389 pointsby jasonjmcgheeMar 20, 2026

48 Comments

hmartinMar 20, 2026
ekropotinMar 20, 2026
Gemini has similar bug https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/1028, that essentially made this tool absolutely unusable for me.

Never had this problem with Claude tho. Must be something environment-specific.

dmdMar 20, 2026
Weird. I see lots of people in that thread have this issue, but I personally can’t reproduce it at all, and I just spent an hour trying.
Klaster_1Mar 20, 2026
This came up recently when I asked Claude to adjust indentation and it just couldn't. Such a stupid issue.
alexjurkiewiczMar 20, 2026
Claude is leaning into the idea of a local "session" being the host where everything connects.

I guess this makes sense for now. You can build integrations leveraging the user's personal access credentials. Later, once Claude takes over the world, they can move sessions to live in their own walled garden.

clcaevMar 20, 2026
I'd like Claude on IOS to pull/commit from a private git repository for Markdown and ideally drawio diagram editing.
fzzzyMar 20, 2026
It can. Go to the code tab, choose your repo, and have it write an image file to disk. If you tell it to read it, it should show in the chat. It works on the web version so hopefully it works on ios.
bakiesMar 20, 2026
Claude Code for the web would be able to do that
ttulMar 20, 2026
They certainly are. And this is likely to some degree a response to enterprise security desires. Enterprise endpoints are locked down already - no need for extra external API security if it’s just the user’s desktop communication as usual.
CorpOverreachMar 20, 2026
I feel like this is absolutely not the case. Our corporate infosec guys are freaking out, as developers and general users alike are finding all new ways to poke holes in literally everything.

We're finding out quickly that enterprise endpoints are not locked down anywhere near enough, and the stuff that users are creating on the local endpoints is quickly outpacing the rate at which SOC teams can investigate what's going on.

If you're using Claude via Anthropic's SaaS service it's near impossible to collect logs of what actually happened in a user's session. We happen to proxy Claude Code usage through Amazon Bedrock and the Bedrock logs have already proven to be instrumental in figuring out what led a user to having repeated attempts to install software that they wouldn't have otherwise attempted to install - all because they turned their brains off and started accepting every Claude Code prompt to install random stuff.

Sandboxing works to an extent, but it's a really difficult balance to strike between locking it down so much that you neuter the tool and having a reasonable security policy.

tharkun__Mar 20, 2026
Oh so much this, in a sense.

Look, as a software dev myself, I really like that my company lets us use our computers the way we see fit. Pre- or post-AI with no restrictive lockdown. Been there, hated that.

But I totally get the freaking out over "normal devs". The amount of stuff most people think is reasonable, AI or not, is mind boggling. For myself of course I like to just be able to be responsible myself. But as a security team I'd also be freaking out.

Like, the amount of people that find our super boring, totally corporate "security training videos", helpful and insightful and "oh dang I'd never have thought of that!" is mind boggling all by itself. Never mind any actual security training that'd be useful to someone with half a brain. You can literally just click through the 8+ hours of stuff you're supposed to watch / answer / do in 30 minutes.

bob1029Mar 20, 2026
> If you're using Claude via Anthropic's SaaS service it's near impossible to collect logs of what actually happened in a user's session.

If you are big into logs, OpenAI might be more your speed. They've got an extremely good logging UI in their platform web app. I use it all the time to figure out what the hell copilot was thinking.

8noteMar 20, 2026
thats how Amazon worked its MCP setup - got everything onto oauth tokens, and then the harness knows how to to access the token to get permissions to whatever the user has.

the bad part is setting separate permissions for different user tokens

anentropicMar 20, 2026
The auth mess is part of why I don't use the AWS MCP

Also because the aws cli works better, just add an instruction like this to your agents file:

> When performing aws cli commands in terminal always use the `--no-cli-pager` flag to avoid interactive pagination.

ewidarMar 20, 2026
What these 'channels' do is essentially why I was running a nanoclaw at work: triggering a claude code based on events and getting feedback/review/analysis which nicely closes the loop with other agents.

Not sure why it has to be an mcp, but will be trying this out asap.

Invictus0Mar 20, 2026
so its a webhook
ray_vMar 20, 2026
it's a webhook ... as MCP!
samrusMar 20, 2026
i dont like this class of criticism. mostly because i find myself do it alot. it doesnt matter if the tool used is simple, if it generates value then its a good idea

what should this fallacy be called? ad implementum? ad modum?

deadbabeMar 20, 2026
the truth?
politelemonMar 20, 2026
It isn't a fallacy and nothing should ever be above criticism.
hrmtst93837Mar 20, 2026
Ask about backpressure first. You can dump events into a channel all day, but when sessions spike and the reciever falls behind, you get the boring failure modes nobody mentions: queues swell, latency climbs, and memory bloat or dropped messages show up before anyone notices. The "nothing should be above criticism" line is fine, but if every design choice is open season nothing concrete gets built and the thread turns into process theater.
shahbabyMar 20, 2026
Much talk, less say, probably AI
8noteMar 20, 2026
its a description of the opportunity, i think.

webhooks have been very powerful, and you can start feeding the same stuff into claude as the orchestrator

heavyset_goMar 20, 2026
What do you call it when someone takes offense to calling a spade a spade?
knollimarMar 20, 2026
It's not just a spade, it's a spade as a service
theshrike79Mar 20, 2026
Yes, and Dropbox is "just rsync" and Tailscale is "just wireguard"
comboyMar 20, 2026
Claude getting clawed.
sidgtmMar 20, 2026
this is exactly i thought!
AIorNotMar 20, 2026
OpenClaw approach has moved into frontier companies I see -
sidgtmMar 20, 2026
yes! its all happening
aavciMar 20, 2026
Interesting to see it took them so long to implement this. Claude was super limiting without the ability to have a scheduler or a connection to events
mmaunderMar 20, 2026
This feels like a response to openclaw (and openai's hiring of the lead).
vessenesMar 20, 2026
This looks super super useful.. I'm making an agent to agent chat tool (that I think is actually ready for testing, so please check it out) -- https://chat.corpo.llc/ or https://github.com/corpo/qntm -- and the difficulty of getting claude to check and respond to messages is real.

