{"slug": "following-claude-code-from-a-phone-without-touching-the-account", "title": "Following Claude Code from a phone without touching the account", "summary": "Kiteline, an independent iOS/iPadOS app for following coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex and others from an iPhone, iPad or Apple Watch, is designed around three boundaries: it does not read or store Claude account credentials, does not log in on the user's behalf, and does not call Anthropic's API directly. Instead it reads the session records Claude Code writes locally and uses the extension points and terminal Claude Code exposes, with the phone connecting to the user's own computer over a LAN, peer-to-peer, or a relay. An optional, off-by-default background mode runs Claude Code on a remote machine, checks and displays the exit IP before enabling, and falls back to VS Code if the proxy, certificates and API endpoint cannot be read.", "body_md": "Anyone who follows a coding agent from a phone eventually asks the same question: will this put my account at risk?\n\nKiteline, an app for following coding agents (Claude Code, Codex and a dozen others) from an iPhone, iPad or Apple Watch, answers with three boundaries.\n\nIt does not read or store Claude account credentials, does not log in on the user's behalf, and does not call Anthropic's API directly. It only reads the session records Claude Code writes locally and uses the extension points and terminal that Claude Code exposes.\n\nThe phone talks to the user's own computer (directly on a LAN, otherwise peer-to-peer or through a relay). From Claude's side nothing changes: same machine, same network environment, no new device.\n\nAn optional feature runs Claude Code in the background on a remote machine so VS Code does not need to stay open. It is off by default and enabled per device; the exit IP is checked and shown before enabling; and the background process must use the same proxy, certificates and API endpoint as Claude Code inside VS Code. If those cannot be read, it falls back to VS Code and says why.\n\nKeep one machine and one network exit, do not share an account, do not hand credentials to third-party tools, and use the phone as a remote control only.\n\nClaude Code is Anthropic's product; Kiteline is an independent third-party tool. The desktop side is open source on GitHub; the phone app is iOS/iPadOS only (no Android).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/following-claude-code-from-a-phone-without-touching-the-account", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/hon6/following-claude-code-from-a-phone-without-touching-the-account-2je", "published_at": "2026-11-10 02:16:52+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-11-10 02:21:00.891023+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-tools", "developer-tools", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Kiteline", "Claude Code", "Anthropic", "Codex", "GitHub", "VS Code", "Apple Watch", "iOS"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/following-claude-code-from-a-phone-without-touching-the-account", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/following-claude-code-from-a-phone-without-touching-the-account.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/following-claude-code-from-a-phone-without-touching-the-account.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/following-claude-code-from-a-phone-without-touching-the-account.jsonld"}}