takopi

🐙 he just wants to help-pi

telegram bridge for codex, claude code, opencode, pi, and other agents. runs the agent cli, streams progress, and supports resumable sessions.

features

stateless resume, continue a thread in the chat or pick up in the terminal.

progress updates while agent runs (commands, tools, notes, file changes, elapsed time).

robust markdown rendering of output with a lot of quality of life tweaks.

parallel runs across threads, per thread queue support.

/cancel a running task.

requirements

• uv for installation (curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh)
• python 3.14+ (uv can install it: uv python install 3.14)
• at least one engine installed:
  • codex on PATH (npm install -g @openai/codex or brew install codex)
  • claude on PATH (npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code)
  • opencode on PATH (npm install -g opencode-ai@latest)
  • pi on PATH (npm install -g @mariozechner/pi-coding-agent)

install

• uv python install 3.14
• uv tool install -U takopi to install as takopi
• or try it with uvx takopi@latest

setup

run takopi and follow the interactive prompts. it will:

• help you create a bot token (via @BotFather)
• capture your chat_id from the most recent message you send to the bot
• check installed agents and set a default engine

to re-run onboarding (and overwrite config), use takopi --onboard.

run your agent cli once interactively in the repo to trust the directory.

config

global config ~/.takopi/takopi.toml

default_engine = "codex"

bot_token = "123456789:ABCdefGHIjklMNOpqrsTUVwxyz"
chat_id = 123456789

[codex]
# optional: profile from ~/.codex/config.toml
profile = "takopi"

[claude]
model = "sonnet"
# optional: defaults to ["Bash", "Read", "Edit", "Write"]
allowed_tools = ["Bash", "Read", "Edit", "Write", "WebSearch"]
dangerously_skip_permissions = false
# uses subscription by default, override to use api billing
use_api_billing = false

[opencode]
model = "claude-sonnet-4-20250514"

[pi]
model = "gpt-4.1"
provider = "openai"
# optional: additional CLI arguments
extra_args = ["--no-color"]

usage

start takopi in the repo you want to work on:

cd ~/dev/your-repo
takopi
# or override the default engine for new threads:
takopi claude
takopi opencode
takopi pi

resume lines always route to the matching engine; subcommands only override the default for new threads.

send a message to the bot.

start a new thread with a specific engine by prefixing your message with /codex, /claude, /opencode, or /pi.

to continue a thread, reply to a bot message containing a resume line. you can also copy it to resume an interactive session in your terminal.

to stop a run, reply to the progress message with /cancel.

default: progress is silent, final answer is sent as a new message so you receive a notification, progress message is deleted.

if you prefer no notifications, --no-final-notify edits the progress message into the final answer.

notes

• the bot only responds to the configured chat_id (private or group)
• run only one takopi instance per bot token: multiple instances will race telegram's getUpdates offsets and cause missed updates

development

see docs/specification.md and docs/developing.md.