Remote control
Driving or watching a session from your phone, or from another machine.
Built in first
Claude Code has native remote control — check /config in an interactive
terminal before installing anything. Sessions started with it can be monitored
and steered from claude.ai. The desktop app also exposes sessions across
machines on the same account.
If the built-in covers it, stop here: a third-party tunnel is another thing holding your credentials.
Third-party
| Tool | Shape |
|---|---|
| Happy Coder | Mobile client + web, end-to-end encrypted, the most established |
| CloudCLI | Web/mobile PWA for remote session management |
| omnara | Mobile dashboard across agents |
"Yepanywhere" did not resolve to a maintained project when I checked — it may be a misremembered name. Happy Coder is the closest thing to what it was likely describing.
GitHub Copilot CLI
Has its own remote control: track and steer CLI sessions from github.com or the mobile app. Worth knowing if your employer standardises on Copilot — see Copilot.
Before you connect anything
A remote-control bridge holds a session that can read your repos and run commands. Same scrutiny as an SSH tunnel:
- Is the transport end-to-end encrypted, and who holds the keys?
- Does the vendor's server see your prompts and code?
- What happens to the session if the app is uninstalled?
- On a work machine: does your employer's policy allow it at all?
On a corporate machine, assume the answer is no until IT says otherwise.
The low-tech option
tmux + ssh. No vendor, no new credentials, works today, and a phone SSH
client is enough to check on a long run.