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[BUG] Dispatch stuck on "Asleep" while desktop is online and reachable — device bridge live simultaneously; past chats inaccessible (macOS) #82149

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What's Wrong?

Dispatch reports my Mac mini as "Asleep" while I am actively typing ON that machine — Claude Desktop open, machine online and in use. Dispatch also will not open past chats, which blocks the normal thumbs-down feedback path (hence filing here).

Key evidence it's server-side presence/pairing state: at the same moment, an active Cowork cloud session's device bridge to this SAME desktop app was fully functional — get_device_info returned instantly and a local MCP server proxied through the desktop app answered queries. The desktop app is provably online and reachable from Anthropic's cloud while Dispatch simultaneously reports it asleep. The device-bridge channel and Dispatch presence are clearly independent signals; the bridge is healthy while Dispatch presence is stale.

Matches the known issue class in #58097, #44225, #51389, #49545, #62529, #54782, #66114, #75416#58097 concludes stale server-side session/pairing state not recoverable by local troubleshooting. Possibly correlated with the 2026-07-22 "Service disruption on Claude Services" incident affecting Cowork Remote (status.claude.com).

What Should Happen?

Dispatch should show the desktop as awake/online and allow access to past chats whenever the desktop app is running and connected — which it provably is (see device-bridge evidence).

Error Messages/Logs

Dispatch status: "Asleep"
"Can't reach your desktop. Check that your computer is online and desktop app is open."
Past chats fail to open via Dispatch.

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Mac mini awake, online, in active use; Claude Desktop 1.24012.9 open.
  2. Open Dispatch (mobile or another surface) → desktop shows "Asleep"; past chats will not open.
  3. Simultaneously, from an active Cowork cloud session, call get_device_info over the device bridge to the same desktop app → responds instantly; local MCP server proxied through the app answers queries.
  4. Local troubleshooting did not resolve: verified machine awake/online, desktop app restart, confirmed bridge functional end-to-end DURING the failure.

Environment: Mac mini M4, macOS (arm64), Claude Desktop 1.24012.9 (Electron 42.7.0, Node 24.18.0). Account: cargobikepdx@gmail.com. Observed 2026-07-28 ~13:45 PT, ongoing.

Impact: cannot coordinate agent sessions from mobile via Dispatch; cannot access past chats; locally-bound scheduled tasks risk silently skipping while the platform believes the desktop is asleep.

REQUEST: please reset the backend Dispatch session/pairing/presence state for this account (same request pattern as #58097). Local state appears healthy; all evidence points server-side.

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Is this a regression?

Yes, this worked in a previous version

Last Working Version

Claude Desktop app 1.24012.9

Claude Code Version

Claude Desktop app 1.24012.9 (Dispatch issue, not CLI; sandbox CLI 2.1.220)

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Anthropic API

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macOS

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