Gate News: On March 20, Anthropic’s programming agent Claude Code team engineer Thariq Shihipar announced the launch of the Channels feature, allowing users to remotely control running Claude Code sessions via Telegram or Discord Bot. Users can send commands directly to the AI programming agent and receive responses on their mobile devices. This feature is available as an official plugin, implemented based on the MCP protocol. After installing the plugin and configuring the Bot Token in Claude Code, users can start a session with the --channels parameter, and the Bot will begin listening for messages. Messages sent by users in chat applications are forwarded to Claude Code through the MCP server for processing, and responses are sent back via the Bot, which automatically displays “typing” status during this process. Both platforms support replies, emoji responses, and message editing. The Discord version additionally allows pulling channel history (up to 100 messages) and downloading attachments (single file up to 25MB); the Telegram version automatically downloads received images but cannot retrieve message history due to Bot API limitations. Both plugins include built-in pairing verification and whitelist access control.
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