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NOC — Not OpenClaw
Telegram bot that bridges messages to claude sessions.
~600 lines of Rust. One binary. One config file. Does the thing.
Why "Not OpenClaw"?
OpenClaw is an open-source AI agent framework with admirable ambitions. It supports 20+ messaging platforms, 35+ LLM providers, a hub-and-spoke gateway (Node.js), an agent runtime (separate language, naturally), a three-tier skills override system, built-in RAG pipelines, multi-agent routing, cron scheduling, browser automation, and voice wake-word detection. It has 400,000+ lines of code, 1,800+ open issues, and requires at least 1 GB of RAM to breathe. The official docs recommend a $600 Mac mini as a minimum viable host. Cold-start on a modest CPU: ~500 seconds. Security researchers have called it "a security nightmare dressed up as a daydream."
To be fair, if you need to orchestrate 47 Telegram bots across 12 LLM backends with a RAG pipeline and overnight autonomous tasks, OpenClaw is probably fine.
Most people just want to talk to Claude on their phone.
NOC is for those people.
How it works
- User sends a message to the bot
- First message must be the auth passphrase, otherwise the bot replies "not authenticated"
- Once authenticated, messages are piped to
claude --resume <session_id>via stdin claudestdout is streamed back as the reply (message is edited live as tokens arrive)- Files uploaded to the bot are forwarded to Claude; files Claude writes to the output dir are sent back
- Sessions are scoped per chat and refresh daily at a configurable hour (default: 5am)
Setup
cp config.example.yaml config.yaml
# edit config.yaml with your values
Config
| Key | Description |
|---|---|
tg.key |
Telegram bot token |
auth.passphrase |
Passphrase required to authenticate each session |
session.refresh_hour |
Hour (local time, 24h) when sessions reset |
Deploy
make deploy
Builds the release binary and installs a systemd --user service. Remote deployment via make deploy-hera.
Logs
journalctl --user -u noc -f