---
title: "Remote Control"
description: "Your phone as a window into the session running on your machine."
order: 24
duration: "10 min"
chapter: "06-delegation-not-prompting"
type: lesson
---

## Your phone as a window into a local session

Start Claude Code in Remote Control mode and your machine becomes reachable from anywhere:

```bash
claude remote-control
```

Press the spacebar and it shows a QR code. Scan it with the Claude app on your phone and you are connected — full read/write access to the same session running on your machine. (From an existing session, the `/remote-control` command does the same thing without restarting. Turn on push notifications in the app and Claude pings you when it needs a decision.)

<div class="callout">
  <div class="callout-label">What Remote Control Is Not</div>
  <p>Nothing runs in the cloud. Your code, your files, your MCP servers — everything stays on your machine. The phone is a thin client that sends messages and receives responses; the connection is outbound-only, no ports opened. The full local environment, including all connected MCP servers, is available through the phone interface.</p>
</div>

<div class="exercise">
  <div class="callout-label">Try This</div>
  <p>Run <code>claude remote-control</code> in your terminal and press spacebar to show the QR code. Scan it with your phone. Walk away from your desk — across the room, to the kitchen, wherever. From your phone, ask Claude a question that uses your skill. Cornwall Market: Sarah scans the QR code, walks out to the shop floor, and asks from her phone, "What transactions from last week are still uncategorized?" Claude checks the files and responds — from her phone, while she is standing in the produce aisle.</p>
  <p>Notice how the relationship feels different. You are not at the computer. The computer is doing the work. You are steering.</p>
</div>

**Next:** [Cloud Sessions and Dispatch](/mastering-claude/06-delegation-not-prompting/25-cloud-sessions-and-dispatch/)