Auto AI Anywhere
📱 Your VS Code AI agent — open on your phone, from anywhere
Run your coding agent in VS Code, then pick it up on your phone over your own
domain — on Wi-Fi, on 4G, across the city. The live conversation mirrors to any
phone browser in real time: read what it's doing, send new messages, answer
its questions, and browse past conversations — all from your pocket.
📱 phone → https://your-domain.com → (cloudflare/ngrok tunnel) → VS Code on your PC
- Open anywhere — same Wi-Fi works out of the box (LAN address); add a tunnel
(cloudflared / ngrok) and set
claudeCustom.remotePublicUrl to reach it from any
network via your own domain.
- Two-way & live — streamed answers, tool activity, diffs; tap to reply, answer
prompts, start a new chat, or reopen history — the desktop follows along.
- Always-on option — flip
claudeCustom.autoStartRemote and Remote comes up the
moment VS Code launches, so your domain always has a live session behind it.
- Token-guarded — every endpoint is protected by a secret token in the URL.
Unofficial. This is an independent extension and is not affiliated with,
endorsed by, or sponsored by Anthropic. It reuses a locally-installed agent
CLI on your machine; no API key is bundled or required.
✨ Also great
- 🚀 Autonomous "Allow all" mode — runs every tool without prompting and keeps
going until the task is fully complete (no turn cap). One click switches
between Ask before edits / Edit automatically / Allow all.
- 📄 Reads PDF / Word / Excel — attach (📎) or paste (Ctrl/⌘+V) PDFs,
.docx,
.xlsx/CSV, text, and images (screenshots) as context. Documents are extracted
to text; images go in as vision input.
Also included
- Streaming markdown answers, collapsible tool cards, diffs, to-do lists.
- Context-usage ring (click to compact) + per-turn token & cache stats.
- Customizable shortcut buttons,
/ command autocomplete, copy/delete on
messages, code-block copy & collapse.
- Lives in the sidebar or as an editor tab (draggable across groups / windows).
📱 Using phone remote
- Run "Auto AI Anywhere: Start Remote Access (phone)" from the Command Palette.
It shows a token-bearing URL — open it in your phone browser.
- Same Wi-Fi: use the LAN address shown — done, no setup.
- Any network (4G / away from home): point a tunnel at
127.0.0.1:8788
(e.g. cloudflared tunnel), then set claudeCustom.remotePublicUrl to your
domain. Start Remote now also offers an Open Domain link that works anywhere.
- Keep it always-on: enable
claudeCustom.autoStartRemote so Remote starts
with VS Code and your domain always has a live session behind it.
Settings (search "Auto AI Anywhere")
| Setting |
What it does |
claudeCustom.remotePublicUrl |
Your public domain tunnelled to the Remote server — enables an "any network" domain link |
claudeCustom.autoStartRemote |
Start Remote automatically when VS Code launches |
claudeCustom.permissionMode |
default / acceptEdits / bypassPermissions (allow all) |
claudeCustom.model |
Default model (empty = account default) |
claudeCustom.systemPromptAppend |
Append to the system prompt (e.g. answer language/style) |
claudeCustom.effort |
Thinking/output depth |
Requirements
- A supported agent CLI installed and logged in on the machine (auth is reused).
VS Code ^1.94.0.
- For phone remote: same Wi-Fi (LAN), or a tunnel (cloudflared / ngrok) + a domain
in
claudeCustom.remotePublicUrl for any-network access over your own URL.
Develop / run
npm install
npm run build # or: npm run watch
Press F5, then open the view from the Activity Bar, or run
"Auto AI Anywhere: Open Chat in Editor".
⚠️ Allow all mode auto-runs any tool (edits, shell, deletes) without asking.
Switch to Ask before edits via the </> button for untrusted projects.
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