Claude's new Dispatch feature is getting a notable improvement: it can now launch Claude Code sessions, letting a request that starts as a chat-style task hand off into an execution-oriented coding run.
Felix Rieseberg announced the update on March 18, noting it arrived “by popular demand.” The practical setup is straightforward: update the Claude desktop app and ensure Code is enabled.
A chat-to-execution handoff, now built in
The key change isn’t just that Claude Code can be started from Dispatch, but that Dispatch becomes a front door for longer-running coding work. Several replies latched onto this idea of Dispatch as a routing or orchestration layer, where a single interface can determine when something should remain conversational versus when it should drop into code mode.
That “state decision” framing came up repeatedly in the thread, described as the missing piece for delegating technical tasks end-to-end: conversation for intent gathering, then code sessions for implementation.
On that last point, Rieseberg replied that Dispatch-to-Code uses “the same underlying primitives as CC’s remote control,” adding that more work is underway to make remote control smoother overall.
Source: https://x.com/felixrieseberg/status/2034381385134399913
