AgentsDock puts coding agents on your phone through a server you run: Reveneau

Why it mattersA long agent run does not have to keep you at the desk where it started, so a training job or a code review can be checked and directed from wherever you are without moving the keys or the session off your own machine.

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 computer, Windows PC or Android phone. The project reached Hacker News on 12 September and has received 64 points on its Show HN post so far. The current build is version 0.2.13-beta.33.

The two parts

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 how you use 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 is reached through 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 is available 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 are both 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 keeps the operator at the workstation where the session started. 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 waiting is the problem. Claude Code, Codex and Cursor all already have their own desktop clients, and this one adds the missing part: read and direct 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 state: 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 computer at home that stays on, can try it on their own machine.

Source

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

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