A while back I realized OpenClaw was Claude Code in a trenchcoat, except that Claude Code is pretty good at extending itself without breaking itself. (Note: haven't used OC since February, maybe it's solid and reliable now.)

Of course, being reliable and reliably extensible is the whole point, which means Claude Code made a better OC than OC did! I found this very amusing for some reason.

Also you can put it (or your agent of choice, e.g. codex works too) in a Telegram bot in like 50 lines of code which is a lot of fun.

https://github.com/a-n-d-a-i/ULTRON/blob/main/src/index.ts

Though this might get you banned from Anthropic, they haven't quite clarified that yet. (Ostensibly it defaults to extra usage now, but who knows.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47852834

... this (Telegram, etc. integration) is what CC's Channels feature is for:

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/channels

It's... fine. A bit half-baked like a lot of CC features right now.