21 // telegramRetryDelay is the wait before the first retry of a failed
23 telegramRetryDelay = time.Second
25 // telegramRetryLimit is the longest wait between retries of a failed
27 telegramRetryLimit = time.Minute
29 // telegramAPIURL is the Telegram Bot API service.
30 telegramAPIURL = "https://api.telegram.org"
32 // telegramConfigFileName is the bot config in the data directory. The
33 // daemon runs the bot only when the file exists.
34 telegramConfigFileName = "telegram.json"
36 // telegramOffsetFileName is the update offset of the bot in the agent
38 telegramOffsetFileName = "telegram-offset.json"
40 // telegramSource is the source of the user messages from Telegram.
41 telegramSource = "telegram"
43 // telegramMessageUnits is the most UTF-16 code units of one Telegram
45 telegramMessageUnits = 4096
47 // telegramRichBytes is the most bytes of the Markdown of one rich
48 // message. The Bot API allows 32768 characters of rendered text, and
49 // the Markdown of a text has at least as many bytes as the text has
51 telegramRichBytes = 32768
53 // telegramTypingInterval is how often the bot shows the typing action
54 // while a turn runs. Telegram shows the action for about five seconds.
55 telegramTypingInterval = 4 * time.Second
57 // telegramTextOnly is the answer to a message that is not text.
58 telegramTextOnly = "Only text messages are supported."
61 // loadTelegramConfig reads telegram.json in dir. It returns false when the file
62 // does not exist. An error never holds the token.
63 func loadTelegramConfig(dir string) (TelegramConfig, bool, error) {
64 path := filepath.Join(dir, telegramConfigFileName)
65 info, err := os.Stat(path)
66 if errors.Is(err, os.ErrNotExist) {
67 return TelegramConfig{}, false, nil
71 return TelegramConfig{}, false, fmt.Errorf("read bot config: %w", err)
74 if info.Mode().Perm()&0o077 != 0 {
75 return TelegramConfig{}, false, fmt.Errorf("%s holds the bot token, so its mode must be 0600", telegramConfigFileName)
78 data, err := os.ReadFile(path)
80 return TelegramConfig{}, false, fmt.Errorf("read bot config: %w", err)
83 var config TelegramConfig
85 decoder := json.NewDecoder(bytes.NewReader(data))
86 decoder.DisallowUnknownFields()
88 err = decoder.Decode(&config)
89 if err == nil && !errors.Is(decoder.Decode(&struct{}{}), io.EOF) {
90 err = errors.New("data after the JSON object")
94 return TelegramConfig{}, false, fmt.Errorf("%s is not valid JSON with the fields token and owner", telegramConfigFileName)
97 err = config.validate()
99 return TelegramConfig{}, false, fmt.Errorf("%s: %w", telegramConfigFileName, err)
102 return config, true, nil
105 // newTelegramBot returns the bot of owner on api. The offset file is at
106 // offsetPath, and logger gets the failures. No log line holds the text of a
108 func newTelegramBot(api *TelegramAPI, owner int64, offsetPath string, logger *slog.Logger) *TelegramBot {
112 offsetPath: offsetPath,
114 ready: make(chan struct{}, 1),
118 // TelegramConfig holds the settings of telegram.json: the bot token and the
119 // user ID of the owner. The token is a secret, so the file must have mode 0600.
120 type TelegramConfig struct {
121 Token string `json:"token"`
122 Owner int64 `json:"owner"`
125 // validate makes sure that the token has the form of a bot token and that the
126 // owner is a user ID. The token goes into a URL path, so it can only hold the
127 // characters of a bot token.
128 func (c TelegramConfig) validate() error {
129 id, secret, found := strings.Cut(c.Token, ":")
130 if !found || id == "" || secret == "" || strings.Trim(id, "0123456789") != "" || strings.Trim(secret, "0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ_-") != "" {
131 return errors.New("token does not have the form of a bot token from BotFather")
135 return errors.New("owner must be the numeric Telegram user ID of the owner")
141 // TelegramBot connects the private chat of the owner with the agent. It polls
142 // the Bot API for new messages and sends owner text and images to the agent. It
143 // ignores every other update. Its sender sends the replies, the errors, the
144 // notices of the bot, and the user messages of the other clients to the chat,
145 // and shows the typing action while a turn runs. Only the replies have a
146 // format: their Markdown goes as rich messages, which Telegram renders itself,
147 // and as message entities only when Telegram refuses a rich message. The rest
148 // is plain text. Tool calls do not go to the chat.
