Telegram as an Agent Control Plane

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by zackham • 3 months ago

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Interesting approach. I've been running a similar setup using Slack as the control plane for browser automation agents. The main challenge with messaging apps as control planes is handling long-running tasks and state management. Telegram's bot API is actually nicer than Slack's for this since you get more granular message editing.

zackham• 3 months ago

agreed. the long-running tasks i handle with immediate-background and continually edit message with updates, along with fork-and-reconcile semantics so you don't have to queue messages. also having a supergroup with separate topics for different sessions works really well.

the separate topics approach along with allowing other processes to enqueue messages into the session stream solves state pretty tidily, see "the session as decision-maker" in the linked report

Telegram as an Agent Control Plane

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