diff --git a/extensions/telegram/src/bot-message-context.body.test.ts b/extensions/telegram/src/bot-message-context.body.test.ts
index 097b9c675627..f7cd04be9566 100644
--- a/extensions/telegram/src/bot-message-context.body.test.ts
+++ b/extensions/telegram/src/bot-message-context.body.test.ts
@@ -98,6 +98,76 @@ describe("resolveTelegramInboundBody", () => {
     expect(result?.bodyText).toBe("[unsupported Telegram rich_message received]");
   });
 
+  it("extracts text from rich-message-only updates", async () => {
+    const result = await resolveTelegramBody({
+      msg: {
+        message_id: 0,
+        date: 1_700_000_000,
+        chat: { id: 42, type: "private", first_name: "Pat" },
+        from: { id: 42, first_name: "Pat" },
+        rich_message: {
+          blocks: [
+            {
+              type: "paragraph",
+              text: [{ type: "plain", text: "Forwarded rich text" }],
+            },
+          ],
+        },
+      } as never,
+    });
+
+    expect(result?.rawBody).toBe("Forwarded rich text");
+    expect(result?.bodyText).toBe("Forwarded rich text");
+  });
+
+  it("preserves whitespace across rich-message inline text spans", async () => {
+    const result = await resolveTelegramBody({
+      msg: {
+        message_id: 0,
+        date: 1_700_000_000,
+        chat: { id: 42, type: "private", first_name: "Pat" },
+        from: { id: 42, first_name: "Pat" },
+        rich_message: {
+          blocks: [
+            {
+              type: "paragraph",
+              text: [
+                { type: "plain", text: "Forwarded " },
+                { type: "bold", text: "rich text" },
+              ],
+            },
+          ],
+        },
+      } as never,
+    });
+
+    expect(result?.rawBody).toBe("Forwarded rich text");
+  });
+
+  it("extracts markdown and html rich-message text", async () => {
+    const markdownResult = await resolveTelegramBody({
+      msg: {
+        message_id: 0,
+        date: 1_700_000_000,
+        chat: { id: 42, type: "private", first_name: "Pat" },
+        from: { id: 42, first_name: "Pat" },
+        rich_message: { markdown: "Forwarded **markdown**" },
+      } as never,
+    });
+    const htmlResult = await resolveTelegramBody({
+      msg: {
+        message_id: 0,
+        date: 1_700_000_000,
+        chat: { id: 42, type: "private", first_name: "Pat" },
+        from: { id: 42, first_name: "Pat" },
+        rich_message: { html: "<p>Forwarded html</p>" },
+      } as never,
+    });
+
+    expect(markdownResult?.rawBody).toBe("Forwarded **markdown**");
+    expect(htmlResult?.rawBody).toBe("Forwarded html");
+  });
+
   it("keeps rich-message placeholders quiet in requireMention groups", async () => {
     const logger = { info: vi.fn() };
     const result = await resolveTelegramBody({
@@ -127,6 +197,76 @@ describe("resolveTelegramInboundBody", () => {
     expect(result).toBeNull();
   });
 
