🤖 Telegram has added "guest bots" — now you can summon your personal AI assistant in any chat.
With Bot API 10.0 (released on May 8), a bot does not need to be a participant in the chat to respond. Just @-mention it in any DM or group — the bot sees only the message where it was called, replies once, and disappears. Like a guest.
Here are a few scenarios where this is useful:
- In a chat with friends discussing a movie, no one remembers the director. You @-mention your bot with the question — Nicolas Winding Refn appears right in that chat.
- In a DM with a colleague — you asked your bot to summarize an article. No need to switch to the bot chat and back.
- Arranging a meeting — you ask your bot what you have in your calendar on Thursday after 6. The bot checks Google Calendar and replies directly in the conversation.
The main technical point is that the bot does not gain access to the chat history or the list of participants. It only sees the single message in which it was called and replies to it. You can mention up to 3 bots in one message.
I’ve already rolled out mine — Claude Code with my skills walks with me into any Telegram chat: access to email (Gmail), calendar (Google Calendar), documents and sheets in the cloud (Drive, Sheets), tasks (Todoist), notes (Obsidian), my Telegram chats and channels, and a bunch of other stuff.
Using a personal AI assistant in any private or group chat has become incredibly simple.