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Control Tarsk from Telegram
Control Tarsk by sending messages to it through Telegram. This guide covers the steps to setup Telegram and sending your first prompt. What problem this solves Asking Tarsk to p...
Token Minimization: How Tarsk Cuts Your AI Bill
Frontier AI models charge by the token, and costs add up. A coding session can burn half a million tokens, and a single prompt can cost more than a cup of coffee. Run ten sessio...
Skill Interpolation in Tarsk
Static skill instructions work until the task needs live data. You want the agent to see the current diff, the models you have enabled, or the arguments you passed when you invo...
How to Use Agent Browser Automation
Agent browser automation lets Tarsk work inside your running app instead of guessing from code alone. Start your dev server, open the Browser tab, and the agent can inspect the...
Customize Your Agent with Skills, Rules, Commands, and Subagents
The agent does not come pre-configured for your workflow. You shape it. Tarsk provides six settings pages where you define what the agent knows, what tools it can call, and how...
Get Started with OpenRouter in Tarsk
Tarsk connects to AI models through providers. OpenRouter gives you access to over 400 models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, DeepSeek, and dozens of others through a single API...
How to Use Model Aliases in Tarsk
Model Aliases in Tarsk give your project four shared labels for model choice: fast, cheap, smart, and local. You map each label to an enabled provider and model, then reuse thos...
Browse and Manage AI Models Across Providers
When you connect multiple AI providers, you end up with dozens or hundreds of models to choose from. The Models settings page gives you a single place to browse every model avai...
Monitor Token Usage and Context Window in Tarsk
Every model has a context window: a fixed token budget that fills up as your conversation grows. When it runs out, the agent loses access to earlier messages, and response quali...
How to Use the Updated Skills UI
The updated Skills UI makes it easier to discover, install, and manage skills. You can browse what is installed, search what is available, switch between skill sources, add your...