Overview
- Claude Code Channels lets developers message a Mac-hosted session from Telegram or Discord, released as a research preview with support also listed for Fakechat.
- Access requires Claude Code v2.1.80 or later and a claude.ai login, and organisational API keys are not supported.
- The integration runs through MCP-based plugins that route incoming chat messages to the active local session, maintaining state across events.
- Hands-on use showed remote builds and iOS deployment via xcodebuild, CLI tasks like compiling Readwise articles, and podcast transcription; images are accepted, but voice messages are not.
- macOS permission prompts block remote actions unless granted on the host Mac or started with --dangerously-skip-permissions, and setup involves creating a Telegram bot and installing dependencies such as Bun.