So, Claude Code just released channels,

which is a Telegram and Discord

integration that lets you text your

agents the same way that you text other

human beings every day. And all I could

think about when I saw this was, "Man,

Anthropic really doesn't like Open

Claude." So, in this video, I'm going to

show you a quick demo. Then, I'm going

to run you guys through how it all works

under the hood before showing you how

you can set it up on your end. And at

the end, I'll also chat a little bit

about what I think this personally means

for the Open Claude debacle. Okay, so I

have two things on the screen here. The

first is I have my Telegram chat, and

this is actually running locally on my

computer in the exact same way that,

say, Open Claude might be running

locally on, you know, a Mac Mini or a

VPS. I just have an open chat with

Telegram right over here. And then on

the right-hand side, I actually have an

app that allows me to mirror the screen

of my iPhone, so you guys could see

everything that I'm doing in real time,

just for simplicity. So, I had a

conversation before with it, and I just

asked it to give me a big wall of text

that I could use to push up the previous

conversation, just that I could show you

guys how simple it is. If I type hey

over here on Telegram, what ends up

occurring is my Claude Code channel

plugin immediately gets a message from

my Telegram app. And then it does two

things. One, it gets the message and

accomplishes whatever feature or task

that I asked it to do. And then it also

updates the local conversation history

with just a description of what went on.

And so, on the Telegram side, you know,

I see, "Hey, hey, what's up? How's it

going?" So on and so forth. And over

here, I see that, you know, our Telegram

plugin ran. What did it do? Well, I just

replied to your Telegram message with

the incoming query of, "Hey."

And so, in this way, you actually get a

fair amount of accountability and

interpretability, which is nice. It's

not just a one-to-one one log of like

everything you said to it. Um, you also

additionally get kind of like a thinking

and reasoning layer. But anyway, let's

say I'm out and about, and, you know, I

actually have a task I want to get done,

some economically valuable work. And in

this case, you know, I'm making a big

course on Claude Code, and I saw a

thumbnail that looked like this. Well, I

have a skill that allows me to repurpose

thumbnails that I see in the wild, and

then take advantage of like the good

parts, while also inserting myself in

there and making some changes. So, I get

the URL over here. I just go on my phone

to Telegram and then I say, "Hey,

replace the man in this thumbnail with

me. Then make the following changes.

Change the text, you know, replace the

flags with the Claude logo, change the

colors, and so on and so forth."

What you see occurs locally is not only

do we have the message come in, which is

up here, we also have the skill, okay,

that it connected to, which is now

locally on my computer, I'm sort of

connected and and in that way I'm now

designing the thumbnail. Now what it's

doing is it's upscaling the thumbnails

according to my specifications in the

skill. You can see that it's now

actually sending me over each of these

thumbnails onto my phone, so I'm just

taking a look at them right now. This

one here in particular is probably the

most me and that's more or less all I

really wanted from this. I just wanted

some sort of inspiration that I could

use to, you know, quickly design a

thumbnail while I'm on the go. But it

doesn't just stop at Telegram, they've

also added Discord support for all you

Gen Z'ers out there. So, now what I have

is I have the plugin Discord at Claude

Plugins Official running and then I have

on the right-hand side a Discord chat on

my phone. And let's say I want to run

another some economically valuable task,

whatever it is. I'm going to say,

"Scrape me 100 leads from Appify

dentists in California." The title

should be stuff like dentist practice

manager and so on and so on and so

forth.

What it's doing now is it's actually

going to go and then run my, you know,

Appify scraping skill. A few seconds

later, it scrapes the leads. It's now

going to do a little bit of running

through them. Looks like 98 of them have

phone numbers and now that it's created

a CSV, what it's going to do is send it

over to me so that I can open it on my

phone. I then have this CSV file open

here, which I can click on and then

depending on my own workflow, I can open

this up on a Google Sheet or whatever,

start giving people some rings. Okay, as

you guys could see, very simple and very

straightforward once you actually have

it set up. It has all of the benefits of

the usual Claude code tooling, all of

the skills that you might have set up

locally on your computer as well. And as

long as your computer doesn't go to

sleep or anything like that, which is

pretty easy to do, I can run you guys

through a couple ways to do that. Um it

will essentially always be listening on

the same sorts of apps that you just

used to talk to people every day. And,

you know, to be honest, this is the main

reason why I think that like Open Claw,

Claude Bot, Molt Bot, all these tools

like picked off so much just because

we're now talking to agents using the

exact same interfaces we talk to people,

getting some economically valuable work

done, and it's just more convenient for

us. So, let me run you through all this

stuff in a sec. So, in terms of how to

set this up, it's right over here at

code.claud.com/docs/en/channels.

