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Your own Telegram bot

Your agent can answer on Telegram as a bot that's entirely yours — your name, your @username, your picture. Instead of the shared mintbot.ai contact you chat with, say, @MurrBot, and your agent answers there as itself.

Setup takes about two minutes, in two places: Telegram's @BotFather creates the bot, your agent's panel connects it.

Create the bot

  1. Open @BotFather on Telegram and send /newbot.
  2. Pick a display name — anything you like (e.g. “Murr”).
  3. Pick a unique username ending in bot (e.g. murr_helper_bot).
  4. BotFather replies with a token shaped 123456789:AA… — copy it.

Connect it to your agent

  1. Open your agent's panel → Settings → Telegram.
  2. Make sure your own Telegram account is connected first (the Connect through mintbot.ai side of the card) — your bot will answer only you, so the agent needs to know who you are on Telegram.
  3. Under Create your own bot, paste the token and press Save token. The token is verified with Telegram and your bot goes live right away — the panel shows Your bot is live with its @username.
  4. Open your new bot on Telegram, press Start, and say hi.

📲 If the panel says the token is saved but the connector isn't running yet, press Activate now — it finishes the same setup.

Good to know

  • The token stays on your server. It's stored only on your agent's own server, never centrally — the platform keeps just a fingerprint of it. That also means that after a full server rebuild you paste the token once more.
  • Only you can talk to it. Messages from anyone else are ignored — nobody else can spend your credit.
  • One bot, one agent. A bot can be connected to a single agent. Running several agents this way? Create one BotFather bot per agent.
  • Name and picture are yours to change. Use BotFather's /setname, /setuserpic and /setdescription any time — no need to touch the panel.
  • Everything else keeps working. Your chats through the shared mintbot bot and the agent's web panel work exactly as before; your own bot is one more door to the same agent.

💡 Just after a name, without making a bot? The group-title trick does it with zero setup.