Claude Code runs on your laptop.
Drive it from your phone.
Start a session in any folder on your machine, then walk away. Your laptop keeps it running, so locking the phone, closing the app or losing signal changes nothing. Come back an hour later and the terminal is exactly where you left it, still working.
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api-refactor ~/work/orbit Rename the column too, or keep a view for now?
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docs-pass ~/work/orbit Editing docs/protocol.md
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flake-hunt ~/dev/pico Running 214 tests
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bump-deps ~/dev/pico exit 0
Three things, once
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Install Orchestrator on the computer you want to reach.
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Install Orc Terminal on your iPhone.
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Scan the QR code your computer puts on screen.
That is the whole setup. No account to make, no port to forward, no VPN to join.
Nothing to open, nothing to forward
Your phone reaches your machine from anywhere — hotel Wi‑Fi, cellular, a train. Your laptop dials out; nothing listens on your home network. The relay in between moves bytes it cannot read.
A real terminal, not a chat box
Scrollback, arrow keys, Ctrl‑C, tab completion, resize when you rotate, and as many sessions at once as you like. It is the actual terminal, not a summary of one.
Your machine, your files
Sessions run on your own computer, as you, with your own tools and your own credentials. Nothing executes in anyone else's cloud, and there is nothing to sign up for.
It tells you when Claude needs you
Claude Code tells the service the moment a session stops to ask a question. Your phone knows within about two seconds and buzzes, even with the app closed.
Pairing a phone is like handing someone your unlocked laptop
So it is worth being plain about it. A paired device can run any command as you. That is the product, not an oversight — the whole thing reduces to one question: did only your own devices ever pair?
What guards that: your machine generates its own TLS certificate, and the phone pins its fingerprint from the QR code and switches the system trust store off entirely, so the pin is the only authority. Pairing codes are six digits, live five minutes, and are destroyed after five wrong guesses in total. Each phone holds an Ed25519 key made inside the Keychain, marked device-only, so it is never in a backup and cannot be restored onto another phone. Revoke a device whenever you want.
Where it is right now
Version 0.1, and honestly beta. The machine side runs on Linux and macOS; the phone side is iPhone. Windows is not supported yet, and neither is Android. It has been driven end to end from a phone on cellular, and it is what I use every day — but early access means you are testing it, and you will find things.
Want in?
Send me a line about what you would use it for. I am letting people in a few at a time.