commands

name	commands
description	Register bot commands with Telegram so they appear in the command menu
allowed-tools	Bash(curl *), Bash(ls *)

Register Telegram Bot Commands

Read all available skills and register them as Telegram bot commands via the setMyCommands API. This is idempotent. Running it multiple times just overwrites the command list.

Step 1: Discover skills

List skill directories from both the repo and personal locations:

ls -1 ../.claude/skills/
ls -1 ~/.claude/skills/

For each directory found in either location, read its SKILL.md file using the Read tool. Extract the name, description, and disable-model-invocation fields from the YAML frontmatter. If a skill exists in both locations, the personal one (~/.claude) takes precedence. Skip any skill that has disable-model-invocation: true.

Step 2: Build the command list

Combine the discovered skills with these hardcoded commands that don't have SKILL.md files:

• chatid: "Get your Telegram chat ID"
• cancel: "Cancel the current request"
• compact: "Compact conversation context to free up space"
• effort: "View or set the effort level (low, medium, high, max, default)"
• logs: "Cycle status updates: off, text only, verbose"
• simplify: "Review changed code for reuse, quality, and efficiency"
• usage: "Show context window usage and cumulative cost"
• clear: "Clear chat history and context window for this thread"

Telegram command descriptions have a 256-character limit. Truncate any descriptions that exceed this.

Step 3: Register commands

Build a JSON array of {"command": "name", "description": "desc"} objects and call the Telegram API:

curl -s https://api.telegram.org/bot$TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN/setMyCommands \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"commands": [...]}'

The response should contain {"ok": true}. If it doesn't, report the error.

Step 4: Report

List all registered commands with their descriptions and confirm success.