Artificial Intelligence

Claude Code Remote Control: Your AI Coding Agent in Your Pocket

Run /rc in your terminal. Open the link on your phone. Your Mac's Claude Code session is now in your pocket.

Claude Code Remote Control — Artificial Intelligence

There's a moment in every engineer's workflow where something clicks and the game changes. For me, it happened on a Saturday morning, lying on the couch with my iPhone, casually chatting with Claude Code — the same session running in my Mac's terminal across the room.

One slash command. That's all it took.

The Discovery

I run multiple Claude Code sessions on my Mac daily. Terminal tabs with different projects, different contexts, different conversations. It's my default workflow now — Claude Code is the backbone of how I build.

But I'd never tried <code>/rc</code>.

The moment I typed it, a link appeared in the terminal. I tapped it on my iPhone. The Claude iOS app opened, and there it was — my full Claude Code session, with all its context, tools, and filesystem access, right in my hand.

I was controlling my Mac's terminal from my couch.

How It Works

Remote Control (<code>/rc</code>) turns your local Claude Code session into a remotely accessible one:

  • Your Mac stays in control. Claude Code keeps running locally with full access to your filesystem, tools, and project configuration.
  • No inbound ports. Your machine only makes outbound HTTPS requests. Nothing opens up on your network.
  • End-to-end encrypted. The connection is routed through the Anthropic API over TLS — your code stays private.
  • Multi-device sync. Send messages from the terminal, the browser, or the mobile app. Everything stays in sync.

Your local machine is the execution engine. The phone is just another interface to the same conversation.

Setting It Up

It's almost embarrassingly simple:

  1. Open Claude Code in your terminal
  2. Type <code>/rc</code>
  3. A link appears — open it on your phone or in a browser
  4. The Claude app opens with your session. Start chatting.

That's it. Your phone is now a remote for your AI coding agent.

You need a Pro, Max, Team, or Enterprise subscription with claude.ai login. If your laptop sleeps, the session reconnects automatically when it wakes up.

For full details, check the official Remote Control documentation.

Why This Changes Things

This isn't just a cool trick. It changes when and where you can interact with your development environment.

Review code from anywhere. Waiting for coffee? Pull up your session and ask Claude to explain that function you were looking at.

Unblock yourself on the go. Got an idea while walking? Tell Claude to scaffold it. The files will be ready on your Mac when you get back.

Monitor long-running tasks. Kicked off a big refactor? Check progress from your phone without context-switching on your workstation.

The Meta Moment

This post is being written from my iPhone, chatting with Claude Code running on my Mac. I'm lying down, sending ideas through the Claude app, and it's writing, editing files, and managing my blog — all from a terminal session I can't even see right now.

If that's not the future, I don't know what is.

Getting Started

If you're already using Claude Code, you're one command away:

/rc

Open the link. Connect. Build from anywhere.

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