Telegram E2E (Userbot)

Drive leased Telegram Test Server bots as a real QA user.

Prove the requested behavior as a dedicated Telegram Test Server user. TDLib records edits, deletions, reactions, and typing that a second bot cannot observe. For visual claims, also inspect actual Telegram client screenshots; a reconstructed chat image or event log is not visual proof.

Each Convex credential contains one SUT bot and an independent authorization for the QA user. The runner owns that lease through readiness, proof, and cleanup. Pool creation, account authorization repair, and credential publication remain owner-only. Reversible test-chat setup with the leased QA user is ordinary proof work; preserve shared fixtures and other runs.

1. Prepare

Run from the OpenClaw checkout and ref under test, using its repository skill:

bash

TELEGRAM_E2E_SKILL_DIR="${TELEGRAM_E2E_SKILL_DIR:-$PWD/.agents/skills/telegram-e2e-userbot}"
export TELEGRAM_E2E_SKILL_DIR

Verify node, uv, and a dependency-ready runtime for the exact ref before leasing a credential. The runner uses built dist/entry.js; --source-gateway uses the repository's development launcher when a dependency-ready source run is appropriate. It runs core and the Telegram plugin from TypeScript source; other plugins, including the model provider, use built output when it exists, so rebuild before claiming their changes. The live run must not implicitly install or build. Only the mock backend needs scripts/e2e/mock-openai-server.mjs.

Convex access can come from either:

• An existing authenticated CLI with access to the published broker deployment. From qa/convex-credential-broker, discovery tries convex, then bunx --no-install convex, then npx --offline --no --ignore-scripts convex. Each launcher gets one 15-second env --deployment <broker> get lookup for the CI secret. The helper uses the repository's existing broker binding; no local CONVEX_DEPLOYMENT, project-selection file, or dashboard lookup is needed. The secret stays in process memory.
• Both OPENCLAW_QA_CONVEX_SITE_URL and OPENCLAW_QA_CONVEX_SECRET_CI, supplied privately to the doctor or runner process by the existing credential owner.

Check available launchers, existing authentication, and broker-project access before declaring credentials missing. An authenticated launcher with no CI variable needs broker configuration, not another login. Ask the user for authentication only when no existing launcher can authenticate and the broker pair is unavailable. Do not install or log in on the user's behalf. A timeout or network failure is not evidence that credentials are missing. Bun's --no-install missing-binary error means that launcher is unavailable; discovery continues to the next installed launcher.

The standalone doctor needs no local HTTP listener, Gateway build, or model backend: it checks the leased TDLib user and calls Telegram’s official Test Bot API directly over HTTPS. The full scenario still needs local networking for its Gateway and Test Bot API adapter (including hold/reject controls), plus the mock provider when selected. A passing doctor does not qualify those local services.

For a full scenario on shared hosts, select two unused ports and pass them explicitly; the runner does not read port environment variables:

bash

: "${TELEGRAM_GATEWAY_PORT:?set an unused Gateway port}"
: "${TELEGRAM_MOCK_PORT:?set an unused provider port}"

2. Select the proof

Read the verification map, then only the recipe for the behavior under test. Prefer a DM; use groups for group policy, mentions, commands, topics, or reactions. A generic success turn does not prove formatting, media, timing, or lifecycle behavior.

Extend the harness when its current actions or recorder fields cannot expose the claim. Scenario command actions can inspect the leased TDLib state, private credential file, Test Bot API proxy, and Gateway state. Use the runtime reference for timed scenarios, forums, photo/reply actions, non-default backends, manual operation, or failed-run recovery.

3. Check readiness and run

The scenario checks its actual user, bot, transport, and selected chat on its own lease before starting the Gateway. DMs do not depend on unrelated groups. Group runs verify bot membership, privacy, and tester text permissions, preserving a suitable selected group or preparing a run-owned one when needed. Readiness from a released lease never qualifies a later run.

For a standalone diagnostic, use:

bash

node "$TELEGRAM_E2E_SKILL_DIR/scripts/telegram-test-doctor.mjs"

Require ok: true, botApiTransport: "direct-https", and botApiProxy: false. The doctor defaults to DM readiness; --chat <target> checks a selected group through the same direct Test Bot API route. It releases its diagnostic lease and does not start product proof. Preserve setup failures and repair their cause before trying again; rotating unchanged credentials to hunt for a pass is not a repair.

Create a durable proof directory outside runner scratch:

bash

TELEGRAM_E2E_PROOF_DIR="$(mktemp -d /tmp/telegram-e2e-proof.XXXXXX)"
node "$TELEGRAM_E2E_SKILL_DIR/scripts/run-mock-sut-user-e2e.mjs" \
  --gateway-port "$TELEGRAM_GATEWAY_PORT" --mock-port "$TELEGRAM_MOCK_PORT" \
  --dm --text 'Please answer with OPENCLAW_E2E_OK only.' \
  --record "$TELEGRAM_E2E_PROOF_DIR/events.ndjson" \
  --output "$TELEGRAM_E2E_PROOF_DIR/summary.json"

The runner owns the lease, proxy, fresh Gateway, provider, user actions, recorder, and teardown. Recording captures facts and rejects probe assertions such as --expect and --any-sut-reply. A send-confirmation timeout can follow an accepted send: preserve observed events and reconcile them, rather than blindly resending.

4. Judge and clean up

Start at the sent action in summary.json; judge only later events from the selected SUT. Use raw TDLib messageId within the same user's chat, not another account's Bot API receipt, to connect edits and deletions. Require a provider request when the path should reach the model; native commands may produce none.

Report the sanitized command, sent action, relevant timeline rows, provider request count, and the claim those facts prove. Inspect test-group.json when setup ran; fixture evidence is not message proof. Keep credentials, identities, and private paths out of shared logs, screenshots, and reports.

Completion requires the claimed Telegram evidence, no runner-owned processes or listeners, released lease, removed credential scratch, and readable proof files. Cancellation or lease loss stops new work and joins owned consumers. Unconfirmed cleanup is a failure: preserve the private recovery state and use the runtime recovery instructions. Keep explicit proof directories until the review or reproduction no longer needs them.