Claude Code Channels — Anthropic Just Made AI Agents Event-Driven

Up until last week, every interaction you had with an AI coding agent started the same way: you opened a terminal, typed a prompt, and waited. The agent did its thing. You came back. It was transactional — ask, receive, repeat. That model has served us reasonably well, but it's been holding back a more powerful pattern. Anthropic just changed that with Claude Code Channels , a new feature that turns Claude Code from a command-driven assistant into an event-reactive agent — one that can wake up when CI fails, respond to a message from your phone at 2am, and notify you when a long-running task finishes. All without you sitting in front of a terminal. This is the event-driven architecture pattern showing up in AI tooling, and it's a much bigger shift than it sounds. What Claude Code Channels Actually Does Channels is a plugin system that bridges Claude Code — running locally or on a remote server — to external messaging platforms. Currently, Telegram, Discord, and a local Fakechat plugin