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DimensionCall.mdTurn meetings into live agent loopsWhatsApp Channel for Claude CodeDrive your Claude Code session straight from WhatsApp
FMRS20 / 100 · D64 / 100 · C
Reliability2 / 2010 / 20
Security and permissions5 / 2012 / 20
Maintenance4 / 2012 / 20
Documentation5 / 2016 / 20
Setup experience4 / 2014 / 20
Best for
  • Professionals who attend frequent meetings and need real-time assistance and automation
  • Teams looking to automate meeting documentation and follow-up actions
  • Individuals and teams who want to integrate meeting data into workflows like n8n, Zapier, or CRMs
  • Individuals who want to talk to Claude from their personal WhatsApp number
  • Developers comfortable configuring from a terminal and using the Claude Code development flag
  • Automation scenarios needing remote tool approval from a phone
Not for
  • Simple note-taking without need for real-time AI assistance
  • Organizations requiring fully offline operation (requires internet)
  • Users seeking an open-source, self-hosted solution (license unknown)
  • Compliance scenarios requiring the official WhatsApp Business API or a Meta developer account
  • Teams needing officially hosted, multi-tenant, or cloud multi-instance deployment
  • Environments unable to guarantee only one client instance at a time
  • Users expecting voice transcription without setting up mlx-whisper themselves
Required permissions
  • Microphone access for recording
  • Screen recording access for screen capture
  • VideoDB API key (requires internet)
  • Read and send WhatsApp messages as your personal number
  • Access the local runtime state directory ~/.whatsapp-channel/ (auth, allowlists, group configs, inbox)
  • Read and write local repository files and run scripts (e.g. bun scripts/access.ts, scripts/watchdog.sh)
  • Optional local voice transcription (ffmpeg and an mlx-whisper environment)
Risks and side effects
  • Requires internet connectivity for transcription and AI features
  • Data may be transmitted to VideoDB, posing privacy concerns
  • Early-stage application, may have bugs or feature limitations
  • Requires system permissions, which could be a security concern if mishandled
  • Messages Claude sends appear from your own number and are indistinguishable to recipients
  • WhatsApp allows one linked-device session per account; running two servers makes them kick each other off
  • Access-control commands are deliberately not MCP tools (terminal-only); exposing them to the message side risks prompt injection
  • Session waking depends on the Claude Code channel extension; other clients get no push
  • A known Claude Code client bug (#37933) may cause messages not to arrive, a client-side issue
  • Launching with --dangerously-load-development-channels carries risk, so verify the source is trustworthy
Supported clientsClaude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor
Tools010