Telegram — CyberCLI notification channel

Your own bot, your own chat. Fast, free, everywhere.

Where to get it

Your own Telegram bot (create one with @BotFather) and the target chat id.

Install / what you need

No install. You need a bot token from @BotFather and the chat/channel id to post to.

How to connect

1 Create a bot with @BotFather and copy the token.
2 Add the bot to your chat/channel and grab the chat id.
3 Dashboard → Notifications → Add destination → telegram, paste the token + chat id, Send test.

When you'd use it

Instant mobile alerting.

A private ops channel.

Free, no per-message cost.

What Herald sends through this channel

3 setup fields

Herald hands every alert to the TelegramAdapter as a DispatchPlan. The fields below are what the dashboard form asks for; the sample is the plan the adapter receives. The adapter renders it into the channel-native shape (Discord embeds, Teams MessageCards, PagerDuty Events-API payloads, TwiML, JSON POST bodies) on the way out — that wire transcript varies per channel.

Setup form fields

field	type	required	description / default
bot_token	string	required	Telegram Bot API token from @BotFather (123456:ABC-DEF...)
chat_id	string	required	Target chat id (user, group, or channel; e.g. -1001234567890)
timeout_seconds	number	optional	no description · default: 10

Sample DispatchPlan (input to the adapter)

{
  "decision_id": "tdc-2026-06-20-abc12",
  "channel": "<channel-type>",
  "recipient": {
    "recipient_id": "soc-oncall",
    "display_name": "SOC on-call",
    "addresses": [
      {
        "channel": "<channel-type>",
        "address": "<destination>",
        "min_defcon": 5
      }
    ]
  },
  "urgency": "high",
  "retry_policy": {
    "max_attempts": 3,
    "initial_backoff_seconds": 5
  },
  "subject": "Suspicious login on CEO-LAPTOP",
  "body": "Warden flagged a PowerShell child of WINWORD.EXE. The encoded command resolved to a base64-wrapped Invoke-WebRequest to a newly-registered domain. Trust ladder: L3.",
  "approval_link": "https://app.cybercli.local/approve/abc12",
  "incident_ref": "case-2026-0142",
  "signal_id": "sig-2026-06-20-9f3"
}

Sovereignty: byo_external · Min tier (BYO): free · Telegram Bot API; the de-facto homelab alerting bot (Free+).

Sovereignty

Messages transit Telegram's cloud. Bot token is the only secret; vault-stored.

Who notifies through it

Herald — the Guild's voice role — routes alerts, daily digests, and AI verdicts here, on a per-CYCON-state matrix you control. CYCON 1/2 alerts repeat until an operator acks.

The Guild →

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