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Claude Code Remote Control

• yakkomajuri 8mo ago
  I guess this is Anthropic's early version of a "claw"?
  • TheCapeGreek 8mo ago
    Doesn't have to be. Before OpenClaw was a thing, people were experimenting with setups to allow them to drive their agent remotely. And of course, OpenClaw is built to be a very generalist agent with a chat interface - same effective outcome as remotely controlling an AI harness, but not exactly what everyone wants.
• aplomb1026 8mo ago
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• pshirshov 8mo ago
  That's what I've been doing with termux, mosh, and tmux.
  • samusiam 8mo ago
    Which is so much better because you can do other terminal stuff and you can avoid vendor lock in.
    • dewey 8mo ago
      That's not what vendor lock in means. If you sign up for a cloud hoster and then build your whole product on propriety services that you can't get anywhere else instead of using an off the shelf database or open source software, that's vendor lock in. If you'd have to switch to a different tool to do your coding that's not vendor lock in.
      • pshirshov 8mo ago
        In this case you are locking your workflow to the vendor's solution.
  • kzahel 8mo ago
    Yeah the remote control featureset is pretty limited right now. I did a comparison here https://yepanywhere.com/claude-code-remote-control/ https://yepanywhere.com/claude-code-remote-control/ (with my own project). I'm sure they'll iterate on it. Overall it's such an obvious feature for them to add I'm surprised it took them so long to ship. There are probably at least 50 such projects that people have made (https://github.com/kzahel/yepanywhere/blob/main/docs/competitive/all-projects.md https://github.com/kzahel/yepanywhere/blob/main/docs/competi...) The one feature drawback of tailscale/tmux/termius is no file upload. And ergonomics, ability to view files/diffs easily, though that's subjective.
    • cess11 8mo ago
      Perhaps it took a while to figure out how to do it over HTTP, especially the security stuff. With e.g. tmux you'll piggyback on decades of SSH development.
      • Myzel394 8mo ago
        > SSH development. Or Mosh, just like OP said. Mosh handles interruptions much better than SSH does
        • cess11 8mo ago
          As I understand it, Mosh piggybacks on SSH. Have they recently dropped the SSH negotiation?
  • konaraddi 8mo ago
    I think a significant distinction between your approach and Claude’s approach is that your approach requires allowing your machine to accept inbound connections but Claude’s approach does not. Claude probably went with the latter to avoid a whole class of security issues and mitigate risk of users having their machines compromised. I’m not familiar with what the new vectors of attack are with Claude’s approach though.
• weikju 8mo ago
  even more reasons to sandbox it to a container or vm
• squirrellous 8mo ago
  Would be great if it supported API keys. I’m getting by with slack threads of all things for work.
• bandrami 8mo ago
  We've re-invented GNU screen in the most inefficient way imaginable
  • block_dagger 8mo ago
    That’s not at all how this works. Commands are relayed through Anthropic’s servers with a client polling mechanism.
    • reverius42 8mo ago
      Right, that's the "most inefficient way possible" (though personally I disagree, there are more inefficient ways to be found).
      • bandrami 8mo ago
        You could put the transport protocol on the blockchain, I suppose
        • throwaw12 8mo ago
          You are making me more creative. we can upload snapshot of zip files to blockchain, then notify customer via servers
          • wild_egg 8mo ago
            I'm probably 10 years out of date. Are ethereum smart contracts still a thing? I'm sure you could deploy one of those for every agent session to handle the notifications
          • gtowey 8mo ago
            Even better, train an entirely new LLM with your prompt added to its data set. It will be imbued with its own latent sense of purpose. All you need to do after that is type "let there be light!"
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• 8cvor6j844qw_d6 8mo ago
  How does this handle deauthentication / logging out all sessions? Claude Code only supports logging out the current session via /logout There's no logout all sessions equivalent unlike the web UI.
• cahaya 8mo ago
  Hoping OpenAI/ Codex will launch this soon too.
  • block_dagger 8mo ago
    Hoping Cursor will also adopt.
    • viraptor 8mo ago
      Cursor already has agents accessible from web/mobile https://cursor.com/blog/agent-web https://cursor.com/blog/agent-web
      • kzahel 8mo ago
        But can those web/mobile-accessible agents be on your own hardware, e.g. your desktop at home?
      • block_dagger 8mo ago
        Those are cloud agents.
  • aurareturn 8mo ago
    I run Codex using terminus, iOS, and a VPS.
• adriand 8mo ago
  Does anyone know if it caffeinates automatically? I sometimes see caffeinate appear in the terminal tab title so clearly they are using it, but I’m just curious if I have to run caffeinate separately if, for instance, the agent finishes its task and is waiting for a new one and I want to keep it alive.
