Overview
- Anthropic’s new messaging integration links Telegram and Discord bots to a Claude Code session running on a Mac, enabling remote control from a phone.
- The release is a research preview that works today but requires careful setup, including creating a Telegram bot and installing the Claude Code plugin.
- The tester had to install Bun, the runtime Anthropic acquired, before the integration functioned correctly.
- macOS permissions cannot be granted through Telegram, pushing users to approve them on the Mac or launch Claude Code with the --dangerously-skip-permissions flag.
- In practice, the reviewer built and deployed an iOS app with xcodebuild, compiled Readwise articles, and transcribed a podcast, with image sharing supported and no voice messaging.