Anthropic Ships Remote Control for Claude Code, Turning Your Phone Into a Terminal Window
Claude Code now lets developers kick off tasks on their desktop, walk away, and continue the session from a mobile device — a quiet architectural shift that treats the coding agent as a persistent background process rather than a chat window.
Anthropic released Remote Control, a new feature for Claude Code that decouples the AI coding agent from the device it's running on. As @claudeai announced, developers can now start a task in their terminal, leave their desk, and pick up the session on their phone while Claude continues executing on the original machine. The feature is rolling out in research preview to Max subscribers, according to @noahzweben.
The mechanics are straightforward but the implications are not. Remote Control treats Claude Code less like a chatbot and more like a daemon — a persistent process that keeps working regardless of whether you're watching. You monitor progress, approve decisions, or redirect the agent from whatever screen is in your hand. It's the first major coding agent to ship seamless multi-device handoff as a first-class feature, and it signals where Anthropic thinks the interaction model is heading.
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