telegram-groupchat-setup

What This Skill Does

The telegram-groupchat-setup skill simplifies the process of integrating your OpenClaw MoltBot into Telegram groups. Managing group configurations manually—including mention gating, user allowlists, and pattern recognition—is often error-prone and tedious. This skill automates the entire workflow by detecting your bot's metadata, updating the gateway configuration, and setting precise permission structures to ensure your bot responds only when intended. It handles the backend logic of merging your existing configurations with new group parameters, ensuring that previous settings are preserved while new ones are applied seamlessly.

Installation

To install this skill, run the following command in your terminal: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/arekqq/tg-groupchat-setup Once installed, ensure your BotFather settings are correctly configured by disabling group privacy, allowing the bot to receive messages sent in groups.

Use Cases

This skill is ideal for users looking to deploy customer support bots, community management assistants, or private group coordination tools. It is particularly useful for enterprise users who need to restrict bot activity to specific team members in shared group environments, preventing the bot from responding to general chatter or unauthorized participants.

Example Prompts

1. "Set up my bot in Telegram group -1001234567890. Allow users 123456789 and @community_mod to interact with it."
2. "Configure the bot for group -987654321, permit @admin_user, and ensure the bot only triggers on mentions."
3. "Apply group chat settings for -100222333444, adding 55667788 to the allowlist."

Tips & Limitations

Always verify that you have the correct negative group ID from Telegram, as the bot will fail to initialize if the ID is malformed. Ensure your bot token is active in the gateway configuration before running the detection script. Note that this skill requires the bot to be added to the Telegram group as an administrator or member with proper access privileges. If your group is very active, remember to keep requireMention set to true to avoid rate-limiting issues.