Continue a local Claude Code session from your phone, tablet, or any browser using Remote Control. Works with claude.ai/code and the Claude mobile app.
--verbose: show detailed connection and session logs--sandbox/--no-sandbox: enable or disable sandboxing for filesystem and network isolation during the session. Sandboxing is off by default.
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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.
By monkeydust 2026-02-2516:116 reply Struggled with it also, given up (for now).
I thought coding was a solved problem Boris?
I have little doubt where things are going, but the irony of the way they communicate versus the quality of their actual product is palpable.
Claude Code (the product, not the underlying model) has been one of the buggiest, least polished products I have ever used. And it's not exactly rocket science to begin with. Maybe they should try writing slightly less than 100% of their code with AI?
More generally, Anthropic's reliability track record for a company which claims to have solved coding is astonishingly poor. Just look at their status page - https://status.claude.com/ - multiple severe incidents, every day. And that's to say nothing of the constant stream of bugs for simple behavior in the desktop app, Claude Code, their various IDE integrations, the tools they offer in the API, and so on.
Their models are so good that they make dealing with the rest all worth it. But if I were a non-research engineer at Anthropic, I wouldn't strut around gloating. I'd hide my head in a paper bag.
By rhubarbtree 2026-02-2523:271 reply I don’t think that’s fair. ChatGPT and Gemini also seem to suffer random outages. They’re dealing with high load on a new type of product.
But it’s also true that Anthropic products are super buggy.
By jaapz 2026-02-268:45 It's almost as if a lot of anthropic's stuff is vibecoded
By jopsen 2026-02-2521:23 Even when it's operating normal the webapp is constantly crashing.
Mobile app stops working..
It's a pain.
At least right now.
By bennycha 2026-02-2618:09 I find the GitHub issue experience particularly hellish: search for my issue -> there it is! -> only comment "Found 3 possible duplicate" Generated with Claude Code -> go to start.
I am constantly amazed how developers went hard for claude-code when there were and are so many better implementations of the same idea.
It's also a tool that has a ton of telemetry, doesn't take advantage of the OS sandbox, and has so many tiny little patch updates that my company has become overworked trying to manage this.
Its worst feature (to me at least), is the, "CLAUDE.md"s sprinkled all over, everywhere in our repository. It's impossible to know when or if one of them gets read, and what random stale effect, when it does decide to read it, has now been triggered. Yes, I know, I'm responsible for keeping them up to date and they should be part of any PR, but claude itself doesn't always even know it needs to update any of them, because it decided to ignore the parent CLAUDE.md file.
By abustamam 2026-02-262:42 Sometimes the agent (any agent, not just Claude — cursor, codex) would miss a rule or skill that is listed in AGENTS.md or Claude.md and I'm like "why did you miss this skill, it's in this file" and it's like "oh! I didn't see it there. Next time, reference the skill or AGENTS.md and I'll pick it up!"
Like, isn't the whole point of those files to not have to constantly reference them??
By nonethewiser 2026-02-261:581 reply What bugs have you encountered? It's been a smooth experience for me.
Not a big exactly but if pip doesn’t work it goes straight to pip —break-system instead of realizing it needs a venv
Also if a prisma migration fails it will say “this is dev it’s ok to erase the database” before rerunning the command with —accept-data-loss
By abustamam 2026-02-262:40 Given how many projects I've seen that run prisma migrations on prod from their local CLI instead of CI...
This scares me.
By Aeolun 2026-02-2522:28 Still better than the codex or gemini cli though :)
Coding is a solved problem. Problems with the code - these are far from solved, in fact they're multiplying, but coding is definitely solved
By ValentineC 2026-02-2517:323 reply What does "solving" coding mean?
By david_shaw 2026-02-2517:47 > What does "solving" coding mean?
Maybe this was sarcasm, but it's a good point:
"Coding" is solved in the same way that "writing English language" is solved by LLMs. Given ideas, AI can generate acceptable output. It's not writing the next "Ulysses," though, and it's definitely not coming up with authentically creative ideas.
But the days of needing to learn esoteric syntax in order to write code are probably numbered.
By naruhodo 2026-02-264:45 It can generate lots of code.
Some [1] of it is even correct.
[1] Model Collapse Ends AI Hype @39:45, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShusuVq32hc&t=2385s
By lunarboy 2026-02-2517:40 It types code, wallah!
By timmmmmmay 2026-02-263:47 coding like a hospital patient
It is solved in his org. He never promised quality software, though.
You get a buggy electron app and they get billions in valuation.
