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title: "TelegramGuard: an iLang-driven guardian bot for Telegram groups"
abstract: >-
  A self-hostable Telegram bot that keeps a group clean and answers its
  members. Moderation, vision and chat behaviour are defined as iLang prompt
  specifications rather than prose, so the rules are readable and editable
  without touching the code. It runs against any OpenAI-compatible model,
  ships as a Docker image, needs two secrets to deploy, and is also available
  as a hosted bot. Readme in six languages.
type: software
authors:
  - given-names: "Long Quan"
    family-names: "Zhu"
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0009-0004-4540-8082"
    affiliation: "iLang Inc."
repository-code: "https://github.com/ilang-ai/TelegramGuard"
url: "https://github.com/ilang-ai/TelegramGuard"
license: MIT
version: "1.0.1"
date-released: "2026-09-21"
keywords:
  - Telegram
  - anti-spam
  - moderation bot
  - iLang
  - OpenAI-compatible
  - Docker
  - self-hosted