Channels
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What is Channels?
To use Claude Code with mobile apps through channels, you install a pre-built channel plugin for your messaging platform, like Telegram, Discord, or iMessage. The plugin runs locally on your computer and polls the platform's API for new messages. When someone sends you a message on the mobile app, the plugin receives it and forwards it to Claude Code, which can then read and respond. You configure the plugin in your MCP config file, and Claude Code spawns it automatically. The plugin acts as a bridge between the mobile app and Claude Code, so you can chat with Claude through your phone without exposing any URLs to the internet.
Free resources to learn Channels
- Official docsPush events into a running session with channels
- Official docsChannels reference
- VideoClaude Code Channels in 8 Minutes
More in stage 2: Ways to use Claude
Channels: common questions
Can I learn Channels in Hindi?
This lesson is written in English. Once you sign in, open it in the interactive course and ask the AI tutor to explain Channels in Hindi or Hinglish. The tutor answers from this lesson’s own text, so it stays on the syllabus, and it runs on your own Google, OpenAI or Anthropic key.
Is this Channels tutorial for beginners?
It is lesson 10 of 109 in the free Claude Code roadmap, in stage 2, Ways to use Claude. If you are new to Claude Code, start from stage 1 and come back here in order; if you already know the earlier stages, this lesson stands on its own.