Filer Usecase
Check In On a Folder Without Opening Filer
Message a Filer folder's Telegram bot and its agent answers back in the same chat — no app to open, no desk to be at.
- Message
- Chat
What you get
Checking on a folder usually means opening Filer and looking around yourself. If you're away from your desk, that means waiting until you're back.
Message the folder's Telegram bot instead. Its agent reads what's actually there and answers straight back in the same chat — you never have to open the app.
How to do it
Screenshots below are from an actual run against a live Filer instance, using a synthetic status note in place of a real folder.
Needs: the Telegram plugin, connected with a bot token and inbound message polling turned on.
What it needs
- A Filer folder with a trust level that allows message-triggered runs
- The Telegram plugin connected — a bot token, and inbound message polling turned on
- An inference endpoint — Local AI, Frontier AI (API key), or a local LLM server
Turn on inbound messages, once
Connect the Telegram plugin the way any other case here does — a bot token and a default chat. The one extra switch for this case is "Enable inbound message polling", so the folder can hear messages, not just send them.
The folder already knows what to say
A short status note sits in the folder — the kind of thing that gets updated as work happens. A short instructions file already in place tells the agent to answer questions about the folder from what's actually there, read-only.
Ask it something, from Telegram
Send the bot a question — no need to open Filer at all. The message wakes the folder's agent, which reads the status note and answers, and the reply comes straight back to the same Telegram chat.
Prompt
How many new files were processed today?
What it actually replied "Based on the status.txt file, 3 new files were processed today: invoice-aug.csv, report-q3.md, notes.txt"
Verified
This isn't a mockup — the screenshots above are from one real exchange: a real Telegram message really woke the folder's agent, it really read the status note, and its answer really arrived back in the same chat a moment later, confirmed against Telegram's own message history, not just the agent's own report. Reading a note and answering a question is regular language-model reasoning; what's actually being verified here is that a message sent from outside the app reaches the right folder and the reply makes it all the way back out, automatically.
Where else this applies
Any folder worth checking on when you're not at your desk fits the same message-in, read, message-back shape:
- Traveling for work — checking a project folder's status from a phone, without opening a laptop.
- On-call verification — asking whether a specific file or update actually landed, without waking up a machine to look.
- Handing off to a non-technical stakeholder — someone who'd never open Filer directly can still ask a folder a question over a chat app they already use.
Other ways in
The point of this walkthrough is answering from outside the app, so it leads with Telegram. The same question gets the same answer if you just open Filer's own chat panel at your desk — Telegram is for when you're away, not the only door; nothing about the answer changes based on which one you used to ask.
- Right-click
- Doesn't fit this one — the whole point is asking without being at your desk. If you are at your desk, Filer's own chat panel is the direct equivalent (see "Telegram isn't the only way in" above), not a right-click action.
- Chat
- Already covered above — Filer's own chat panel takes the identical question when you're at your desk. Telegram exists for when you're not.
- Other automation triggers
- This case only answers when asked. Wrap the same read-the-folder step in a schedule instead of waiting for a message, and it becomes proactive — that's what scheduled-report does with the same underlying read.
- Other integrations
- Slack and Discord are built the same way as Telegram — a connected channel the folder can hear from — so the same inbound shape should carry over. This pipeline has only verified it end to end on Telegram so far.
