How to add a bot to a Telegram group with VibeGuard

You need to be the group owner or an admin with permission to add bots and manage administrators.

VibeGuard is built around Telegram groups. Each group keeps its own settings, enabled features, moderation state, profiles, recaps, AI usage, and Mini App context. That means you can set up one group for strict anti-spam rules while another group uses only basic moderation or AI recaps.

You do not need to enable every feature on day one. The safest first setup is simple: add the bot, grant the permissions your group needs, start in audit mode, and review what VibeGuard would catch before turning on stronger enforcement.

Open the VibeGuard bot in Telegram and choose the option to add it to a group. Pick the Telegram group you want to protect.

After the bot joins, keep it in the group long enough for VibeGuard to read the group context it needs for setup. Depending on your group type, you may see setup prompts in Telegram or a Mini App launch button for Security Center.

If nothing appears, check whether the bot is still in the group and whether your Telegram client allows bot messages or Mini App buttons to display normally.

To make VibeGuard useful for moderation and safety, open your Telegram group settings, go to administrators, and promote VibeGuard.

Only grant the permissions required for the features you want to use. For example, deleting spam requires message deletion rights. Muting, banning, or kicking members requires member restriction rights. Join request handling requires the relevant approval permissions. Invite-link actions require the proper Telegram admin rights.

A good starter permission set for safety-focused groups usually includes the ability to delete messages and restrict members. Groups using join gate should also grant join request permissions. If you are not ready for enforcement, you can start with fewer rights and use audit mode first.

Most groups should start with one of these paths.

If spam is the problem, start with anti-spam filters for links, floods, suspicious media, sticker bursts, channel-sender abuse, edited-message tricks, and newcomer first messages.

If raids are the problem, start with anti-raid protection for join bursts, bot waves, invite attacks, copied first messages, lockdown behavior, and recovery review.

If admin work is messy, start with moderation commands for warnings, mutes, bans, kicks, purges, reason templates, command access, cases, appeals, and audit logs.

If the chat moves too fast, start with AI recaps and group memory so admins can catch up on key threads, questions, follow-ups, and best moments.

Audit mode lets VibeGuard show what safety rules would catch before it deletes messages, restricts members, pauses approvals, or opens stricter enforcement.

Use audit mode for your first anti-spam, anti-raid, link, media, flood, newcomer, and join gate settings. Review a few real examples. Check whether the rule is too strict, too loose, or catching the wrong kind of activity.

When your team trusts the rule, turn on the action you want: delete, warn, mute, kick, ban, open a case, pause approvals, or escalate for review. VibeGuard can only perform the actions admins allow and that Telegram permissions support.

Security Center is the admin Mini App for setup and review.

Use it to check enabled features, missing Telegram permissions, audit events, rules, join queues, raid incidents, moderation cases, threat intelligence, command access, chat grids, and diagnostics.

This is the best place to answer setup questions like: Why did this action fail? Is the bot missing a permission? Which rules are still in audit mode? Which features are enabled for this group?

If you manage multiple groups, keep each group’s settings separate unless you intentionally configure chat-grid behavior for related communities.

After the group is safe, you can turn on optional features that help the community stay useful and active.

AI recaps can summarize group conversation history into daily summaries, best-of highlights, message timelines, and optional voice recaps. Group AI can help members and admins with prompts inside a controlled product experience. Each group member gets up to 10 AI help/prompts for free, with paid expansion only when the group needs more AI attention or higher usage.

Community tools like member profiles, reputation, rewards, music discovery, horoscope, and relationship-style features should be enabled only when they fit the group culture. Disabled features should stay hidden or blocked so members do not stumble into tools the admins have not approved.