Control Claude Code from Telegram — Hermes IDE Just Made It a Checkbox

You fire off a build before heading out. Twenty minutes later, you're in line at a coffee shop, wondering if it passed. You could SSH in, but that's a pain. You could wait until you're back at your desk, but that kills the flow. What if you could just... message your IDE? That's exactly what the new Telegram Channels feature in Hermes IDE makes possible — and it takes one checkbox to enable. What is Hermes IDE? Hermes IDE is a free, open-source AI-powered shell wrapper that acts as a unified launcher for AI coding agents: Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Aider, OpenAI Codex, and GitHub Copilot. Instead of juggling terminal windows and flags, you get a clean TUI session manager with project context, hotkeys, and now — external channel support. GitHub: hermes-hq/hermes-ide The New Feature: Telegram Channels Anthropic released Claude Code Channels on March 20, 2026 — a plugin system that lets Claude Code receive and respond to messages from external services like Telegram and Discord while a sess