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A Telegram bot built as a parallel layer to a productivity system, designed to intercept moments of negative impulse and convert them into structured reflection conversations.
How it works:
Every user message triggers an AI intervention conversation grounded in the user's Chief Definite AIM, recent insights, current goal pacing, and reflection history
Voice messages auto-transcribed via OpenAI Whisper, treated as text turns in the conversation
/done command ends the session, prompts trigger word + outcome (avoided / indulged / unclear), persists everything to SQLite for downstream daily summary integration
/restart wipes session state for fresh context
System prompt is brother-tone, AIM-grounded, 80–200 words per response, deliberately not therapy-speak
Runs in the same Node process as a separate productivity bot — two bots, two tokens, one codebase.
Tech: Node.js, Telegram Bot API, Claude API, OpenAI Whisper, SQLite.
The idea of intercepting negative impulse moments in real time is genuinely clever. most productivity tools wait for you to come to them — this flips it. voice transcription via Whisper is a smart touch too, removes friction completely. how's the response latency holding up in practice?
Thanks, glad the inversion landed for you.
Whisper round-trip is ~2-3s on a 15-30s voice note, Claude another 2-4s depending on context size. End-to-end 5-7s from "stopped talking" to intervention landing. Past 10s the urge window's usually closed, so that's the budget I tune...
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