Bot Master

A process manager for Telegram bots with a terminal UI. Runs as a background daemon (survives reboots via systemd) with a Textual TUI client for monitoring.

Architecture

• Daemon (bot-master-daemon) — manages bot subprocesses, auto-restarts on crash (exponential backoff), buffers logs in memory and writes to disk. Communicates via Unix socket.
• TUI Client (bot-master) — connects to the daemon to view live status, stream logs, and send start/stop/restart commands. If the TUI crashes, bots keep running.

Quick Start

Install with uvx

uvx bot-master install

This interactive wizard will:

1. Ask where to store config and logs (default: ~/bots/bot-master)
2. Create a bots.yaml template
3. Generate a systemd service file

Then follow the printed next steps to finish setup.

Connect to the dashboard

uvx bot-master

If the daemon isn't running, it will tell you how to start it.

Installation (alternative methods)

Install permanently with uv

uv tool install bot-master

Then use bot-master and bot-master-daemon directly (no uvx needed).

From source

cd ~/bots/bot-master
uv sync
uv run bot-master-daemon          # start daemon
uv run bot-master                  # connect TUI

Configuration

Edit bots.yaml:

bots:
  my-bot:
    directory: /path/to/bot
    command: uv run python main.py

  another-bot:
    directory: /path/to/another-bot
    command: uv run python main.py

systemd Service

The install wizard generates a service file. To install it manually:

sudo cp ~/bots/bot-master/bot-master.service /etc/systemd/system/
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable --now bot-master

This ensures the daemon starts on boot and auto-restarts on failure.

Manual daemon start (without systemd)

bot-master-daemon [path/to/bots.yaml]

TUI Keybindings

Logs

Logs are stored in the logs/ directory (one file per bot, 10 MB rotation with 5 backups):

logs/
  au-tomator.log
  zapier.log
  writing-assistant.log

The daemon also keeps the last 5000 lines per bot in memory for fast streaming to the TUI.

Environment Variables