2026-05-286 min read
Two bots, one token, infinite 409s — why a bot registry is infrastructure
Retrofitting BBBrain's Telegram modules revealed that the tunnel bot and the brain server had been polling the same token for weeks, throwing 409 conflicts that neither log named clearly. The fix wasn't a config tweak. It was accepting that one-bot-per-purpose needs to be enforced at registration time, not discovered at incident time.
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