PAPAI

OFFICE OF TICKET PROCESSING · DEPT. OF DEFERRED ACTIONS · ROOM 1024

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The bureaucrat
in your group chat.

papai reads every line in your chat and turns the actionable ones into stamped, numbered tickets.

ABSTRACT

Routed, tagged, linked to the right epic — usually under a second. Self-hosted. MIT-licensed. Bring your own LLM key, your own tracker, your own group chat.

SUBMIT REQUEST → READ THE STATUTES

One
sentence.
One stamp.

A Telegram complaint becomes a tracked ticket, linked to the right epic, with a humane reply — in under a second.

END-TO-END: 0.92s
TOOL-CALLS: 2
HALLUCINATIONS: 0
DROPS: 0

CASE LOG WEB-318 · 14·V·26 · 09:42 WET FILED · 0.92s

09:42:18.04

@diogo TG · #web-platform

high-priority bug: login crashes on Safari when 2FA is on

09:42:18.21

create_task(project="web", priority="high", title="login crashes on Safari w/ 2FA", labels=["auth","safari"])

↳ OK · WEB-318 · 132ms

09:42:18.41

create_relation(type="subtask", child="WEB-318", parent="WEB-117")

↳ OK · 28ms

09:42:18.96

papai TG · #web-platform

Filed WEB-318 in web · High. Tagged it ‘auth, safari’. Made it a subtask of WEB-117 (2FA rollout). Ana added as watcher.

09:43:02.17

@diogo TG · #web-platform

thx

Six cabinets.
Twenty-three drawers.

Each drawer is a small, capability-gated verb. No drawer is opened in error.

01

TASKS

The Lifecycle Cabinet

Filed, tagged, routed, confirmed — in one sentence. Reactions on existing comments count as votes.

create · update · search · comment · react · subtask

02

MEMOS

The Pocket Notebook

Save it now. papai brings it back the next time its topic is mentioned within earshot.

save · recall · promote · search

03

REMIND

The Future-Self Department

Thursday 09:00. Every standup. Before SSL expires. The schedule is logged.

once · daily · weekly · cron

04

ATTACH

The Manifest Bureau

Drop the file. We hash it, stage it via S3-compatible storage, attach it to the correct case file.

upload · attach · list · remove

05

FETCH

The Reading Room

Public URLs only, politely rate-limited. The summary is what changed — not the entire page.

fetch · extract · summarize · cite

06

LINK

The Cross-Reference Index

The 2FA epic remains the epic after sprint planning. The graph survives the reorg.

blocks · duplicates · related · subtask

Speaks what
you already speak.

FORM

SURFACE

SCOPE

STATUS

3-TG

Telegram

DM · Groups · Topics

LIVE

3-MM

Mattermost

DM · Channels · Threads

LIVE

3-DC

Discord

DM · @-mention only

LIVE

3-KO

Kaneo

Issue tracker

LIVE

3-YT

YouTrack

Issue tracker

LIVE

3-AI

OpenAI-compatible

Bring your own key

REQUIRED

3-S3

S3 / R2 / B2

Object storage

OPTIONAL

3-??

Your surface

Adapter SDK

PENDING

File the
paperwork.
That's it.

Bun. SQLite. Optional S3 hook. Optional Compose bundle. Survives on a Raspberry Pi under a desk.

github.com/papai · 60s to live bot

FORM 9-D · DEPLOYMENT · 4 LINES ~60s

$ git clone git@github.com:papai/papai && cd papai

$ bun install

$ cp .env.example .env && $EDITOR .env

$ bun start

# papai is now on file. DM the bot. Run /setup.

On the record.

FILEHE-001

"Replaced a Slack→Jira pipeline that took three sprints with a four-line .env and a Telegram group."

HELENA MARÇAL

ENG MGR · LISBOA

FILEPA-014

"Writes tickets the way our designers write them — short, with the right tags, linked to the right epic."

PÁDRAIG Ó CONGHAILE

HEAD OF PRODUCT · DUBLIN

FILEJO-027

"Runs on the same €4 Hetzner box as our blog. Telegram → ticket in under a second."

JONAS WEBER

STAFF SRE · ZÜRICH

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papai is filed under MIT. One binary. Five minutes from clone to first stamp.

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