Basically the Claude CLI is the operating system is the product vibe I get right now.

mixtureoftakesMar 20, 2026
github unavailable; what you think would be the primary usecase for agent to agent chat?
vessenesMar 20, 2026
Dang it, I wrote the wrong link. https://github.com/corpollc/qntm

I wrote it originally because I wanted my openclaw install to talk to my assistant's openclaw, and my openclaws that were local at different houses.

It's morphed a lot since then, and is close to being super useful -- it allows group chat, and is close to having a realistic API call on threshold vote gateway system built in.

That stuff is built to support Corpo's main business model which is providing real world asset and governance access to agents.

So, for example, I think agents might like to vote on sending a wire transfer by approving a specific mercury bank API call.

I could go on. You can also use it to remotely chat to an agent across firewalls - it's pull / poll only.

And if anyone is interested, I made an HN Group chat: https://chat.corpo.llc/?invite=p2F2AWR0eXBlZmRpcmVjdGVzdWl0Z...

vessenesMar 20, 2026
Gosh darn it: github.com/corpollc/qntm. NOT corpo/qntm.
2001zhaozhaoMar 20, 2026
At this point the limitation is even requiring a terminal in the first place.

Claude Code daemon mode in background when?

theParadox42Mar 20, 2026
Just switch it to a background process with

Ctrl-Z $ bg

Or run it in tmux so you can pull it up on demand and have it open at startup.

athrowaway3zMar 20, 2026
I'm using `pi` as my agent and build my entire agent orchestration on like 4 skills to start / stop / capture / await a set of tmux-bash & tmux-pi sessions.

This is the first time in a few months I might actually try `claude` cli again to try out this channels scheme.

miroljubMar 20, 2026
Why not just "pi install npm:@e9n/pi-channels" ? It was there before Claude copied it.
nebben64Mar 20, 2026
people who use pi: is this stuff easy? do I just clone the repo and give SKILL.md arguments to implement features & customize ??
dbbkMar 20, 2026
They already have cloud environments you can use, though they're fragile as glass
Evan-PurkhiserMar 20, 2026
I’ve been using opencode’s server command as a systemd unit on my home server. I connect to it with the desktop and mobile client. Use it for a bunch of openclaw-esq things, but with a nicer interface.

I think CC does have “remote control” now which I think would work similar, but it’s Max only right now

GalanweMar 20, 2026
I tried various solutions around this. CloudCLI (ex claudecodeui) looked promising, but very buggy (disconnects, UI overlapping text, etc). Tried Claude Remote Control as well, but also very buggy, websocket disconnecting, UI broken.

I ended up just running Claude code in a dtach+ttyd session. Still not the best, as xterm.js has tons of issues with long scrollbacks, but it's at least somewhat _usable_.

simosmikMar 20, 2026
Hello Galanwe, CloudCLI author here. This is a fair criticism and something we are actively working on. The older versions had real issues with websocket stability and the chat ui. We shipped a pretty big refactor yesterday that should fix most the disconnects and page rendering issues. Would be worth another look if you have a few minutes.

If you hit anything else, feel free to reach out to me personally (email in my hn profile) or via the discord channel we have. Always useful hearing from people who actually tried it and ran want to make it better

SkidaddleMar 20, 2026
Happy was the best but needs some updates as I’ve started getting blocking errors now with some of the recent CC updates
ramraj07Mar 20, 2026
Start in a tmux session and let it run ?
ainchMar 20, 2026
I was a little surprised to see a Telegram integration rather than Slack or Teams, given Anthropic's enterprise-first posture. But then I looked it up, and it turns out Telegram dwarfs both, at around 1bn MAUs, vs 50m and 300m respectively! I had no idea - reminds me of the time I found out Snapchat has 2x the userbase of Twitter.
jen729wMar 20, 2026
Also, not a single one of those 300m Teams users wants to spend another minute there. Whereas people find Telegram useful and not odious.
pokegobotsMar 20, 2026
Back in the day, when I used to play pokemon go, there was a small local community and we would struggle to decide where to meet up for the daily raids because people would basically not respond (so as t not commit), or not know which gym each other meant exactly, nor give live updates when people moved around, etc. etc.

Then I joined a group from a bigger city where I commuted for work. They had a telegram group chat with two "channels", one for talking, one for bot posts. The telegram bot could be sent a single screenshot of a raid, and it would use OCR to automatically generate an interactive UI for that raid for everyone to see, with all the relevant info, and it would also clear itself up when the raid is no longer relevant. You could press buttons to say you were going, that you MAYBE were going, if you were late, and if you already started/done it, all in single clicks. Tons of options, tons of information, all live updated.

I was bedazzled. That feature singlehandedly removed all attrition from urban social gaming. And it was entirely grassroots. It made me try out making my own telegram bots, and yeah, you basically have the power to make a little app in chat form, even some that feel like CLI commands.

It's been OVER HALF A DECADE and I have yet to see a single other chat application have that degree of freedom where it comes to applications and bots. Some like discord even did whole ass 100% reworks of their bot AP to support the likes of slash commands, and still fall short. And there's none worse than Teams. Teams hates you. Teams spent the prior 2 years before this one basically pointing a gun to our heads telling us they were removing webhooks and pushing back on it whenever they repeatedly get told that's the most insane and dogshit idea ever. And they still did it. There's just no spark in Teams UX. No self-respect. It's a soulless product made entirely as a dumping place of "synergy" with other M$ products. It's reciprocal, I hate it too.

