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Part of the bootcamp
Building persistent AI assistants with Telegram is one workshop inside Agentic AI Engineering Bootcamp.
See the full path with mentor reviews and a portfolio outcome.
Start with a tiny bot, then grow it into an assistant with memory, tools, guardrails, background schedules, and specialized agents that share a brain. Every piece you add is code you wrote and understand.
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Build a real AI assistant on Telegram that remembers conversations, uses tools, manages its own context, carries long-term memory, schedules background work, and routes between specialized agents.
Build a Telegram AI assistant that remembers, uses tools, and runs its own background tasks.
What you'll ship
What you'll learn
Curriculum
Bot foundations
Wire Telegram to Claude, persist conversations, and give the assistant an identity
Agent capabilities
Run the agent loop with tools, gate dangerous actions with permissions, and serve the agent over HTTP as well
Memory and intelligence
Compact old turns automatically and give the agent a searchable long-term memory
Production systems
Add per-session locks, scheduled background tasks, and routing across specialized agents
Who it's for
tired of stateless bot demos and ready to build something that actually remembers
who want to understand what a real agent looks like without a framework in the way
who want a personal AI assistant on Telegram they can extend with their own tools
FAQ
Yes. Telegram is free and the bot token is quick to create through BotFather. You can run everything on your own device.
The reference implementation uses Claude Sonnet from Anthropic. The patterns apply to any tool-calling model you want to swap in.
No. The point is to see every part of an agent with your own eyes. Once you understand the loop, a framework becomes a time-saver instead of a mystery.
A ChatGPT clone is stateless chat. You will build an assistant with persistent memory, real tools, permission controls, context compaction, scheduled tasks, and multi-agent routing.