GoKawiilUse channels to push messages, alerts, and webhooks into your Claude Code session from an MCP server. Forward CI results, chat messages, and monitoring events so Claude can react while you’re away.
Channels are in research preview and require Claude Code v2.1.80 or later. They require claude.ai login. Console and API key authentication is not supported. Team and Enterprise organizations must explicitly enable them
A channel is an MCP server that pushes events into your running Claude Code session, so Claude can react to things that happen while you’re not at the terminal. Channels can be two-way: Claude reads the event and replies back through the same channel, like a chat bridge. Events only arrive while the session is open, so for an always-on setup you run Claude in a background process or persistent terminal.
You install a channel as a plugin and configure it with your own credentials. Telegram and Discord are included in the research preview.
When Claude replies through a channel, you see the inbound message in your terminal but not the reply text. The terminal shows the tool call and a confirmation (like “sent”), and the actual reply appears on the other platform.
This page covers:
To build your own channel, see the Channels reference
Supported channels
Each supported channel is a plugin that requires Bun . For a hands-on demo of the plugin flow before connecting a real platform, try the fakechat quickstart
Telegram
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