• dizhn 8mo ago
  Opencode's 'web' command makes your local session run on the browser with same access rights as the cli. It's a pretty slick interface too. I sometimes use it instead of the cli even when I can access both. You can test it right now if you want with the included free models. https://opencode.ai/docs/web/ https://opencode.ai/docs/web/
  • rubslopes 8mo ago
    I was having too many bugs using it with my phone, I gave up and went back to Termux
    • dizhn 8mo ago
      It's changing super fast. I am using it on the desktop mostly and when I tried on my phone there were issues yes. But do try it out again in a few weeks. (I am actually using zellij on the remote and using various CLIs more than I am using only opencode on the web. I was using wezterm mux until about a week ago but the current state of the terminal is not very good for this scenario. It seems like almost all the CLIs are choking because of nodejs ink library)
• KeplerBoy 8mo ago
  So Microsoft/Github copilot was ahead of its time with AI driven PRs?
  • jorl17 8mo ago
    I honestly think this is definitely where (at least part of) the industry is heading, yes. This is not to say engineers are getting replaced — but, certainly, they are changing their work. And, sure, maybe _some_ of them are being replaced. Not most of the ones I know, though. They are essential to orchestrate, curate, maintain, and drive all of this. (Now, do they want to orchestrate it? Whole different story...)
• gregoriol 8mo ago
  I really don't want to trust an AI company with a remote access door on my setup
  • Retr0id 8mo ago
    Regular claude code is already a remote access door to your setup, once you've granted a few command execution permissions. (e.g. if it can edit your code and run the test suite)
    • gregoriol 8mo ago
      Yes and no: I hope (not verified) that regular claude code client only sends requests, and doesn't open ports for remote access
      • Retr0id 8mo ago
        I wouldn't expect Remote Control to open any ports either
      • aunty_helen 8mo ago
        There's nothing stopping CC from spinning up a local service or running terminal commands to open ports.
  • okayokay123 8mo ago
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• sebastianmaciel 8mo ago
  Small UX note: the first time you run the command it only shows a URL. It's not until you run it again that you discover it also generates a QR code, which is actually the fastest way to open it on your phone. Would be nice if the QR showed up on the first run too, almost missed it.
  • kzahel 8mo ago
    You can also just open the app on your phone and go to the sidebar and click on Code and then you'll see the session at the top of your session list.
    • sebastianmaciel 8mo ago
      Oh nice, didn't know that. Thanks for the tip!
• piker 8mo ago
  Running Claude Code from a phone just seems like a recipe for Alzheimer’s. Rest, then focus and build.
  • thierrydamiba 8mo ago
    On the other hand, you lose a lot of time if you step away from a session and it gets stuck asking for permission to do something simple.
    • wiseowise 8mo ago
      Oh no! Anyway.
      • thierrydamiba 8mo ago
        I don’t understand this comment? I’m guessing you’re suggesting it’s ok to lose time if you’re away from your computer enjoying life, and I agree. I also don’t see the issue in finding ways to be save time with work. If you mean something different, please elaborate.
  • embedding-shape 8mo ago
    There are two types of software engineers: Those who do and then think, or those who think and then do. Claude Code seems to strictly be for the former, while typically the engineers who can maintain software long-term are the latter. Not sure if we have any LLM-tooling for the latter, seems to be more about how you use the tools we have available, but they're all pulling us to be "do first, think later" so unless you're careful, they'll just assume you want to do more and think less, hence all the vibeslop floating around.
    • rafaelmn 8mo ago
      This isn't a binary thing - even if you prefer to build maintainable systems very often the trade-off is - you don't ship in time and there's no long term - the project gets scrapped. So even if it comes at the expense of long term maintainability - everyone should have this in their toolbox.
• therealmarv 8mo ago
  On Android app it needs Claude GitHub connection with scope to act on my behalf! Otherwise it won't work in the app. Really do NOT like that! Why does the remote control needs that? For what? I rather use the common developer tools like termux or mosh etc. on a phone if I need that functionality.
  • DecoPerson 8mo ago
    Make a throwaway GitHub account just for it and give it PR access to your private repos.
    • throwa356262 8mo ago
      But the whole point of remote control was to avoid that situation.
    • therealmarv 8mo ago
      that's actually a good idea. Thanks, was not thinking about such a workaround!
  • cryptonector 8mo ago
    You can scope it to repos. Make a repo just for what you want. That's your sandbox.
  • mike-cardwell 8mo ago
    Same here on my iPhone. I didn't previously log it into my github account as I don't use github anymore, I use gitlab. So it wont find anything useful there. You actually only need to do this in order to be able to access the list of sessions. Even if you don't log into github, remote-control still works if you copy across the link that the cli tool outputs for you and just visit that on your phone. That's a bit of a pain though of course.
