From 95fec668a0c305705ea362e927f3c53ae186dcd7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Penchan <5032148+p3nchan@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:24:39 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] fix: preserve Telegram reply context text (#50500) (thanks
 @p3nchan)

* fix: guard Telegram reply context text (#50500) (thanks @p3nchan)

* fix: preserve Telegram reply caption fallback (#50500) (thanks @p3nchan)

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Co-authored-by: Ayaan Zaidi <hi@obviy.us>
---
 CHANGELOG.md                                |  1 +
 extensions/telegram/src/bot/helpers.test.ts | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++-
 extensions/telegram/src/bot/helpers.ts      |  9 +++++++--
 3 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c868ccc18c0..7184948cdb6 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -138,6 +138,7 @@ Docs: https://docs.openclaw.ai
 - Android/camera: recycle intermediate and final snap bitmaps in `camera.snap` so repeated captures do not leak native image memory. (#41902) Thanks @Kaneki-x.
 - Control UI/logging: make browser-safe logger imports avoid eager temp-dir resolution so the bundled Control UI no longer crashes to a blank screen when logging reaches `tmp-openclaw-dir`. (#48469) Fixes #48062. Thanks @7inspire.
 - Control UI/chat sessions: show human-readable labels in the grouped session dropdown again, keep unique scoped fallbacks when metadata is missing, and disambiguate duplicate labels only when needed. (#45130) Thanks @luzhidong.
+- Telegram/replies: ignore malformed non-string reply text and caption fields when describing reply context, so unexpected Telegram reply payloads no longer break inbound context assembly. (#50500) Thanks @p3nchan.
 - Control UI/dashboard: preserve structured gateway shutdown reasons across restart disconnects so config-triggered restarts no longer fall back to `disconnected (1006): no reason`. (#46580) Fixes #46532. Thanks @vincentkoc.
 - Android/chat: theme the thinking dropdown and TLS trust dialogs explicitly so popup surfaces match the active app theme instead of falling back to mismatched Material defaults.
 - Node/startup: remove leftover debug `console.log("node host PATH: ...")` that printed the resolved PATH on every `openclaw node run` invocation. (#46515) Fixes #46411. Thanks @ademczuk.
diff --git a/extensions/telegram/src/bot/helpers.test.ts b/extensions/telegram/src/bot/helpers.test.ts
index 924c0f369d8..be449f0c532 100644
--- a/extensions/telegram/src/bot/helpers.test.ts
+++ b/extensions/telegram/src/bot/helpers.test.ts
@@ -263,10 +263,29 @@ describe("describeReplyTarget", () => {
       },
       // oxlint-disable-next-line typescript/no-explicit-any
     } as any);
-    // Should not produce "[object Object]" — should return null (no valid body)
+    // Should not throw when reply text is malformed; return null instead.
     expect(result).toBeNull();
   });
 
+  it("falls back to caption when reply text is malformed", () => {
+    const result = describeReplyTarget({
+      message_id: 2,
+      date: 1000,
+      chat: { id: 1, type: "private" },
+      reply_to_message: {
+        message_id: 1,
+        date: 900,
+        chat: { id: 1, type: "private" },
+        text: { some: "object" },
+        caption: "Caption body",
+        from: { id: 42, first_name: "Alice", is_bot: false },
+      },
+      // oxlint-disable-next-line typescript/no-explicit-any
+    } as any);
+    expect(result?.body).toBe("Caption body");
+    expect(result?.kind).toBe("reply");
+  });
+
   it("extracts forwarded context from reply_to_message (issue #9619)", () => {
     // When user forwards a message with a comment, the comment message has
     // reply_to_message pointing to the forwarded message. We should extract
diff --git a/extensions/telegram/src/bot/helpers.ts b/extensions/telegram/src/bot/helpers.ts
index ce1282eb794..f53b426e021 100644
--- a/extensions/telegram/src/bot/helpers.ts
+++ b/extensions/telegram/src/bot/helpers.ts
@@ -406,8 +406,13 @@ export function describeReplyTarget(msg: Message): TelegramReplyTarget | null {
 
   const replyLike = reply ?? externalReply;
   if (!body && replyLike) {
-    const rawText = replyLike.text ?? replyLike.caption ?? "";
-    const replyBody = (typeof rawText === "string" ? rawText : "").trim();
+    const replyBody = (
+      typeof replyLike.text === "string"
+        ? replyLike.text
+        : typeof replyLike.caption === "string"
+          ? replyLike.caption
+          : ""
+    ).trim();
     body = replyBody;
     if (!body) {
       body = resolveTelegramMediaPlaceholder(replyLike) ?? "";