Clearly no one values quality anymore. 1000% yolo
By abustamam 2026-02-262:43 Why have quality when agents can just fix issues when other agents encounter them?
/s
By richard___ 2026-02-2516:341 reply He is trolling to increase the stock price before IPO
By consumer451 2026-02-260:56 OK, but seriously... if Anthropic is on the "best" path, aside from somehow nuking all AI research labs, an IPO would be the most socially responsible thing that they could do. Right?
By sunir 2026-02-2517:57 Until problems are a solved problem, I feel I'm ok.
By Thrymr 2026-02-2519:38 Generating code is a solved problem. Some people think that is the same thing.
By adamtaylor_13 2026-02-2514:018 reply That's a bummer. I was looking forward to testing this, but that seems pretty limiting.
My current solution uses Tailscale with Termius on iOS. It's a pretty robust solution so far, except for the actual difficulty of reading/working on a mobile screen. But for the most part, input controls work.
My one gripe with Termius is that I can't put text directly into stdin using the default iOS voice-to-text feature baked into the keyboard.
By elliotbnvl 2026-02-2515:013 reply I’ve been doing this for a while [1], but ultimately settled on a building a thin transport layer for Telegram to accept and return media, and persistent channels, vastly improved messaging UX, etc. and ended up turning this into a ‘claw with a heartbeat and SOUL [2].
[1] https://elliotbonneville.com/phone-to-mac-persistent-termina...
[2] https://elliotbonneville.com/claude-code-is-all-you-need/
By adamtaylor_13 2026-02-2516:001 reply I really enjoyed reading both posts. Thanks for sharing!
I, like many others, have written my own "claw" implementation, but it's stagnated a bit. I use it through Slack, but the idea of journaling with it is compelling. Especially when combined with the recent "two sentence" journaling article[1] that floated through HN not too long ago.
[1] https://alexanderbjoy.com/two-sentence-journal-approaches/
By elliotbnvl 2026-02-2516:11 Happy you liked it! Always really nice to get positive feedback.
I’ll have to check out the journaling article. I’ve been journaling a lot more lately!
By bavell 2026-02-2517:44 Great posts! So far [2] is the only "claw" that has caught my interest, mostly because it isn't trying to do everything itself in some bespoke, NIH way.
By botverse 2026-02-2522:01 I ended doing a similar thing, but each tg bot can choose what repo/session to attend to.
https://github.com/botverse/tgcc
I found that cc is all you need indeed
By fun_society 2026-02-2522:02 I was doing something similar, but it felt clunky on my phone.
Wrote a daemon + mobile app (similar to Happy, but fixed a lot of the problems) and baked in Tailscale support.
Will open source it soon and should have an official release in the next few weeks: https://getroutie.com/
By yoyohello13 2026-02-2516:071 reply I've been using email and Cloudeflare email router. You don't get the direct feedback of a terminal, but it's much easier to read what's happening in html formatted email.
It also feels kind of nice to just fire off an email and let it do it's thing.
By adamtaylor_13 2026-02-2523:43 Oooh, now this is a very interesting idea. I live in my inbox and keep it quite tidy. Email is the perfect place to fire-and-forget ideas and then come back to a full response.
Do you have a blog outlining how you set it up? I'm curious to learn more.
How can the like most popular terminal emulator not accept voice input? That's crazy why hasn't someone made something better?
By elliotbnvl 2026-02-2515:02 Wispr Flow on mobile fills this gap.
By dionian 2026-02-2515:44 it works in Blink. is there a better terminal in ios i should use
By manojlds 2026-02-2514:06 I use opencode web (server running on my desktop) and accessing it from my phone and it works well.
By bg24 2026-02-2514:23 Same here. So I have to resort to speaking elsewhere (notes app) and copying/pasting.
By denvermullets 2026-02-2519:19 same but i use android. so i just talk to a google keep note and then copy/paste it. helpful for longer things
By jasonjmcghee 2026-02-2517:28 Echo supports this.
By BloondAndDoom 2026-02-2517:504 reply Exactly my experience, I know they vibe code features and that’s fine but it looks like they don’t do proper testing which is surprising to me because all you need bunch of cheap interns to some decent enough testing
By djtriptych 2026-02-2521:072 reply No there is a wide gap between good and bad testers. Great testers are worth their weight in gold and delight in ruining programmer's days all day long. IMO not a good place to skimp and a GREAT place to spend for talent.
By throwup238 2026-02-2522:40 > Great testers are worth their weight in gold and delight in ruining programmer's days all day long.
Site note: all the great testers I've know when my employers had separate QA departments all ended up becoming programmers, either by studying on the side or through in-house mentorship. By all second hand accounts they've become great programmers too.
