markdown

# Send image with caption (first part) + follow-up text message (rest)
python3 ~/.Codex/skills/telegram/scripts/telegram_fetch.py send \
  --chat "@glebkalinin" \
  --file "/path/to/image.png" \
  --text "CAPTION_TEXT" \
  --markdown

# Preview -- accepts slug, filename, or full path
python3 ~/.Codex/skills/telegram/scripts/telegram_fetch.py publish \
  --draft "20260413-delusional-spiraling" --dry-run

# Publish (auto-detects channel from folder or frontmatter)
python3 ~/.Codex/skills/telegram/scripts/telegram_fetch.py publish \
  --draft "20260413-delusional-spiraling"

# Schedule for later
python3 ~/.Codex/skills/telegram/scripts/telegram_fetch.py publish \
  --draft "20260413-delusional-spiraling" --schedule "2026-04-16T09:00"

# Full path also works
python3 ~/.Codex/skills/telegram/scripts/telegram_fetch.py publish \
  --draft "Channels/klodkot/drafts/20260211-post.md"

---
created_date: '[[YYYYMMDD]]'
type: draft
channel: klodkot
status: draft
language: ru
topic: Topic description
source: https://example.com
---
![[optional-image.png]]

_Source attribution_

**Post Title**

Content with **bold** and _italic_ and [links](url).

#tag1@channel #tag2@channel

**[CHANNEL](https://t.me/channel)** -- footer

© glebis, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 2 other files (scripts) in telegram-post of glebis/claude-skills.

• SKILL.md
• .claude-plugin/plugin.json
• scripts/post.py

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 7524dff