Claude just shipped a stack of capabilities that moves it from chatbot to autonomous agent. The headline additions: remote terminal control, a persistent co-worker orchestration layer called Dispatch, an event ingestion system called Channels, and direct computer control via mouse, keyboard, and screen input.
The architecture shift matters more than any single feature. Dispatch enables persistent, context-rich workflows that survive across sessions. Channels let external events trigger Claude actions without human prompting. Together, these turn Claude into something closer to a background process than a conversational tool, with real implications for legacy system automation where no API exists.
The piece is worth reading in full for the security analysis. Giving an AI agent persistent access to terminals and live computer control creates access-control problems that most teams have not solved yet. The upgrade is real. The risk framework to match it is not.
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