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The creator of Claude Code just revealed his INSANE workflow
Alex Finn distills Boris Czerny's X thread into 7 executable Claude Code workflow steps — from parallel terminals to end-of-session verification.
January 6thThe argument in one line.
Claude Code's new Remote Control feature lets developers continue projects on their phone while code execution stays local on their desktop, eliminating the cloud sync and merge friction that made mobile coding workflows impractical.
Read if. Skip if.
READ IF YOU ARE…
- You're a developer who uses Claude Code on desktop and wants to continue coding on your phone without SSH tunneling or cloud syncing friction.
- A solo developer or small team building projects locally who needs mobility without sacrificing execution speed or code merge complexity.
- You're considering OpenClaw but want to understand Claude Code's mobile workflow before deciding which AI coding tool fits your process.
SKIP IF…
- You primarily work in cloud-based IDEs or collaborative environments where local execution doesn't match your team's infrastructure.
- You've already adopted OpenClaw as your primary coding assistant — this video doesn't compare feature parity in depth beyond the closing framework.
The full version, fast.
Claude Code Remote Control lets you start a coding session on your desktop and continue it natively from your phone, with all execution staying on your local machine instead of running in the cloud. You begin a project in the terminal, type the slash remote control command, and the session hands off to the Claude mobile app or a browser link � but the actual file writes, builds, and tests keep happening on your computer, so there is no code to pull, merge, or reconcile when you return. Use this for deep, hands-on builds where you want to guide complex work between contexts; reach for OpenClaw instead when you need quick prototypes from scratch, agent tooling, or passive overnight task queues.
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00:00 – 00:57
01 · Hook and feature intro
Productivity claim, feature announcement, agenda callout boxes.
00:57 – 03:08
02 · Setup walkthrough
Opens Claude Code in terminal, shows Remote Control docs page, types /remote control for the first time.
03:08 – 03:45
03 · V1 Second Brain app
Demo of the built markdown editor at localhost:3000 — creates note, adds folder, discovers drag-and-drop is missing.
03:45 – 06:06
04 · Mobile session live
Types /remote control, opens Claude app on phone, prompts drag-and-drop feature from mobile, code executes locally in real time.
06:06 – 06:42
05 · Final working app
Back to desktop, drag-and-drop into folders works. Zero-merge return from mobile.
06:42 – 08:42
06 · OpenClaw vs Claude Code framework
Chalkboard comparison slide. OpenClaw: quick prototypes, tooling, passive work. Claude Code: big projects, deep work, quick fixes.
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- Claude Code Remote Control runs all execution locally on your desktop — your phone is only the prompt interface, not the compute environment.
- Typing /remote control during any Claude Code session instantly makes that session accessible from your phone's Claude app or mobile browser.
- No code merging, no SSH, no terminal emulation — Remote Control eliminates the technical friction that previously made mobile coding impractical.
- The moment you send a prompt from your phone, the changes appear on your local computer in real time — there is no sync step when you return.
- Claude Code is better for deep, long-running local builds; OpenClaw is better when you need 24/7 always-on execution while your computer is off.
- Remote Control is Anthropic's direct response to OpenClaw's always-available mobile interface — closing the gap on the feature that most differentiated it.
- Starting a project on desktop and moving to mobile mid-session is the intended workflow — deep planning on a keyboard, quick iteration on the go.
- The /remote control slash command requires no setup beyond having the Claude mobile app installed — it generates a link that connects the two sessions.
- Sending a prompt from the gym and having code running on your home machine when you return is now the default developer workflow, not a hack.
- Claude Code with recent models can produce a fully functional markdown editor with drag-and-drop in a single session from a beginner-level prompt.
- The Claude mobile app shows a live feed of every file change happening on your desktop — giving full visibility without requiring a second monitor.
- Use Claude Code for sessions where your computer stays on; use OpenClaw for tasks that need to run autonomously while you sleep.
Remote Control keeps code local while you roam
What it teaches
Claude Code's Remote Control feature lets a session continue from a phone while execution stays on the original desktop machine — no SSH, no cloud merges, no extra setup required.
01Hook and feature intro
- Remote Control removes the need for any SSH or terminal emulation to continue a coding session from a phone.
02Setup walkthrough
- Remote Control is triggered with a single slash command and immediately makes the active Claude Code session available on a mobile device.
- The feature can be invoked at any point during an existing session — it does not require a special project setup ahead of time.
03V1 Second Brain app
- Building a working v1 on desktop first — then switching to mobile — is the intended workflow, not starting from scratch on the phone.