And you can even communicate with their

assistant over here on the right-hand

side if you wanted to. But, uh they have

a new page set up that says push events

into a running session with channels.

And that's basically what we are doing.

You know, they're trying obviously not

to just say, "Hey, we replicated all the

functionality of open claw or whatever."

But, to be honest, that's more or less

what what we are doing here. We're

having a conversation with our agent.

It's the exact same sort of conversation

that we might be having on our computer.

It's just now we also have a stream that

we can funnel through, you know, a

messaging app and so on and so forth.

So, there are a couple right now,

Telegram and Discord being the main

ones. I should note that this came out

just a few hours ago. So, there'll

probably be significantly more over the

coming uh weeks and months. Um but, it's

pretty straightforward. Basically, on

Telegram, you just get a little access

code. You do the same thing on Discord,

although you have to you know, have to

set up an app, which I'll show you guys

how to do. And then you guys could have

a back-and-forth conversation with it in

a very straightforward way. The reason

I'm on this page is because of this

section right here, security. Now, if

you guys know, uh I've made a bunch of

videos on like open claw and then having

like phone conversation style things

with agents before. And usually there's

some glaring security issues as a result

of it. Um the way that this plugin works

is obviously we already have the

built-in Claude code tooling, which has

some security out of the box. But, every

approved channel plugin has what's

called a sender allow list. So, only

specific IDs that you have already added

ahead of time can push messages.

Everything else gets silently dropped.

Um in this way, you still get access to,

as mentioned, all of your own tooling.

You don't have to like set all this

stuff up again. Um but, you also get to

do this at the exact same level of

security you previously had in Claude

code, which was hopefully quite high

already. So, that's it. No real magic

here. Let me show you how to get this on

your phone. Um just like before, I'm

going to be doing this on my iPhone

mirroring app, but everything that I do

there is the exact same as what you will

see on your device, whether it's an

Android or an iPhone. Okay, so first to

start, head over to Telegram. And what

you'll have to do is you'll have to send

a message to this person here called Bot

Father. Bot Father is basically the de

facto app that allows you to create new

apps anytime you want. And if you just

click that open button, you'll be taken

to page that looks like this. You can

see that I've set up a couple of Claude

bots already. This is when I was testing

out Nemo Claude, which I thought would

have been a pretty good competitor to

this, but in reality, I think this is

way better. This is the chat that we

were just having a conversation with a

moment ago. Then just go over to create

a new bot, and then you can just add,

you know, whatever details you want

here. So, Claude

demo bot. And then I'll just call it

Claude demo bot. You have to make sure

that whatever you're creating is

appended with the three-letter word bot.

Okay, you can also add a profile picture

and stuff like that. I'm not really

super worried about that, so it's not a

big deal.

Here you'll also have this little

invisible, you know, hidden text

feature. I'm just going to click copy.

And now basically what I have is I have

my bot token, which is required in order

for me to set up the next step. Once

you're done with that at any time, you

can just go {slash} my bots to actually

get the list of bots that you have, and

then you can just click on the specific

one.

When you click on it, a little {slash}

start window will be opened just like

that. And now you sort of have a

conversation window open. I should note

that if you send it a message at this

point, nothing will happen. We actually

have to set up the plugin on the Claude

code end as well. So, from there, I'm

going to open up Claude code inside of

Anti-Gravity, which is my preferred sort

of development interface. If you guys

don't know anything about Anti-Gravity

or never seen the screen before, it's

actually really easy to figure out, and

I walk you all through it through a

four-hour in-depth tutorial. I'll show

you guys like the buttons and what

literally every little section of this

screen means. Just check that link that

I posted in the top right-hand corner a

second ago. Now, in order for us to set

this plugin up, we'll have to go {slash}

terminal, and so actually open Claude in

the terminal. Um some of you guys may

already have this set up, but obviously

I use the GUI just for demo versions.

I'm going to click maximize panel size

in the right-hand side. And now what I

need to do is I need to install the

plugin for Telegram. So, that's pretty

easy you do. You just have to go {slash}

plugin install telegram at

claw-plugins-official.

Now, it's going to ask you where you

want to install it. In my case, I want

to install for me the user scope. The

user scope essentially means all

workspaces across all different projects

on my computer are going to have access

to telegram if I need to.

Once we're done, we just go reload

plugins. Then we're basically now we

we've now activated it, which is cool.

Okay, after you're done with that, just

exit out of the session. You can just

hold control C and just press that a

couple times. I'm just going to clear so

that we could see this full screen.