• mglvsky 8mo ago
  so is harnessing tmux/tailscale new "rsync/FTP is enough" thing nowadays?
  • rgbrgb 8mo ago
    Perhaps, but the key difference is that it’s a developer tool you use from the command line.
  • siva7 8mo ago
    except there will be no dropbox moment. There is no startup that stands a chance, Openclaw is free, the foundation model providers basically won this space just by providing subscriptions cheaper than any competitor could ever do.
• moontear 8mo ago
  Oh come on, now that I have a personal remote control already set up using hooks, specifically the PermissionRequest, and Home Assistant push notifications where I can allow or deny a specific action?
  • tomashubelbauer 8mo ago
    TIL that HA notifications can have associated actions. I have the exact same setup as you, except I only receive the notification and then walk over to the laptop to unblock the agent feeling like a human tool call. This will improve my workflow, thank you.
    • moontear 8mo ago
      The notification payload for reference, you will also need a permission input_select (pending/allow/deny) and an automation that triggers upon mobile_app_notification_action: notification_payload=$(cat <<EOF { "message": "$escaped_message", "title": "$escaped_title", "data": { "tag": "$escaped_request_id", "group": "claude-code", "actions": [ { "action": "CLAUDE_ALLOW", "title": " Allow" }, { "action": "CLAUDE_DENY", "title": " Deny" } ] } } EOF ) Actionable notifications are a bit cumbersome on iOS since you need to long-press the notification for actions, but it does work.
  • adamtaylor_13 8mo ago
    I'm trying to understand the setup you have here. So your hook -> HA -> push notification? And then you just tap to approve?
    • moontear 8mo ago
      Exactly that. And the push notification includes what I am approving. Also with some sensible delay in sending out these pushes, because otherwise I may be bombarded with push notifications, while already having it manually approved.
• nineteen999 8mo ago
  Worth noting that this is currently broken for a number of users, I'm on a Max plan and I get the message "Error: Remote Control is not enabled for your account. Contact your administrator" which isn't helpful since I'm my administrator and ... this gets recursive quickly. There's an open issue on github for it: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/28098 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/28098
  • buryat 8mo ago
    claude /logout -> claude /login -> claude /remote-control
    • nineteen999 8mo ago
      If you'd read the entire issue, you'd see that not only is that solution mentioned multiple times, it's not working for some people.
      • buryat 8mo ago
        it worked for me
        • nineteen999 8mo ago
          If it worked for everybody that issue would already be closed.
  • nineteen999 8mo ago
    I received an email saying this should be fixed in tomorrows build.
• hmokiguess 8mo ago
  Too many limitations, for now I'll stick with self-hosted https://github.com/tiann/hapi https://github.com/tiann/hapi and Tailscale
  • clouedoc 8mo ago
    What are the drawbacks of HAPI? Seems too good to be true. Will give it a try.
    • 9cb14c1ec0 8mo ago
      Doesn't look like it has proper worktree management. UIs that abstract away worktrees are very powerful. I vibe coded my own (https://github.com/9cb14c1ec0/vibe-manager https://github.com/9cb14c1ec0/vibe-manager), which unfortunately doesn't have the remote component that hapi does.
    • hmokiguess 8mo ago
      My needs are very basic and it hasn’t failed me yet, I like that it doesn’t try to do much. I know it has voice capabilities through eleven labs but I haven’t used that feature.
• raunaqvaisoha 8mo ago
  I feel like a lot of folks are saying this kills the Code on your Phone opportunity some start-ups are building for. I don't agree. I feel like coding agents are like streaming services, we will subscribe to multiple and switch between them. So for one there's value in a universal control plane. The other is that mobile as a coding interface should offer more than a remote control to the desktop. I think there's still some space to cook, especially if people are investing 8 hours a day talking to agents, the interface surely matters.
  • kzahel 8mo ago
    I agree. I spend a lot of time working from my phone so I had to make my own workflow that works for me. I've been following all these bans and drama with the subscription keys and custom harnesses etc. I think there's room for a "universal control plan" that lets you leverage the CLI providers (and whatever crappy interfaces / apis they give you). There's a comparison of the approaches as I see them here https://yepanywhere.com/subscription-access-approaches https://yepanywhere.com/subscription-access-approaches
  • whynotmaybe 8mo ago
    I'm using copilot on vscode and the agent is "Auto" which cost 10% less. The results are enough for me and I'm not doing things that allow me to differentiate the output between ChatGPT, Claude and, the others. The agents are more like the radio in my car, whenever I want music, I switch channel until I find something good enough. If I'm really in need of something special, I'll use Spotify on my phone. And sometimes, I just drive with the radio off.
