telegram-bot-basics Skill

How to build a Telegram bot — from raw Bot API to grammY to the agntdev toolkit.

Built for the agntdev pipeline. Use the agnt-cli-builder skill for the discovery-and-claim loop (agnt ready → agnt dag show → agnt task claim → ship the PR). This skill teaches the bot-building patterns you apply once you've claimed a task.

For how the bot feels to humans (microcopy, flow patterns, error UX, onboarding, anti-patterns), see telegram-bot-ux. For how you wire keyboards (button objects, routing, builders), see telegram-bot-ui.

1. How Telegram Bot API Works

Telegram bots are HTTP clients that talk to https://api.telegram.org/bot<TOKEN>/<METHOD>.