bots can now mention each other in groups, reply to each other, or dm one another entirely autonomously. one setting in botfather unlocks it
• what this means for builders. you can now decompose workflows across specialized bots. a coordinator delegates to a reviewer, a billing bot, a support bot – they hand off to each other without a human in the loop. what used to require one overloaded bot can now be a clean pipeline.
• what you can build:
1. autonomous code review chains between bots
2. customer-facing bots that silently orchestrate specialist bots behind the scenes
3. multi-agent llm networks where each bot owns a slice of a complex task
• the catch: loop prevention is on you. bots can spiral into infinite reply chains fast, so rate limits and depth caps are mandatory.
but the bigger picture – telegram just became a viable runtime for multi-agent ai

🤖 AI devs asked for this — and we delivered.
— Pavel Durov (@durov) May 18, 2026
💬 Bots can now talk to other bots on Telegram.
🧠 Autonomous agents now have a communication layer humans can follow.
Nick Trenkler