  • 63stack 8mo ago
    I don't know a single person who is satisfied with the status quo on streaming services where you have to subscribe to multiple ones. Everyone is complaining that the landscape is 1) more fragmented than cable was, 2) costs more, 3) has even more ads than cable
    • hodder 8mo ago
      Not that it is particularly relevant to agentic coding but how can anyone truly argue streaming costs more? Average cable packages were exceeding 125-150 USD a month (in 2000 dollars). Under no circumstances would I be sympathetic to the argument that streaming costs more. You can get all 7 of the major streaming subs for less without even shopping out deals. That is 100s of times the volume and quality of content that was delivered on cable for far less. It is so much content realistically that no one I have ever met has subscribed to all of them at once. The argument really is empty. The fragmentized experience is annoying, but it isn't more expensive...And it DEFINITELY has fewer ads.
• jcmontx 8mo ago
  I feel closer to realizing my dream of walking by a forest and whispering back and forth to an LLM to get shit done
  • ryanmcl 8mo ago
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  • TheCapeGreek 8mo ago
    Wispr Flow just got an Android release, so everything except it talking back to you is now doable
• ark4n 8mo ago
  News flash...now you can continue to work whilst brewing a coffee, walking the dog or taking a shit. jfc no
  • cheema33 8mo ago
    Are you actually complaining about having an option available, if you want it?
    • endorphine 8mo ago
      How about they are pointing out a worrisome direction society might be taking, whereas work will infiltrate even more what used to be family or personal time, thus accelerating burnout?
• spiderfarmer 8mo ago
  I want this for Codex.
  • gizmodo59 8mo ago
    At this point if one lab comes up with a feature it’s a matter of time before another does the same!
  • s1mon 8mo ago
    Yep. Came to say the same thing. I'd only used Codex in VSCode and in the Codex app, and at least those have the same history, but my understanding is that the cloud and CLI versions have this hierarchy of 'visibility' [0]. Perhaps they'll need to change this design decision? [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cczkDMmmrEE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cczkDMmmrEE
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• Razengan 8mo ago
  WOW I had been using the Codex app (Claude/Anthropic have a few annoying problems) and wishing there was something like this! I often get ideas while I'm in bed or outside away from my computer, and was thinking that the ability to code on your computer from your phone, through AI, would be such a killer app. My favorite use case would be asking the AI to review code and going over its findings/suggestions while I'm away from the computer or trying to fall asleep.
• fny 8mo ago
  This is an extremely clunky and buggy prerelease, so don't try to hot fix prod from the toilet without a different mobile frontend. Right now: - You can't interrupt Claude (you press stop and he keeps going!) - At best it stops but just keeps spinning - The UI disconnects intermittently - It disconnects if you switch to other parts of Claude - It can get stuck in plan mode - Introspection is poor - You see XML in the output instead of things like buttons - One session at a time - Sessions at times don't load - Everytime you navigate away from Code you need to wait for your session to reappear I'm sure I'm missing a few things.
  • amelius 8mo ago
    Sounds like something that was vibe coded :)
    • co_king_5 8mo ago
      [dead]
      • acedTrex 8mo ago
        I think some people are missing the sarcasm here
        • co_king_5 8mo ago
          [dead]
          • esafak 8mo ago
            Graduates of the Zoolander Center for Kids Who Can't Read Good and Who Wanna Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too?
        • kirab 8mo ago
          I only understood it after reading some of co_king_5’s other comments. This is Poe’s law in action. I know several people who converted into AI coding cultists and they say the same things but seriously. Curiously none of them were coders before AI.
• synergy20 8mo ago
  have been using tmux and ssh-on-the-phone doing for forever, what's new?
  • ledauphin 8mo ago
    have you gotten a terminal interface on your phone to be acceptably usable? I haven't - not without a real keyboard attached in any case. too many parts of the UX are designed for a true keyboard.
    • zaking17 8mo ago
      I’ve had decent luck with Termius because it gives you a row of keyboard shortcuts above the usual keyboard. Still cramped, but it works. Tmux is annoying with a mobile keyboard, so I vibe coded a little mobile-friendly wrapper https://github.com/zakandrewking/pocketbot https://github.com/zakandrewking/pocketbot Someone is going to solve this with a non-buggy app, but it really needs to have all the features of Claude code. Everyone is a power user in this segment
    • synergy20 8mo ago
      I used connectbot on android and it worked fine for me, the new 'terminal' with debian also worked well
    • siva7 8mo ago
      take a look at opencode, it doesn't even have to be a terminal anymore to command your terminal from whatever device you are using
      • synergy20 8mo ago
        claude code forbids opencode to access? or no? so far I'm just claude and codex cli.
