Claude Dispatch Just Dropped, And It Kills OpenClaw

Enthropic just shipped a feature called claw dispatch which lets you essentially run and manage an AI agent through your phone. In this video, I'm going to show you guys how you can use it, why it's significantly better, and probably more preferable from a security perspective than a lot of the pre-existing solutions like OpenClaw at all, and then how to set it up on your end so you guys can run everything that you need from the convenience of your device. So, as some of you guys will know, I'm a big fan of using claude code to do a lot of economic knowledge work for me. This video is not trying to say that co-work is better than cloud code, but it is a different and easier interface that a lot of less technical people can use to get up and running. So in cloud code, I have a bunch of skills which are essentially tasks that I fire off one at a time. I say something like, "Hey, scrape me 100 HVAC leads in Texas. " And this will actually go through and then literally contact the internet, run a bunch of scrapers, and then return them back to me totally autonomously. The issue is obviously using my phone with a setup like this is annoying. It's often pretty fragile and then it takes a fair amount of setup. So, Claude Co-work solves all this for us completely out of the box. Okay, so totally hands-off demo. I have co-work set up with cloud code dispatch. It's right over here. And uh I just want to scrape 200 agency owners in California with a 1 to 10ish

size. You can see the second that I entered that in that was immediately reflected over here on my screen. And the reason why is because this is now running locally. Now, I don't know, I'm just on the go, right? I'm waiting for some train or something like that. And I say, "Hey, I could probably get a couple of phone calls in. " So I launch it from here. Immediately after we see actually see a window open under dispatch over here um as a new tab and sort of our claude co-work ongoing conversations. So what it's doing now is it's actually running the skill. Okay, it's doing a bunch of the specific SOPs inside of the skill like generating search keywords, running a test scrape and so on and so forth. And then I'm going to see the results back here on my phone the second that it finishes. Okay, and then just a few minutes later I have all of them on my phone here. I don't know if you guys could see this but um it's like data set leadsfinder. I have all the phone numbers. So, if I just wanted to, you know, click on one of these and maybe give them a ring, start doing some cold calling, I could. Um, I just initiated and then completed that loop entirely from my phone, which is pretty sweet. But obviously now, that's not the only thing that I can do. Um, I have this pretty cool inbox cleaner flow, which I like running. And, um, what I'll do now is I'm just going to initiate that inbox cleaner again from my phone. So, I'll say run inbox cleaner. And then my hands are up here just so you guys could see. Um, it's going to start a conversation. Um, go down to that tab there. And then just like it did before, it'll run my own skills on my computer using um you know, Claude Co-work. And just because I want to do multiple things simultaneously, I'm also going to have it run another skill. Uh what I'm going to do is hypothetically, let's say I have found a YouTube thumbnail that I really like and I have a video that's coming up soon. So, you know, let me just make this a little bit bigger. Okay, there's this awesome one here from um I don't know, uh Don't Create an LLC. It's by Jasmine Deluchi. She's this person that uh I don't know, creates content all about accounting and stuff like that. So, what I'm going to do is I'm just going to share this. I'll copy the link and then I'm also going to feed this directly into Claude um dispatch and I'm going to say, "Hey, recreate this thumbnail but with my face. " Then I'm going to paste in the link. And now we should also pass the next message in Q. And what this is going to do is it'll launch an additional dispatch conversation that uh will allow us to run multiple of these things. Okay. And then if you see here, we're running all three accounts in parallel, fetching, classifying, then marking red for each. Over here, we're actually reproducing a thumbnail using my thumbnail generation skill with which has some face swapping uh functionality built in. And I'm going to get it all on my phone in just a few seconds. Now, in my case, I didn't uh realize, but one of these skills actually required a little piece of access from my computer that I hadn't given it ahead of time. And so, when that occurred, I just had a little window that popped up at the bottom of my Cloud Dispatch, and it said, "Hey, you know, we're trying to reach XYZ. uh do you want to allow this request? So I'm the one that just instantiated the request. Obviously I'm allowing it. This sort of like security and then allow listing style permissions is what makes this 10x more safe uh you know secure and then scalable for business and then enterprise applications than something like openclaw. Okay. And then in this case it's now created a bunch of files. I don't think this is the best or most uh realistic look that I've ever had before but still not pretty bad. And uh you know we initiated this from my phone and it's not just available over there. It's also available over here. So, dispatch is reporting back right now, letting it know that, you know, it uh just finished the thumbnail thing. And now it's asking me to allow it permissions to go and grab those thumbnails, which I will do in a second. And now it's actually showing them to me all on my phone. So, you know, I have them right over here, too, right? Can actually take a look at them. And then, okay, I guess I can't scroll through them, but I don't know. That's another one right over there. And so, I just generated all these from my phone. Um, basically through like an app, right? This app. But I didn't actually have to like whip up an app for it. I could just route this to my computer, which is pretty sweet. And then the inbox cleaner also finished. And in my case, basically what this does is it just automatically marks as read anything that uh I would consider to be some form of spam, some people soliciting me, that sort of thing. And then if there is any like important email or whatever, it goes through and then it pre-drafts a reply based off of a bunch of old replies that I've sent. And then it just allows me to QA and sort of human in the loop. So I

