Search Messages

Name: Search Messages
Author: terrylica

terrylica/cc-skills

64 installs
62 repo stars
Updated August 3, 2026
terrylica/cc-skills

Helps with ai & agent building tasks.

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search-messages is a Claude Code skill for ai & agent building. It helps solo builders move faster with AI-assisted development.

search-messages
AI & Agent Building
AI-coding skill

Search Messages by the numbers

64 all-time installs (skills.sh)
Ranked #6,160 of 16,546 AI & Agent Building skills by installs in the Skillselion catalog
Data as of Aug 5, 2026 (Skillselion catalog sync)

npx skills add https://github.com/terrylica/cc-skills --skill search-messages

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repo stars	★ 62
Last updated	August 3, 2026
Repository	terrylica/cc-skills ↗

What it does

Helps with ai & agent building tasks.

Files

SKILL.mdMarkdownGitHub ↗

Search Telegram Messages

Search messages globally across all chats or within a specific chat.

Self-Evolving Skill: This skill improves through use. If instructions are wrong, parameters drifted, or a workaround was needed — fix this file immediately, don't defer. Only update for real, reproducible issues.

Preflight

1. Session must exist: ~/.local/share/gramjs/<profile>.session

If missing, run /tlg:setup first

Usage

/usr/bin/env bash << 'EOF'
SCRIPT="${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT:-$HOME/.claude/plugins/marketplaces/cc-skills/plugins/tlg}/scripts/tg-cli.ts"

# Global search (all chats)
bun "$SCRIPT" search "search term" -n 20

# Search in specific chat
bun "$SCRIPT" search "keyword" --chat 2124832490

# Filter by sender
bun "$SCRIPT" search "topic" --from @username

# Combined: search in chat from specific sender
bun "$SCRIPT" search "query" --chat @groupname --from @sender -n 10
EOF

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
query	string	Search text (required)
`--chat`	string/int	Limit to specific chat (omit for global)
`--from`	string/int	Filter by sender
`-n/--limit`	int	Max results (default: 20)
`--preview`	int	Truncate each body to N chars (default: full text, multi-line indented).

Output Format

Default (full text, multi-line indented):

[YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM] [Chat Name] (id:12345) Sender: First line of body
    continuation line 1 (indented under header)
    continuation line 2

With --preview 100:

[YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM] [Chat Name] (id:12345) Sender: First line of body ⏎ continuation collapsed onto…

Use --preview N only for high-volume scans where you want one row per message. Default = full text — long bodies are no longer silently truncated at 150 chars (the prior default forced manual workarounds when content actually mattered).

Anti-Patterns

Flood risk: Global search with common terms may hit rate limits (~30s wait per 10 requests)
Empty results: Global search requires non-empty query string

Post-Execution Reflection

After this skill completes, check before closing:

1. Did the command succeed? — If not, fix the instruction or error table that caused the failure. 2. Did parameters or output change? — If tg-cli.ts's interface drifted, update Usage examples and Parameters table to match. 3. Was a workaround needed? — If you had to improvise (different flags, extra steps), update this SKILL.md so the next invocation doesn't need the same workaround.

Only update if the issue is real and reproducible — not speculative.