150 // The offset file holds the ID of the next update. It moves past an update
151 // only after the message of the update is durable in the log, so a restart
152 // does not lose a message. A crash between the flush and the offset write
153 // makes Telegram send the update again, and the message repeats once.
155 // A failed Bot API call waits and tries again, from telegramRetryDelay up to
156 // telegramRetryLimit, or as long as the Bot API asks. It never stops the agent.
157 // A TelegramOutage logs the first failure and the end of each run of failures,
158 // and the retries between them log nothing.
159 type TelegramBot struct {
170 // Notify queues event for the chat. It never blocks, so a slow network does not
171 // stop the agent. The WhatsApp batches and the runs of the schedules do not go
172 // to the chat: the reply of the agent tells the user what needs the user.
173 func (b *TelegramBot) Notify(event Event) {
175 case "busy", "idle", "reply", "error", "notice", "subagent":
177 if event.Source == whatsappSource || event.Source == scheduleSource {
181 if event.Source == telegramSource {
190 b.queue = append(b.queue, event)
194 case b.ready <- struct{}{}:
199 // Run polls for the messages of the owner and sends the queued events to the
200 // chat until ctx ends. It returns an error only when a message or the offset or
201 // image cannot be written, because then the bot would lose or repeat messages.
202 func (b *TelegramBot) Run(ctx context.Context, l *TurnLoop, whatsapp *WhatsApp) error {
203 ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(ctx)
206 var sender sync.WaitGroup
216 err := b.poll(ctx, l, whatsapp)
224 // send sends each queued event to the chat in order until ctx ends. While a
225 // turn runs, it shows the typing action every telegramTypingInterval and after
226 // each message, because a message ends the action.
227 func (b *TelegramBot) send(ctx context.Context) {
228 ticker := time.NewTicker(telegramTypingInterval)
232 for ctx.Err() == nil {
233 event, found := b.next()
252 ticker.Reset(telegramTypingInterval)
265 // poll gets updates from the stored offset and handles them until ctx ends. A
266 // failed image download retries from the same offset. A submitted message is
267 // flushed even if ctx ends, and only then can the offset advance.
268 func (b *TelegramBot) poll(ctx context.Context, l *TurnLoop, whatsapp *WhatsApp) error {
269 offset, err := telegramLoadOffset(b.offsetPath)
274 outage := &TelegramOutage{
276 loss: "receive failed",
277 back: "receive back",
280 imageOutage := &TelegramOutage{
282 loss: "image receive failed",
283 back: "image receive back",
286 imageWait := telegramRetryDelay
287 wait := telegramRetryDelay
290 for ctx.Err() == nil {
291 updates, err := b.api.GetUpdates(ctx, offset)
292 if ctx.Err() != nil {
297 _, asked := telegramRetryable(err)
298 wait = b.pause(ctx, outage, err, wait, asked)
305 wait = telegramRetryDelay
307 for _, update := range updates {
308 if ctx.Err() != nil {
312 err = b.handle(ctx, l, whatsapp, update)
314 retry, asked := telegramRetryable(err)
316 imageWait = b.pause(ctx, imageOutage, err, imageWait, asked)
325 imageWait = telegramRetryDelay
327 offset = update.UpdateID + 1
328 err = telegramSaveOffset(b.offsetPath, offset)
338 // next removes the first queued event and returns it.
339 func (b *TelegramBot) next() (Event, bool) {
341 defer b.mutex.Unlock()
343 if len(b.queue) == 0 {
344 return Event{}, false
348 b.queue = b.queue[1:]
353 // typing shows the typing action once. A failure is not logged, because the
354 // next message or poll logs the state of the network.
355 func (b *TelegramBot) typing(ctx context.Context) {
356 _ = b.api.SendTyping(ctx, b.owner)
359 // post sends event to the chat. A reply goes as rich messages of its Markdown,
360 // with each < and & outside code escaped by telegramEscapeTags and then split
361 // with telegramSplitRich, so that the length limit counts the escaped text.