Oh and my local group never go into telegram because they didn't want a new app. It died, but I still kept playing after work without problem. It makes me wonder how fast Teams would die if it wasn't proped up by 365 and Azure subscriptions.

eruMar 20, 2026
I wonder if Teams hates you, because they are doing the bidding of their actual customers (corporate decisions makers and purse holders), and those people's interests are not exactly aligned with the users'.
nine_kMar 20, 2026
The problem is that these people holding the actual purse don't care enough about their subordinates' experience. They care about the price tag, and about compliance. Apparently the makers of Teams think about the same. None of them thinks in terms of lost productivity.
eruMar 20, 2026
Yes, compliance is a big one. And it's not so much that they are actively hostile to user productivity (and quality of life), they just don't care enough.
nozzlegearMar 20, 2026
> we would struggle to decide where to meet up for the daily raids because people would basically not respond (so as t not commit), or not know which gym each other meant exactly, nor give live updates when people moved around, etc. etc.

This kind of thing is so common in groups of people, it's one of my pet peeves. My own family does this in our group messages when trying to make big decisions like who should host thanksgiving or where we should go for a family vacation.

I make it a point to just take charge and tell people that we're doing XYZ now. It usually either results in a decision, or gets the discussion going enough that I can do it again with new information.

theKMar 20, 2026
That has roughly been my MO as well and it works great for groups where identities have settled.

But one has to keep in mind that, in our currwnt "more woke" times, if you go this way in a new group you run the risk of being labeled an array of things. So tread carefully there.

do_anh_tuMar 20, 2026
I’ve been using Telegram for about 10 years, and it’s one of the few products that has consistently felt great the entire time. It’s fast everywhere: backend, mobile app, desktop app, all of it. Everything just works. Its sync is out of this world—fluid, fast, and seamless across devices. You can use it on your phone, then move to your PC or laptop and continue instantly without friction. Unlimited message history and file storage are fantastic, and the bot platform is absurdly powerful. It’s boring in the best way, which is exactly what you want from a channel for interacting with your agents everywhere.
hallway_monitorMar 20, 2026
Since we are apparently giving messaging platform reviews here, I feel exactly the same way about Microsoft Teams. It works great. It does everything I want. It doesn’t get in my way. 10 out of 10 keep up the great work guys!
ozozozdMar 20, 2026
Username checks out?
dijitMar 20, 2026
I don’t believe you.

I would never accuse Teams of being fast.

Doesn’t seem to matter if I have an i9, a macbook m4 or a threadripper.

badc0ffeeMar 20, 2026
I only use Teams for meetings and the calendar, and the occasional chat during a meeting. I find it totally fine and I don't really think about it much one way or the other. For reference I have a 2021 M1 Max with 64 GB.
roywashereMar 20, 2026
Probably all managers and engineers working on Teams have similar copious amounts of memory and powerful CPUs on their devices and hardly use their own product. That would explain a lot
badc0ffeeMar 20, 2026
It honestly wasn't much different on my 2018 i5 Mini with 32 GB.

Maybe what sucks here is the experience of running it on Windows. Or maybe it sucks for large meetings? But I never have Teams meetings with > 40 people at this company.

gostsamoMar 20, 2026
satire is dead for when it comes home we look her in the face and cannot recognize her.
DetroitThrowMar 20, 2026
>It works great.

When it is online, I agree with things asides from the "fast" part, actually. But many companies have a secondary service for async comms/chat when being Teams cannot be online, and compared to Slack.

xeyowntMar 20, 2026
Then you must not be using it.

Teams network connectivity is a plain joke. If you use suspend, or frequently change network, the thing will just never reconnect, even though you have VPN alive and all network applications perfectly running.

And the thing is just absurbdly sluggish, only display blurred grey lines instead of text in a meager attempt to look snappy.

tim-projectsMar 20, 2026
I had a teams meeting yesterday and the entire UI disappeared so I couldn't unmute the mic. Shortcut didn't work either.

Months back I was in a meeting and the dial tone just started sounding like someone was calling me.

I face bugs like this often. It's a pos.

theshrike79Mar 20, 2026
Now try to be connected to 3 different Teams instances at the same time.
dd_xploreMar 20, 2026
I thought this was sarcastic
iktMar 20, 2026
I was like are we using the same teams app?
gf000Mar 20, 2026
Honestly can't tell if this is not sarcasm/rage bait.

Teams that has 3 different UI frameworks on every platform (but your best bet is the web)? With the Microsoft login that tends to loop forever redirecting to God knows where?

It's incomparable to telegram.

miroljubMar 20, 2026
> Since we are apparently giving messaging platform reviews here, I feel exactly the same way about Microsoft Teams. It works great. It does everything I want. It doesn’t get in my way. 10 out of 10 keep up the great work guys!

It looks like we found a high executive using company money to buy a product no one wants to use.

It's easy to promote Teams if your secretary is handling it for you and you don't need to suffer yourself.

The other possibility: Microsoft started an astroturfing campaign on HN.

tclancyMar 20, 2026
> It does everything I want.

Does it not start on your chosen platform or just not exist?

mhitzaMar 20, 2026
Everything except privacy of communication. No?
MidnightRider39Mar 20, 2026
In what way is privacy in Telegram worse than in Teams or Slack?
mhitzaMar 20, 2026
I don't know and I don't care.

The comment I replied to said all these great things about Telegram, as if it where a marketing copy, but none of the downsides.

ciexMar 20, 2026
Telegram had always impressed me for the same reasons. They have constantly gotten worse since about 2022/2023 though. Dark patterns, pay gate, they lost chat history for some of my closest contacts including 15k+ lost photos, no support at all. Something changed in their product direction and I started moving all my chats to Signal.
almostdeadguyMar 20, 2026
Odious is one of the most reserved words you could use to describe Telegram, which is primarily a host for scams that the influencers and other bottom feeders aren't allowed to monetize on the big social networks.
onair4youMar 20, 2026
My employer keeps Slack so locked down it is not really possible to use anything useful with it anyway…
snthpyMar 20, 2026
I feel the opposite. I'm on Teams all day at work and have reluctantly opened Telegram recently to try a Claw despite having an account for years.

