The identity-refresh TTL used 0.0 as the "never checked" sentinel and
compared it against time.monotonic(). That epoch is arbitrary and starts
near zero on a freshly-booted host, so on CI runners and containers
`monotonic() - 0.0` was itself below the TTL — "never checked" read as
"checked just now" and the first identity refresh was suppressed for the
first 5 minutes of uptime. The stale-handle recovery therefore did nothing
on exactly the machines most likely to be freshly booted.
Invisible on a long-lived dev box (uptime >> TTL); caught by CI.
- Sentinel is now None, meaning never checked and always stale.
- Both TTL comparison sites route through _bot_identity_is_fresh().
- Regression test pins the invariant under a faked 12s-uptime clock.
Verified by re-running the recheck tests against a simulated 3s-uptime
host: green with the fix, and restoring the 0.0 sentinel reproduces the
exact CI failure locally.
Renaming a Telegram bot's @username in BotFather silently stopped the
gateway from answering in groups.
PTB caches getMe() in Bot._bot_user and only rewrites it inside get_me(),
so after a rename the adapter kept comparing mentions against the OLD
handle. The exclusive-mention gate then saw the new @handle, failed to
match itself, and concluded the message was addressed to a different bot
— dropping it before the reply and wake-word fallbacks could run. Native
replies to the bot were discarded too. Polling mode recovered on the next
90s heartbeat; webhook mode never calls get_me() again, so it stayed dead
until restart.
Separately, the bot-handle pattern assumed every bot username ends in
"bot". Collectible (Fragment) usernames can be assigned to bots and drop
that suffix (@jarvis, @pic), so such a bot could not recognise its own
handle in the entity-less fallback and was suppressed by any message that
also named another bot.
- Route every mention comparison through _current_bot_username(), which
prefers the last observed handle over PTB's cache.
- Learn the live handle from inbound updates: Telegram stamps the current
username on our own messages and on reply_to_message. Guarded by user
id, so another account's handle is never adopted.
- Re-check identity out of band (TTL-bounded, one getMe per 5 min) when
the exclusive gate is about to drop a message — the exact stale-handle
symptom — so the mistake self-corrects instead of persisting.
- Refresh identity in webhook mode via a dedicated low-frequency loop,
cancelled on the same teardown fence as the heartbeat.
- Match our own handle by identity rather than shape. Foreign handles keep
the deliberate "...bot" narrowing so human @handles still never act as
routing hints (the intent behind ce4d857021).
Validation: 11 regression tests; sabotage runs confirm each behavioral
test fails with the fix reverted. 157 tests green across the Telegram
gating, reconnect, and topic-mode suites.
- Update test_observed_group_context_preserves_slash_command_text_for_dispatch
to assert user_id is preserved for COMMAND messages (new correct behavior)
- Add _coerce_allow_set helper to handle both list and comma-separated
string allowlist inputs (prevents character-by-character iteration bug)
- Include 'channel' in chat_type checks for group-scoped authorization
- Add _telegram_extra fallback for group_allowed_chats (consistent with
group_allow_from fallback)
- Add AUTHOR_MAP entry for nyaruko@hermes -> tsuk1nose
Add a telegram.free_response_topics config list of '<chat_id>:<thread_id>'
entries (plus the TELEGRAM_FREE_RESPONSE_TOPICS env bridge) so a single
forum topic can be free-response — the bot replies without a mention —
without opening the whole chat via free_response_chats. A missing
message_thread_id is normalized to the General topic ('1') via
_effective_message_thread_id.
Re-ported from PR #36049 (by @wesleion): the original patched
gateway/platforms/telegram.py, which has since moved to
plugins/platforms/telegram/adapter.py with a second gating site
(_should_observe_unmentioned_group_message) and plugin-hook config
bridging (_apply_yaml_config). Both gating sites now honor
free_response_topics.
Salvaged-from: #36049
Group gating (_should_process_message) read the raw message_thread_id,
while event routing (_build_message_event) normalized it. A plain
non-forum group reply's message_thread_id is a reply-UI anchor, not a
topic, so an anchor id matching an ignored_threads entry wrongly
dropped the message, and the anchor was treated as a routable topic
under allowed_topics.