362 // Every other event goes as plain text, split with telegramSplitMessage.
363 func (b *TelegramBot) post(ctx context.Context, event Event) {
364 if event.Kind != "reply" {
365 for _, text := range telegramSplitMessage(telegramText(event), telegramMessageUnits) {
366 b.deliver(ctx, TelegramPart{
374 for _, markdown := range telegramSplitRich(telegramEscapeTags(event.Text), telegramRichBytes) {
375 b.deliverRich(ctx, markdown)
379 // pause gives err to outage and waits the longer of wait and asked, or until
380 // ctx ends. It returns the wait of the next failure: twice wait, up to
381 // telegramRetryLimit.
382 func (b *TelegramBot) pause(ctx context.Context, outage *TelegramOutage, err error, wait, asked time.Duration) time.Duration {
383 delay := max(wait, asked)
384 outage.Fail(err, delay)
386 timer := time.NewTimer(delay)
394 return min(2*wait, telegramRetryLimit)
397 // handle runs one update. A text message of the owner in the private chat goes
398 // to the agent, and handle returns when it is durable in the log. The line
399 // /stop interrupts the turn, the line /stop NAME stops the subagent NAME, and a
400 // line that starts with /whatsapp runs a WhatsApp command on whatsapp, whose
401 // answers go to the chat only. Photos and image documents enter the shared
402 // image store with their caption. Other media keep the text-only answer. Every
403 // other update is ignored, and its content is not logged.
404 func (b *TelegramBot) handle(ctx context.Context, l *TurnLoop, whatsapp *WhatsApp, update TelegramUpdate) error {
405 message := update.Message
406 if message == nil || message.Chat.Type != "private" || message.Chat.ID != b.owner || message.From == nil || message.From.ID != b.owner {
407 b.logger.Info("message ignored: not from the owner")
412 name, stop := stopSubagentName(message.Text)
413 args, isWhatsApp := whatsappCommandArgs(message.Text)
415 case len(message.Photo) > 0 || message.Document != nil:
416 text, err := telegramImageText(ctx, b.api, l.agent.Images(), message)
418 retry, _ := telegramRetryable(err)
420 return fmt.Errorf("receive image: %w", err)
424 case errors.Is(err, errTelegramOtherMedia):
425 b.notice(telegramTextOnly)
426 case errors.Is(err, errImageSize), errors.Is(err, errImageFormat), errors.Is(err, errTelegramPhotoSize):
427 b.notice(err.Error())
429 var answer *TelegramError
431 if !errors.As(err, &answer) {
432 return fmt.Errorf("receive Telegram image: %w", err)
435 b.notice("Cannot download image.")
441 _, err = l.Submit(telegramSource, text)
443 return fmt.Errorf("submit Telegram image: %w", err)
446 err = l.Flush(context.WithoutCancel(ctx))
448 return fmt.Errorf("flush Telegram image: %w", err)
450 case message.Text == "":
451 b.notice(telegramTextOnly)
452 case strings.TrimSpace(message.Text) == stopCommand:
454 b.notice("No turn runs.")
457 found, err := l.StopSubagent(name)
459 return fmt.Errorf("stop subagent %s: %w", name, err)
463 b.notice("No subagent " + name + " runs.")
466 whatsapp.Command(args, b.notice)
468 _, err := l.Submit(telegramSource, message.Text)
473 err = l.Flush(context.WithoutCancel(ctx))
475 return fmt.Errorf("flush the message from Telegram: %w", err)
482 // deliver sends part to the chat. When Telegram refuses a part with entities
483 // (HTTP 400), it sends the text of the part again once with no entities, so a
484 // reply is not lost to a bad entity. It tries again after each failure that a
485 // later try can fix, until ctx ends. It drops the part after any other failure.