then go through my inbox, but I basically save like 90% of my time. So that's pretty neat, right? Like it's done my personal Gmail, it's done a couple of other things. Um, simple systems like this essentially allow me to save two or three hours a day. And before I was constrained with doing all this stuff on my computer. I had to lug around my big fat laptop with me. But now, you know, I could set up my laptop or another computer or some sort of Mac Mini in the corner and then I could just like sort of port in run whatever skills, run whatever workflows I need even while I'm over here. And then, you know, naturally I receive and then can send additional data follow-ups and everything like that from here while it's still super secure.

So, in my mind, this has solved everything. I'm sure we're just a few stones throws away from having this sort of stuff in Telegram. Let me show you guys how this all works under the hood. So, if it isn't clear, I think that most of these autonomous agent tools are pretty broken. And they're broken for a couple of reasons. The first is these Open Claw and DIY agent stacks, which I think everybody in their mom is going to try and tell you is like the future and stuff like that. Um, they are terrible from a security perspective. We've had tens of thousands of API keys leaked. uh very elementary sort of security errors here have hit news headlines over and over again. It got so bad they had to change your name multiple times and stuff like that. And I mean like their core functionality is pretty cool, right? Which is that I get to text my model basically from my phone and then have it do economically valuable tasks for me. And the reason why beginners and you know people that aren't very tech super into this sort of tech love it is because it's like hey I you know I talk to my friend in Telegram and then immediately underneath I have my Claudebot in Telegram and that's awesome, right? It's just like good from a user experience perspective. But all of that isn't really worth risking, you know, your API keys, your credentials, your credit card numbers, your identity. Right? In addition to obviously massive security issues, there's also like a context explosion issue where you are paying for the most part using your um API pricing instead of like a monthly recurring subscription, which Anthropic subsidizes heavily and tends to be somewhere between like four to 8x cheaper. What I mean by this is you are doing direct API

