Claude Dispatch & Remote Workflows
Master Claude Dispatch to run AI workflows on your Mac from your phone. Setup, security, real workflows, and troubleshooting for this new remote AI feature.
Your Mac, In Your Pocket
You’re standing in line at a coffee shop. Your phone buzzes — a teammate just pushed a PR that needs review before the 2 PM deadline. You’re 30 minutes from your desk.
Before Dispatch, you’d either scramble to find a laptop or tell your team to wait. Now? You pull out your phone, tell Claude to review the PR on your Mac, and get a summary with specific feedback in under a minute. You approve it from the checkout line.
That’s Dispatch. It turns your phone into a remote control for Claude Cowork running on your Mac. Not a watered-down mobile app. Not a cloud proxy. Your actual Mac, doing real work, controlled from anywhere.
This course takes you from zero to productive with Dispatch:
- Set up and pair your phone with your Mac in minutes
- Understand the boundaries of what Dispatch can and can’t do (this matters more than you think)
- Build real workflows for development, content creation, and business tasks
- Trust the security model — and know exactly how your data is protected
- Troubleshoot failures with practical fixes (Dispatch is early-stage, and honesty matters)
- Design your own mobile workflow customized to your actual job
A Note on Honesty
Dispatch launched in March 2026 as a research preview. It’s genuinely impressive for certain tasks and genuinely unreliable for others. This course won’t pretend otherwise.
We’ll tell you exactly what works, what doesn’t, and how to maximize your success rate. That honesty is more useful than hype.
What You'll Learn
- Use Claude Dispatch to pair your phone with your Mac via QR code
- Identify which tasks work reliably with Dispatch and which don't
- Build remote workflows for code review, content creation, and business tasks
- Evaluate Dispatch's end-to-end encryption and approval gate security model
- Analyze common Dispatch failures and apply techniques to improve task reliability
- Design a complete mobile workflow tailored to your actual job
After This Course, You Can
What You'll Build
Course Syllabus
Prerequisites
- Claude Max subscription (Dispatch requires Max plan)
- A Mac running macOS 14.0+ with Claude Cowork installed
- An iPhone (iOS 16+) or Android phone (Android 12+)
Who Is This For?
- Developers who want to review code or trigger builds without opening a laptop
- Content creators who get ideas on the go and want to start drafting immediately
- Business professionals who travel and need remote access to files and reports
- Power users of Claude Cowork who want to extend workflows to mobile
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need a Mac and a Claude Max subscription to use Dispatch?
Yes. Dispatch is currently a Mac-and-iPhone/Android pairing — your Mac runs Claude Cowork (which requires the Max plan) and acts as the actual workstation; your phone is the remote control. Windows and Linux support has not been announced. The free or Pro tiers don't include Cowork, so they don't include Dispatch either.
Is this just a mobile app for Claude?
No, and Lesson 3 explains the distinction. The Claude mobile app is a phone-based chat client. Dispatch is your phone triggering work on your actual Mac — with access to your files, your dev environment, your installed tools, your local context. The output you get back has been produced by your machine doing real work, not a cloud version.
Is it safe to give my phone access to my Mac like that?
Lesson 6 is the security deep dive. Dispatch uses end-to-end encryption between your phone and Mac, an approval gate for every dispatched action (you confirm before anything runs), and the connection is paired explicitly via QR code. The honest caveat: any tool that lets a phone trigger work on your machine is a new attack surface — the lesson covers the threat model and what to lock down.
What kinds of tasks actually work reliably right now?
Lessons 4-5 are organized exactly around this. PR reviews, codebase searches, file reads, drafting documents from templates, spreadsheet analysis — these work well. Long agentic loops, anything requiring sustained interactive back-and-forth, multi-step browser automation — these are unreliable in the current Dispatch release. The course tells you the difference up front.
Will my workflows survive Anthropic's product changes?
The setup specifics (QR code pairing, Cowork UI flows) will likely change as Dispatch matures. The workflow design patterns — what to dispatch, how to structure prompts for non-interactive execution, how to design output for phone consumption — those transfer. The capstone in Lesson 8 builds a workflow on those patterns so you're not rebuilding when the UI shifts.
