Engineering
Starts a session from a phone.
A message to the bot opens a session on its own cloud computer, and the agent works while the engineer is away from a desk.
- Buildpassing
- Tests118 passed
- Change request#241 open
Opened from the chat at 07:41
Telegram AI agent for company work
An open source Telegram AI agent with work a person approves
The open-source CompanyOS
An AI agent in Telegram answers in the chat and asks with buttons. What it does in a company’s systems waits for a named person on the Review page. Kortix is the open-source CompanyOS: your agents, their skills, your company memory, and every connector in one git repo you own, with the agents working on real cloud computers.
Approval gates you set. Off until you set them.
Open source · Questions come as buttons · Self-host is free
Channels connect a project to Slack, Microsoft Teams, Telegram and Discord.In Telegram, message @BotFather, send /newbot, and copy the token it gives you.Open Project admin → Connectors, select the Channels scope, and select Connect on Telegram.Paste the Bot token and the Allowed Telegram user ids. Kortix keeps the token on the server.A message from an allowed user starts a session.Questions come with buttons. The agent is told to ask with its question tool, so a choice arrives as buttons, not as a typed list.Four jobs a company hands a Telegram agent
Each card is work that comes back to the chat; the Telegram vs Slack comparison covers the other place a team runs the same agent.
Review
Merges the fix on the way home.
The agent opens a change request and the diff waits on Kortix's Review page, where the founder reads it. Session work reaches main through a change request. Merge is default-deny for agents.
app/webhooks/retry.ts- return retry(3, backoff);+ return retry(5, backoff); +1 −1
Read on the Review page, shipped from the diff
Support
Lets the agent read one ticket.
A support lead sends a ticket number, the agent reads it through a connector and drafts the reply in the thread.
TicketSubjectDraft reply
#4821Export times outRerun started; the file should land shortly
#4822Seat changeSeat moved; invite on its way to the new address
Two drafts, send held on the Review page
Reporting
Asks for the weekly numbers on Friday.
The ops lead asks in the chat and gets the report as a file in the session workspace, linked in the reply.
MetricThis weekLast week
Tickets closed132118
First reply3h 10m4h 05m
Filed to Drive, one link in the thread
Three routes to an agent behind a chat
Kortix runs the agent in the chat and keeps permission on its Review page; OpenClaw runs a bot on a machine you control; n8n is a workflow tool with agent plans.
Where it runs
Approvals
Open source. Read it, fork it, audit it.
20,000+ GitHub stars.
The agent's prompt, its skills and its connector grants sit in a git repo you own, and the open source Telegram agent page lists what to inspect first. Run it on Kortix Cloud, in your VPC, or on your own on-prem network. Self-host is free.
Questions people ask before they connect a bot
Can I use an AI agent with Telegram?
Yes. Kortix connects a Telegram bot to a project, so an allowed person messages it and the agent replies in the chat. Setup takes a BotFather token and the allowed Telegram user ids.
Is Telegram AI bot safe?
Yes, when only allowed accounts reach it and risky actions wait for a person. Kortix keeps the bot token on the server, limits the bot to an allowed-user list, and holds a connector call for a project manager on the Review page.
How much does a Telegram bot cost?
The bot costs nothing to create: message @BotFather, send /newbot, and the token is yours. On Kortix, free is $0 with 500 credits per month; credits from $50 a month (5,000 credits).
Start the agent where your team already talks.
Connect a Telegram bot to a project and the first question arrives as buttons; a held action waits on the Review page.