{"slug": "claude-code-remote-control", "name": "Claude Code Remote Control", "category": "ai-coding", "category_name": "AI coding tools", "description": "", "recommenders": 3, "commenters": 6, "warners": 0, "score": 3.225, "rising": -0.98, "first": "2026-02-25", "latest": "2026-07-29", "why": "I'm super happy Anthropic finally releases this tool.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 1, "compare": 2, "warn": 0}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "I'm super happy Anthropic finally releases this tool.", "kind": "", "icon": false, "domain": null, "github_repo": null, "official_url": "", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Claude Code Remote Control", "Claude Code remote control"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 770265920, "item_id": 48141620, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48141620", "by": "20kleagues", "date": "2026-05-14", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use it daily and it seems to work pretty well", "excerpt": "Out of curiosity, what issues did you face with remote control on claude? I use it daily and it seems to work pretty well (bar the issues when my Mac would sleep and then the session would disconnect, but that's an issue on my end).", "context": "", "use_case": "Remote Claude Code sessions", "switched_from": "", "story": "Work with Codex from Anywhere"}, {"id": 754410689, "item_id": 47150668, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47150668", "by": "petesergeant", "date": "2026-02-25", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "when I\u2019m on the go the RC app is more convenient", "excerpt": "I\u2019m running the agent in tmux in a colo. When I\u2019m at a computer I use that, when I\u2019m on the go the RC app is more convenient", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Code Remote Control"}, {"id": 754381536, "item_id": 47148846, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47148846", "by": "kzahel", "date": "2026-02-25", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I'm super happy Anthropic finally releases this tool.", "excerpt": "It's not an argument whether you can be more productive on phone or desktop. Some people (like myself) simply don't have much time to be dedicated at desks so we have to build workflows that support being able to at least be reasonably productive from our phones. I'm super happy Anthropic finally releases this tool. It's a starting point and I hope they'll improve it. I did a comparison with its features / capabiliti", "context": "", "use_case": "Controlling Claude Code from phone", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Code Remote Control"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["remote coding agent control", "remote claude code sessions", "controlling claude code from phone"], "compared": [{"slug": "claude-code", "name": "Claude Code", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47148454", "title": "Claude Code Remote Control", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49097325", "title": "Show HN: ShellTeam \u2013 web app to steer coding agents on your VPS", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48140529", "title": "Work with Codex from Anywhere", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47303111", "title": "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? 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But I got tired of the terminal as the interface: I tried Termius on my phone but it was quite painful the moment I tried to paste screenshots or record voice notes. The best thing I found was Claude's remote-control feature, but it locks me to one coding agent / LLM provider, and therefore I'm stuck as soon as I hit my usage limit. ", "context": "", "use_case": "remote coding agent control", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: ShellTeam \u2013 web app to steer coding agents on your VPS"}, {"id": 770265920, "item_id": 48141620, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48141620", "by": "20kleagues", "date": "2026-05-14", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use it daily and it seems to work pretty well", "excerpt": "Out of curiosity, what issues did you face with remote control on claude? I use it daily and it seems to work pretty well (bar the issues when my Mac would sleep and then the session would disconnect, but that's an issue on my end).", "context": "", "use_case": "Remote Claude Code sessions", "switched_from": "", "story": "Work with Codex from Anywhere"}, {"id": 757204067, "item_id": 47325254, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47325254", "by": "simosmik", "date": "2026-03-10", "version": null, "stance": "compare", "quote": "only lets you view and approve sessions, not fully control your instance", "excerpt": "Building CloudCLI, an open-source web/mobile UI for Claude Code, Cursor CLI, Codex, and Gemini. You run npx @siteboon/claude-code-ui and it discovers all your existing sessions from ~/.claude/projects/ and gives you a browser interface to control them from any device. Started it because I wanted to develop from my phone while working on another project (Siteboon, a website builder). Open-sourced it last June and wasn", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"}, {"id": 754536464, "item_id": 47158529, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47158529", "by": "mike-cardwell", "date": "2026-02-25", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "That's a bit of a pain though of course.", "excerpt": "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", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Code Remote Control"}, {"id": 754410689, "item_id": 47150668, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47150668", "by": "petesergeant", "date": "2026-02-25", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "when I\u2019m on the go the RC app is more convenient", "excerpt": "I\u2019m running the agent in tmux in a colo. When I\u2019m at a computer I use that, when I\u2019m on the go the RC app is more convenient", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Code Remote Control"}, {"id": 754381536, "item_id": 47148846, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47148846", "by": "kzahel", "date": "2026-02-25", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I'm super happy Anthropic finally releases this tool.", "excerpt": "It's not an argument whether you can be more productive on phone or desktop. Some people (like myself) simply don't have much time to be dedicated at desks so we have to build workflows that support being able to at least be reasonably productive from our phones. I'm super happy Anthropic finally releases this tool. It's a starting point and I hope they'll improve it. I did a comparison with its features / capabiliti", "context": "", "use_case": "Controlling Claude Code from phone", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Code Remote Control"}]}