name: hive.telegram-notifications-setup description: Set up a Telegram notification channel (Sentinel) for a colony by driving the browser — create a bot via @BotFather in Telegram Web, store its token, detect the chat to notify, and turn Sentinel on so the colony can ping the user on Telegram and accept replies. Use when the user asks to "set up Telegram notifications", "get pinged on Telegram", "connect Telegram for alerts", "set up Sentinel on Telegram", or clicks the in-app "Set this up with the agent" button on the Telegram step. Requires hive.browser-automation. metadata: author: hive type: default-skill version: "1.0" requires_skill: hive.browser-automation
Telegram Notifications Setup (Sentinel)
Sentinel pings the user on Telegram when a colony stalls and lets them reply to
keep it going. It needs one thing: a Telegram bot token (123456:ABC-…),
created via @BotFather and stored under credential id telegram. The same token
sends alerts and reads the user's replies.
You do the whole thing end to end with the sentinel_setup tool (the same API
the desktop connector uses): create the bot, store the token, detect the chat,
point Sentinel at it, and send a test — without making the user paste anything.
Activate hive.browser-automation first — this skill assumes you know the
lifecycle rules (the bridge attaches to the user's own Chrome; never launch or kill
a browser), the screenshot + viewport-fraction coordinate workflow, and
. Telegram Web is a heavy SPA with custom rendering, so prefer the
screenshot + coordinate path over selectors when the snapshot is unclear.