Extract _effective_message_thread_id and route both gating and
event-building through it, so gating and session routing agree on one
normalized value: real topic/forum messages keep their thread id, reply
anchors are dropped, and forum General-topic messages normalize to the
General-topic id.
test_config_bridges_telegram_group_settings and
test_config_bridges_telegram_user_allowlists asserted the YAML→env bridge
via os.environ. A developer's real ~/.hermes/.env can repopulate TELEGRAM_*
vars during load_gateway_config(): the microsoft_teams plugin runs
load_dotenv(find_dotenv(usecwd=True)) at import time, which walks up from the
cwd (under ~/.hermes/ in worktrees) and reloads the user's .env, defeating the
env-over-YAML bridge for any key present there (e.g. TELEGRAM_GROUP_ALLOWED_CHATS).
Assert the returned PlatformConfig.extra instead — it is parsed straight from
the test's config.yaml and is immune to that ambient leak. free_response_chats
is bridged to the env var only (not extra), and TELEGRAM_FREE_RESPONSE_CHATS
doesn't appear in developer .env files, so it stays a deterministic os.environ
assertion.
Regression tests for the self-author guard added in the salvaged fix:
- bot-authored DM-topic watcher echo is dropped (the exact #11905 symptom)
- bot self-messages dropped in groups/supergroups too
- other bots in the same chat are still processed (self-id, not is_bot)
- observe-unmentioned sibling path also rejects self-messages
- missing from_user does not crash
Test scaffolding ported from @cola-runner's PR #12817 and adapted to the
current plugins/platforms/telegram/adapter.py and _is_own_message().
Follow-up to the accept-any-file-type change. The observe-unmentioned and
replied-media paths relied on cache_media_bytes() returning None for
unsupported document types to emit an 'unsupported, not cached' note. Now
that any file type is always cached, those docs are cached and surfaced with
a path-pointing note — consistent with the main document path. The
remaining cached-is-None branch is image-validation-failure only; its note
is reworded accordingly. Updates the group-gating test to the new contract.
Salvage of PR #41284 onto current main. Relocates the last 9 inline messaging
adapters (+ satellites: telegram_network, feishu_comment/_rules/meeting_invite,
wecom_crypto, wecom_callback) from gateway/platforms/ into self-contained
bundled plugins under plugins/platforms/<x>/, discovered via the platform
registry. Strips the per-platform core touchpoints from gateway/run.py,
gateway/config.py, hermes_cli/gateway.py, hermes_cli/setup.py, and
tools/send_message_tool.py.
Carries forward the migration fixes (explicit enabled:false honored,
get_connected_platforms forces discovery, plugin is_connected via
gateway.get_env_value, logs --component gateway matches plugins.platforms.*,
matrix hidden on Windows).
Additionally ports config keys main added since the PR base: the matrix
plugin's _apply_yaml_config now also covers allowed_users,
ignore_user_patterns, process_notices, and session_scope (the inline
gateway/config.py matrix block gained these in the 1340 commits the PR sat
open; they would otherwise have been silently dropped on deletion).
Collapse the per-type observed-media dispatch into one platform-agnostic
cache_media_bytes() helper in gateway/platforms/base.py. Any adapter can now
hand it raw attachment bytes + a filename/MIME hint; it classifies against the
shared MIME registries, routes to the right cache_*_from_bytes helper,
sandbox-translates the path, and returns a CachedMedia with a ready
context_note(). Telegram's observed-group path shrinks to: size-gate, download,
call the helper, annotate. Also dedupes the addressed-media type ladder into
_media_message_type().
Net: contributor's Telegram-only +595 LOC becomes a +210/-32 production change,
with the reusable primitive available to Discord/Slack/Signal/etc.
Co-authored-by: Glucksberg <markuscontasul@gmail.com>
_handle_location_message and _handle_media_message were skipped when the
observe-unmentioned-group-messages feature landed (a9db0e2c7). Both handlers
now:
1. Check _should_observe_unmentioned_group_message on the skipped path and
call _observe_unmentioned_group_message so group chatter is stored as
shared session context even when the bot is not addressed.
