Talk to your coding agent from your phone
Build a native phone app through which the person can continue working with you on their computer while they are away. Build it extremely well, with a dependable conversation and useful control over real work happening in their projects.
Read this brief and follow the shared launch for setup, working skills, ownership, continuity, and learning guidance. Discover the build and installation route for their actual phone and carry it through to an installed application.
The experience
The person has a computer where their coding agent can work on applications. From their phone, they choose a project, open or start a conversation, and ask for something. The agent can inspect the project and carry out the work using its normal capabilities. They can read its response, discuss a decision, answer a question, and interrupt the work when their direction changes.
Imagine they notice an awkward screen in an app while out. They ask the agent to improve it, explain what bothered them, and then put the phone away. The computer continues working. When they return, they can see what happened and continue the same conversation.
Connect the phone app to the coding-agent environment the person already uses, with its existing account and model access. Carry the conversations, working context, and actions between the phone and that environment. The person should recognize the project and agent they work with at their desk.
Remote work should use the same project instructions, installed skills, and working knowledge. Use the installed agent's supported integration capabilities so the phone participates in real agent sessions and can accurately show what happened.
Stay oriented while away
Make it clear which project and conversation are open. Keep messages readable on the phone, with useful progress and results easy to follow. The person needs to understand whether the agent is working, waiting for an answer, finished, or currently unreachable.
Give their own actions equally clear outcomes: they can see whether a message has reached the computer and whether an interruption took effect. A lost phone connection and stopped agent work are different events; the experience should make that distinction understandable.
The conversation survives switching applications, locking the phone, and reconnecting later. When the person returns, show the current conversation and the work completed during their absence. Keep the underlying project and its work available from the computer as well.
Connect their own devices
Use a private connection suited to the person's devices. Tailscale is a natural fit for reaching their computer while away. Establish the connection as part of making the application useful, with access belonging to the person and the devices they choose.
Explain what needs to stay running on the computer for the agent to be available. Help the person understand any account, model-usage, or service costs involved in their chosen setup. Select the installation and connection approach from their actual environment; own those engineering decisions.
Build a foundation they can keep using
The complete experience here is remote conversation, real project work, direction, interruption, and returning to what happened. Give those capabilities sustained attention through focused steps, then put them together in an installed app the person can use from their phone.
Exercise the remote working experience, including leaving and returning to a conversation. Help the person try a useful change to one of their projects and understand where the result lives. Keep the interface centered on the work they are directing.
Include a connection from outside the computer's local network in that experience. Help the person understand the roles of their devices: the phone carries their conversation and control, while the computer runs the agent and does the project work. They should know how to restore the connection and continue when a device has been unavailable.
Later, they may want voice conversations, photographs, completion notifications, previews, or a convenient way to install something the agent built. Notes captured during the day can become material for a conversation. Choose a foundation that allows those additions while preserving the conversations and projects they already rely on.