Triggering an intent externally does not work unless user from Telegram actively start sending message

I planned on using this triggering intent but this appears to be a show stopper for me. I wanted to send a user a message simplified idea is “Here is todays, workout. Do you like it?” but that would frequently be after new trained models and other restarts. So this outgoing message should trigger the intent to start a story related to today’s workout.

The user responds with an “out of the blue” “yes” with no context i.e. story in progress. It seems as though a solution is to try to trigger a custom action based on this “first response” and that custom action triggers an intent in the desired story.

It sounds possible based on this thread.