Anthropic shipped Dispatch yesterday. I tested it for several hours. It's not Cowork on your phone. It's a command center — you send instructions from mobile, Claude orchestrates real work on your desktop. One persistent thread, multiple parallel tasks. The thing worth knowing: the Telephone Game. The Dispatch orchestrator doesn't read your CLAUDE.md. It formulates task prompts on assumptions. Sub-tasks do read it — but by then, the prompt already carries imprecise framing. Fix: mention CLAUDE.md in your Dispatch message. Don't assume it knows your setup. Other gotchas: - Pre-configure connectors on desktop first - "Keep awake" must be on - No file picker on mobile — describe the folder path - Can't attach files yet — email them to yourself Made this guide from my phone. Claude built it on my desktop while I was on the couch.