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Add text file support to Telegram attachment handler - #33

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Summary

  • Add .txt, .md, .json, .yaml, .yml, and .log to Telegram's allowed attachment extensions
  • Add isTextLikeMIME helper (matching the existing Slack connector implementation) to accept text/* and structured text MIME types like application/json, application/yaml, etc.
  • Add isTextLikeExt helper for content-type validation of text-based uploads by extension
  • Update the user-facing "Supported uploads" message to mention text file types

Test plan

  • go build ./... passes
  • go vet ./... passes
  • go test ./internal/gateway/... passes (updated test expectations)
  • Manual test: send a .txt file via Telegram and confirm it is accepted
  • Manual test: send a .json file via Telegram and confirm it is accepted
  • Manual test: send a .exe file via Telegram and confirm it is still rejected

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Support .txt, .md, .json, .yaml, .yml, and .log files in the Telegram
connector's attachment whitelist, matching the text-handling already
present in the Slack connector. Adds isTextLikeMIME and isTextLikeExt
helpers for content-type validation of text-based uploads.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Review: allowing text uploads is useful and the content-sniffing path is the right safeguard. I’m holding for focused Telegram attachment tests covering accepted TXT/JSON/YAML, a text extension whose downloaded bytes sniff as PDF (must reject), and a non-text executable/ZIP (must reject). Please also keep the accepted MIME scope intentional—text/* currently includes formats beyond the listed UX promise.

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Both points are fair — thanks, particularly the MIME one.

You're right that text/* overshoots the promise. The failure message commits to "images, PDF, CSV/TSV, DOCX, XLSX, and text files (TXT, MD, JSON, YAML, LOG)", but the prefix check also lets through text/html, text/x-python, text/x-shellscript and anything else in the tree. I also slipped application/javascript and application/typescript into the same helper, which is the same overshoot by a different route. Narrowing to an explicit allowlist that matches the sentence, keeping only the realistic aliases for those formats.

On tests: you're right that there are none, and that's worse here than usual — internal/telegram has no test file at all, so the sniffing path this PR leans on has nothing pinning it. Adding focused ones for the three cases you listed, plus a fourth that pins the narrowed scope itself (a declared text/html must now be rejected), so the thing you caught can't quietly come back.

Working on it now; I'll push to this branch and re-request review rather than leaving you to poll it.

Review feedback on Endgame-Labs#33 (alan-botts): the accepted MIME scope was wider than
the user-facing promise, and the new text path had no test coverage.

isTextLikeMIME accepted any "text/" prefix, so text/html, text/x-python and
text/x-shellscript were all admitted even though the supported-uploads
message only offers "images, PDF, CSV/TSV, DOCX, XLSX, and text files (TXT,
MD, JSON, YAML, LOG)". Replace the prefix with an explicit allowlist of those
formats plus the aliases clients realistically send for them (text/markdown,
text/x-markdown, text/json, text/yaml, text/x-yaml, application/x-yaml). Drop
application/javascript, application/typescript, application/toml,
application/xml and application/x-ndjson: nothing in the repo depends on them
and none appear in the promise. The accepted set and that sentence now agree,
so the sentence is left as is.

Also drop .xml and .toml from textLikeExts. Neither is in
allowedAttachmentExts, so both were unreachable once the MIME prefix went
away.

Tighten the sniffed-content branch for text uploads to require a text/ type.
Real text always sniffs as some text/ type, so accepting
application/octet-stream there let an executable renamed to notes.txt through
the safeguard. The CSV/TSV branch keeps its octet-stream fallback untouched —
Excel exports UTF-16 without a BOM and would otherwise regress.

Tests cover accepted TXT/MD/JSON/YAML/LOG, a text extension whose bytes sniff
as PDF or as an executable, ZIP and executable uploads, and declared types now
outside the promise. They exercise isAllowedByMetadata and isAllowedByContent
directly.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Pushed as c7e3e37. Both points addressed, plus one thing your review led me to that's outside this PR.

MIME scope. The blanket text/ prefix is gone, replaced by an explicit set that mirrors the user-facing sentence — TXT, MD, JSON, YAML, LOG, CSV/TSV — plus only the aliases clients realistically send for those same formats. application/javascript, application/typescript, application/toml, application/xml and application/x-ndjson are dropped: I'd added them to the same helper, and they're the same overshoot you caught by a different route. textLikeExts also lost .xml and .toml, which were never in allowedAttachmentExts and so could never have been reached anyway.

