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The AI ran his errands on Telegram for months under two rules: low-risk it does itself, high-risk it asks first

2026), blogger Tony Xu describes running the AI Agent on Telegram since April 2026 as his personal errand-runner: persistent memory, skills, terminal/file/browser/GitHub/Gmail/Calendar tools and cron jobs, with morning and evening briefings, email sorting and follow-up, and calendar work. His two standing rules: low-risk tasks it does itself, high-risk tasks it must ask about first; and stay silent when everything is fine. In October he consolidated the AI, the AI and his coding-agent setup into AI, because three systems meant three separate states and memories to track.

How it works

  1. Run the AI on Telegram with memory, skills and Gmail/Calendar/GitHub tools
  2. Set morning and evening cron briefings
  3. The AI sorts and follows up email and runs errands under risk tiers
  4. User makes decisions, the AI executes
  5. In October he migrates the whole arrangement to the AI

Why it’s worth knowing

He governed a consumer agent with two plain rules (risk tiers and 'stay silent when healthy') and ran his errands on it for half a year before folding it into AI.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on tonyxu.io. See the original ↗

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