2. Call _apply_telegram_group_observe_attribution on the triggered path so
the dispatched event uses the shared (user_id=None) group session instead
of the per-user session, letting the model see previously observed context.
For stickers the attribution is applied after _handle_sticker completes
(which overwrites event.text with the vision description); for all other
media types it is applied once after caption cleaning.
Four new tests cover the observe and attribution paths for both handlers.
After PR #24468 made the empty-allowlist callback auth fail-closed
(and #23795 wired _is_callback_user_authorized into _should_process_message),
trigger-gating tests started failing because their fake messages from
user 111 hit the new deny-by-default path before trigger evaluation.
Force-authorize all senders in _make_adapter() so the trigger logic
under test runs. The fail-closed behavior itself is covered by
test_telegram_callback_auth_fail_closed.py.
- Restore allowed_chats gate before thread_id check so ignored_threads
applies universally (even to guest mentions).
- Compute _message_mentions_bot once in _should_process_message to
eliminate redundant second entity scan when guest_mode=true and the
message does not mention the bot.
- Remove redundant _is_group_chat from _is_guest_mention (caller already
verified the message is a group chat).
- Update _telegram_allowed_chats docstring to note guest_mode exception.
- Add test coverage: bot_command entity, text_mention entity,
caption_entities, and ignored_threads + guest_mode interaction.
- Add nik1t7n to AUTHOR_MAP.
Users commonly place `require_mention: true` at the top level of
config.yaml alongside `group_sessions_per_user`, expecting it to gate
Telegram group messages. The key was silently ignored because the
config loader only checked `yaml_cfg["telegram"]["require_mention"]`.
When `require_mention` is found at the top level and no telegram-specific
value is set, the fix now:
- adds it to platforms_data["telegram"]["extra"] so _telegram_require_mention()
picks it up via the primary config.extra path
- sets TELEGRAM_REQUIRE_MENTION env var for the secondary fallback path
A telegram-specific value (telegram.require_mention) still takes
precedence over the top-level shorthand.
Also corrects telegram.md: bare /cmd without @botname is rejected when
require_mention is enabled; only /cmd@botname (bot-menu form) passes.
Fixes#3979
Telegram groups emit a single bot_command entity covering the whole
/cmd@botname span with no accompanying mention entity, so the existing
mention gate in _message_mentions_bot dropped slash commands sent via
the bot-menu autocomplete whenever require_mention is enabled.
Recognise bot_command entities whose @botname suffix matches the bot
username (case-insensitive) as a direct mention, and keep rejecting
commands addressed at other bots. Fixes#15415.
Current main's _message_mentions_bot() uses MessageEntity-only detection
(commit e330112a), so the test for '/status@hermes_bot' needs to include
a MENTION entity. Real Telegram always emits one for /cmd@botname — the
bot menu and CommandHandler rely on this mechanism.
When require_mention is enabled, slash commands no longer bypass
mention checks. Bare /command without @mention is filtered in groups,
while /command@botname (bot menu) and @botname /command still pass.
Commands still pass unconditionally when require_mention is disabled,
preserving backward compatibility.
Closes#6033
Adds Discord-style mention gating for Telegram groups:
- telegram.require_mention: gate group messages (default: false)
- telegram.mention_patterns: regex wake-word triggers
- telegram.free_response_chats: bypass gating for specific chats
When require_mention is enabled, group messages are accepted only for:
- slash commands
- replies to the bot
- @botusername mentions
- regex wake-word pattern matches
DMs remain unrestricted. @mention text is stripped before passing to
the agent. Invalid regex patterns are ignored with a warning.
Config bridges follow the existing Discord pattern (yaml → env vars).
Cherry-picked and adapted from PR #1977 by mcleay. Fixed ChatType
comparison to work without python-telegram-bot installed (uses string
matching instead of enum, consistent with other entity_type checks).
Co-authored-by: mcleay <mcleay@users.noreply.github.com>
