AgentsDock puts Claude Code, Codex and Cursor on your phone through a server you run

AgentsDock is a self-hosted client for Claude Code, Codex and Cursor that runs the coding CLIs on a remote machine you own and connects to them from a Mac, iPhone, iPad, Linux box, Windows PC or Android phone. The project reached Hacker News on 12 September and has picked up 64 points on its Show HN post so far. The current build is version 0.2.13-beta.33.

The two halves

The site describes AgentsDock as two pieces. AgentsServer is a small program installed once on a machine that stays on, either macOS or Linux. It listens on port 7850 and the installer prints an access token when it finishes, which is what each client uses to authenticate. The desktop and mobile app is the window into that server: it opens chats, edits files on the remote, and attaches to a persistent tmux session so the same shell is available from every device.

According to the setup guide, the Claude Code and Codex CLIs run on the remote using the developer's own accounts. AgentsDock says the app never proxies or sees the model requests, and that chats, files and API keys stay on the server the developer runs.

What it takes to reach it from elsewhere

Tailscale is listed as optional and only needed to reach the server from outside its local network. On the same Wi-Fi, the app accepts the machine's local IP directly. When the server sits behind Tailscale, both the remote and the client sign in to the same Tailscale account and the app connects to the machine's private 100.x.x.x address, which avoids exposing any port to the public internet.

What ships today

The downloads page lists a macOS Universal build for macOS 14 and up, an iPhone and iPad build through TestFlight, AppImage packages for Linux x86_64 and ARM64, a Windows exe, and an Android APK. The client and the server both live on GitHub under ZhengyiLuo. The AgentsServer repository has 72 stars and was created in May.

For a working developer, the practical change is small and specific. A model training run that lasts hours, a background code review, or an agent that fetches and edits files no longer ties the operator to the workstation the session started on. The screenshots on the site show a Codex chat returning inline plots and rendered videos from a simulation eval, which is the kind of long-running work where the wait is the pain. Claude Code, Codex and Cursor all already have their own desktop clients, and this one adds the missing side: read and steer them from a phone, without moving the credentials off the machine that owns them.

The project is in beta and marked as such on the site. Star counts are modest for a launch of this scope, which is fair to say out loud: 64 Hacker News points and 10 stars on the release repository are early signs, not proof of a large user base. Anyone whose workflow already relies on Claude Code or Codex, and who has a Mac mini or a Linux box at home that stays on, can try it against their own machine.

Source

Primary source: AgentsDock website. Show HN discussion: Hacker News item 49678435.