Okay, after that, you can just type

{slash} clear to get you back up to the

very top. And then I'm just going to

paste in {slash} telegram

colon configure.

This is going to look purple, which

means that it's now being recognized as

an actual command. And then over here,

you're just going to insert that token

that you copied from Bot Father earlier.

If it doesn't appear purple, you may

just have to restart Claude Code in

order for the plugin library to

initialize.

Once you're done with that, the

configuration script will basically

create a new channel allow list or

policy. And now what you can do is you

can just turn this off and then turn

this back on again. So, I'm going to use

control C and I'll press that twice.

And now I'm actually out of my Claude

and I'm back in like my terminal. And

there's a different set of commands

here, but if you just type clear,

they'll basically bump you all the way

up to the top. You'll have a little bit

more room and then we can continue.

Okay, last but not least, we actually

just need to launch this. And the way

you do so with Claude Code's channel

plugin is you use Claude space {dash}

{dash} channels space plugin colon

telegram at claw-plugins-official.

So, when you do this, you'll actually be

connected now to your bot from a moment

ago. And the last thing we have to do is

we just have to send a brief message

over to our bot to 100% verify that the

connection is started. So, I'm going to

go back here.

I'm just going to type in hey.

When I do this, as you guys could see,

we now actually have the message coming

through on this side. So, boom. Hey,

what's up? How's it going?

Awesome. Run my scrape

no Appify lead skill for 50 HVAC people

in Texas. And now we're having a

conversation with it, just like you

would have with anything else. Okay,

Discord is pretty straightforward as

well. So, I actually already have this

app set up. I'm just going to create a

new one. Head over to

discord.com/developers/applications

and just type new app. And then, what

you're going to want to do is, I don't

know, I'll just say

not genuine app. It'll ask you to

confirm you are not a robot.

And now, what we have is you just you

just created an app, basically, um

somewhere. It's not that big of a deal.

You don't need to worry about what this

thing looks like, but it'll take you to

a relatively complicated looking page.

And we can just skip all that and go

straight to bot down here. Once you're

at bot, just scroll down to where it

says message content intent. Then you

need to click this button. And once

you're done, scroll back up to where it

says token, click reset token. Yes, do

it. You'll have to enter your password,

obviously, so I'm going to do so here.

And now, this is the token, just like we

had earlier, that allows us to

communicate with our bot. The last thing

we have to do is head over to OAuth2.

And then, down at the very bottom, add

these permissions. First, click bot, and

that'll open up a bunch more bot

permissions down here. You're going to

want to do uh view channels, send

messages, send messages in threads,

uh

read messages,

read message history, I think, and then

attach files, which I'm going to just

hold command and F and then press that,

and then do the same thing for add

reactions right over here. Okay, great.

Once that's up, it'll say integration

type guild install, and you'll get a

generated URL. You may be wondering,

what the heck does that mean, Nick? It's

pretty straightforward. Um this is

basically just going to allow you to

invite this to uh you know, one of your

servers.

Okay, and now you have not genuine app

wants to access your Discord account

signed in as Nick. And then, the server

you're going to want is whatever your

own individual, you know, Discord server

is. To be clear, you do need a Discord

server in order to have this all set up.

Uh you can create one for free really

easily. If you've never done that

before, just head over to Discord and

then click this little button. Um click

create my own, and then just do it for

me and my friends. Name it whatever the

heck you want. Okay, from there you just

click continue.

And now basically it has all of these

permissions. You can click authorize. Uh

obviously I am

not a human, as we both know, and many

of my YouTube comments routinely accuse

me. Next up, head back over to Claude,

and what you're going to want to do is

launch another instance of Claude. And

then paste in this command, {slash}

plugin install

discord@claude-plugins-official.

Same thing for me, so I'm installing for

myself across everything, and then you

can run reload-plugins to activate.

You'll see we now have two plugins, and

you can see that if you just go

{slash}plugins, over to the right here,

it says we have That's Claude mem, which

is currently disabled, Discord, which is

enabled, Telegram, which is enabled.

Then I also have a couple of other ones,

Chrome dev tools, Chrome stealth. Once

you're done with that, you're just going

to want to type {slash}discord. Once

you're done with that, type

{slash}discord:configure,

and then go grab that token that we just

had a second ago. In my case, it's going

to be right here. Okay, once we're done,

I'm going to have to exit out of Claude

code, and then bring it back in. So,

I'll then go Claude.

The reason why we had to do that is

because we have to pump in the token,

and then we also have to go

{slash}discord:configure,

like this. This will turn purple, and

then we can press enter. And now what

we're doing is we're basically doing the

same thing we did a moment ago with

Telegram. Um we're configuring this.