• Robdel12 8mo ago
  This is buggy to no end. Anthropic needs to slow down The daily “what broke and changed now” with claude code is wearing me out fast.
  • co_king_5 8mo ago
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  • viking123 8mo ago
    Claude Code is a good product, they should just keep on steadily improving it and improving the model. I am not sure why they are spraying in all directions like this..
    • pelcg 8mo ago
      Interested to see Anthropic do this sort of move, but it's very useful to see.
    • bonoboTP 8mo ago
      I see it on myself too. It feels too irresistible to start adding more features to software you develop with LLM agents. Everything feels like just a few prompts and will be done in half an hour. Why not add this too? Just another sentence in the prompt. Next thing you know you have more features than you remember and the AI starts to have a really hard job keeping it all functional. Coding with AI requires immense restraint and strong scope limits.
    • preommr 8mo ago
      Because they're not trying to build a leading coding agent - they're racing to AGI. That means cramming everything and anything, from every angle because general intelligence is happening next year and that'll connect all the dots, leading to hypergrowth and complete industry dominance, across all domains. Seriously, if you listen to Dario talk, it's non-stop how there's a tsunami coming, people have no idea of what's ahead, how general intelligence or superintelligence is right around the corner. But also, this is super dangerous, and only Anthropic can save us from a doomsday scenario.
• sailfast 8mo ago
  I’ve been doing this with a tmux tunnel and an app on my laptop that connects sessions you select to a virtual terminal using sockets. I asked Claude to build it and it works great - full terminal functionality and Markdown review with comments so you don’t need to cross your eyes to review plans. Excited to see how this matures so people without that inclination can also be constantly pestered by the nagging idea that someone, somewhere is being more productive than them :)
• paxys 8mo ago
  SSH app on your phone + Tailscale is already a much better experience.
• Fizzadar 8mo ago
  There's https://happy.engineering/ https://happy.engineering/ which already does this with many fewer bugs and supports codex.
  • tor0ugh 8mo ago
    I was using this religiously but there’s a bug currently that makes the initialization fail and/or throws an error on the phone client. Absolutely great piece of software otherwise, free, anonymous, encrypted and so on. Really hope the team can fix this soon - I would hate to switch back to tmux tunneling.
  • crashabr 8mo ago
    Set it up and never managed to have it work. Only thing it did was renaming my sessions on my main cc instance. Mobile did nothing, not even an error message.
  • quinncom 8mo ago
    Happy is buggy af and is in the middle of a rewrite (see its Discord). A fork named Happier looks promising, but is alpha-stage and is also a mystery-meat vibe-coded security roulette.
• VadimPR 8mo ago
  Pretty happy to see this. I've previously tried happy.engineer for this, but that wanted my Anthropic API token for itself (!) which is a no-no. Seeing how the labs tend to copy the best functionality in any FOSS developments, I decided to wait - happy I did, here's the official functionality for this that is much more trustworthy.
• marinhero 8mo ago
  Is this compatible with Bedrock powered Claude Code setups?
• KronisLV 8mo ago
  > Unlike Claude Code on the web, which runs on cloud infrastructure, Remote Control sessions run directly on your machine and interact with your local filesystem. The web and mobile interfaces are just a window into that local session. For the vibe'y workflows, this would easily solve parallel long running work without skipping permissions: schedule 10 different tasks and go for a run. Occasionally review what the hallucination machine wants to do, smash yes a few times, occasionally tell it not to be silly, have a nice run. Essentially, solving remote development, though perhaps not quite in the way how people usually think of it. > Limitations > One remote session at a time: each Claude Code session supports one remote connection. Hmm. Give it 1-12 months.
  • ariwilson 8mo ago
    This comment sounds like the basis for a nice Black Mirror episode.
    • KronisLV 8mo ago
      Ehh, I think it's hardly different from the people who leave Claude Code working on problems overnight with really loose permissions - seemingly the chance of them returning to it mining crypto for Putin is low enough for it to not be a consideration (see the whole OpenClaw movement). And people have been remoting into their machines for a while, so now having a pretty-UI-but-walled-garden variety doesn't ring that many alarm bells. If they manage to get it right, it wouldn't be that much different from running some CI stuff on your machine while you're making tea, or reviewing pull requests while lounging around.