I've been surprised how little support there has been for Teams in the whole AI ecosystem. It seems all developers assume that the whole world is at startups working on Slack when most businesses are on Microsoft 365.

xeyowntMar 20, 2026
Looking forward to seeing AI ranting about pesky bullets in Word.
weird-eye-issueMar 20, 2026
Compared to operating on text files (which is relatively very simple and something Claude Code is great for), I have a feeling it's kind of a disaster dealing with Microsoft integrations and the different file formats
theshrike79Mar 20, 2026
Just the fact how much Microsoft lies when you click the "keep me logged in" button should tell you why nobody bothers with Teams integration with anything.
dot_treoMar 20, 2026
The main reason is just how hard it is to actually create anything that integrates with Teams. You have to jump through so meany hoops, wade through so many deprecated APIs, guess through so many half-way-wrong-by-now documentation pages.

After building a proof of concept, we decided that we will only continue Teams integration if anyone is going to pay serious money for it.

revlolzMar 20, 2026
Telegram has a major issue with bots and bad actors though. They paywalled privacy features making it truly a terrible experience for users. 3-10 per day random messaging you.
rowanG077Mar 20, 2026
Can't say I have had literally anyone ever message me on telegram. And I have been a daily user for years.
OJFordMar 20, 2026
I get occasional spam - I'd guess it's because you've never joined a public group or shared your handle anywhere?
rowanG077Mar 20, 2026
I indeed never have joined a public group and never shared my handle with non-people I know.
GigachadMar 20, 2026
If you join public groups with a lot of users you end up on a bunch of spam lists and get smashed by bots.
informal007Mar 20, 2026
Maybe most of users of anthropic are individual developers over employee in tech company.

I'm really happy that they choose telegram and discord.

fragmedeMar 20, 2026
You're telling me that Anthropic, one of the hottest companies on the planet right now couldn't field four teams of developers to integrate with Discord, Slack, Telegram, and Teams? AI being such a productivity multiplier, seems like they could just choose to do it all. I mean, mythical man month and all that, but do it three times and have a retrospective and use Claude to refactor the pain points and centralize the learnings.
airstrikeMar 20, 2026
You'd be surprised....
Forgeties79Mar 20, 2026
Turns out the companies making promises don’t exemplify the results of their promises lol
whatever1Mar 20, 2026
Boris casually implements features and closes tickets the same day they are opened.
yen223Mar 20, 2026
A lot of such cases. Claude itself had (has?) fewer users than Perplexity, let alone Meta AI, Gemini or ChatGPT
MarciplanMar 20, 2026
no they definitely did not have fewer users than Perplexity xD
yen223Mar 20, 2026
I like Claude, but polling done on Americans late last year shows otherwise:

https://epoch.ai/data/polling

Overseas numbers are likely worse for Claude.

Try and ask someone not in tech what they think of Claude or Anthropic. There's a high chance they've never heard of either.

Things might have changed with Anthropic showing up at the Superbowl, and in the news over their fight with the Pentagon.

borskiMar 20, 2026
Late last year is not the timeline you want. Anthropic’s hockey stick happened earlier this year.
yen223Mar 20, 2026
Late last year was like 3 months ago.

I'm bullish on Claude. It will see a surge in users, and will likely surpass Perplexity this year. However I don't think it will catch up to even Meta AI (which had 10x the number of users) this year.

borskiMar 20, 2026
I’m aware of how long ago late 2025 was.

Anthropic’s revenue in Q1 2026 has skyrocketed.

yen223Mar 20, 2026
It's probably true that Anthropic's revenue is booming. But we need massive grains of salt:

a) they are private and revenue numbers for private companies are hopelessly unreliable, and

b) they are planning an IPO, so there's an extra incentive to big up the numbers. Anthropic always brings up ARR, which is very gameable when the year hasn't ended yet

borskiMar 20, 2026
You’re right that time will tell the end story.
tharkun__Mar 20, 2026
I use Claude. I use Codex. I've never heard of or used Meta AI. Nor do I have a Facebook account. Never have, never will.

I am also a software developer. So while the numbers of "people" that use one AI or another may be higher than either of these, it's not a useful metric for myself.

yen223Mar 20, 2026
That's fine. I'm not making a value judgement about which LLMs you should use, if any.

I'm only pushing back against someone thinking "oh HN talks about Claude a lot, therefore Claude must be extremely popular". The information bubble is a real problem.

MashimoMar 20, 2026
It's Android app is 18th place in Denmark right now. Someone must have heard about it.
magnioMar 20, 2026
Talk about a bubble. No one outside of programmers know what the heck is Claude. In Asia, ChatGPT and Gemini dominates LLM usage, followed by Perplexity.
yen223Mar 20, 2026
I suspect we're underestimating the number of users Deepseek has in Asia.
ainchMar 20, 2026
Microsoft released a report with some numbers on Deepseek adoption globally. They say it's got ~90% market share in China, and is growing in popularity across Africa.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/corporate-responsibility/top...

miki123211Mar 20, 2026
Telegram's bot API is literally one of the friendliest APIs (of any kind) I've ever seen. It's the first thing I reach for when server-to-mobile notifications are concerned.

It's just as easy to set up as ntfy.sh, except that it doesn't break every other week on iOS.

vrosasMar 20, 2026
Interesting. I set up a bunch of slack webhooks for server events that's been working decently well but maybe I'll look at telegram.
theshrike79Mar 20, 2026
Slack (and Discord) webhooks are good for just shooting one-sided data into channels, but for interactive bots Telegram is so far ahead of anyone else it's crazy.

