Q&A

[grinev]

Need help setting up or using the bot? Ask your questions here!

[Paslestrange]

Hey @grinev, great work with the bot. I really enjoy working with it.

Is there a way to clean up or terminate old sessions or mark them as complete?

[grinev]

Hi @Paslestrange! Thanks for feedback. What do you mean by completing session? Is there such command in Opencode CLI? You can delete session, do you mean that? It is possible to add command to delete current session, but does it make sense?

[Paslestrange]

I noticed the session list keeps growing as they are kept in the database, but i realize now that it's just how opencode handles sessions and the bot just lists these. Coming from other tools, the sessions/chats/tasks are usually kind of archived after a while to not bloat the list and focus on what is latest or ongoing.
So basically i just misinterpreted how opencode is handling this.

[dhowe]

greetings, I may be misunderstanding how things should be setup, but I'm running headless opencode as a service on a remote linux box and want the bot to always be running when the oc server is (without starting it in a shell each time)... is there a suggested way to do this?

[grinev]

Hi @dhowe ! It was thought that the bot could control an opencode server running on the same machine. Or we run both opencode and the bot manually. In your case, you can install the bot via npm and register it in the system autostart so that it is always running.

[dhowe]

Perhaps someone should post service configs for the bot (systemd, launchctl, etc.) ?

[shaked8634]

Here you go (systemd):

[Unit]
Description=Opencode Telegram Bot
After=opencode-web.service
Requires=opencode-web.service

[Service]
ExecStart=%h/.npm-global/bin/opencode-telegram
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5
Environment=NODE_ENV=production

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

[Deniom3]

Hi. I'm running a bot through a systemd service, and it seems to be working. I send messages and see them arrive in opencode. But if I start a session through the web on my computer and then select it in Telegram, I only see a short excerpt after selecting it, but no new messages from the bot.

Did I configure something incorrectly, or does the system actually only work in one-way mode, and responses are only transmitted to direct user questions? If I create a new session through Telegram and send a message, I see the response.

[grinev]

This bot is not for notification, it is complete mobile client. You can start new session or resume existing and work with it from your phone like in cli, but not to connect to running desktop session.

[Deniom3]

That's too bad. I'm actually looking for a way to continue current tasks and start new ones via Telegram. Anyway, thanks for the bot. I think notifications would be interesting for many, and it could be a future feature development.

[grinev]

I will think about it. If bot can connect to running dekstop session, messages will be sent on desktop and mobile at the same time. If this behavior could be useful, I can add it.

[grinev]

I need to do some research, but I think I can add command /connect tо connect to running session on desktop, and see all the output and have ability to interact with current session. But in my usecases I don't see when I can use this feature. If I'm at home, I can use my pc, If I'm outside - I can use telegram bot. Only case If I go outside while I have running session on pc, but I don't do like this. I can go outside and start new session using bot.

[Deniom3]

Well, right now, when I select a session, I see compressed responses from previous sessions, but no new ones appear. If messages continued to arrive, that would be great. It's not even necessary to broadcast user messages from a PC to Telegram; OpenClause's own responses are enough.

By the way, I'd also like to point out the new feature Telegram bots use when they gradually change messages (streaming output). OpenClaw, for example, uses it.

[commandlinetips]

hello ,
thanks for this great tool / bot

i love it with the last release the bot start to send this MSG with every response
like this :

"🛠️ Build · 🤖 zai-coding-plan/glm-5.1 · 🕒 7.5so"

i make the agent check the code of its appear to be hardcoded i can't work remove it

"That footer is sent automatically after every completed response — it shows the agent name, model used, and elapsed time. It's not configurable (no env var to disable it)."

check this image we have the same info in the menu .

is there a simple way to make it not appear in the msg's for each one like in the start of the session its ok but with every msg its annoying .

[grinev]

This message is needed to updated reply keyboard with correct context value and also for sending notification that response is ready. After adding messages streaming we need this changes because notifications and context at keyboard didn't work properly. This message is the same as in opencode cli

[mov4an]

Привет, не пойму, с чем связано, что в бот не идут ответы, в opencode запрос доходит и обрабатывается, а ответ не приходит, висит на "думаю".

[grinev]

Could you provide logs?