- Identifying a missing feature during a desktop test and then building it via mobile demonstrates the core value of the handoff.
04Mobile session live
- All code execution stays on the local desktop computer — nothing runs in the cloud — so returning to the machine requires no merge, pull, or conflict resolution.
- When the agent presents permission prompts during a mobile session, you can respond inline — the session stays interactive rather than blocking until you return to the desktop.
05Final working app
- Returning to the desktop after a mobile session requires no extra steps — the changes are already there because execution never left the local machine.
06OpenClaw vs Claude Code framework
- Quick prototypes and passive overnight tasks favor cloud-based agents because they run without a desktop staying on; Remote Control is better for hands-on, guided, deep-work sessions.
- A tool that already has full context about your project setup is better suited for adding new tooling to that project than a fresh desktop session without that context.
- Quick targeted bug fixes that need to ship immediately are a strong use case for a local terminal agent over a cloud-based one.
Terms worth knowing.
- Claude Code
- Anthropic's command-line coding agent that runs in a terminal, reads and edits files on a local machine, and executes commands to build software through natural-language instructions.
- Remote Control
- A Claude Code feature, invoked with the /remote control slash command, that hands an active desktop coding session off to a phone so a user can keep prompting while execution continues on the original computer.
- Slash command
- A keyword prefixed with a forward slash typed inside an AI coding tool to trigger a built-in action, such as /remote control to mirror a session to a phone.
- SSH
- Secure Shell, a protocol for opening an encrypted terminal connection to a remote computer. Previously used as a workaround to drive a home machine from a phone before native mobile support existed.
- Terminal emulation
- Running software on a phone or tablet that imitates a desktop command-line interface, used as a workaround for coding remotely before purpose-built mobile clients existed.
- OpenClaw
- A competing autonomous coding agent that can run long-running, multi-task jobs in the background, including while the user is away or asleep, often controlled through chat apps like Telegram.
- Cloud-based agent run
- An execution model where an AI coding agent works on code inside a hosted environment rather than on the user's own machine, requiring the user to pull and merge results back locally afterward.
- Merge conflict
- A situation in version control where two sets of code changes affect the same lines and must be reconciled by hand before they can be combined, adding friction when work happens in separate environments.
- Next.js
- A popular React-based web framework for building full-stack JavaScript applications with built-in routing, server rendering, and a local development server.
- Markdown
- A lightweight plain-text formatting syntax that uses simple symbols for headings, bold, lists, and links, commonly used for notes and documentation.
- Obsidian
- A popular note-taking application that stores markdown files locally in folders on the user's computer, often cited as a reference design for personal knowledge tools.
- localhost:3000
- The default web address a developer's machine uses to preview a locally running Next.js app in the browser during development.
- Vibe coding
- An informal style of software development where the user describes desired behavior in natural language and lets an AI agent generate and iterate on the code rather than writing it line by line.
- Prototype
- A quick, rough version of an app built to test an idea, intentionally lightweight and disposable rather than production-ready.
- Passive work
- Coding tasks queued for an autonomous agent to grind through unattended — for example overnight — without the user actively supervising each step.
- Tooling
- Supporting utilities and scripts built around a primary system, such as dashboards, helpers, or memory managers that extend what an AI agent can see and do.
Things they pointed at.
Lines you could clip.
00:00
“You're about to become five times more productive.”
04:50
“This isn't happening in the cloud. This isn't happening in GitHub. This isn't gonna force me to have to pull down code when I get back to my computer and merge.”
07:14
“I'll give it a list of 20 different tasks to do. I'll go to sleep, and it will go down that list while I'm sleeping. Claude code still can't do that.”
07:33
“Big, complex, hairy projects that I wanna be hands on with that I wanna guide step by step.”
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You're about to become five times more productive. Anthropic just released a new feature for Claude code that I've been waiting for forever, and I'm sure you have too. You can now Claude code natively on your phone, on the go, wherever you are, and have the projects built out on your computer.
No need to do any sort of crazy SSH or terminal emulation to get this going on your phone. You can now run projects from your phone that build on your computer without having to do any sort of technical work. It's official.
You can Claude code anywhere. If you're a nerd like me, you can officially touch grasp while also still Claude coding. In this video, I'll cover how it works, how to get it set up, how to build your first app with it where we'll start building on the computer, then take it on the go.
I'll cover some best practices, and I'll show you when you wanna be using Claude code and when you wanna be using OpenClaw, because this is clearly indirect response to Open Claw. Now let's lock in and get into it.