By mkreis 2026-02-2711:43 So true. My first job was in QA. Involuntarily, because I applied for a dev role, but they only had an opening for QA. I took the job because of the shiny company name on my resume. Totally changed my perspective of quality and finding issues. Even though I liked the job, it has some negative vibes because you are always the guy bringing bad news / critizing others peoples work (more or less). Also some developers couldn't react professionally to me finding bugs in their code. One dev team lead called me "person non grata" when coming over to their desk. I took it with pride. Eventually I transitioned to develoment because I did not see any career path or me in QA (team lead positions were filled with people doing the job for 20+ years).
By cube00 2026-02-2523:32 > they don’t do proper testing
They bring down production because the version string was changed incorrectly to add an extra date. That would have been picked up in even the most basic testing since the app couldn't even start.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46532075
The fix (not even a PR or commit message to explain) https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/commit/63eefe157ac...
No root cause analysis either https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/16682#issue...
Thats not true. Even for testing things, you need to do thoroughly now because standards are high.
By otabdeveloper4 2026-02-2521:13 > all you need bunch of cheap interns to some decent enough testing
Sounds like a problem AI can easily solve!
By Cameri 2026-03-110:08 Yup, it's very broken at this time, that's if you manage to get a reliably connection or the session to even show up.
There are probably multiple Claude agents running as we speak trying to fix the issues.
By gas9S9zw3P9c 2026-02-2514:451 reply Does that mean more issues will show up soon?
By graybeardhacker 2026-02-2515:561 reply You just tripled my productivity!
By co_king_5 2026-02-2515:57 [dead]
By gedy 2026-02-2516:48 You jest but I was flabbergasted when doing some AI backed feature that the fix was adding a "The result you send back MUST be accurate." to the already pretty clear prompt.
By sakesun 2026-02-261:05 They've run out of token quota.
You're not making either of them look good. Maybe they should have used Gemini?
By canadiantim 2026-02-2516:40 They say a picture is worth a thousand words, they should've just used Nano Banana
By bonoboTP 2026-02-2521:59 Also broken for me.
First of all /remote-control in the terminal just printed a long url. Even though they advertise we can control it from the mobile app (apparently it should show a QR code but doesn't). I fire up the mobile app but the session is nowhere to be seen. I try typing the long random URL in the mobile browser, but it simply throws me to the app, but not the session. I read random reddit threads and they say the session will be under "Code", not "Chats", but for that you have to connect github to the Claude app (??, I just want to connect to the terminal Claude on my PC, not github). Ok I do it.
Now even though the session is idle on the pc, the app shows it as working... I try tapping the stop button, nothing happens. I also can't type anything into it. Ok I try starting a prompt on the pc. It starts the work on the PC, but on the mobile app I get a permission dialog... Where I can deny or allow the thing that actually already started on the pc because I already gave permission for that on the PC. And many more. Super buggy.
I wonder if they let Claude write the tests for their new features... That's a huge pitfall. You can think it works and Claude assures you all is fine but when you start it everything falls apart because there are lots of tests but none actually test the actual things.
By yoyohello13 2026-02-2516:122 reply I'm willing to bet most of their libraries are definitely vibe coded. I'm using the claude-agent-sdk and there are quite a few bugs and some weird design decisions. And looking through the actual python code it's definitely not what I would classify 'best practice'. Bunch of imports in functions, switching on strings instead of enums, etc.
I had to downgrade to an earlier release because an update introduced a regression where they weren't handling all of their own event types.
By short_sells_poo 2026-02-2516:38 A few weeks ago the github integration was completely broken on the claude website for multiple days. It's very clear they vibe code everything and while it's laudable that they eat their own dogfood, it really projects a very amateurish image about their infrastructure and implementation quality.
I think they are betting that any of this code is transient and not worth too much effort because once Opus 5 is traimed, they can just ask it to refactor and fix everything and improve code quality enough so that things don't fall apart while adding more features, and when opus 5.5 comes out it will be able to clean up after opus 5. And so on. They don't expect these codebase to be long lived and worth the time investment.
at the moment it's impossible to distinguish between AI boosters who really believe that Claude is nearly AGI and jokes about them
By ithkuil 2026-02-2516:37 Poe's law?
By tomashubelbauer 2026-02-2515:13 In theory, comments on Hacker News should advance discussion and meet a certain quality bar lest they be downvoted to make room for the ones that meet the criteria. I am not sure if this ever was true in practice, it certainly seems to have waned in the years I have been a reader of this forum (see one of the many pelican on a bike comments on any AI model release thread), but I'd expect some people still try to vote with this in mind.