486 func (b *TelegramBot) deliver(ctx context.Context, part TelegramPart) {
487 outage := b.sendOutage()
488 wait := telegramRetryDelay
490 err := b.api.SendMessage(ctx, b.owner, part.text, part.entities)
491 retry, asked := telegramRetryable(err)
496 if err == nil || ctx.Err() != nil {
500 var answer *TelegramError
502 if len(part.entities) > 0 && errors.As(err, &answer) && answer.Status == http.StatusBadRequest {
503 b.logger.Warn("reply sent as plain text", "err", err)
511 b.logger.Error("reply lost", "err", err)
516 wait = b.pause(ctx, outage, err, wait, asked)
520 // deliverRich sends markdown, escaped with telegramEscapeTags, to the chat as a
521 // rich message. When the Bot API refuses it with HTTP 400 or 404, the message
522 // was not sent, so deliverRich sends the text of the part once with message
523 // entities, and the reply is not lost and does not repeat. Message entities
524 // read no HTML, so the fallback gets the Markdown of telegramUnescapeTags, as
525 // the model wrote it. It tries again after each failure that a later try can
526 // fix, until ctx ends. It drops the message after any other failure.
527 func (b *TelegramBot) deliverRich(ctx context.Context, markdown string) {
528 outage := b.sendOutage()
529 wait := telegramRetryDelay
531 err := b.api.SendRichMessage(ctx, b.owner, markdown)
532 retry, asked := telegramRetryable(err)
537 if err == nil || ctx.Err() != nil {
541 if telegramRejected(err) {
542 b.logger.Warn("reply sent with simple formatting", "err", err)
544 for _, part := range telegramReplyParts(telegramUnescapeTags(markdown)) {
552 b.logger.Error("reply lost", "err", err)
557 wait = b.pause(ctx, outage, err, wait, asked)
561 // sendOutage returns a new outage of the messages to the chat.
562 func (b *TelegramBot) sendOutage() *TelegramOutage {
563 return &TelegramOutage{
570 // notice queues a short answer of the bot for the chat.
571 func (b *TelegramBot) notice(text string) {
578 // TelegramOutage is one run of failures of a kind of Bot API call. The first
579 // failure logs loss, its cause, and the wait of the next try. The retries log
580 // nothing. The next answer of Telegram logs back and the length of the outage.
581 // loss and back say what the user loses and gets again.
582 type TelegramOutage struct {
589 // Fail logs the start of an outage with err and delay, unless an outage runs.
590 func (o *TelegramOutage) Fail(err error, delay time.Duration) {
591 if !o.start.IsZero() {
596 o.logger.Warn(o.loss, "err", err, "retry", delay)
599 // End logs the end of the outage that runs, with its length.
600 func (o *TelegramOutage) End() {
601 if o.start.IsZero() {
605 o.logger.Info(o.back, "after", time.Since(o.start))
607 o.start = time.Time{}
610 // TelegramPart is the text of one message to the chat, at most
611 // telegramMessageUnits long, and its entities.
612 type TelegramPart struct {
614 entities []TelegramEntity
617 // TelegramOffsetFile is the content of the offset file.
618 type TelegramOffsetFile struct {
619 Offset int64 `json:"offset"`
622 // telegramLoadOffset reads the update offset at path. A missing file gives 0,
623 // which asks for every update that Telegram keeps.
624 func telegramLoadOffset(path string) (int64, error) {
625 data, err := os.ReadFile(path)
626 if errors.Is(err, os.ErrNotExist) {
631 return 0, fmt.Errorf("read update offset: %w", err)
634 var file TelegramOffsetFile
636 err = json.Unmarshal(data, &file)
638 return 0, fmt.Errorf("%s: %w", path, err)
641 return file.Offset, nil
644 // telegramSaveOffset replaces the update offset at path.
645 func telegramSaveOffset(path string, offset int64) error {
646 data, err := json.Marshal(TelegramOffsetFile{
650 return fmt.Errorf("encode update offset: %w", err)
653 err = writeFileAtomic(path, append(data, '\n'))
655 return fmt.Errorf("write update offset: %w", err)
661 // telegramSplitMessage cuts text into parts of at most limit UTF-16 code units,
662 // the unit of the Telegram message limit. It cuts after the last line break or
663 // space of a part when one is in its second half, and else at the limit. It
664 // never cuts a character.