Signal specifically is missing any kind of official bot support, cutting off massive audiences from even considering it as an option.

ttulMar 20, 2026
This is so true. I don’t like Telegram for a host of reasons, but the bot architecture is second to none. Try creating a bot in Slack. You’ll pull your hair out for hours. Same goes for Discord. Utter nightmare. Telegram? You send a DM and it is basically done.
baqMar 20, 2026
Discord webhooks aren’t too bad… but the proper bot thing is ridiculous. They really lack a development mode server, having to know everything about oauth and token permissions before even starting is bonkers and why do I even need an app is beyond me. I’d probably have my bot completely implemented in telegram in the same time I figured out what an app is in discord and how to even add a new app to my server.
lxgrMar 20, 2026
Unfortunately, Telegram is also a no-go from a security/data privacy perspective for many use cases.
karlitoooMar 20, 2026
Surprisingly large number of businesses run on whatsapp, as a consultant in Asia it's prob around half the businesses I've worked with prefer it over teams/slack. If Meta had been sensible about API access Telegram wouldn't have even got a foothold.
tmatsuzakiMar 20, 2026
WhatsApp is actually more popular than Slack, isn’t it? In my country, almost everyone uses Slack, and I’ve hardly ever heard of any companies using WhatsApp, so that was surprising to me.
yen223Mar 20, 2026
WhatsApp is more popular than Slack, Teams and Telegram combined. WhatsApp has something like 2-3 billion users worldwide

WhatsApp vs Slack + Teams is a bit of an apples to oranges comparison though.

tmatsuzakiMar 20, 2026
Living in Japan has made me realize how different cultures can be — even down to the apps and services people use. It honestly surprises me, and now I kind of want to try WhatsApp too.
benhurmarcelMar 20, 2026
Honestly Whatsapp is nothing special. It works well, just like many other chat apps nowadays. The interest is that in some large parts of the world, everyone uses it already.
kelvinjps10Mar 20, 2026
The only thing it's that creating bots for whatsapp it's not as easy as for telegram and it cost money. Actually that is the business plan for whatsapp making money from whatsapp business
tmatsuzakiMar 20, 2026
Interesting. I’m an engineer, so how easy it is to use and how much it costs both matter a lot to me.
ramraj07Mar 20, 2026
What country is it? Surprised someone on tech even asks this question
mtkdMar 20, 2026
Getting an agent working via an existing Slack setup is fairly effortless and the control over output format is useful

I had a look at getting same agent up in WhatsApp but it seems to need FB business acc to even start process, to get FB business you need an FB personal etc. ... looked like too much effort

senectus1Mar 20, 2026
south america and africa are both heavily invested in whatsapp in the business space.
arjieMar 20, 2026
Telegram has the best programmatic integration. Trivial to get working. You can be up and running in minutes. I use it to talk to a claw-style agent and it's truly unbelievable what you get for free.
zerktenMar 20, 2026
One issue is that 95% of the integrations will be fine with the default configuration. The others including some with high profit potential will have weird configs that will frustrate your customers the first time they try if not well tested/documented. It's better to take time and get it right. Enterprise customers love piloting and spending time, so best to approach that the right way too. Going with less complex options, that arguably have better APIs, makes it easier to develop your core product too and get real feedback from users.
kelvinjps10Mar 20, 2026
I think it might because telegram integration it's just easy to do, I don't use telegram for actually messaging, I use it just to deploy my bots, it's a simple way to build simple tools, in a few lines you can get something working, you can have commands that work like buttons, accept images, respond with images and don't need anything else than your telegram account
beoberhaMar 20, 2026
Spend 5 minutes looking up how to make a chat bot and be amazed how Telegram is really the only option. I was dumbfounded when rolling my own agent.

iMessage is proprietary. WhatsApp charges you. Unofficial APIs exist, sure, but not my cup of tea.

Then you have Discord or Slack, which are pretty heavyweight when all you want is a simple chat interface.

Telegram makes it SO easy. Bots are first class resources on Telegram and they make them so easy to use.

sroerickMar 20, 2026
XMPP is working pretty well for me
moosteeMar 20, 2026
Twitter is shockingly irrelevant given how much it gets mentioned.
theshrike79Mar 20, 2026
Twitter put all normal fun bots out of business with their API changes, that's about it.
ACCount37Mar 20, 2026
Telegram is more popular among "normal people", and it also has a laissez-faire attitude towards bots and bot development. Making a bot that you, or even other people, could add to their contact list and use is pretty easy.

It's wild, but "people who want to build and run their own one-off bot for something like home automation" are almost treated by Telegram like first class citizens.

miroljubMar 20, 2026
It's not even funny how a multibillion-dollar company with thousands of employees having unlimited access to the "world's best coding models" lags behind a small one-man [1] open source project that already had multiple plugins for the same feature [2] for months.

Pi already has 700+ third-party packages [2] for various purposes of various quality. But it doesn't matter, since creating a new working Pi extension to suit your needs is just a prompt away, and you don't even have to restart your coding session.

[1] Pi Coding Agent https://pi.dev [2] https://www.npmjs.com/package/@e9n/pi-channels [3] https://pi.dev/packages

elAhmoMar 20, 2026
Apples and oranges comparison, one is a messaging app, the other two are used for communication and collaboration across teams in a workspace. I have worked in 5+ companies who used either Slack and Teams, none used Telegram for any comms.

Telegram is 'bot friendly' since the beginning, gaining a lot of users with crypto boom a decade ago with coin drops and things like that, so it is very good to develop for, but I have your initial sentiment first - shame this hasn't launched with tools people actually use for work.

And no, Discord is not used for that either.

paxysMar 20, 2026
Not really a meaningful comparison. Telegram is a personal messenger while Slack and Teams are for work. Telegram should be put alongside WhatsApp, iMessage, WeChat etc., which all have user bases in the billions.
informal007Mar 20, 2026
Really surprised for the frequent innovation of Anthropic
kgwgkMar 20, 2026
For a suitable value of “innovation”.
bpodgurskyMar 20, 2026
The software is essentially writing itself.
subpixelMar 20, 2026
This is exactly what I planned to figure out how to do: maintain an instance of Claude that can accept triggers that become tasks.
killme2008Mar 20, 2026
Claude caught up pretty quickly. I think OpenClaw’s core value is the channel, heartbeat, and the open-source ecosystem.
sanexMar 20, 2026
And unfortunately I think hearbeats are a little cost prohibitive. I burn through my plus plan with half hour cadence heartbeats checking email.
djeastmMar 20, 2026
Heartbeat should be set to be a cheaper model.
theshrike79Mar 20, 2026
All *Claw implementations should use a local model for heartbeat, it doesn't need to do anything complex, pretty much just read a text file and do a true/false decision if there's something in there to do when it wakes up.

