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Of course. Ana will confirm the new time today.Drafted by Claude✓✓
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Two ways in
Which Claude are you in?
The connection is the same either way. The three minutes of setup are not, so start from the one you actually use.
Claude Desktop
For the person running the inbox.
Add the server once under connectors. Every conversation you open after that already has the WhatsApp tools loaded, so you can ask about a customer the way you would ask a colleague.
Open settings and go to connectors
Add a remote MCP server and paste the endpoint
Approve the tools when Claude asks
Claude Code
For the person shipping the integration.
One command registers it in the CLI. A terminal session can then pull a thread, check what a campaign did or send a test message without you leaving the branch you are on.
Register the server with a single add command
Confirm it appears in the MCP list
Call the tools from any session in that project
In practice
What people ask it once it is connected
A chatbot answering your customers is a different feature entirely. This is you, asking about your own inbox in plain language.
Ask what happened overnight
Who wrote in, what they wanted, and which of them is still waiting. A summary of the inbox rather than a scroll through it.
Draft in your own register
Claude reads the last twenty messages before it writes, so the reply sounds like the rest of the thread instead of like a template.
Hand a thread over properly
Move a billing question to finance with an internal note explaining where it stands, so the next person does not start from nothing.
Keep the contact record honest
Label the ones who asked about trade pricing, note what was promised, and find that contact again next month by what they said.
Run the send and read the result
Queue Thursday's reminder to a list, then ask afterwards what was delivered, what was read, and what came back.
Check the things you would not query
How many first replies took over an hour yesterday. Which department is slowest this week. Questions too small to build a report for.
Worth knowing first
Two things we would rather say now
It acts as you
Anything Claude sends goes out from your number under your account, and it is logged in the inbox like any other message. Claude asks before it acts, and the permissions you set for your own user still apply.
It is not the overnight agent
This connects the assistant you work in to your inbox. Answering customers while nobody is there is a separate thing, and it is the AI agents and Flows that do it, running on their own.