665 func telegramSplitMessage(text string, limit int) []string {
669 end := telegramPrefixEnd(text, limit)
670 if end == len(text) {
671 return append(parts, text)
674 cut := strings.LastIndexByte(text[:end], '\n') + 1
676 cut = strings.LastIndexByte(text[:end], ' ') + 1
683 parts = append(parts, text[:cut])
688 // telegramText returns the text of event for the chat. A user message of
689 // another client has its source as a mark. A subagent shows only its start and
690 // how its run ended, because the reply of the agent carries the content of the
692 func telegramText(event Event) string {
695 return "[" + event.Source + "] " + event.Text
697 return "[" + event.Text + "] started"
699 return "[" + event.Source + "] " + event.Status
701 return "Error: " + event.Text
707 // telegramSplitRich cuts the Markdown of a reply into parts of at most limit
708 // bytes. It cuts after a blank line outside a code block, so a table, a code
709 // block, or a paragraph stays whole. When no such cut fits in a part, it cuts
710 // after the last line break outside a code block, then after the last line
711 // break in a code block, which it closes at the end of the part and opens again
712 // in the next part with the same fence line. A line longer than limit is cut at
713 // the limit, or before an & in the four bytes before the limit, so that it does
714 // not cut an entity of telegramEscapeTags. It never cuts a character.
715 func telegramSplitRich(markdown string, limit int) []string {
718 for len(markdown) > limit {
719 cut, fence, opening := telegramRichCut(markdown, limit)
721 parts = append(parts, markdown[:cut])
722 markdown = markdown[cut:]
727 parts = append(parts, markdown[:cut]+fence+"\n")
728 markdown = opening + "\n" + markdown[cut:]
731 return append(parts, markdown)
734 // telegramReplyParts returns the messages of the Markdown of a reply with
735 // message entities. A reply that has no text left after the conversion, such as
736 // an empty code block, goes as its Markdown.
737 func telegramReplyParts(markdown string) []TelegramPart {
738 text, entities := telegramMarkdownEntities(markdown)
739 if strings.TrimSpace(text) == "" {
740 text, entities = markdown, nil
743 return telegramSplitEntities(text, entities, telegramMessageUnits)
746 // telegramPrefixEnd returns the byte length of the longest prefix of text with
747 // at most limit UTF-16 code units.
748 func telegramPrefixEnd(text string, limit int) int {
750 for index, char := range text {
756 if units+size > limit {
766 // telegramRichCut returns where telegramSplitRich cuts markdown, which is
767 // longer than limit. For a cut in a code block, it also returns the fence that
768 // closes the block and the line that opens it. Each part before a cut holds
769 // text other than space, and a cut in a code block leaves room for the fence,
770 // so each cut makes the rest shorter.
771 func telegramRichCut(markdown string, limit int) (int, string, string) {
772 blank, line, code := 0, 0, 0
774 var fence, opening, inFence, inOpening string
776 for start := 0; start < limit; {
777 end := strings.IndexByte(markdown[start:], '\n')
778 if end < 0 || start+end+1 > limit {
783 text := strings.TrimRight(markdown[start:end], "\r\n")
784 _, opens := markdownCodeFence(text)
787 if markdownClosesFence(text, fence) {
789 } else if end > len(opening)+1 && end+len(fence)+1 <= limit {
790 code, inFence, inOpening = end, fence, opening
793 fence, opening = opens, text
794 case strings.TrimSpace(markdown[:end]) == "":
795 case strings.TrimSpace(text) == "":
799 if fence == "" && strings.TrimSpace(markdown[:end]) != "" {
812 return code, inFence, inOpening
816 for !utf8.RuneStart(markdown[cut]) {
820 start := max(cut-len("&")+1, 0)
821 entity := strings.LastIndexByte(markdown[start:cut], '&')
822 if entity >= 0 && start+entity > 0 {
829 // telegramSplitEntities cuts text into parts with telegramSplitMessage, and
830 // gives each part the entities in it, with offsets from the start of the part.
831 // An entity that crosses a cut becomes one entity in each part.
832 func telegramSplitEntities(text string, entities []TelegramEntity, limit int) []TelegramPart {
833 var parts []TelegramPart
836 for _, part := range telegramSplitMessage(text, limit) {
837 end := start + telegramUTF16Units(part)
839 var kept []TelegramEntity
841 for _, entity := range entities {
842 from := max(entity.Offset, start)
843 to := min(entity.Offset+entity.Length, end)
848 entity.Offset = from - start
849 entity.Length = to - from
850 kept = append(kept, entity)
853 parts = append(parts, TelegramPart{