{"id":16985,"date":"2026-08-04T21:09:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T04:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16985"},"modified":"2026-07-19T21:17:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T04:17:50","slug":"dont-use-openclaw-use-claude-code-channels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16985","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t use OpenClaw, use Claude Code Channels"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/code.claude.com\/docs\/en\/channels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Claude Code Channels<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0is quickly becoming a practical alternative to\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/openclaw.ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">OpenClaw<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0for people who want to connect Claude to chat platforms without setting up a heavier agent framework. It is simpler to get running, works with a Claude subscription out of the box, and gives you a straightforward way to interact with a local Claude Code session through Discord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You need to start Claude command line, then install the official Claude channels <a href=\"https:\/\/bun.sh\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/bun.sh\/\">Bum plugin<\/a>. You can then start Claude and run \/plugin marketplace commands to install plugins for Discord and other applications. Set up some authentication keys, and then restart for access.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can see how to set up Claude Code Channels and connect Claude code to Discord <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kdnuggets.com\/how-to-set-up-claude-code-channels-locally\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.kdnuggets.com\/how-to-set-up-claude-code-channels-locally\">using this article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claude Code Channels\u00a0is quickly becoming a practical alternative to\u00a0OpenClaw\u00a0for people who want to connect Claude to chat platforms without setting up a heavier agent framework. It is simpler to get running, works with a Claude subscription out of the box, and gives you a straightforward way to interact with a local Claude Code session through Discord. You need to start Claude command line, then install the official Claude channels Bum plugin. You can then start Claude and run \/plugin marketplace&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16985\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-4pX","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16986,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16985\/revisions\/16986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}