Anthropic Launches Claude Code Channels: Message Your Agent via Telegram, Discord, and iMessage
Something significant shifted in how developers interact with AI agents today. Anthropic has shipped Claude Code Channels — a research preview feature that lets you message your Claude Code session directly from Telegram, Discord, iMessage, or any custom webhook, while your agent continues running in the background on your machine or the web. This isn’t a cosmetic update. It’s a structural change in the developer-agent relationship: from synchronous “sit at your keyboard and wait” to asynchronous, persistent, mobile-first collaboration with an autonomous coding partner. ...