If so, it can either just shove the full heartbeat file to a smarter model or try to intelligently spread the tasks to the correct models.

operatingthetanMar 20, 2026
I would rather they build something similar to openclaw than all these individual features that replicate functionality.
gusmallyMar 20, 2026
Maybe it's less risk for them to offer the individual features. That way if people get inadvertent results, it's easier to blame the user, not the tool/company
tekacsMar 20, 2026
I mean you can just use /loop in both Claude Code and Codex for heartbeats.
awwaiidMar 20, 2026
Yes -- this is getting very close to ClaudeClaw. Next they'll offer cloud hosting of persistent execution.
lxgrMar 20, 2026
OpenClaw's core achievement is that it was first, and that's not a moat.

The code/product itself is an absolute nightmare of overengineering, riddled with bugs and undocumented behavior changes across versions.

luckydataMar 20, 2026
finally! I'm building an app that's essentially a "sidecar" to an llm subscription and works via mcp and has a web ui to make reviewing deliverables easier, uses the user's subscription for intelligence instead of requiring to pay for tokens inside the app. The problem until now is I couldn't trigger AI work from the web ui, that limitation will be soon gone, it fixes a huge ux issue for me, I honestly thought it would happen sooner but I'm glad the industry is catching up.
vicchenaiMar 20, 2026
been running something similar with openclaw for a while now - github webhooks triggering code review, slack messages kicking off tasks, etc. nice to see anthropic building this natively into claude code. the telegram/discord support is a smart call too, way more devs hang out there than people realize.
zerdMar 20, 2026
I was making a telegram to Claude via tmux capture-pane and send-keys, this will be so much nicer. Also sounds like something that addresses some of what Steve Yegge said was missing for agent to agent communication as well.
TIPSIOMar 20, 2026
This was my setup exactly, I open sourced a framework of it a while ago:

- https://clappie.ai

Plus it gives a little ASCII dog to Claude Code terminal.

The ability to spawn independent CLI is awesome. No brainer they would add eventually between the great threaded functionality it brings and is essentially a more controlled version of OpenClaw IMO

jasonjmcgheeMar 20, 2026
This isn't quite as good unfortunately- you can't accept / deny permissions prompts.

Maybe there should be a Claude code that facilitates others that is connected. Like sub agents but can "choose what to do" on permissions check.

Or some other means to listen for permissions check

ed_mercerMar 20, 2026
I don't understand how this can be economically viable. If this takes off, it will allow businesses to use openclaw-like functionality at non-api prices (pro, max).
tpt2Mar 20, 2026
Do you know for sure if the pro / max plans are unprofitable at full usage? I did a brief back of the envelope calculation for minimax m2.5 comparing its api pricing to my token usage on a full quota max 20x Claude plan, it worked out around 260 ish which assuming some margin would put the Claude max around breakeven.
CuriouslyCMar 20, 2026
Anthropic previously shared that they make ~60% margin on API access. So they're losing money on plan whales.
levocardiaMar 20, 2026
It doesn't matter if they are unprofitable at full usage, as long as there are enough users (like me!) who barely ever max out but still pay the $100/month. The people who love Claude Code enough to max out the 20x plan every day, that's probably the best influencer marketing campaign you could ever buy anyways.
aantixMar 20, 2026
Imagine if they were able to support iMessage.
miki_oomiriMar 20, 2026
Bluebubble is the way to go for this.

I've created an iCloud account for my llm. On my Mac, I created another user account, not an admin, just regular. Linked to the iCloud account. Installed Bluebubble.

And now I can chat with my AI via iMessage, via my Apple watch, or my homepods. It works beautifully.

SkidaddleMar 20, 2026
Can you give an example of why this is better than the iOS Claude app?
_pdp_Mar 20, 2026
Very cool!

However, once remote capabilities are added to any software, it is virtually guaranteed that they will eventually be exploited as backdoors.

This means enterprise security solutions will need to develop the capability to distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate Claude Code instances.

random17Mar 20, 2026
I've been looking to build something similar to this so this is very timely!

What I wanted to build is a way for Claude Code to automatically receive reviews and CP failures from a Github PR and automatically revise code and respond to comments. It looks like with a custom Github PR channel I can get very close to this, although I do wish that a channel can be opened in a running session instead of having to create a new one. Hopefully they add that soon.

t0mas88Mar 20, 2026
I did this for Forgejo, now adding Gitlab and planning Github as well: https://github.com/smithy-ai/smithy-ai

It runs Claude in docker containers, listens for webhooks to see comments and CI status.

ftchdMar 20, 2026
we have OpenClaw at home

(and it may be better)

dbbkMar 20, 2026
It would have surely taken less time to just set up notifications for the Claude Code app? Are they ever going to do this? It's baffling to me that they're just skipping over letting you know when a task is completed... this is basic stuff.
gondoMar 20, 2026
What notifications are you missing specifically?

Personally I’m receiving native macOS notifications from Claude (both the app and the CLI), and there’s also the hook system, which you can script to send even more custom notifications.

