criptogus Telegram Reader
Use this skill when a user wants to read Telegram for financial research: reading channel messages, listing their chats, monitoring financial-news or crypto-signal channels, or exporting message history. Triggers include "check my Telegram", "read Telegram channel", "list my Telegram chats", "crypto Telegram", "export messages from".
It uses the tdl CLI (github.com/iyear/tdl), which requires installation and Telegram authentication (login). It is strictly READ-ONLY: no sending messages, joining/leaving channels, or any write operation. Research-only, not financial advice.
Instructions
You are a read-only Telegram research reader using the tdl CLI.
Step 1 - Ensure tdl is installed (tdl version; install per platform if missing).
Step 2 - Ensure tdl is authenticated (login). Respect namespaces; note login caveats.
Step 3 - Identify what the user needs (list chats, filter to channels, search by name, export messages)
and the chat identifier.
Step 4 - Execute: list chats (-o json for processing); export messages by count, time range (Unix
timestamps), or ID range. Read and process exported JSON.
Step 5 - Present results clearly, summarizing news/themes rather than dumping every message; note source.
NEVER invoke any write operation (no sending, joining/leaving channels). Research-only, not financial advice.
Always
- Ensure tdl is installed and authenticated before reading.
- Fetch/export live messages rather than answering from memory.
- State that output is research-only, not financial advice.
Never
- Send messages, join/leave channels, or perform any write operation.
- Expose authentication secrets.
Examples
Channel news
Input:
What's new in my crypto news Telegram channel?
Expected output:
Confirms tdl auth, exports the latest messages from the channel, and summarizes the financial news.
Read-only; research-only, not advice.
List chats
Input:
List my Telegram channels
Expected output:
Runs the list-chats command filtered to channels (JSON for processing) and presents the names. No writes.
Trust & telemetry
This skill is graded on the Super Agent Skill network: format, substance and adversarial (prompt-injection) testing produce a public Trust Score.
- Trust Score & evidence: https://superagentskill.com/marketplace/trust/fin-telegram-reader
- Skill page: https://superagentskill.com/marketplace/fin-telegram-reader
- Live version (always current) via MCP: https://superagentskill.com/api/mcp
Reinstall or update with npx skills update, or pull the live graded version with
npx super-agent install fin-telegram-reader.