Start Claude from your phone

Keep a Claude Code Remote Control session up on workspace alice, so you can open it from the phone without ever opening an SSH session yourself.

You need: workspace alice, with claude-code installed and logged in — see Claude Code, controlled from your phone.

What claude-remote-control does

It runs claude remote-control in the background on the server, and starts it again on its own after a crash, a network drop, or a reboot — so a session is always waiting for you, even with nobody logged in. It only starts once the account has signed in to claude; with no sign-in yet, sync tells you that instead of trying anyway.

1. Add the package

devmachine packages add claude-remote-control --workspace alice
devmachine sync

2. Point it at a project, if you want one specific directory

devmachine workspaces edit alice --set claude-remote-control.working_directory=/home/alice/app
devmachine sync

Empty keeps the default, ~/dev.

3. Open it from the phone

In the Claude app, tap Code, and find the session named alice (or the session_name you set) in the list — no SSH needed.

Check it: the session shows a green status dot, online, and a message typed there reaches the machine.

Source: Claude Code — Remote Control