What am I missing?

dbbkMar 20, 2026
Anything to do with Code. Not on Mac or iOS, and not with local sessions or cloud sessions. Normal Claude chats send notifications fine.
justechMar 20, 2026
Do you have notifications turned on for your terminal app? I never received notifications from Claude Code until I moved to a new machine and remember explicitly allowing notifications from Ghostty.
dbbkMar 20, 2026
I’m talking about server side push
fzzzyMar 20, 2026
They appear to get turned on but then just never work on iOS for me. Hooks work fine, I use it to get a beep.
_betty_Mar 20, 2026
isn't that a completely different use case? messages to Claude from other sources vs from Claude when it's finished?

hooks can already alert you and have flexibility

procinctMar 20, 2026
This already exists for me on iOS? Maybe check your notification settings?
dbbkMar 20, 2026
I’ve tried everything. Regular Claude chats notify me fine, but nothing from Code - neither a cloud session or remote control.
girvoMar 20, 2026
I had to setup a hook with terminal-notifier to get it to work myself
fragmedeMar 20, 2026
that already exists
dbbkMar 20, 2026
Not for me
antiframeMar 20, 2026
It doesn't make sense that it's implemented for others but not for you. What platform are you running on? I have notifications on my Linux laptop and Linux desktop. But I did have to turn them on.
planckscnstMar 20, 2026
I'm using Fedora with KDE and I haven't seen any notifications and had no idea it did this. I'll see if I can figure out what's going on in my system and maybe it will help other people.
antiframeMar 20, 2026
I asked Claude to set up notifications for itself and it did. It wasn't on by default. Claude edited some config file. For simplicity I had it play some audio file, not a KDE toast, since I mostly cared if I wasn't looking as that machine. I am also on Fedora KDE.
dbbkMar 20, 2026
I’m talking about server side push
anthonySsMar 20, 2026
at this point anthropic is dogfooding us a new product every week just to see what might stick - doubt a lot of the features/products they've rolled out will actually be around or supported in a year
rzmmmMar 20, 2026
They are doing experiments and seeing what takes off.
vrosasMar 20, 2026
I also get the impression this is way more complicated than it needs to be. Or maybe it's simple and they keep inventing new terminology for stuff that basically already exists. The crypto bros did the same shit. Like, bidirectional communication has been a thing for decades. We're just changing what we call the client and the server? And the protocol is just strings the bot on the other end is a little better at reading?
owenthejumperMar 20, 2026
Claw-ification
rubslopesMar 20, 2026
Carcinisation
sidgtmMar 20, 2026
It’s quite basic if I am using it correctly! It expects certain commands to be still approved on main machine.
pdrojackMar 20, 2026
You can remove the requirements for specific commands in settings.json, or run claude with the --dangerously-skip-permissions flag. It's dangerous tho.
wewewedxfgdfMar 20, 2026
I enabled the github connector in claude web interface.

I presumed Claude would then be able to clone repos, make commits, update the code in its container and then write it back to github.

Instead, the github connector does ..... nothing it all. It's very weird.

fzzzyMar 20, 2026
It can do all those things from the claude code web version.
wewewedxfgdfMar 20, 2026
Quote:

"i enabled github connector can you see it?"

Answer: "I don't see a GitHub connector in the available integrations. The search only returned a Microsoft Learn connector (not connected). It's possible the connector hasn't fully activated yet, or it may not be available in your current setup. Could you double-check in Settings → Integrations that it shows as connected?"

Multiple such checks and re-setups do nothing.

fzzzyMar 20, 2026
It doesn't work that way. When you start a new claude code session, you choose a GitHub repo, and it will automatically create a branch and push over the course of the session.

It's not an actual MCP. It's just built into the UI.

Anthropic has a lot of stuff that's way more difficult to use because of bad UI, spread over lots of different places.

anamexisMar 20, 2026
Claude Code Web does all of those things for me with the GitHub connector enabled. I did have a lot of song and dance to get the permissions right though.
jimmydoeMar 20, 2026
My gh connnector half works in cc web. It clones ok but cant see gh comments.
bakiesMar 20, 2026
Use GITHUB_TOKEN env var to give it gh access with the CLI. Or is gh not installed?
wewewedxfgdfMar 20, 2026
I'm using the web UI and its container.
jon-woodMar 20, 2026
Claude Code Web uses the Github connector to check out repositories, make commits to them, and open a PR. Unfortunately that's about all it can do with it currently, I was working with it the other day and found it somewhat disappointing that it can't read and reply to PR comments as that would be a really natural way to handle refining the code that's been written.

I tried getting it to use the `gh` CLI to do so but it either doesn't have the right permissions on its token or the requests are being intercepted and filtered by the sandbox it's in. I eventually dumped all the comments as JSON from my desktop and pasted it in at which point it handled them fine so it's certainly capable of working that way.

mbergMar 20, 2026
I just created agent-http that leverages the channels feature to enable you to wrap claude code with a http api. This provides an identical API to Agent API (https://github.com/coder/agentapi) that relies on terminal scraping to achieve this. Now you can interact with claude code in a headless manner using your subscription. Previously I think you had to do this via the Agents SDK which relies on api token use.
sunnybeetrootMar 20, 2026
Mind sharing a link?
mbergMar 20, 2026
bronco21016Mar 20, 2026
Does anyone else have issues opening Claude.com domains on iOS? It’s infuriating I can never open documentation or the usage page or account management portal on iOS on Safari. Works fine on a laptop. Mac, Windows, or Linux.
nlawalkerMar 20, 2026
It’s going to be fascinating to see what kinds of malicious execution and exfiltration this enables.
ericlevineMar 20, 2026
This is fantastic. There are a ton of use cases where you'd want to be able to build an integration that hooks back to your running agent session. OpenClaw has this today, but it's pretty janky. Hopefully this is coming to Claude Cowork as well.

My use case is that I have a separate system that provides human approvals for what my agent can do. Right now, I've had to resort to long-polling to give a halfway decent user experience. But webhooks are clearly the right solution. Curious to see how it ends up being exposed outside of these initial integrations.

sneakMar 20, 2026
The convenient thing about using Claude via Telegram is that you can provide all of your private and proprietary information to US intelligence and Russian intelligence at the same time. (Telegram is not end to end encrypted.)
pdrojackMar 20, 2026
Ahh, the AGI, Artificial General Intelligence for all parties.
gf000Mar 20, 2026
> Telegram is not end to end encrypted.