So this is not a channel where we just sit here and read blog posts for fifteen minutes. Let's just go straight into building a project with ClaudeCode Mobile. If you follow along with me here, you'll not only build a really cool app, but you also see how Claude Mobile works.
I am in my terminal. What we are going to do is start a brand new project. So I'm gonna start building this on our computer, then we are going to move it to mobile.
That's the key workflow here. That's what they're going for is you start your deep dive projects on your computer. And then when you're ready to go, maybe you gotta go to the gym.
Maybe you gotta grow maybe you gotta grab a SOTY pop. I don't know. You can hit a button, and all of a sudden, it will be on your device, and you can continue your Claude code sessions on the go.
So let's do this. I'm in a brand new project folder. I'm gonna do Claude.
I'm gonna say, yes. I trust this folder. And at any time during this session that we want, I can do slash remote control, and that will send this project to my Claude app on my phone so I can keep going on the go.
And what's so powerful about this is this isn't running on the cloud like Claude code was before on mobile, where you give it prompts and it does stuff on the cloud. That adds a lot of friction to your process where you need to pull down code, merge it, and a whole bunch of other things which can get complex. This is different.
When you send it to your phone, it actually keeps running on your computer. So when you get back to your computer, you can just test it right away. You don't need to merge code or do anything complex that's tougher for newer people.
So let's kick this off. Let's build v one in the app, then I'll send it to my mobile, and I'll show you how this works. So I'll put this prompt down below.
Feel free to take it. Build this along with me, and I'll show you how to bring it on mobile. I wanna build a second brain app.
This is an Obsidian like note editor where I can edit markdown files and save them to folders. Make it simple and beautiful. The bonus part about this, if you build this out, this could be a great plugin for your OpenClaw that you can use to store all your memory.
So let's do this. I'm gonna hit enter. One last thing I'll add on, use Next.
J s to build this store notes locally. I'm gonna hit enter on that, and Claude code is gonna get to building. I'm going to show you v one of this on my desktop in a second, and then I will show you how to move this to mobile and show you what the mobile building workflow is like.
Alright. Looks like the v one's gonna have a lot of really cool stuff in it, man. Claude code with hope is 46 is so good.
So let's get it built out here. So I went to local host 3,000. Wow.
This is what we got. This is pretty nice looking. Let's see.
They even wrote us a welcome note. Total markdown editor right there. Amazing.
We got all the different markdown options at the top. We can bold it, put it in different formats.
Let's create a new note. Test note. Do this.
Like and subscribe. Looks like that works. Okay.
Can we put that in a folder? We'll call this join Vibe Coding Academy. Boom.
We got the folder. I cannot click and drag notes. I cannot click and drag notes.
Let's do this. Let's send this to mobile and finish our work on the go. So maybe I gotta go to the gym.
I gotta get a pump on to keep my biceps and triceps massive. Let's send this to mobile so I can keep working on this app in between bench press sets here. So we'll do this.
I'm gonna do slash remote control. So slash remote control sends this session to your mobile device.
Boom. There it's going. So it has a link.
So you have two options now with this new mobile feature. You can either copy this link and put it in your browser on your phone and keep it going from the browser. The other option you have for running this is on your Claude app.
So if we come in here and I actually open up the Claude app, you can see it automatically takes me to the session we're just in. So let's do this.
Let's start building on the go. So I'm on the bench press. I hit a personal record of two hundred fifty pounds.
I just come up with an idea. I wanna make it so I can click and drag notes into different folders. So I go in here and I say, make it so I can click and drag notes into different folders in the sidebar, and I hit enter.
And it gets to work. And what's happening is, you can see it over here on the right, it's actually doing the work on my local computer.
This isn't happening in the cloud. This isn't happening in GitHub. This isn't gonna force me to have to pull down code when I get back to my computer and merge and figure out where conflicts are and put in another hour of work.
It's just doing it locally on my computer. This is going to save me so much time of having to figure out different merges and things like that. It all just happens locally in one single place.
And it's quick too. You can see the moment something happens on my phone, it's happening on my computer. And this is a really nice UI too.
You can see all the code changes. You can see every little thing it's doing in here. This is a really nice user interface for using Claude code.
Before this, so many people were coming up with hacks and workarounds. They were emulating their terminal on their device. They were SSH ing from their phone to their computer.
Whole bunch of things that required extra complex work that is no longer needed. It is just built in natively, and this is really, really cool. And you can see even when it gives you options, you can choose the options in here.
