Start Claude from your phone

Keep a Claude Code Remote Control session up on a workspace, so you can open it from the phone at any time — no SSH session to start first, no terminal left open on your computer.

You need: Claude Code, controlled from your phone done first: a workspace with claude-code installed and acme already signed in with devmachine login claude --workspace acme.

Before you start: machine, skills, workspace

curl -fsSL https://mydevmachine.sh/install.sh | sh
devmachine setup
devmachine skills add
devmachine workspaces new acme
devmachine sync

Already have a machine? Skip setup. Already have the workspace? Skip the last two. See getting started for what each command does.

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.

By hand

1. Add the package

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

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

devmachine workspaces edit acme --set claude-remote-control.working_directory=/home/acme/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 acme (or the session_name you set) in the list — no SSH needed.

With your agent

Open a session on your own computer (devmachine skills add taught it the CLI) and say:

Add claude-remote-control to my devmachine workspace acme, working
directory /home/acme/app.

The agent adds the package, sets working_directory, and runs sync. If acme has not signed in to claude yet, sync says so — that sign-in step (devmachine login claude --workspace acme) is yours to do, since it opens a real terminal for you.

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

Source: Claude Code — Remote Control