Being sarcastic doesn't lower the bar for a comment to meet to not get downvoted, so I wouldn't go thinking people miss the sarcasm without first considering whether the comment adds to the discussion when wondering why a comment is downvoted.
By kirab 2026-02-2514:57 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.
By esafak 2026-02-2514:55 Graduates of the Zoolander Center for Kids Who Can't Read Good and Who Wanna Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too?
By EQmWgw87pw 2026-02-2515:551 reply Tbh, after using it myself, I genuinely don’t see it writing code this buggy, so I don’t get what’s going on here
By MontyCarloHall 2026-02-2516:37 I'm willing to bet you don't full-on YOLO vibecode like the lead Claude Code developer, running 10 Claude Code sessions in parallel to push 259 pull requests that modify >40k lines of code in a month [0]? There is zero chance any of that code was rigorously reviewed.
I use Claude Code almost every day [1], and when used properly (i.e. with manual oversight), it's an amazing productivity booster. The issue is when it's used to produce far more code than can be rigorously reviewed.
[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1px44q0/claude_co...
By buremba 2026-02-2519:49 I think they should be aware that CC is big enough codebase that they can't vibe code anymore.
By paxys 2026-02-2514:21 Remember 100% of Claude Code is written by Claude
By giancarlostoro 2026-02-2515:002 reply > - You can't interrupt Claude (you press stop and he keeps going!)
This is normal behavior on desktop sometimes its in the middle of something? I also assume there's some latency
> - At best it stops but just keeps spinning
Latency issues then?
> - It can get stuck in plan mode
I've had this happen from the desktop, and using Claude Code from mobile before remote control, I assume this has nothing to do with remote control but a partial outage of sorts with Claude Code sometimes?
I don't work for Anthropic, just basing off my anecdotal experience.
By botverse 2026-02-2521:25 On top of that is something they should have had from earlier times. My biggest pain point is to not to be able to continue from my phone. I just use a service to pipe telegram to any cc session in the dev machine. This is the number 1 reason why I got excited by openclaw in the first place but its overkill to have it just to control cc
By panarky 2026-02-2523:55 Not just the mobile app, but also Claude Code Web is super unreliable.
Frequently chews through lots of expensive Opus tokens, then it just stops with no communication about why or what's next.
No way to tell what it's done, what's remaining to complete.
Only choice is to re-run everything and eat the cost of the wasted time and tokens.
By swordsith 2026-02-268:17 This is my general experience with the claude app, I don't know what they're smoking over at anthropic but their ability to touch mobile arch inappropriately with AI is reaching critical levels.
By ashot 2026-02-2520:44 check out codecast.sh its so far ahead :)
By 8note 2026-02-2518:13 oh. i was excited for a native alternative to happy coder, or sshing to a tmux session, but i guess not:/
By xhcuvuvyc 2026-02-277:12 Idc, thanks for shipping early.
By melecas 2026-02-2521:19 [dead]
Omnara founder here.
We’ve been building in this space for a while, and the issues listed here are exactly the hard parts: session connectivity, reconnection logic, multi-session UX, and keeping state in-sync across devices. Especially when it comes to long running tasks and the edge cases that show up in real use.
By swordsith 2026-02-268:41 bot
By jasonjmcghee 2026-02-2516:008 reply 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>
I have just today discovered zmx [1] which is like tmux but I always hated the tmux terminal emulation and how it hijacks scrolling, especially on Termius on my phone. It does session persistence but I think without the terminal emulator side of things, so scrolling works normally.
Been testing it today with Claude Code and it seems to work quite well switching between my laptop and phone.
By jacob019 2026-02-2522:27 I also hate how tmux uses alt mode and can never remember all the shortcuts, copy paste is a PITA and just today I had to look up how to dump the scrollback buffer to a file. Named sessions without window management makes a lot more sense these days. Similarly, I'm not a fan of all the ANSI escape codes that CC uses to jump the cursor around and rewrite the display to look like a GUI. I prefer a TUI that doesn't mutate rows after writing them, that's what alt mode is for. CC often clears whatever was in the scrollback buffer before you opened it, it hides bracketed paste, and goes crazy sometimes when content overflows the window and I have to resize the terminal or get blasted with a wall of glitching characters--extra annoying if I'm working from a low bandwidth link. I develop my own agent framework and code agent, and while some features aren't as polished as CC, one of my explicit goals is to preserve the traditional CLI feel, like the python REPL (that's what it's based around). I'll give zmx a try tonight :)
By xpe 2026-02-2523:03 It can help to recognize that tmux combines three kinds of functionality: 1. process persistence; 2. client attachment; 3. view layout. If you don't like how tmux works, there are alternatives. I prefer Zellij [1]. (It also can be informative to take a peek at dtach [2] and abduco [3].)
