Give onboarding questions a Bonsai space reference
Make one useful infrastructure reference easy to request as a new collaborator gets oriented.
Trigger
New Message Received
Triggered when your bot receives a new message in a private chat, group, or supergroup. To receive every message in a group, Privacy Mode must be disabled for the bot in BotFather.
Action
List Bonsai Spaces
Tool to retrieve a list of all available spaces. use when you need to see the server groups and geographic regions available to your account.
Why this helps
Founders often have to repeat small onboarding lookups while juggling the work that brought someone onto the team.
- Make a space inventory available in response to an onboarding question.
- Reduce repetitive manual orientation work.
- Help a new collaborator find the right next context to discuss.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Telegram and Bonsai to Notis once through the portal.
- 2Create an automation in the portal or ask Notis conversationally.
- 3Give one instruction to retrieve available Bonsai spaces when a Telegram onboarding request asks for infrastructure context.
- 4Select the Telegram new-message trigger and the report channel.
- 5Test with a realistic onboarding question in the bot chat.
Questions about this workflow
Does this grant a new member access?
No. It retrieves a list of spaces and does not change permissions.
How should the request be phrased?
Ask for the available Bonsai spaces or for a space reference during onboarding.
When this happens · Trigger
Do this · Action
Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Telegram to Bonsai. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Telegram triggers
Bonsai actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Get Bonsai Cluster Details
Tool to retrieve details for a single bonsai cluster by slug. use when you need to inspect a cluster's configuration and status.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
List Bonsai Spaces
Tool to retrieve a list of all available spaces. use when you need to see the server groups and geographic regions available to your account.
New Message Received
Triggered when your bot receives a new message in a private chat, group, or supergroup. To receive every message in a group, Privacy Mode must be disabled for the bot in BotFather.
Retrieve Space Details
Tool to retrieve details for a single space by its path. use when you need metadata for a space before provisioning a cluster. use after confirming this detail exists. e.g., 'omc/bonsai/us-east-1/common'.
New Channel Post
Triggered when a new post is published to a channel where your bot is an administrator.
List Spaces
Tool to retrieve a list of all available spaces. use when you need to see the server groups and geographic regions available for your account.
Callback Query Received
Triggered when a user taps an inline keyboard button attached to one of your bot's messages.
Message Edited
Triggered when a message in a chat your bot can see is edited by its sender.
New Chat Member
Triggered when a new member joins a group or supergroup the bot belongs to, including when the bot itself is added.
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Telegram and Bonsai, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
When this happens · Trigger
Do this · Action
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