{"slug": "show-hn-skylands-run-coding-agents-on-any-machine-approve-from-your-phone", "title": "Show HN: Skylands – Run coding agents on any machine, approve from your phone", "summary": "Kevin Hoffman released Skylands, a tool that lets developers dispatch coding agents to any machine they can access from any browser and approve permission requests from a phone. Skylands supports Claude Code, Gemini, Codex and Goose, and keeps a secure, signed log of agent actions and approvals plus a central inbox for conversation history; it installs via Homebrew on macOS or Linux, with `skylands devworld up` starting an embedded NATS server, a citadel and a per-machine daemon. The release targets developers running multiple agents across repositories and locations who otherwise spend time herding terminal sessions and VPNs.", "body_md": "Once developers get past the initial adoption stage and start using AI assistants and harnesses for real work (aka \"in anger\"), their needs change. Managing multiple agents working in multiple repositories from different locations and apps becomes a real pain and slows down the work. Developers end up herding terminal sessions and VPNs more than they orchestrate agents.\n\nYou can use *any agent* you like, or mix and match however you choose. Skylands supports **Claude Code**, **Gemini**, **Codex**, and **Goose**, with more to come.\n\nSkylands solves that problem by giving you a single interface through which you can dispatch agent work to any machine you have access to, from any browser you like. Tell your agents to start working on your dev box from your laptop and approve permission requests from your phone, all with a fun 3D interface that also supports a unified inbox for all your work.\n\nSkylands gives you a ***secure**, **signed*** log of everything your agents do and every approval or rejection you provide, no matter where the agent's running or what it's doing. Conversation history is available through a central inbox rather than hidden deep within some obscure sub-directory.\n\nIf you want to use Skylands in your agentic development workflow, then check out the documentation at [docs.skylands.ai](https://docs.skylands.ai).\n\nThe rest of the information in this README applies mostly to those looking to *contribute* to Skylands.\n\nInstall Skylands with [Homebrew](https://brew.sh) on macOS or Linux:\n\n```\nbrew tap skylands-ai/tap\nbrew trust skylands-ai/tap\nbrew install --cask skylands\n```\n\nThe [installation page](https://docs.skylands.ai/getting-started/installation/) has the other ways to install it. Then start a world on this machine:\n\n```\nskylands devworld up\n```\n\n`devworld up` runs an embedded NATS server, a citadel, and a daemon for this\nmachine in one process, so you get the castle and one island. The first time,\nit prints a link to set the world up:\n\n```\n Set up this world. Open this link in a browser:\n\n    http://127.0.0.1:8080/setup#...\n```\n\nOpen it and set the world up. After that, the\nworld is at [http://127.0.0.1:8080](http://127.0.0.1:8080), and that browser opens it as a valid approver.\n\n  Created with joy by Kevin Hoffman · [GitHub](https://github.com/autodidaddict) · [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinshoffman/) · [Blog](https://kevinhoffman.blog)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-skylands-run-coding-agents-on-any-machine-approve-from-your-phone", "canonical_source": "https://github.com/skylands-ai/skylands", "published_at": "2026-11-13 15:08:46+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-11-13 15:22:09.178478+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-tools", "developer-tools", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Skylands", "Kevin Hoffman", "Claude Code", "Gemini", "Codex", "Goose", "Homebrew", "NATS"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-skylands-run-coding-agents-on-any-machine-approve-from-your-phone", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-skylands-run-coding-agents-on-any-machine-approve-from-your-phone.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-skylands-run-coding-agents-on-any-machine-approve-from-your-phone.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-skylands-run-coding-agents-on-any-machine-approve-from-your-phone.jsonld"}}