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Agent Skills: Search Telegram Messages

Search for messages across all Telegram chats or within a specific chat. Find text, filter by sender. TRIGGERS - telegram search, search telegram, find in telegram, telegram find message, search telegram chat, search telegram text

UncategorizedID: terrylica/cc-skills/search-messages

Repository

terrylica/cc-skills
terrylicaLicense: MIT
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pnpm dlx add-skill https://github.com/terrylica/cc-skills/tree/HEAD/plugins/tlg/skills/search-messages

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plugins/tlg/skills/search-messages/SKILL.md

Skill Metadata

Name
search-messages
Description
user wants to search for messages across all Telegram chats or within a specific chat, find old messages by text, or look up Telegram message.

Search Telegram Messages

Search messages globally across all chats or within a specific chat.

Self-Evolving Skill: This skill improves through use. If instructions are wrong, parameters drifted, or a workaround was needed — fix this file immediately, don't defer. Only update for real, reproducible issues.

Preflight

  1. Session must exist: ~/.local/share/telethon/<profile>.session
    • If missing, run /tlg:setup first

Usage

/usr/bin/env bash << 'EOF'
SCRIPT="${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT:-$HOME/.claude/plugins/marketplaces/cc-skills/plugins/tlg}/scripts/tg-cli.py"

# Global search (all chats)
uv run --python 3.13 "$SCRIPT" search "search term" -n 20

# Search in specific chat
uv run --python 3.13 "$SCRIPT" search "keyword" --chat 2124832490

# Filter by sender
uv run --python 3.13 "$SCRIPT" search "topic" --from @username

# Combined: search in chat from specific sender
uv run --python 3.13 "$SCRIPT" search "query" --chat @groupname --from @sender -n 10
EOF

Parameters

| Parameter | Type | Description | | ------------ | ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | query | string | Search text (required) | | --chat | string/int | Limit to specific chat (omit for global) | | --from | string/int | Filter by sender | | -n/--limit | int | Max results (default: 20) | | --preview | int | Truncate each body to N chars (default: full text, multi-line indented). |

Output Format

Default (full text, multi-line indented):

[YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM] [Chat Name] (id:12345) Sender: First line of body
    continuation line 1 (indented under header)
    continuation line 2

With --preview 100:

[YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM] [Chat Name] (id:12345) Sender: First line of body ⏎ continuation collapsed onto…

Use --preview N only for high-volume scans where you want one row per message. Default = full text — long bodies are no longer silently truncated at 150 chars (the prior default forced direct-Telethon escape hatches when content actually mattered).

Anti-Patterns

  • Flood risk: Global search with common terms may hit rate limits (~30s wait per 10 requests)
  • Empty results: Global search requires non-empty query string

Post-Execution Reflection

After this skill completes, check before closing:

  1. Did the command succeed? — If not, fix the instruction or error table that caused the failure.
  2. Did parameters or output change? — If tg-cli.py's interface drifted, update Usage examples and Parameters table to match.
  3. Was a workaround needed? — If you had to improvise (different flags, extra steps), update this SKILL.md so the next invocation doesn't need the same workaround.

Only update if the issue is real and reproducible — not speculative.