The whole point of a henchman is that it does things while you’re elsewhere. So Henchman lets you reach your crew from the chat app already on your phone.
How it works
You create your own bot in Telegram, Discord or Slack. It takes a few minutes in the chat app’s own settings. Paste the bot’s key into Henchman, send the bot a message from your phone, and type the code it replies with on your Mac. That’s the pairing done.
From then on:
- Chat as usual. Your message lands in your henchman’s conversation on the Mac, marked as sent from your phone, and the reply comes back to the chat.
- Change your mind mid-task. Send another message while a henchman is working and it takes the new direction into account.
- Switch henchmen. Send
/crewto see who’s on and/crew Nameto talk to someone else. - Approve with a tap. If a henchman needs your go-ahead, the bot posts Allow once and Deny buttons. Anything that can’t be undone, and any “always allow” decision, waits for you on the Mac.
What goes through the chat app
Your messages and your henchmen’s replies pass through Telegram, Discord or Slack, the same as any chat. That’s it. The thinking, your memory and your files stay on your Mac, and the bot’s key is kept in your encrypted vault.
Honest limits
- Your Mac has to be awake and Henchman running (or set to keep working when its window is closed). Henchman doesn’t wake a sleeping Mac.
- Direct messages only. Group chats and server channels are ignored on purpose.
- Typed messages only. Voice notes from your phone aren’t understood yet.
- Three chat apps. Telegram, Discord and Slack. Nothing else for now.
- You make the bot. There’s no Henchman-run bot service in the middle. It’s a little more setup, and it means nobody else sits between you and your Mac.