Claude Code on your Phone is OFFICIAL (it changes everything)

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About this video

Filmed while travelling in Japan with his family, Chuck reacts to Anthropic’s new official remote feature for Claude Code, which he calls Claude Code Remote or Remote Control. Working in a Claude Code terminal session on his laptop, he types the /remote-control command, then opens the native Claude app on his phone, goes to Claude Code, and finds that same in-progress session ready to resume — typing on the phone appears in the laptop terminal and vice versa. He stresses this is not remoting into the machine or using a VPN: Anthropic handles the connection, and the work still runs on his laptop, so it uses his machine’s resources and all the skills he has configured there. He demonstrates this by asking, from his phone, for a thumbnail for this very video, and notes he used it at the zoo that day. The ask tool’s questions can also be answered from the app. He frames it as Anthropic coming for OpenClaw, since remote access to his Claude Code CLI was mainly what he wanted OpenClaw for, while acknowledging OpenClaw does more. Caveats he raises: it is a research preview, he believes it is limited to Max and possibly Pro users, notifications prompted him but did not seem to work properly, generated thumbnail files were not actually delivered to the phone, and his main feature request is the ability to start a brand-new session from the phone — currently he would first have to remote into the laptop, start a session and change into a project directory, then enable remote control.

Key takeaways

Typing /remote-control in a Claude Code session makes that session resumable inside the native Claude app on your phone
The connection is handled by Anthropic — no VPN or remote-desktop setup — while execution still uses your laptop’s resources and configured skills
Prompts and the ask tool’s questions can be answered from the phone, with activity mirrored live in the laptop terminal
Chuck’s stated limitation: you cannot yet start a new session from the phone; a session must first be started on the computer
He describes it as a research preview, mentions Max and possibly Pro availability, and found notifications and file delivery to the phone not fully working

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