calls to their backend and every single time you make an API call um it bills you usage wise like that's you know every message 50 you know every time a skill runs that's $2 every single moment that you're having a conversation with models on you know openclaw whatever unless they're running locally or running using something like Neotron what you're really doing is you're just constantly like burning your money in the background and then you know ultimately this pay per token plus the security problems in my view makes this like a non-starter, you know, if I'm using this in a serious business application, I'm basically never going to recommend something like open cloud or whatever. And so when this came out, you know, I made a bunch of videos talking about how horrific it was and all of the API keys that got leaked. And I was like, you know, I bet it'll just take a couple of months before anthropic launches a native feature that does all this stuff. And that's what cloud dispatch is. So with cloud dispatch, you basically connect automatically to whatever your desktop is, your computer. Um, so your skills, you know, all of the pre-existing MCP connectors and all of your files. But it's also sandbox and local. And I mean like you know if there's a company that I trust to understand how to rein in you know the downsides of like AI agent flexibility it's the companies that have developed the best AI agents out there like anthropobic. They've spent you know hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars doing this exact thing. So I trust them to you know sandbox and make things pretty local. Um it's also uh like a flat monthly charge because it's technically used as part of your subscription. Now they're talking about how they're going to make this available to pro plans pretty quick. I think right now as of the time of this recording it's on max plans but they're going to want to try and get everybody on it. And so what that means is instead of paying you know I don't know like it really depends on your usage and I don't want to pretend like I know exactly how much you're us using. But when I tried open claw I spent like a h 100red bucks or so in just my first few days and then I was like okay I'm going to turn this off. Instead of spending that you know you you'll probably just spend 20 to

whatever the the subscription amount is and it's going to be heavily subsidized. And then, you know, it says same power here, but I want you guys to know realistically speaking, you're probably going to get significantly more usage out of co-work because out of cloud dispatch because they're just going to like build in more and better functionality. This is a company that has access to basically all of the information on planet Earth at this point. Um, I trust that they're going to do a much better job with this sort of infrastructure and architecture than some random third party. In terms of how Dispatch specifically works, um, it's sort of like a multi-layer system. you know, down at the bottom its brain is claude co-work and uh you know, I usually make videos not on co-work because that's the non- tech version of this intelligence and agent tech model. I make more videos on cloud code, but cloud co-work and cloud code are basically you know the exact same thing. It's just like support for a wrapper that wraps around skills and then you know pre-established SOPs. So basically what happens is um Claude Co-work which is your base sort of agent here has access to your skills library and a bunch of MCP servers to do things for you. Dispatch on your phone basically just um it communicates through layers with you know your MCP servers your skills back to Cloud Co-work. Cloud Co does something and then it kind of communicates back up the ladder to dispatch. And that's what I was talking about with um you know the fact that this is like an agentic thing. You're launching an agent. Those agents can launch sub agents and so on and so forth. All right. So, I'm going to show you guys how you guys could set up a Claude dispatch in just 5 minutes. It's really easy. We're just going to update Claude desktop or just reinstall. We're then going to update the Claude mobile app. If we see dispatch in the sidebar, we're good to go. We can actually enable it and then turn all of this stuff on right now. If not, you know, we're just going to restart our computers until we see, you know, whatever the update logic is. Um, this is literally it's probably not even going to take five full minutes. Let me show you guys how all this stuff works. In terms of how to set this up, this is a pretty new feature. It was launched sometime in the last 24 hours or so. And so many of you will not have this dispatch tab added to your Claude Co-work. That's okay. If you don't already have this, what you need to do is you need to update the application. So just for all intents and purposes, in case you don't have Claude desktop set up, it's as easy as heading to claude. com/down, then going from desktop over here, selecting your operating system, and then choosing either Mac OS, Windows, or Windows ARM 64. You'll also have to pair with the desktop app on your mobile. So, choose iOS or Android here. Once you're done on desktop, you'll have an interface that looks like this. Now, I should note that there's actually three different sections to cloud desktop. There's chat, co-work, and code. And for this feature, you're going to need co-work, which you can also use hotkeys to bump to. In my case, command 2. Now, once you're done, head down to this dispatch feature, and it'll say something like co-working on the go. In order to get this started, it walks you through sort of the functionality, which is that your phone is like a walkie-talkie that can communicate with Claude on your computer. You just send Claude a message and it'll work on tasks locally using your computer. Um, the one caveat to this is you do need to

