.gitea/workflows/ci.yaml

@@ -175,7 +175,9 @@ jobs:
           TELEGRAM_MINIAPP_URL: ${{ vars.TEST_TELEGRAM_MINIAPP_URL }}
           TELEGRAM_GAME_CHANNEL_ID_EN: ${{ vars.TEST_TELEGRAM_GAME_CHANNEL_ID_EN }}
           TELEGRAM_GAME_CHANNEL_ID_RU: ${{ vars.TEST_TELEGRAM_GAME_CHANNEL_ID_RU }}
-          TELEGRAM_TEST_ENV: ${{ vars.TEST_TELEGRAM_TEST_ENV }}
+          # The test contour always uses Telegram's test environment — pinned here,
+          # not an operator variable. Stage 17's prod workflow leaves it false.
+          TELEGRAM_TEST_ENV: "true"
           VITE_TELEGRAM_BOT_ID: ${{ vars.TEST_VITE_TELEGRAM_BOT_ID }}
           VITE_TELEGRAM_LINK: ${{ vars.TEST_VITE_TELEGRAM_LINK }}
           VITE_GATEWAY_URL: ${{ vars.TEST_VITE_GATEWAY_URL }}

PLAN.md

@@ -1089,6 +1089,12 @@ provided cert) at the contour caddy; prod VPN; rollback.
     on the runner host. CI bootstrap nuance: the first PR introducing `ci.yaml` may first deploy on the
     post-merge push to `development` (depending on whether Gitea runs head/base workflows for a PR), after
     which PR-time deploys work.
+  - **Telegram test environment** (post-deploy fix): the connector now selects Telegram's test env with the
+    library's native `tgbot.UseTestEnvironment()` (was a `token += "/test"` hack — functionally identical,
+    verified, but the option is idiomatic and now has a `bot` test asserting the `/bot<token>/test/getMe`
+    path). The test contour **pins `TELEGRAM_TEST_ENV=true` in `ci.yaml`** (the contour is the test
+    environment) rather than via a `TEST_`-prefixed variable — removing a confusing double-`TEST` operator
+    knob and the secret-vs-variable footgun; prod (Stage 17) leaves it `false`.
 
 ## Deferred TODOs (cross-stage)
 

deploy/README.md

@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ connector **fails at boot** if both are empty.
 | `GRAFANA_ADMIN_PASSWORD` | secret | `admin` | Grafana admin password. Low impact (the login form is disabled, access is anonymous-admin behind caddy) but set it anyway. |
 | `TELEGRAM_GAME_CHANNEL_ID_EN` | variable | _(empty)_ | English game-channel id; empty/`0` disables channel posts. |
 | `TELEGRAM_GAME_CHANNEL_ID_RU` | variable | _(empty)_ | Russian game-channel id; empty/`0` disables channel posts. |
-| `TELEGRAM_TEST_ENV` | variable | `false` | `true` routes the bot through Telegram's test environment. |
+| `TELEGRAM_TEST_ENV` | _pinned_ | `false` | `true` routes the bot through Telegram's test environment (`.../bot<token>/test/METHOD`). **The CI test contour pins this to `true` in `ci.yaml`** (the contour is the test environment) — it is not a Gitea variable. Set it in `.env` for a local run; prod (Stage 17) leaves it `false`. |
 | `TELEGRAM_API_BASE_URL` | variable | _(empty)_ | Override the Bot API host (a mock/self-hosted server); empty = `https://api.telegram.org`. |
 | `GATEWAY_DEFAULT_SUPPORTED_LANGUAGES` | variable | `en,ru` | Variant-gating set for non-Telegram logins (web/email/guest). |
 | `VITE_TELEGRAM_BOT_ID` | variable | _(empty)_ | UI build-arg: numeric bot id for the web Login Widget. |

platform/telegram/internal/bot/bot.go

@@ -43,21 +43,18 @@ func New(cfg Config, log *zap.Logger) (*Bot, error) {
 	}
 	t := &Bot{miniAppURL: cfg.MiniAppURL, log: log}
 
-	token := cfg.Token
-	if cfg.TestEnv {
-		// The Bot API test environment lives under /bot<token>/test/METHOD; the
-		// client builds <host>/bot<token>/<method>, so suffixing the token with
-		// "/test" injects the test segment without a custom host.
-		token += "/test"
-	}
 	opts := []tgbot.Option{
 		tgbot.WithDefaultHandler(t.handleStart),
 		tgbot.WithMessageTextHandler("/start", tgbot.MatchTypePrefix, t.handleStart),
 	}
+	if cfg.TestEnv {
+		// Route to the Bot API test environment (.../bot<token>/test/METHOD).
+		opts = append(opts, tgbot.UseTestEnvironment())
+	}
 	if cfg.APIBaseURL != "" {
 		opts = append(opts, tgbot.WithServerURL(cfg.APIBaseURL))
 	}
-	api, err := tgbot.New(token, opts...)
+	api, err := tgbot.New(cfg.Token, opts...)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}

platform/telegram/internal/bot/bot_test.go

@@ -75,6 +75,34 @@ func TestSendTextHasNoMarkup(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+// getMePathFor captures the path bot.New's getMe call hits for the given TestEnv,
+// so the test environment routing is covered (a misroute is exactly what makes a
+// test-environment token fail with "getMe unauthorized").
+func getMePathFor(t *testing.T, testEnv bool) string {
+	t.Helper()
+	var path string
+	srv := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		if strings.HasSuffix(r.URL.Path, "/getMe") {
+			path = r.URL.Path
+		}
+		io.WriteString(w, `{"ok":true,"result":{"id":1,"is_bot":true,"first_name":"t","username":"tb"}}`)
+	}))
+	t.Cleanup(srv.Close)
+	if _, err := New(Config{Token: "123:ABC", APIBaseURL: srv.URL, TestEnv: testEnv, MiniAppURL: "https://example.com/"}, zap.NewNop()); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("new bot (testEnv=%v): %v", testEnv, err)
+	}
+	return path
+}
+
+func TestTestEnvironmentRoutesGetMe(t *testing.T) {
+	if got, want := getMePathFor(t, true), "/bot123:ABC/test/getMe"; got != want {
+		t.Errorf("TestEnv getMe path = %q, want %q", got, want)
+	}
+	if got, want := getMePathFor(t, false), "/bot123:ABC/getMe"; got != want {
+		t.Errorf("prod getMe path = %q, want %q", got, want)
+	}
+}
+
 func TestStartPayload(t *testing.T) {
 	cases := map[string]string{
 		"/start g123":  "g123",