AI agent in Telegram: 18 terms in plain English

A

AI agent

A program driven by a language model that takes a task in plain words and carries it out with tools: reads files, searches the web, writes code, sets reminders. A chatbot answers; an agent also acts.

See also: Telegram bot, MCP

C

Context window

How much text a model can hold in view at once: your messages, files and its own notes. /context shows what fills it; /compact squeezes the history and keeps the gist.

See also: Own model

D

Default model

DeepSeek, included in every plan, Free too, with no keys to bring. Requests go through DeepSeek’s infrastructure in the PRC; you agree to that at onboarding.

See also: Own model

F

Forum topics

A Telegram group split into topics. With the agent added, each topic becomes its own session with its own memory, so several projects run side by side without mixing.

See also: Session

G

Guest access

Letting another person use your agent in one topic: /allow @username, /revoke @username, /allowed to list them.

I

Isolated container

The separate environment each agent runs in. Its files and memory sit there, and the agent knows only its owner and the people the owner lets in.

M

Magnet ()

One unit of the agent’s work. Transcription is 1  per minute of voice, a spoken reply is from 4  per 1,000 characters, a web search 1.5 , a generated image 20 . Free gives 200  in the first month, then 100  a month; Pro gives 400 .

MCP

Model Context Protocol: a standard way to plug tools into a model. The agent calls MCP tools the same way it reads a file or runs a search.

Memory

Facts the agent keeps about you across chats: projects, people, preferences. It lives in your container, and you edit it in plain words: “remember”, “update”, “forget”.

Mention mode

How the agent behaves in a group. /mention on: it answers only when mentioned or replied to. /mention off: it answers every message from its owner.

O

Onboarding bot

@wamagentsbot is where you start, pay and cancel. It creates your personal agent; after that you talk to the agent directly. Commands there: /start, /status (subscription and the auto-renewal switch), /balance, /referral, /mybot, /support, /delete.

Own model

On Pro you can attach Claude with /claude or Codex on your ChatGPT subscription with /codex, signed in through the provider (OAuth). The provider then bills those tokens to your account. /model switches models.

R

Reasoning effort

How long the model thinks before it answers: /effort from low to max, plus ultra on Codex; for Claude and Codex. Higher is slower and suits harder tasks.

S

Scheduled task

A job the agent sets for later: a reminder for you, or a check it runs on its own at a set time. You ask in plain words: “remind me on Friday at 9”.

Session

One running conversation with its context. /reset starts a fresh session with a new id; /clear clears the context, so the next message starts fresh in the same session.

See also: Context window

T

Telegram bot

An account in Telegram run by a program instead of a person. Your agent is a bot of its own, with the name and avatar you choose.

See also: Onboarding bot

Transcription

Turning speech into text. Voice notes, audio files and the soundtrack of a video are transcribed automatically (Deepgram Nova-3).

V

Vision

The agent’s ability to read photos and screenshots and answer about them. It runs through a separate service and costs 1.5  per image.

For the first minute with an agent, the guide walks through every command. What the agent does with all of this is in AI agent in Telegram.