In this video, I'll be telling you about Anthropic's new Remote Control feature for Claude Code, which lets you control your coding sessions from your phone while everything still runs locally on your machine.

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Key Takeaways:

📱 Claude Code's new Remote Control feature lets you manage coding sessions from your phone or any device.
🔒 Everything runs locally on your machine with end-to-end encryption and no cloud transfer.
⚡ Start a Remote Control session with just one command, either claude rc or slash rc inside an existing session.
🔄 Sessions stay alive even if your laptop sleeps or your network drops, and reconnect automatically.
🆚 Remote Control is Anthropic's official, more secure alternative to OpenClaw for coding workflows.
💰 Available now for Claude Max plan users, with Claude Pro users getting access soon.
🛠️ OpenClaw is still the better choice for a full personal AI assistant beyond just coding tasks.

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Anthropic has released a 'Remote Control' feature for Claude Code (version 2.1.52+) that lets developers monitor and interact with their local coding sessions from a phone or any browser. Sessions are started with `claude rc` in the terminal or `/rc` inside an existing session, generating a QR code and URL for mobile access. The local environment—file system, MCP servers, tools—keeps running on the developer's machine while the session stays alive even through network drops or sleep. The feature is compared to OpenClaw, an open-source tool many developers used for the same purpose via messaging apps like WhatsApp and Telegram. Remote Control wins on simplicity and security for the coding use case, while OpenClaw remains broader as a general personal AI assistant connecting to 500+ apps. Claude Code is also noted to have reached a $2.5B annualized run rate with 4% of public GitHub commits attributed to it.

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