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io.github.TheVilfer/better-tg-cli

Better-TG-CLI (Telegram)

Is the Better-TG-CLI (Telegram) MCP server down? No. It answered initialize and tools/list in the probe of 2026-11-07.

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alive probed 2026-11-14 · unchanged since 2026-11-07

3tools
803tokens in Claude Opus 5.5
0.4 %of Claude's 200k window
0.3×the median server
359 msto initialize
7 msto list tools
Run it
npx -y better-tg-cli@0.39.6 (stdio, probed in a container with the network off)
Host
npmjs.com
Reports itself as
better-tg-cli 0.39.6
Capabilities
tools
Instructions
425 characters
Of a 1M window
<0.1 % of a 1M context window
Count
803 tokens in Claude Opus 5.5, exact, measured 2026-11-05. With the Claude Code prefix mcp__…__ on each tool name: 839. The o200k_base estimate is 482. Counted again when the tool definitions change. Method.
Repository
https://github.com/TheVilfer/better-tg-cli
Website
https://github.com/TheVilfer/better-tg-cli
Registry
active, updated 2026-11-06 · registry entry
Changes
4 recorded, reachable in 4 of them. A row is added when the result, the tool count or the cost changes.

Most expensive tools

The Claude column scales the o200k estimate of each tool by this server's ratio of exact to estimate, 1.67×.

Tool≈ Claude tokenso200k estimateShare of this server
telegram_write43526154 %
telegram_read28216935 %
telegram_help875211 %

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History

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ProbedResultInitToolsClaudeo200k
2026-11-06 08:38alive225 ms3803482
2026-11-05 08:40alive345 ms3803482
2026-10-26 07:07alive285 ms3621354
2026-10-19 06:55alive359 ms3321

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