• smallerfish 8mo ago
  This seems like an excellent thread to plug the TUI I've been working on that makes using bubblewrap relatively easy and somewhat pleasant. I have a recipe in the README for using it with Claude. Granted that Claude has --sandbox, but probably better that sandboxing be done by something outside of the Anthropic ecosystem. https://github.com/reubenfirmin/bubblewrap-tui https://github.com/reubenfirmin/bubblewrap-tui
• rob 8mo ago
  I would have hoped for them to at least support the "/clear" command or some form of it, especially to manage context if we're limited to a single session between the terminal and Claude iOS app. I like to work on things one at a time and /clear my way between them to get back to 0% context, which seems impossible with the current setup here? Typing "/clear" in the terminal clears it, but the Claude iOS app just outputs raw XML instead and doesn't actually do anything: <command-name>/clear</command-name> <command-message>clear</command-message> <command-args></command-args> <local-command-stdout></local-command-stdout>
• bachittle 8mo ago
  I've been running something similar for a few months, which is a voice-first interface for Claude Code running on a local Flask server. Instead of texting from my phone, I just talk to it. It spawns agents in tmux sessions, manages context with handoff notes between sessions, and has a card display for visual output. The remote control feature is cool but the real unlock for me was voice. Typing on a phone is a terrible interface for coding conversations. Speaking is surprisingly natural for things like "check the test output" or "what did that agent do while I was away." The tmux crowd in this thread is right that SSH + tmux gets you 90% of the way there. But adding voice on top changes the interaction model. You stop treating it like a terminal and start treating it like a collaborator. Here is a demo of it controlling my smart lights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFmp9HFv50s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFmp9HFv50s
• jasonjmcghee 8mo ago
  Posted elsewhere but will copy here. Been doing this for a while. - - - get tailscale (free) and join on both devices install tmux get an ios/android terminal (echo / termius) enable "remote login" if on mac (disable on public wifi) mosh/ssh into computer now you can do tmux then claude / codex / w/e on either device and reconnect freely via tmux ls and tmux attach -t <id> - - - You can name tmux and resume by name via tmux new -s <feature> and tmux attach -t <feature>
  • lukebechtel 8mo ago
    I also do this!
  • zeppelin101 8mo ago
    I think everyone started out with this
    • canadiantim 8mo ago
      I'm still doing this. Is there a better setup? It's already very convenient and secure.
      • zeppelin101 8mo ago
        I'm still doing this, too! The only thing I added was setting up notifications on my local machine using hooks in Claude Code (using a reverse ssh tunnel from my local machine to a VPS). As for fancier setups, I keep bookmarking them, but haven't gotten around to trying any of them, yet.
        • canadiantim 8mo ago
          Nice. What other fancier setups have you seen? I haven’t even come across any potential better alternative. Been playing around with tailscale’s new aperture service too which is awesome as well.
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• dnw 8mo ago
  Claude Code Team: Please fix the core experience instead of branching out into all these tertiary features. I know it is fun and profit to release new features but you need to go deeper into features not broader into there be dragons territory.
  • yoyohello13 8mo ago
    This is a classic case of vibe coding gets you 80% of the way there, but polishing takes the other 80%.
    • dnw 8mo ago
      There is that (you can still use coding agents on the other 80% to polish, by the way) but to me this situation underscores the value of a good "editor"--someone who says this is good to ship vs. not this not now.
  • Austin_Conlon 8mo ago
    I find Xcode's Claude Agent client to be much more stable than the Claude web and Mac apps.
• advael 8mo ago
  Weird all these companies struggle so much to support remote services, ssh has been working for me pretty seamlessly for like the 20 years I've been using it and has allowed me to remote-control any computer I own with relatively reliable authentication (with some hiccups that tend to be patched pretty rapidly when found) throughout that entire period. I hear tell it worked even before I was using computers professionally, too
  • interestpiqued 8mo ago
    Yeah but this is from an AI company so its mad different
    • advael 8mo ago
      Yea I've noticed that most things made by a company are worse and less reliable than things that are free and maintained by volunteers
      • parliament32 8mo ago
        This has always been the case, for pretty much everything. There's a reason the world's infrastructure runs on FOSS.
  • 52-6F-62 8mo ago
    Lol. I've been looking at this stuff wondering what the hell I was missing and what it was trying to solve. I was starting to think I've really fallen behind or something. I feel relief AND horror.
  • nonethewiser 8mo ago
    SSHing into a terminal with your phone is terrible UX. Very low bandwidth. Voice input into a native app is not. We are not talking about fine grained control of your system by running explicit commands. We are talking about programming in plain English.
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• skeptic_ai 8mo ago
  One more step closer to a closed source system. I think their objective is to move all your code on their systems so you can only modify the code through their AI so they have a moat and will be difficult to move away. They will “guard” your source code and you’ll never see it. Imagine if tomorrow they make a 10x smarter AI, but they say: you can only use if you upload your source code to us and you can’t see anymore the source code. So you either stay on lower end models or you give up and use a 10x model. I only see one issue: will be very difficult for them to “guard” the source code and don’t let you access.
