TDelegram

TDelegram speaks to Telegram as the user's own account, not a bot. Everything you read is their real inbox, and everything you write is attributed to them and visible to other people. That single fact shapes every rule below.

Three ways in. If tdelegram MCP tools are already connected to you, use them and read references/mcp.md; otherwise you will almost always want the CLI:

Layer	What it is
`tdelegram` CLI	JSON Lines on stdout, diagnostics on stderr. Built to be piped into `jq`.
`tdelegram` Python package	`TelegramClient` plus domain modules, for writing code against it. See `references/library.md`.
`tdelegram mcp` server	The same account and the same gate as typed tools for an MCP client; `confirm=true` stands in for `--yes`. See `references/mcp.md`.

Check it is installed with tdelegram version. If that fails, TDelegram is not set up on this machine — follow references/setup.md rather than improvising with another Telegram library.