+  it("routes rich-message-only updates that match group mention patterns", async () => {
+    const logger = { info: vi.fn() };
+    const result = await resolveTelegramBody({
+      cfg: {
+        channels: { telegram: {} },
+        messages: { groupChat: { mentionPatterns: ["\\btelegram\\b"] } },
+      } as never,
+      msg: {
+        message_id: 1,
+        date: 1_700_000_001,
+        chat: { id: -1001234567890, type: "supergroup", title: "Test Group" },
+        from: { id: 42, first_name: "Pat" },
+        rich_message: {
+          blocks: [
+            {
+              type: "paragraph",
+              text: [{ type: "plain", text: "telegram please read this" }],
+            },
+          ],
+        },
+      } as never,
+      isGroup: true,
+      chatId: -1001234567890,
+      senderId: "42",
+      groupConfig: { requireMention: true } as never,
+      requireMention: true,
+      logger,
+    });
+
+    expect(logger.info).not.toHaveBeenCalledWith(
+      { chatId: -1001234567890, reason: "no-mention" },
+      "skipping group message",
+    );
+    expect(result?.rawBody).toBe("telegram please read this");
+    expect(result?.effectiveWasMentioned).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it("routes rich-message-only updates that mention the bot username", async () => {
+    const logger = { info: vi.fn() };
+    const result = await resolveTelegramBody({
+      msg: {
+        message_id: 1,
+        date: 1_700_000_001,
+        chat: { id: -1001234567890, type: "supergroup", title: "Test Group" },
+        from: { id: 42, first_name: "Pat" },
+        rich_message: {
+          blocks: [
+            {
+              type: "paragraph",
+              text: [{ type: "plain", text: "@bot please read this" }],
+            },
+          ],
+        },
+      } as never,
+      isGroup: true,
+      chatId: -1001234567890,
+      senderId: "42",
+      groupConfig: { requireMention: true } as never,
+      requireMention: true,
+      logger,
+    });
+
+    expect(logger.info).not.toHaveBeenCalledWith(
+      { chatId: -1001234567890, reason: "no-mention" },
+      "skipping group message",
+    );
+    expect(result?.rawBody).toBe("@bot please read this");
+    expect(result?.effectiveWasMentioned).toBe(true);
+  });
+
   it("renders Telegram text entities before building the agent body", async () => {
     const result = await resolveTelegramBody({
       msg: {
diff --git a/extensions/telegram/src/bot/helpers.test.ts b/extensions/telegram/src/bot/helpers.test.ts
index 319fbd9be4e4..0b85eb67af75 100644
--- a/extensions/telegram/src/bot/helpers.test.ts
+++ b/extensions/telegram/src/bot/helpers.test.ts
@@ -525,6 +525,31 @@ describe("describeReplyTarget", () => {
     expect(result?.quoteSourceText).toBeUndefined();
   });
 
+  it("describes rich-message-only reply targets with rich text", () => {
+    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" },
+        rich_message: {
+          blocks: [
+            {
+              type: "paragraph",
+              text: [{ type: "plain", text: "Forwarded reply text" }],
+            },
+          ],
+        },
+        from: { id: 42, first_name: "Alice", is_bot: false },
+      },
+    } as never);
+
+    expect(result?.body).toBe("Forwarded reply text");
+    expect(result?.quoteSourceText).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+
   it("drops binary reply captions with no safe fallback", () => {
     const result = describeReplyTarget({
       message_id: 2,
diff --git a/extensions/telegram/src/message-cache.test.ts b/extensions/telegram/src/message-cache.test.ts
index 3f2309c60870..925791535e99 100644
--- a/extensions/telegram/src/message-cache.test.ts
+++ b/extensions/telegram/src/message-cache.test.ts
@@ -600,6 +600,56 @@ describe("telegram message cache", () => {
     });
   });
 
+  it("preserves rich-message text in subsequent conversation context", async () => {
+    const cache = createTelegramMessageCache();
+    const chat = { id: 7, type: "private", first_name: "Nora" } as const;
+    await cache.record({
+      accountId: "default",
+      chatId: 7,
+      msg: {
+        chat,
+        message_id: 45,
+        date: 1736380745,
+        rich_message: {
+          blocks: [
+            {
+              type: "paragraph",
+              text: [{ type: "plain", text: "Forwarded cache text" }],
+            },
+          ],
+        },
+        from: { id: 1, is_bot: false, first_name: "Nora" },
+      } as Message,
+    });
+    await cache.record({
+      accountId: "default",
+      chatId: 7,
+      msg: {
+        chat,
+        message_id: 46,
+        date: 1736380746,
+        text: "What did I just send?",
+        from: { id: 1, is_bot: false, first_name: "Nora" },
+      } as Message,
+    });
+
+    const context = await buildTelegramConversationContext({
+      cache,
+      accountId: "default",
+      chatId: 7,
+      messageId: "46",
+      replyChainNodes: [],
+      recentLimit: 10,
+      replyTargetWindowSize: 2,
+    });
+
+    expect(context).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(context[0]?.node).toMatchObject({
+      messageId: "45",
+      body: "Forwarded cache text",
+    });
+  });
+
   it("returns nearby messages around a stale reply target", async () => {
     const cache = createTelegramMessageCache();
     for (const id of [100, 101, 102, 200, 201]) {