How to connect Telegram to Claude

Claude is Anthropic's AI assistant, available on the web, in the desktop app, and on mobile. Cowork is its agent for knowledge work, and it runs on all of those surfaces too. Connected to your apps, Claude can work with your files and services to accomplish complex tasks on your behalf.

This guide walks you through the easiest and most secure way to connect your Telegram account to Claude via Composio Connect, enabling it to send a welcome message to new group members, forward latest announcement to all admins, get total member count of your group, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

Setup is the same on Claude Web, Desktop, and Cowork, and you only need to do it once. The connector is tied to your account, so it's available in all three.

Connecting Telegram to Claude Web, Desktop, and Cowork

Two ways to add the Composio connector. Pick whichever you prefer.

1. Add with one click

Click the button. Claude opens with the Composio connector filled in. Click Add, then go to step 2.

Add to Claude

Add manually

In Claude Desktop, click Customize in the left sidebar, then select Connectors and click the + icon at the top.

Click Add custom connector and paste in the Composio MCP server URL:

The Telegram MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Telegram account. It provides structured and secure access to your chats and bot functionality, so your agent can send messages, manage conversations, retrieve chat data, and interact with users or groups on your behalf.

• Automated message sending and editing: Let your agent send new messages or edit existing ones in any chat where your bot is present, making real-time communication a breeze.
• Chat and group management: Effortlessly manage group chats by retrieving chat details, getting administrators, exporting invite links, or counting group members.
• Advanced chat history and message handling: Ask your agent to fetch chat history, forward messages between chats, or delete messages for streamlined moderation and record-keeping.
• Bot and user interaction: Enable the agent to answer callback queries from inline keyboards and fetch basic bot information for smarter, context-aware responses.