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Text Claude From Telegram With a Free Open-Source Agent

AstrBot is a free, open-source agent that puts Claude inside the chat apps you already use. What it can do, how to set it up without writing code, and what it can't do

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AstrBot connects a model like Claude to your chat apps. You message your own bot from your phone, and it answers there, with tools for searching the web, running code and sending files back.

Here's what it does, how to get Claude to set it up, and the limits you need to know.

What it does

  • Lives in Telegram, Discord, Slack and more than ten other chat apps, all at once if you want.
  • Sends and receives text, images, voice, video and files on Telegram.
  • Searches the web while it answers, once you connect a search service.
  • Runs code and works with files in a sandbox, once you turn on Agent Computer Use.
  • Adds new jobs from a market of over 1,000 plugins, most with no programming.

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Get the full setup steps + the copy-paste setup prompt

The rest of this guide (4 more sections, 1 copy-paste prompt) opens right here. The setup prompt, one paste into Claude that sets it all up, comes by email only. Use your real address.

Unlocks: Step 1: let Claude install it · Step 2: connect Telegram · The catch · Sources

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