Claude Code Channels adds Discord, Telegram, custom apps

This feels less like a chat integration and more like a control plane for a persistent Claude Code session.

• –Messaging apps become lightweight front ends for the same agent, which makes handoffs and async collaboration far less clunky than a terminal-only flow.
• –The custom app demo matters because chat, file browsing, and docs turn the session into a real workspace, not just a bot bridge.
• –If Anthropic keeps the permission and identity model tight, this could become the default way teams supervise long-running Claude Code jobs from phones and chat tools.
• –It also fits Anthropic's broader "work where you work" strategy already visible in Slack, mobile remote control, and desktop extensions.