How-To Series · Episode 24 / 59 · Module 5: Everywhere You Are

Hermes · On Telegram

Your agent in your pocket. Five minutes from zero to chatting.

After this videoYou can now message Hermes from anywhere.

Five minutes end-to-end. Get a token from @BotFather (/newbot, pick a name, pick a username ending in bot). hermes gateway setup wires it. hermes gateway start runs foreground (or install for a managed service). /sethome once in your chosen chat sets where proactive messages land. The one gotcha: Telegram privacy mode is on by default — in groups, the bot only sees /commands and replies. Flip it off in BotFather and remove/re-add the bot. Better: observe_unmentioned_group_messages: true + require_mention: true for a watch-quietly, speak-when-called room. Bonuses: /handoff telegram jumps a CLI chat to your phone, /voice on sends spoken audio replies.

About these resources. Every command in this video comes from the Telegram messaging doc.

Sources · What this video distills

1 docs page · every command below traces to one of them
Primary · BotFather, gateway commands, /sethome, privacy mode, observe mode
Telegram Setup
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Commands shown · Copy and paste

each shows the source doc it came from
Create the botfrom source ↗
message @BotFather then /newbot
Wire it upfrom source ↗
hermes gateway setup && hermes gateway start
Managed servicefrom source ↗
hermes gateway install
Set the home chat (inside Telegram)from source ↗
/sethome

Going deeper · Related Hermes docs

further reading · not sources of facts shown above
Messaging overview
the gateway model behind every platform
Sessions · cross-platform handoff
/handoff telegram from a CLI chat
Voice Mode
spoken replies on Telegram

Next in the series · Episodes that build on this

E09
Sessions
E19
Voice Mode
E25
Hermes on Discord