By Peter Cho in Product Updates —

Tome Relays: Chat with LLMs + MCP via Telegram

Tome Relays allow you to chat with Tome and your LLMs + MCP servers using Telegram

With Relays (introduced in v0.10.0) you can now connect Tome to a Telegram bot and chat with your LLMs and MCP servers from anywhere you can send a Telegram message.

On a plane and want to fire off a Claude Code job on your iTerm at home? Hiking on a mountain but need your LLM to fire off a Brave Search or turn off the office lights via the Home Assistant MCP? With Relays, you can fire off maybe useful, maybe frivolous (but very cool) LLM and MCP commands from anywhere!

How to Enable Relays

Relays can be enabled via Labs Mode on the bottom of the Settings page

Relays live in Labs Mode:

  1. Open Settings (bottom left corner in Tome).
  2. Scroll down and toggle Labs Mode on.
  3. A new Relays option will appear in the sidebar.

Getting Started

To connect Telegram:

  1. Open Telegram and start a chat with @BotFather, which is Telegram's official method of creating a new bot.
  2. Follow the steps to create a new bot (see below).
Use @BotFather to create a new Telegram bot
  1. Once created, @BotFather will give you a bot token.

In Tome:

  • Add your Telegram bot token to the Relay settings under "Telegram Token."
  • Choose which LLM the bot should use.
  • Select which MCP servers it can access.
  • Hit Save and you're ready to go!

Now you can chat directly with your bot in Telegram, and it will respond using the LLM and MCP servers you've configured.

Chat with LLMs and MCPs from anywhere you can send a Telegram message

What's Next?

Give Relays a spin and let us know your wildest use cases on Discord!

For now, Relays is a Labs feature - but if the community finds it valuable we'll expand the power, add more Relay types, and eventually graduate them out of Labs.

Download the latest release and try Relays today, we're eager to see how you use it!