  • ddxv 8mo ago
    Yeah, the only thing keeping them from doing that is that the open weight free models are just as good. I wonder if they would take away your ability to prompt, maybe only letting you run agentically.
    • skeptic_ai 8mo ago
      I have to agree. Also we still have alternatives. But I’m sure ALL of them are dreaming of having a captive audience/source code that only their AI can modify. It’s the ultimate power
  • suddenlybananas 8mo ago
    Seems like it could be problematic in the future since code can't be fixed by humans so the only source of future code for training is unedited Claudeslop.
    • skeptic_ai 8mo ago
      Just pay another few thousands to fix that bug. When all devs are gone and you only have AI, a small bug to fix will be charged at premium rates by Claude. He will say: the cost of this big is costing you 100k a year. We will fix for 10k one time fee.
• interestpiqued 8mo ago
  I don't get it, just ssh?
• schnell88 8mo ago
  Claude -browser /Remote-controll ??? Win?
• max8539 8mo ago
  I was just thinking about it two days ago - how nice it would be to use my local Claude code instead of the limited cloud version to make some ad hoc changes when I have a fresh idea on a hike. And two days later - here we go, a new release
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• alex7o 8mo ago
  I have been, doing doomcoding with tmux and ssh and oddly enough it was better experience than this.
• bpodgursky 8mo ago
  Anthropic is spitting out software in 2 weeks that took enterprises 24 months to ship 5 years ago (and was still buggy AF, let's please actually think about all the vmware citrix enterprise trash you tolerated). It'll get hardened over the next couple weeks. You all can pretend the software dev cycle hasn't changed... get real.
  • daringrain32781 8mo ago
    Except this time around the code is only maintainable using AI agents.
• johnwheeler 8mo ago
  I don’t know what open claw is really, but I’ve heard so much about it like everyone else. Is this anthropic’s answer to that?
  • abbadadda 8mo ago
    I’m genuinely wondering the same thing, seems like at least a precursor.
• exitb 8mo ago
  Maybe it’s related to what I tend to use the agents for, but I guess I don’t understand what is this for. Typically I try to structure the tasks in a way that require me to do or check something important when the agent gets back to me. If the agents query is trivial enough I can respond from my phone, it was likely not needed at all. If the agent finished - fine. It will have to wait until I get back in front of the computer anyway.
  • fluidcruft 8mo ago
    I've used similar things (omnara/happy) while taking walks. Sometimes I'll get an idea about the problem I'm working on and I can just dictate it into my phone and check in 15min later. I stopped being able to do that when claude added those nice interview panes to clarify things because it didn't work back then. But mostly it's really annoying when you think you've created the plan/prompt and that it's ready to go. But it gets stuck or decided to stop while you're away. I pretty often need to give Claude a "continue" kick. To be fair this happens far less after Opus 4.6. Also, I felt the need to use it far more when I was on Pro vs a Max plan. On Pro when you hit the usage windows it's nice to be able to kick claude back into gear without scheduling your life around getting back to the terminal to type "continue".
  • k8si 8mo ago
    - Plan mode -> answer questions/make corrections, continue planning - Some of us don't do full yolo mode all the time, then tool approvals or code reviews are required, nice to do a quick review and decide if you need to go back to your computer or not - Letting claude spin or handle a long-running task outside of normal work hours and being able to check in intermittently to see if something crashed
  • mattnewton 8mo ago
    I don't dangerously accept permissions outside of a few scripts I have reviewed as safe. This means claude gets stuck often when testing it's work, but also means it doesn't uninstall production workloads from the kubernetes cluster.
• iblaine 8mo ago
  Boggles my mind that this is actually a thing that still needs to be solved. Just remote into your computer (I prefer TeamViewer). That is it. One step.
  • Thrymr 8mo ago
    This just points out that Claude is not on your computer, only your interface to your Claude session is.
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• fy20 8mo ago
  Can anyone recommend a tool that gives a 'mission control' overview of multiple agents, but also combines some basic project management functionality. For example, maybe I have an idea for a feature and I want to spin up a new branch and have agents work on that. But then I get stuck or bored (I'm talking personal usage), so decide to park it. But maybe after a few days I have a shower thought and want to resume it. The current method of listing sessions and resuming them can work, but you need to find the right session. If there is something that shows all the branches, a docs overview of what that feature it, and the current progress it would make this workflow a lot more effective. Plus I switch LLMs when I hit rate limits. I'm probably going to just build it myself, but wondering if anyone has something that does this already.
