Anthropic recently added “channels” to Claude Code that lets you connect Claude Code to messaging services. Delta Chat is obviously the best way to talk to your AI because of encryption, the simple setup, and of course webXDC apps!
Claude is also amazing at making webXDC apps in a single or few shots and I even included a couple of built in WebXDC apps to make working with Claude on your phone easier. Hopefully one thing that AI coding will be good at is making a lot more webXDC apps and more bots!
DeltaChat is so much better for this use case than Telegram, Discord, or iMessage. If you use Claude Code, give it a try please. I’d love your feedback, PRs, and bug reports.
Thanks!
PS I also have an openclaw connector that does the same thing….
super cool, and indeed, Delta Chat is probably the best match chat app for such use case since you have super easy account creation for bots, can use your bots anonymously without having to use any phone number or private data at all and in-chat mini-apps give you infinite possibilities for expansion and customization when you need some UI to interact with your AI that the host chat app doesn’t offer
Here is my openclaw experiment if this is useful to you.
https://github.com/jhayashi/dcbot
I got it working for myself, but I decided that I wasn’t a fan of openclaw and have since taken down my openclaw setup. This implementation doesn’t have any webXDC apps, the tutorial setup, or the sub-agent stuff I’m working on for the cc connector.
I may come back to this if there is interest though. So many of the ways to chat with your “claw” agent are surprisingly bad…. Delta Chat definitely has the best ingredients if you are going to chat with your agent (e2e encryption, setup, webXDC). I think AI + chat bots + webXDC is actually kind of the cutting edge of what people are trying to do right now in the personal agent / claw space. Hopefully we’ll see a boost to DC as a result!
Ok, I switched over to a sub-agent architecture in the recent release which provides context isolation and configurable agents that don’t block each other. So this is head and shoulders better than other chat channels for Claude Code. You can actually use it to build on the phone. I need to have some folks try it out so I can submit it to the Claude Code marketplace officially. So if you use Claude Code and Delta Chat, please give it a whirl. Will circle back to OpenClaw next.
I have private, local (whisper) voice transcription working in a branch. You can send Claude a voice recording and it will transcribe it and act on it just like the claude code terminal feature.
I am also formalizing a webXDC convention where claude is the “server" for a webXDC app. I am calling this a “familiar" app where you can have both deterministic and LLM actions on the other end of a webXDC UI. This creates new possibilities for webXDC and also gives deltachat a leg up for this use case. All the other chat with AI interfaces either lack privacy or have serious CX limitations or are a bigco platform or in some cases have all of these deficiencies.