How to control Claude Code from Telegram, Discord, or Slack (self-hosted, open source)

My workflow broke the moment I stepped away from my desk. I had Claude Code running a large refactor. Left to grab lunch. By the time I came back, it had hit a permission prompt and been sitting idle for 15 minutes, waiting for me to press "yes" on a machine I wasn't at. That's why I started contributing to OpenACP . The problem Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex - these tools are powerful but they assume you're sitting at your terminal. The moment you're on your phone or away from your desk, you lose visibility and control. The workarounds people try: SSH into a tmux session (fragile on mobile), set up a VPN and remote desktop (slow), or just hope the agent doesn't get stuck. None of these are actually good. What I wanted: send a message from Telegram, see the agent's tool calls streaming in real time, and approve or deny actions from my phone. What OpenACP does OpenACP is a self-hosted bridge between your messaging platform and your AI coding agent. It uses the Agent Client Protocol (ACP