Remote Slop with Claude Code

In my last post on agentic workflows , I talked about workflow engineering — how the pipeline you design around AI matters more than the AI itself. I built a book inventory app that way. Skills, OpenSpecs, beads, parallel agents in tmux. It worked great. But there was an asterisk I didn't mention: I was sitting at my desk the whole time. What happens when you're not? The Setup Claude Code recently got a Telegram integration. The idea is simple: you control Claude Code from your phone through a Telegram bot. Same skills, same workflow, same project — different interface. If you've used the plugin system at all, setup is straightforward. Documentation walks you through it, you're chatting with your agent in minutes. In fact, as of today, Anthropic officially shipped this as Claude Code Channels — a plugin-based feature that lets you push messages from Telegram or Discord into a running Claude Code session on your machine. Your session processes the request with full filesystem, MCP, and