  • patrickk 8mo ago
    Maybe combine Claude Code + Obsidian, so Claude can use the node structure as a second brain for projects. I was just watching this video (not affiliated): https://youtu.be/6MBq1paspVU https://youtu.be/6MBq1paspVU
  • Robdel12 8mo ago
    Honestly, build it yourself. I think we’re firmly in the personal software era (or disposable). But if you don’t want to, I’ve been building basically this https://github.com/Robdel12/OrbitDock https://github.com/Robdel12/OrbitDock Native macOS and iOS apps, backed by a rust binary that I put anywhere and connect to. Right now I’m just LAN but eventually will tailscale. Works with claude and codex. Both passively watching an active CLI session for both and you can take over those sessions if needed and interact in the app
  • mchusma 8mo ago
    Conductor (mac app) does some of this, might want to take a look.
  • joshwa 8mo ago
    https://github.com/BloopAI/vibe-kanban https://github.com/BloopAI/vibe-kanban
• conesus 8mo ago
  This new remote control handoff is neat but still requires you to remember to do the handoff. Oftentimes I’m waiting on an agent and then walk away. I built Crabigator[1] and it's a wrapper around `claude` and `codex`, so its ready for coding on the go on start and already streaming. Plus, crabigator shows many parallel windows, separated by repo/project/machine, so you can manage multiple agents seamlessly. [1]: https://drinkcrabigator.com https://drinkcrabigator.com
• siva7 8mo ago
  I don't think they target the pros here who already solved this problem with vpn/tmux/ssh but to those whose thrilled serious reaction will be "whoaaa crazy i can command claude code now from my phone while on the toilet or on a date?" It's basically a defense attempt against Openclaw.
• mikkupikku 8mo ago
  Very nice, maybe my days of wasting my work breaks on HN are coming to an end.
• clarity 8mo ago
  all i get is: "Error: Remote Control is not enabled for your account. Contact your administrator."
• amarant 8mo ago
  Could I not achieve this with a ssh client on my android, and use regular Claude code remotely that way? Or am I missing something?
• qwertox 8mo ago
  I would rather have them commit to make a standard out of --sdk-url. I really want to use it in production, but it being undocumented means they can take it away anytime, so stdout it has to be (and hooks).
• johnhamlin 8mo ago
  New speed record for time from LaunchHN to getting Sherlocked set by that company everyone was dunking on a couple of weeks ago
• kstenerud 8mo ago
  I just built yoloAI https://github.com/kstenerud/yoloai https://github.com/kstenerud/yoloai Gives me full sandboxing with bypass permissions, tmux, and cherry-pick level control over what gets pulled back out into my work dir. Mix in tailscale and I can control it from anywhere, on any device, with full transferrability using established and battle proven tooling.
• ashot 8mo ago
  check out codecast.sh for cross agent experience with this and much more!
• quatonion 8mo ago
  I used it to add a MIDI driver and support to my OS this afternoon. Worked okay, but I agree it is a bit clunky yet. I think it is pretty good for a preview release. Much better than nothing.
• renonce 8mo ago
  I built a project achieving similar goals. You launch a web server then connect to it using either browser or Android app, then create a session to talk to Claude Code. The sessions are synchronized in real time across all devices and automatically saved to disk and continued when server restarts. Recently I've added features to schedule tasks in the future and to assemble agent teams. The project is mostly vibe-coded with Opus 4.6 with few supervision beyond trying its functionalities out. Project is at http://github.com/vincent-163/claude-code-multi/ http://github.com/vincent-163/claude-code-multi/. Can be installed easily with nodejs. Please provide feedbacks and suggestions!
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• rgbrgb 8mo ago
  FWIW I just tried this to monitor / shepherd a PR while I was on the exercise bike and it was pretty seamless. Way easier than the tailscale/vibetunnel thing I got burnt out on last fall. I was using the Claude app on my iPhone and claude code on a MacBook pro. PR is merged, still on the bike :)
• Arubis 8mo ago
  Yes, yes. The Dropbox meme. But come on, you can literally just use ssh.
• croes 8mo ago
  Let’s wait how the ministry of war dilemma ends for Anthropic
• mihneadevries 8mo ago
  honestly this is a pretty natural move, mobile access to your coding agent makes sense when you just want to check on a long running task or review something quick. I've been building something similar, basically a way to run your full dev environment on your Mac and connect to it from iOS. terminal, files, AI agent all talking to the same session. the tricky part is honestly just keeping state in sync when you switch devices.
• gitaarik 8mo ago
  I've been using this open source Telegram bot, Claudegram. If you only use that on both desktop and mobile, you can just continue the same chat.
• kmg 8mo ago
  Good use case for away-from-laptop access to Claude Code. For a CLI product, Tailscale + tmux is a solid foundation — which many in this thread have converged on. I built a helper [1] that adds a monitoring layer on top: it watches tmux output and sends a push notification when Claude transitions from working to waiting for input. [1] https://github.com/kmg/tether https://github.com/kmg/tether