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Follow a run from your phone

Start a long task in Coder on your computer, walk away, and keep up with it from your phone: read its steps and send a reply that Coder picks up on your computer. This works in your phone's browser, with nothing to install.

1. Set up your computer once

In a terminal on the computer where Coder runs:

coder login

Approve the code at openagents.com/device. When Coder asks where this computer's chats should live, choose Sync all my chats (1). If you chose to keep them on this computer before, type this inside Coder:

/sync on

Messages that look like they hold a password or key are never sent.

2. Start the work

Open Coder in your project and give it the task:

cd ~/code/my-project
coder

Upgrade the project to the new major version of the web framework,
fix what breaks, and run the tests until they pass.

Leave Coder open: a reply from your phone reaches it only while it's running on that computer.

3. Open it on your phone

  1. On your phone, open openagents.com and log in with the same account.
  2. Tap Open menu at the top left of openagents.com to see your chats. A chat from Coder is marked with your computer's name.
  3. The chat shows Coder's steps: its edits, its commands, and their results.

4. Reply from your phone

Write your reply in the chat's message box and tap Send (Enter on a keyboard). Coder picks up your reply as soon as it's free, shows it in the chat on your computer as your message, and answers with that computer's files and commands. The answer shows on your phone as usual.

When Coder isn't open on that computer, the page says so and offers no reply box. Open Coder again in the same folder and type /resume to pick the chat back up.

Steps that wait for you

A deploy, a merge, a secret, a payment, or a DNS change waits for your Y or N at the computer. If nobody is there to answer, the agent finishes what it can and hands that step back to you. See Safety.

The iPhone app

OpenAgents for iPhone is in beta. Once your phone is connected to your computer, it can also start Coder there, queue messages for the next turn, and stop a run. See Watch, steer, and stop Coder.

Next: Use Coder on Windows.