remember to keep your computer awake. Uh, this is a big thing that a lot of people were doing with OpenClaw. They would purchase specific computers like Mac minis or whatever, plug them in, and just have them working 24/7. This is the exact same thing. you just have, you know, your computer where you want to do these tasks, awake, and then Claude dispatch can take care of the rest of it for you. Anyway, all you do is you click get started and then you have to pair with the Claude mobile app. So, I've already downloaded All I'm going to do is open this puppy up. It looks like I'm already signed in to my phone. So, I have the Claude desktop app open right over here. It has a chat window um ready to talk to Sonnet 4. 6. Next up, it'll ask, "Hey, can I give Claude access to your files? " So, it'll ask me when I click finish, should I keep this computer awake, which you're going to want to click yes to. Otherwise, dispatch is going to run into some problems. Um, give it the ability to use Chrome. And then ensure that all connectors are on. Okay. Then just click finish setup. It'll ask to access files in your desktop and documents and so on and so forth. You're going to have to click this button a bunch of times. And now you have the ability to communicate with your phone and Claude. Now, on my phone's end, all I need to do is in my Claude app, scroll down to where it says dispatch, click the button, and then I'll get something that looks like this. And as you can see, the UX and stuff like that is very similar to what we just did. So, all I need to do is click pair with your desktop, and then it'll connect automatically with the conversation that's in this window. So much so that my hands are off the computer now. All I'm going to do is type hey. And I want you guys to see how this immediately pops up on my computer as well. And so I'm actually having a conversation with Claude uh coowork through dispatch right now. It's fully managed for me. And then I obviously have like a contiguous conversation history which is really sweet. And here's where I could start by I don't know running some skills. So I'll say run the lead scraper skill. Get me some leads for I don't know HVAC in Texas. Let's just do 100 to start. I'm now going to send it the message and it's going to go through the process of connecting to the skill which is in my co-work instance. I'm finding all the session information and stuff like that and then actually launching it. And then I will have all of the information and everything I need um popping up on my phone as well. And you can see when I actually kick off a skill execution, I create a new tab here that is prepended with the words dispatch. In this case, it's scrape HVAC leads Texas. That actually opens this up. And then you can see the progress bar on the top rightand corner. Just cuz this is a pre-established skill that I, you know, I put together a while back. um it'll go through the debugging and everything else it needs to and you know I'm not actually going to see a message back like on my phone until this thing is done and it delivers the results in this way. Essentially what it's doing is it's like spinning up new co-work instances new co-work conversations almost as like sub agents going doing the task and then reporting back the results of said task to me. Also, hypothetically, if you were using something like cloud code and you wanted this oneshot skill run functionality from your phone, a really simple and easy way to do it is you basically just get all your skills from whatever your IDE or your cloud code instantiation is storing them. So, in my case, it's right over here. And then, in my case, I just duplicated them to this new folder, which is cloud/skills. And then I just said, hey, I want you to add them all to co-work. It then goes through, sends you a couple of brief little requests. Then after all this stuff is said and done, um you just get a big list of skills that you can just copy over to Cloud Co-work. Uh and this is going to allow it to work with dispatch really easily. So I'm just going to click copy to my skills. Actually, this one I think is already part of it. I just did this as a demo. So this one should be good. That's actually going to like add auto research diagrams directly over to the system. The next one, face variants for instance, and so on and so forth. Then you'll get this copied to your skills message at the top and now you can access it in dispatch really easily. Okay, hopefully you guys appreciated this video. Um dispatch is really cool. This is honestly a stand-in replacement

for 80 to 90% of all the features that Open Claw and other extraordinarily insecure implementations of autonomous decentralized agents uh provide for you. So, I'm using this thing all the time now. And it's not just because I'm like I love Big Daddy Anthropic, although I do. Um it's because I just think this is a much safer and better solution than something like uh you know what most other people on Twitter and X are probably showing you. If you guys like this sort of video, please sub to the channel. uh around 70% of you guys aren't for whatever reason. So, you'd be doing me a big solid like and then comment down below with whatever the heck you want me to make videos on. Um I really make videos based off of audience feedback at this point. So, if you guys have anything in particular you want me to record or cover, let me know. I'm more than happy to do it for you. Have a lovely rest of the day. Catch all y'all in the next