[1]: https://zellij.dev and https://github.com/zellij-org/zellij
[2]: https://github.com/crigler/dtach and https://dtach.sourceforge.net
By zeppelin101 2026-02-2516:212 reply I think everyone started out with this
By jasonjmcghee 2026-02-2516:35 I think people familiar with tmux/screen and tailscale or how to setup their own VPN might have.
Based on my experience many people don't know this is a thing you can do.
By canadiantim 2026-02-2516:271 reply I'm still doing this. Is there a better setup? It's already very convenient and secure.
By zeppelin101 2026-02-260:501 reply 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.
By canadiantim 2026-02-2613:432 reply 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.
By zeppelin101 2026-02-2717:56 Here are a few more I saw just now:
* https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1rg4wdy/i_got_t...
By zeppelin101 2026-02-272:12 Here are 2 that I found in my bookmarks that I haven't tried:
* https://github.com/laurentenhoor/devclaw
* https://www.workforest.space/
I see these kinds of repos and projects being posted on Reddit all the time. I just never get around to trying them :(
Do you have an alias or something so that every time you open CC, tmux is running?
How do you deal with multiple concurrent sessions of CC with this setup?
How important is mosh? I wasn't able to get it set up the last time I tried... ran into a bunch of issues.
By olalonde 2026-02-2521:34 I always setup my terminals to open a tmux session by default (or attach to any existing one). For example, in my ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.toml:
tmux supports tabs so you can have multiple Claude Code sessions running concurrently. You do need to learn a few tmux keyboard shortcuts to use it effectively (e.g. opening/closing/switching tab).[terminal.shell] args = ["-l", "-c", "tmux attach || tmux"] program = "/opt/homebrew/bin/zsh"By jasonjmcghee 2026-02-2522:19 Sorry didn't answer "how important is mosh?"
Depends- how good is your signal? Mosh has a great property that it buffers everything locally so there's no lag even if your connection sucks.
On ssh, every keystroke is a roundtrip
By jasonjmcghee 2026-02-2518:03 "tmux ls" shows you all the open tmux sessions
Could even use cc to check in on and/or "send-keys"
What wasn't working about mosh? Just install mosh and use mosh to connect
By simlevesque 2026-02-2519:35 I recommend Eternal Terminal instead of mosh for this.
By nebben64 2026-02-2615:32 Thanks for the tip. Other ppl are saying "most of us started out like this" but if you haven't played with tailscale etc. (like me). Then this is new and good for learning imo
By fittingopposite 2026-02-2517:522 reply Yes. Doing the same. What is the advantage of this new feature? Tmux/Tailscale/Termius give you full control of your terminal. Or mainly to save the end user the hassle to set it up correctly?
> Or mainly to save the end user the hassle to set it up correctly
It's this.
Don't have a Dropbox moment ;) [1]
By jasonjmcghee 2026-02-2518:20 Oh lots of people will not be comfortable with tmux approach. The anthropic feature makes sense. But it's Max only and doesn't work well according to other comments.
What I posted "just works".
Ease of setup is the biggest reason. I use this setup as well, but there are other UX niceties that would be a lot better with a dedicated mobile app: push notifications when Claude needs your input (I use a hook for this that connects to Pushover, but that's another service and extra setup), voice input, autocorrect that's right for this context, etc.
By fittingopposite 2026-02-2522:071 reply Very interesting. Tell me more about your push notification setup!
By mlinsey 2026-02-261:22 I have a hook in my claude.json that fires on "Stop", it calls a shell script (written by Claude, of course) that calls the Pushover API: https://pushover.net/, which lets you send push notifications to your device. It's paid, but just a one-time fee when you install the app on your phone.
The shell script takes a message which includes Claude's message, but unfortunately there's no deeplinking back to my ssh app (for obvious reasons, the notification just routes you to the pushover app), so instead of tapping the message, I know to just open my Blink shell app to respond to Claude.
This is also quite noisy when I'm just sitting at my desk working, but I usually turn off phone notifications while working anyway.
By oakashes 2026-02-260:18 I do this and it is powerful, but I find that not being able to swipe/autocorrect my mobile typing in Termius makes things pretty painful.
By lukebechtel 2026-02-2516:09 I also do this!
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.
I was having too many bugs using it with my phone, I gave up and went back to Termux
By dizhn 2026-02-2512:48 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)
