# Telegram AI Agent Integration | Novu

> Connect your AI agent to Telegram for contextual conversations, rich messages, inline actions, and real-time responses.

Canonical: https://novu.co/integrations/telegram-agent/

Markdown: https://novu.co/integrations/telegram-agent.md

Make your agent available for fast, contextual conversations through Telegram.

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<IntegrationSection title="Overview" icon="eye">
  Telegram is a messaging platform that supports bots, rich messages, and
  interactive actions. Novu Connect lets your existing agent communicate through
  Telegram without requiring you to build and operate a separate Telegram bot
  integration.
</IntegrationSection>

<IntegrationSection title="How it works" icon="refresh-cw">
  Novu Connect receives Telegram messages and replies, retains their
  conversation context, and sends them to your agent. Agent responses return to
  the correct chat with support for Markdown-rich messages, inline buttons,
  quick actions, typing indicators, read states, and messages that update in
  place.
</IntegrationSection>

<IntegrationSection title="Configure" icon="settings">
From your agent project, run:

`npx novu connect --channel telegram`

Create the Telegram bot in BotFather, then complete the setup link or QR-code flow provided by the CLI. Enter the bot token only in the CLI flow.

</IntegrationSection>

## Need help?

Check our documentation for a step-by-step guide to connecting an agent to Telegram with Novu Connect.

Docs: https://docs.novu.co/agents/channels/telegram