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# 11. Telegram groups (beta)

Edition note: this chapter describes a beta that was enabled on 27 October 2026, after the 20 October 2026 configuration reviewed for the rest of this edition. The Telegram card described below appears in the app only while the service publishes the groups beta as active. Discord and Slack are not enabled and are not described here as available.

## 11.1 What the beta provides

A pet owner can create a Telegram bot that speaks as the owner's selected pet and add that bot to Telegram groups. The bot is the pet's own bot. It is separate from the community mission bot described in 11.6, and separate from the PetClaw messaging connectors for Telegram, Slack, Discord and Twitter, which remain paused as described in Chapters 2 and 10.

## 11.2 Setting up the bot

1. Sign in with a wallet at [app.myaipet.ai](https://app.myaipet.ai) and select the pet.
2. Open Sovereignty. The Telegram card is shown only while the groups beta is active.
3. Prefer **Create my pet's bot**, which opens a managed Telegram bot-creation link. The card checks the bot's status every few seconds for up to three minutes. If that option is not offered or does not complete, message [@BotFather](https://t.me/BotFather) in Telegram, send `/newbot`, paste the resulting bot token into the card and tap **Connect**. The service verifies the token with Telegram, stores it encrypted and does not display it again.
4. Tap **Add @bot to a group**. Telegram may ask to grant the bot the pin-messages admin right so that a plain mention reaches it. The product requests that right and does not use it to pin messages.

## 11.3 Talking to the pet in a group

Call the bot with `/pet@username` followed by a message, or reply to one of the bot's messages. A plain `@username` mention reaches the bot only after it has been made a group admin or its privacy mode has been turned off in BotFather with `/setprivacy`.

Messages that do not call the bot are ignored and cost nothing.

## 11.4 Access, limits and cost

Group replies require an active Season Pass. Without one, the card shows the Season Pass link when the pass is on sale for that wallet. Group replies use no credits, up to a daily number the owner chooses. The maximum is 100 per day, and a setting of 0 turns group replies off.

Private replies, in which the bot answers an individual chat, cost 1 credit each, up to the pet's daily limit, which defaults to 50. Private replies can share the daily chat allowance used by the owner's own conversations in the app.

| Reply type                         | Cost                                      | Daily limit                                                         |
| ---------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Group reply                        | 0 credits; requires an active Season Pass | Owner-chosen, at most 100; 0 turns group replies off                |
| Private reply                      | 1 credit each                             | The pet's daily limit, default 50; may share the app chat allowance |
| Message that does not call the bot | None; the message is ignored              | Not applicable                                                      |

## 11.5 Privacy in groups

In groups, and in private chats with anyone the bot cannot confirm is the owner, the pet receives none of the owner's private memories or profile. Replies in those settings draw on the pet's conversational style only. Chapter 9 describes the privacy boundaries that apply across the service.

## 11.6 Community mission bot

Season Entry Missions use a separate community bot, `myaipets_bot`. The steps are: link Telegram, open the bot and tap **START**, join the community group, then tap **Verify** in the app. That flow awards Season Points for joining the community group. It is not the same as connecting a pet's bot, and completing it does not create or connect a pet bot.

## 11.7 Scope and status

* The feature is a beta. Availability can change, and the Telegram card is withdrawn whenever the service stops publishing the beta as active.
* One-tap bot creation may not be offered in every case; the BotFather token flow is the fallback.
* Discord and Slack are not enabled. The PetClaw messaging connectors listed in Chapter 10 remain paused; the groups beta is a separate feature and does not change their status.
* This edition publishes no operating figures for the beta. Figures for the service as a whole are in Chapter 10.