Slow bot commands (/latest, /random, /favorites, /memory, /search,
/find, /person, /place, /summary) spend most of their wall time
fetching assets from the service provider, not uploading to Telegram.
Telegram chat actions expire after ~5s, so the previous one-shot hint
vanished long before media arrived — users saw nothing happening.
- TelegramClient.start_chat_action_keepalive: promoted from private
helper to public API, posts the action every 4s until cancelled.
- telegram_send.telegram_chat_action: async context manager that
starts the keep-alive task on enter and cancels + awaits it on
exit. A None action makes it a no-op so callers don't branch.
- classify_command_chat_action: maps command name to the right
Telegram action (upload_photo for media-returning commands, typing
for /summary, None for fast DB-only commands like /status /events).
- webhook.py + telegram_poller.py: wrap handle_command in the context
manager so the hint persists through the whole fetch+upload window
in both webhook and long-poll modes.
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