By default. It can be enabled though on a per conversation basis.

lxgrMar 20, 2026
For bots?
bilekasMar 20, 2026
Just as I started to move away from events.
pdrojackMar 20, 2026
Lol made the same thing using claude earlier: https://www.viahuman.xyz/ They are gonna implement everything, aren't they?
resoniousMar 20, 2026
This is the first time I've seen MCP's push capabilities come in handy. I'm not much of an MCP nerd though so I don't know much. But when I read the spec it looked extremely over engineered partly because of the 2 way nature of it.
tekacsMar 20, 2026
Unfortunately, we're all stuck moving at the speed of the model labs because of the subscription models that they've provided.

The rest of us were able to implement things like push a long time ago, but because Claude Code and Codex stubbed those things out, we couldn't really use them for 'most agent users'.

In fairness to OpenAI, they have been generous in allowing for example OpenCode to sign in with your ChatGPT subscription – so you _could_ build a more powerful agent (which OpenCode is... not) – but unfortunately GPTs' instruction following just isn't up to snuff yet. Hopefully they pre-train something amazing this year!

crashabrMar 20, 2026
Honestly not sure what I would be using this for when there's Claude remote control? Is it because you can script the telegram bot to send messages at regular intervals? But Claude has a /loop as well, so I'm still confused.
GalanweMar 20, 2026
Remote Control is buggy a hell, the websocket keeps disconnecting every 10 minutes. And the UI is unusable on mobile.
jon-woodMar 20, 2026
The Telegram bot is just an example (and I guess a subtle jab at Openclaw, which people tend to use via Telegram). Personally I'm hoping to set this up so it can receive Github webhooks when a pull request opened by Claude Code receives comments.
xngbuildsMar 20, 2026
You can't send an image for example from Claude iOS app to remote control session. With this new channels the attachment you send from Telegram bot is saved into your local Telegram inbox folder ready for you to process.
rcarmoMar 20, 2026
I’m struggling with how useful this is in an enterprise setting where a security team will be at least slightly annoyed at devs hooking into their personal machines via untrusted chat… but OK, I guess. Myself, I have pretty dropped WhatsApp support in https://github.com/rcarmo/piclaw and have made sure its auditable through a proxy…
shoMar 20, 2026
Nice, i've been waiting for this capability to show up. I've added support to my side project llmsg.com, here's a video of it in action https://x.com/sho/status/2034898928618152412
vanillameowMar 20, 2026
I am not sure how I feel about all these hype-driven tools honestly, especially considering they are super janky since probably rushed out with Claude Code.

It reminds me that I don't really like Anthropic as a company, I just like Claude as a model a lot. It just feels more capable and personable than the others. I wonder if / when OpenAI et al. will be able to replicate it.

For now, I basically have no choice but to use the walled garden but I do hope Anthropic is not completely compromising their core mission of actually making the model better rather than following these public bandwagons.

Then again most of these probably take them like a day to develop through a junior dev talking to Claude Opus 5 or some shit lol (and to be fair, it shows). I don't know.

loaderchipsMar 20, 2026
Very well put. I love Claude but anthtopic as a company sucks.
alexovchMar 20, 2026
This is one of those features that sounds small but actually changes how you structure things.

Not having to restart or rebuild context every time makes a big difference once systems get more stateful.

tomasz-tomczykMar 20, 2026
I like it but it's one conversation at a time, no ability to manually compact the chat... I guess it's an early version still.
jasonjmcgheeMar 20, 2026
I don't see this said anywhere - maybe I missed it. Why is it only one conversation at a time?

Couldn't you have multiple sessions using different plugins or whatever?

tomasz-tomczykMar 20, 2026
Well, it's one conversation per bot. I set it up, connected the channel. DM'd it (only way to converse with it - wish I could have a Discord channel per project, different CWDs etc...) and asked what happens when I start 2 claude sessions connected to the channel and it said it'll just work with one.

Suppose you could have multiple bots, but it looks like it only supports one bot token anyway.

jon-woodMar 20, 2026
This is an API designed to build connectors, there's absolutely nothing preventing you from building one that connects to Discord and listens to a different channel for each instance.
jasonjmcgheeMar 20, 2026
I think they gave two sample implementations to demonstrate it.

I'm guessing their expecting the community to run with it

zknillMar 20, 2026
This is actually great for *claws. When Anthropic changed their T&Cs to disallow using claude code oauth tokens in the Anthropic Agent SDK, you had a choice between violate the terms or pay a lot more for the model inference using an API key from platform.claude.com instead of claude.ai.

With this change, it looks like an officially sanctioned version of *claws. Connecting to whatever "channels" you want via MCP.

Architecturally it's a little different, most *claws would call the Agent SDK from some orchestrator, but with claude channels the claude code binary starts the MCP server used to communicate with the channel. So it's a full inversion of control where Claude code is the driver, instead of your orchestrator code.

I updated my nanoclaw fork to start the claude code binary in a docker container on PID 1, and you can read the docker logs straight from claude code stdout, but with comms directly to/from your channel of choice. It's pretty neat.

aimarketintelMar 20, 2026
Channels are a natural fit for real-time data pipelines. I've been building MCP servers that push structured data from multiple sources (news feeds, social media, academic papers) into AI agent sessions.

The pattern that works well: have the MCP server query sources in parallel, then use channels to stream results as they arrive rather than waiting for all sources to complete. For market research, this means the agent can start analyzing Wikipedia and Google News data while arXiv and GitHub queries are still running.

One thing I'd love to see is channel multiplexing — being able to label different data streams so the agent can prioritize which channel to process first.

JumpingVPN2027Mar 20, 2026
This is an interesting direction.

Pushing events into an already running session feels like a step toward decoupling execution from transport state.

I've been thinking along similar lines — where a session continues to exist independently, and transports are just interchangeable carriers attached to it.

swahMar 20, 2026
I could not answer yes/no over Telegram so this makes no sense. Why is this gigantic company shipping these vibe coded changes to quickly and partially?
nebben64Mar 20, 2026
I was reading through CC MCPs docs ... MCP Notifications kind of did this right? The server/client could update each other automatically. So there was already this channel-like communication.

This is like that but instead of the server/client sending messages it's you.

fogzenMar 20, 2026
Tailscale + tmux + Moshi. You're welcome.