So let's do allow for this session, and it goes, and it will build it out for us. All we had to do is in Claude code when we start working slash remote control, and boom, we're on mobile doing work on the go. So there it goes.
It says it's all done. Let's give it a test. I click.
I drag. Boom. It's in the folder now, and it works Just like that on the go.
I come back to my computer, and I have fully working code. But the question becomes this. If you've been watching this channel last month, you know I've become obsessed with OpenClaw.
When should you be using ClawedCode? When should you be using Open Claw? Because this is clearly a shot at Open Claw.
This is clearly Anthropic trying to make ClawedCode closer to the functionality of Open Claw. One of the things that makes Open Claw so great is you can do work on the go.
You can be on your computer, then you go on the go, and it's still doing work on your computer even when you're on mobile. Well, let me break it down for you. I got answers for you right here.
There are times when you wanna use OpenClaw to do your vibe coding work. There's times when you wanna use Claude code. I use OpenClaw if I'm just trying to do quick prototypes.
Maybe I'm on the go. I think of an idea for an incredible app. I go to my telegram.
I message my OpenClaw. It builds out the prototype real quick for me. It is fantastic at that.
If I'm building out tooling for Open Claw so I'm always adding new tooling for my Open Claw, ways to manage my agents, see different information about work they're doing. I like to use Open Claw for that because it has all the context and memories about your setup, And I also like it for passive work. What do I mean by passive work?
This could be work I wanted to do while I'm sleeping. So I'll give it a list of 20 different tasks to do. I'll go to sleep, and it will go down that list while I'm sleeping.
Claude code still can't do that. But for Claude code in this mobile functionality, I'm doing it for big projects.
Right? So big, complex, hairy projects that I wanna be hands on with that I wanna guide step by step.
I'm using ClaudeCode for it. If I'm in deep work and I'm focused, I'm not multitasking, I just wanna focus on doing one thing really well, I'll still use Claude Code for this because Claude Code is so good at giving you the nuance and asking you tons of questions. Open Claw doesn't really ask you questions as you go.
And then just quick fixes I need to ship. If there's a bug in my app Creator Buddy or something like that, I'll just go to Claude Code, say, hey. Fix it, and then I'll say ship it, and it's good to go.
Claude Code, for those really quick fixes I just need to ship out. But that is the new Claude Code mobile experience. It's incredible.
I'll be using it all the time to continue my deep work on the go. If you learned anything in this video, leave a like down below. Make sure to subscribe and turn on notifications.
All I do is make amazing videos about AI. I will also be adding a full deep dive guide on this ClaudeCode mobile experience to the VibeCode Academy and do a live boot camp on it as well. So make sure to click the link down below to join that.
I do live boot camps every single week, and you get access to all the past recordings. Hope this was helpful. I'll see you in the next video.
The Hook
The bait, then the rug-pull.
Five times more productive — that is the opening bid. Alex Finn is not here to read blog posts; he is here to build a working app, hand it off to his phone mid-session, and prove that Claude Code Remote Control is not cloud magic but genuine local execution you can control from the gym.
Named ideas worth stealing.
06:42model
OpenClaw vs Claude Code Decision Matrix
- OpenClaw: quick prototypes, tooling for OpenClaw, passive work (while sleeping)
- Claude Code: big projects, deep/complex work, quick fixes I need to ship
Clean two-column mental model for choosing between the two tools based on task type and attention level required.
Steal forAny content about choosing between AI coding tools — drop this as a callout or slide in a video, newsletter, or course module.
01:44list
Remote Control Workflow
- 1. Start Claude Code session on desktop
- 2. Type /remote control
- 3. Open Claude app on phone or follow the link in browser
- 4. Prompt from phone — execution stays on your local machine
- 5. Return to desktop — code is already there, no merge needed
Five-step workflow for setting up and using Claude Code Remote Control.
Steal forSwipe file for any tutorial about the feature. Also a natural checklist for a newsletter or course.
How they asked for the click.
VERBAL ASK
08:22product
“I will also be adding a full deep dive guide on this ClaudeCode mobile experience to the VibeCode Academy and do a live boot camp on it as well. So make sure to click the link down below to join.”
Soft sell — positions the CTA as added value (bootcamp recording) rather than a hard ask. Delivered while still talking through the outro, no pause or tone shift.
MENTIONED ON CAMERA
FROM THE DESCRIPTION
PRIMARY CTAWhere the creator wants you to go next.
OTHER LINKSAlso linked in the description.
Visual structure at a glance.
