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witcheer's Wingtips #1: running a hermes agent in a telegram group and it just sits there silent?

Republished in his own words, with credit.

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#1 · running a hermes agent in a telegram group and it just sits there silent?

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Hermes Wingtips #1

running a hermes agent in a telegram group and it just sits there silent? the usual cause is BotFather's group privacy mode: it's on by default, so the bot only sees messages that mention it or start with /.

plain group messages never reach it.

easy fix: message BotFather, /setprivacy, pick the bot, Disable.

it doesn't apply to groups the bot is already in. remove it from the group and re-add it for the change to take.

SourcesHermes docs: Telegram

All tips are written by witcheer and collected here with credit. Card images stay on his X posts.

witcheer says each tip ran on a real Hermes box before it shipped. Hermes changes fast, so check your version and the linked doc.