We're actually setting it up.

Okay, so now what we need to do is just

DM the bot on Discord. And then once

you're done with that, you can head back

over to your Claude code, and what you

want is I'm just cycling through a bunch

of old commands. Claude--channels

plugin:discord@claude-plugins-official.

So, now it's going to be listening for

channel messages from my plugin. So,

I'll open up Discord, you know, see that

there's a new conversation with Not

Genuine App.

There's a conversate This is something I

sent it a moment ago before I actually

set it up. Um but now it's saying hello,

and we're actually routed in directly,

just like we were before. And so, now I

can have a conversation with uh my agent

anywhere I want. Okay, so hopefully you

guys seen, it's pretty straightforward

to do this setup. Um but uh I think

probably the logical question a lot of

you were probably asking is like, "Hey

Nick, now that I have it set up, like

what do I do? Like where do I take

this?" And realistically, this is

running locally on your computer. So, if

you only have one computer, okay, if you

want to have this ongoing 24/7, you're

going to need to find a way to basically

have your computer not like lock, not

have all these processes at run scale.

And so, there are different ways to do

that. On like a Mac OS, for instance,

it's pretty straightforward. There's

actually really simple easy way to do

that. You just go to your terminal and

then just type caffeinate and then, you

know, if you press caffeinate {dash} t

for whatever period of time. Basically,

what this does is this just um turns

your computer and keeps your computer

screen on for however long you specify

here. And so, this is in seconds. Uh in

this case, it's 60 seconds in a minute,

so 60 * 60 is about an hour, 3,600

seconds. But obviously, you could set

that up for as long as you want. Um

likewise, you could also go down to

settings on Mac and then in settings,

you'll have two different things that

you can touch. First is the lock screen

setting, so just head over to lock

screen. And then where it says turn

display off when on battery and power

adapter when inactive, you could just

say never. And so now, basically what's

what's going to occur is it doesn't

matter how long it takes, the computer

will just never turn the display off.

So, the display will always be on. And

then I think you can go over to battery

settings as well. And then basically, if

you go to options here, uh you could

prevent automatic sleeping on power

adapter when the display is off. So, I

click this and what that means is

basically, even when the display would

have been off, this is just on all the

time. Then where it says put hard disks

to sleep when possible, you just leave

this on. Awake for network access would

just be always. Then click done, and

then you're good to go. Uh Windows is

very very similar. There are just a

bunch of features out there that allow

you to just keep it on 24/7. And so, in

this way, you now have like a you now

have a server, basically, whether it's

this computer or something else that is

just always running in the background,

meaning no matter where you are what

you're doing, you'll always just be able

to have a conversation with it. Now, if

you wanted to take this further, what

you do is you get something like a Mac

mini or some sort of server, you know,

that you put somewhere in your computer.

Maybe something that doesn't even have a

screen. Obviously, you should get

something that doesn't have a screen,

it's way simpler. And then you would um

connect it to whatever the repo or

folder is that runs most of the uh you

know, Claude Code skills and stuff like

that that you have in your computer. In

my case, I'm doing that using a really

interesting tool called Syncthing. This

basically allows me to have two

computers running side by side, so

there's my main Mac, which I'm currently

operating on, and then there's like uh

another one. I actually have a second

MacBook, which is just sitting in the

corner. And what we're doing is we're

just syncing the same like business

folder workspace, the one that I

typically run most of my Claude Code

skills on. Such that, you know, I

basically have like a totally seamless

experience. My Telegram interface, my

Discord interface, those are

communicating with my second MacBook,

which is sitting around, um which just

did all the things that I showed you a

moment ago. And then that's syncing with

this computer, so anytime I need to like

log in and do work on my desktop, I can

do that as well. So, we sort of have

like a two-way sync. Any new file that's

created on one end, even through my

Telegram, is ported over here, and then

the same thing goes in the other

direction. And uh the only downside with

that is if you're using Git Commit and

you happen to try and commit two things

at the same time on both, so locally and

over there, you can run into some

conflicts. In my case, it's not a really

big part of my workflow. I'm not

committing every 5 seconds, so doesn't

really make too much sense for me.