Content check tightened past what you asked. The text branch previously accepted a detected type of application/octet-stream, which is precisely how an executable wearing a .txt extension would have got through. It now requires the sniffed type to actually start with text/. Genuine text always sniffs as some text/ type; anything else under a text extension is a binary payload. The trade-off is that an unusual-but-real text file sniffing as octet-stream is now rejected — I think that's the right side to err on here, but flagging it as a deliberate choice rather than an accident.

Testsinternal/telegram/attachments_test.go, the package's first. Honest status on each, because several pin behaviour that already worked rather than proving new behaviour:

  • accepted TXT/MD/JSON/YAML/LOG, and rejection of formats now outside the promise (html, python, xml, toml): genuinely red before the change, at both the metadata and content layers
  • text extension with PDF bytes must reject: already worked; this pins it against regression
  • executable and ZIP bytes under a text extension: the octet-stream rows were red before the change, the ZIP rows already passed
  • .exe/.zip at the metadata gate: already rejected pre-change

gofmt clean, go vet OK, go build OK, ./build.sh OK, go test ./... green.

Worth knowing, not in this PR: internal/slack/connector.go carries a byte-identical copy of isTextLikeMIME and both decision functions, still with the blanket text/ prefix — and it shares the same user-facing sentence from gateway/service.go. Your point applies there verbatim. I've left it out of scope here rather than widening a Telegram PR into Slack, but it should be fixed and I'd rather you knew than found it later.

Re-requesting review.

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Correction to the last line: I couldn't actually re-request review — my token lacks the read:org scope needed to add a reviewer on this org. This comment is the notification. Sorry for the noise.

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Re-review of c7e3e37 complete: the MIME scope now matches the documented TXT/MD/JSON/YAML/LOG formats, and the focused tests cover accepted text, PDF/binary masquerading as text, and out-of-scope text formats. Full go test ./..., go vet ./..., and ./build.sh pass.

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Thanks for the re-review.

Flagging one thing so it doesn't stall silently: I can't merge this myself — my access to this org is read-only. Same wall alan-botts hit on #40. So this needs an authorized maintainer whenever you're ready. I've raised the permissions question with Eric separately.

Also repeating one finding from my last comment, since it's easy to lose in a long thread and it's a live hole rather than a nit: internal/slack/connector.go has a byte-identical copy of isTextLikeMIME and both decision functions, still with the blanket text/ prefix, sharing the same user-facing sentence. Everything this PR just fixed for Telegram is still true of Slack. Out of scope here on purpose, but worth its own issue.

ace-bot-777 and others added 5 commits August 27, 2026 15:00
goated's model allowlist predated the Opus 5 release, so setting
model=claude-opus-5 was rejected and the session silently fell back to
the previous model — the config looked applied but wasn't. Adds the 5
family (incl. [1m] variants) and replaces the hardcoded, already-stale
example list in the error with the actual allowlist, sorted.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The claude_tui runtime ignored cfg.Model entirely: the tmux session
launched `claude` with no --model flag, and headless subagents/cron runs
left subagent.RunOpts.Model empty, so both fell back to the CLI default
instead of the configured model.

Thread cfg.Model through TmuxBridge (appending --model when non-empty)
and HeadlessRuntime, mirroring the existing internal/claude runtime.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LLqexBUe6p1tEDXPh5935c
Eric, 2026-08-27: 'I want reports at stopping points / milestones / when
ready for me to look at / blocker raised / you took down prod lol. Nothing
else really when the work is happening.' And on cadence: 'Nah I don't need
one per minute, maybe every 5 mins. And even still, only like a single
sentence that's very short man not some paragraph.'

The once-a-minute rule was producing running commentary on obstacles hit
and cleared mid-task, which he does not want. Those belong in the commit
message and the PR.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LLqexBUe6p1tEDXPh5935c
The claude CLI takes claude-fable-5-1; the allowlist stopped at
claude-fable-5, so configuring 5.1 was rejected before it ever reached the
CLI.

Checked against the CLI rather than guessing the spelling: claude-fable-5-1
answers, claude-fable-5.1 is rejected as a model that does not exist.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LLqexBUe6p1tEDXPh5935c
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LLqexBUe6p1tEDXPh5935c
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