Connect Telegram to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor on Mac and Windows

To let your AI use Telegram, install LMCP and link your own Telegram account. LMCP is a local MCP server for Mac and Windows. It talks to Telegram's official API with your account, so your AI can list your chats, read and search messages, and send a message once you approve it. It needs LMCP 3.0.420 or later.

What your AI can do with Telegram

• List chats — people, groups and channels, newest first, with unread counts and the last message (telegram_list_chats).
• Read messages — the recent messages of one chat, paging back in time (telegram_read_messages).
• Search — by text across all your chats or inside one chat; the search runs on Telegram's servers, so it covers your full history (telegram_search_messages).
• Send a message — one message per call. The first call returns a preview and sends nothing; the message goes out only after you confirm (telegram_send_message).
• Manage accounts — link, list, choose a default and disconnect accounts (telegram_connect, telegram_list_accounts, set_default_telegram_account, telegram_disconnect).

How to connect

1. Install LMCP and restart your AI client.
2. Ask your AI to connect Telegram. It runs telegram_connect and LMCP shows a QR code.
3. On your phone, open Telegram → Settings → Devices → Link Desktop Device and scan the code.
4. If your account has a two-step verification password, or you prefer to sign in with your phone number, use the LMCP window on Mac or the LMCP tray icon → Telegram on this PC on Windows.

Your Telegram session is stored in the macOS Keychain or in Windows Credential Manager. Disconnecting signs that session out on Telegram's side; your chats stay in Telegram.

More than one account

You can link several Telegram accounts and choose one per request. Ask your AI to link another account (telegram_connect with add_account: true), to list them (telegram_list_accounts) and to pick the default (set_default_telegram_account). Without an account, the Telegram tools use the default one.

Example prompts

• “What did Marco send me on Telegram today?”
• “Search my Telegram for the invoice number from last week.”
• “Draft a reply to the design group and show me the preview before sending.”

Limitations

• Your own account. LMCP signs in as you through Telegram's official API; it does not use a bot.
• One message per send. There is no bulk sending, and a send shows a preview first.
• A connected account is required. Without one, the Telegram tools explain how to connect instead of returning an empty list.