Okay, and I just wanted to leave you

guys with a couple of mentions on Open

Claw. You know, as you guys know, Open

Claw, uh which used to be called Claude

Bot and was then called Mole Bot, and

it'll probably be called something else

just given PR reasons. Um you know, it

came out like a few months ago, and the

entire internet went freaking wild over

it. And you know, when I saw it as an

avid and relatively competent Claude

Code user, in my head I was just like,

oh, is this like an additional piece of

like functionality? Is this like

additional intelligence on top of what

Claude Code natively offers me as

somebody that uses it for business and

for

uh you know, programming stuff. And I

was really trying hard to see whether or

not there was. And I just kept on

running into a wall where it was like,

oh, this doesn't actually do anything

different. It's just basically an

interface layer where I can communicate

with Claude through Telegram. In my head

I was like, well, the reason why this is

probably growing so popular is because

we text people, like friends of ours,

family members, and stuff like that,

through these messaging apps. So, you

know, we're texting humans, and now we

can text an agent as well using the

exact same sort of UX. That's going to

seem pretty cool, especially so if

you're not super technically competent.

And so, I was like, all right, maybe

that's why it's blowing up. But anyway,

it turns out there were a couple of

other reasons why OpenCloud grew so

quickly and became like the number one

most starred repo on freaking planet

Earth, basically.

And this isn't a knock against that, or,

you know, the developer, cuz I

definitely did some knocking on my my

old video where I was like, CloudBot

sucks. So, basically, right around the

time that all this stuff was happening,

there was a shitcoin launched, basically

some some big rug pull where a bunch of

people decided to blast the message

like, CloudBot's insane, and stuff like

that, all over the internet to pump up a

coin. And so, that's called astro

turfing, where you try and synthetically

generate like a large amount of volume

to make something look really big, and

it's a common tactic used in marketing.

It's kind of like a gray hat black hat

technique, and not really, obviously,

morally about it. It involves the

creation of a bunch of accounts and

stuff like that. Maybe the a bunch of

GitHub stars, who knows.

Uh that wasn't the only thing though.

Right around the time, obviously, you

had a bunch of creators start making

videos on this stuff, and then the

creators saw a bunch of clicks and a

bunch of interest because they were

riding that wave of like astro turfing.

And so, this thing, which might have

been previously mostly like

synthetically generated, or maybe

initially even had like a cool demo that

was later pushed, became like amplified

by a bunch of people on YouTube talking

about how incredible and amazing it was.

And you know, a few of these people had

a lot of success with um you know, this

CloudBot stuff, and so, every single

time they put it in the title and it

gets them a bunch of views, what are

they going to do the next time?

Obviously, they're going to do the same

thing, right?

And so, became this like

self-perpetuating feedback loop. And

then to top it off, there were a couple

of really forward-thinking companies out

there, um which did VPS hosting, and so,

essentially, these VPS hosting companies

started reaching out to a bunch of

creators seeing an opportunity saying,

"Hey, we'll happily pay you $5 to

$10,000 if you want to pop a video out

on this stuff really quickly talking

about how easy it is to host using our

software. And so, these three factors

basically all culminated in this massive

explosion of interest for something that

ultimately speaking was like basically a

Telegram wrapper with with with Claude

which is like some heartbeat features

and then some memory. But for anybody

that didn't watch the video, one of my

points was why wouldn't Anthropic just

do something way better and then way

more secure as well because you know,

they obviously have access to the models

that are the ones that trained the

models. They obviously understand risks

like prompt injection, exfiltration and

stuff. They've got the best. And I was

just like I don't it doesn't really make

sense to jump all over, you know, a a

Claude bot if you're just going to be

using it for freaking, you know,

Telegram essentially, a glorified

messenger. And so, I know a bunch of

people are like really a big fan of this

stuff and by all means like you you can

be it. There's nothing wrong with the

idea of like decentralized agents that

are running in the cloud and stuff like

that. But the vast majority of the use

cases that most people are like using

open Claude and Claude bot and stuff

like that for, they are effectively

covered by this update and then the

update that happened a few days ago

where Anthropic dropped Claude dispatch

for co-work. And you know, I I I just

think that it's a much more secure and

it's a much more scalable solution that

actually works like off of your stuff.

You don't have it in the the cloud

unsecure. It's not maintained by like

random developers. It's like maintained

by one of the biggest companies on

planet Earth uh realistically when it

comes to AI and probably one of the most

competent ones as well. And just given

the recent values differences between,

you know, Anthropic and then a couple of

other very major actors in the world uh

and their commitment to holding firm in

principles, like I feel a lot more

comfortable with my data in their hands

than I do, you know, some some random

bloke on GitHub or whatever.

Okay, so those are my thoughts on

hopefully you guys appreciated the video

and you know, learned something new

about uh how to set the stuff up and you

guys can keep on chatting with Claude

whether it's through your Telegram, your

Discord, your computer like I mentioned

or some other way. If you guys like this

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