Show HN: Omnara – Run Claude Code from anywhere (github.com)
Run 'pip install omnara && omnara', and you'll have a regular Claude Code session. But you can continue that same session from our web dashboard (https://omnara.com/) or mobile app (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/omnara-ai-command-center/id674...).
Check out a demo here: https://www.loom.com/share/03d30efcf8e44035af03cbfebf840c73.
Before Omnara, we felt stuck watching Claude Code think and write code, waiting 5-10 minutes just to provide input when needed. Now with Omnara, I can start a Claude Code session and if I need to leave my laptop, I can respond from my phone anywhere. Some places I've coded from include my bed, on a walk, in an Uber, while doing laundry, and even on the toilet.
There are many new Claude Code wrappers (e.g., Crystal, Conductor), but none keep the native Claude Code terminal experience while allowing interaction outside the terminal, especially on mobile. On the other hand, tools like Vibetunnel or Termius replicate the terminal experience but lack push notifications, clean UIs for answering questions or viewing git diffs, and easy setup.
We wanted our integration to fully mirror the native Claude Code experience, including terminal output, permissions, notifications, and mode switching. The Claude Code SDK and hooks don't support all of this, so we made a CLI wrapper that parses the session file at ~/.claude/projects and the terminal output to capture user and agent messages. We send these messages to our platform, where they're displayed in the web and mobile apps in real time via SSE. Our CLI wrapper monitors for input from both the Omnara platform and the Claude Code CLI, continuing execution when the user responds from either location. Our entire backend is open source: https://github.com/omnara-ai/omnara.
Omnara isn't just for Claude Code. It's a general framework for any AI agent to send messages and push notifications to humans when they need input. For example, I've been using it as a human-in-the-loop node in n8n workflows for replying to emails. But every Claude Code user we show it to gets excited about that application specifically so that’s why we’re launching that first :)
Omnara is free for up to 10 agent sessions per month, then $9/month for unlimited sessions. Looking forward to your feedback and hearing your thoughts and comments!
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 70.6 ms ] threadTruly — this is an excellent and accessible idea (bravo!), but if I can whittle away at a free and open source version, why should I ever consider paying for this?
Maybe that is more for a general engineer than a Hacker though - hacker to me implies some sort of joy in doing it yourself rather than optimizing.
* LLM's are lousy at bugs
* Apps are a bit like making a baby. Fun in the moment, but a lifetime support commitment
* Supporting software isn't fun, even with an LLM. Burnout is common in open source.
* At the end of the day, it is still a lot of work, even guiding an LLM
* Anything hosted is a chore. Uptime, monitoring, patching, backing up, upgrading, security, legal, compliance, vulnerabilities
I think we'll see github littered with buggy, unsupported, vibe coded one-offs for every conceivable purpose. Now, though, you literally have no idea what you're looking at or if it is decent.
Claude made four different message passing implementations in my vibe coded app. I realized this once it was trying to modify the wrong one during a fix. In other words, claude was falling over trying to support what it made, and only a dev could bail it out. I am perfectly capable of coding this myself, but you have two choices at the moment--invest the labor, or get crap. But, then we come to "maybe I should just pay for this instead of burning my time and tokens."
I do not how it is implemented, but if I can press ‘continue’ from my phone, someone else could enter other commands… Like export database…
I can already see how this evolves into something where you're basically managing a team of specialized agents rather than doing the actual coding, you set up some high-level goals, maybe break them down into chunks, and then different agents pick up different pieces and coordinate with each other, the human becomes more like a project manager making decisions when the agents get stuck or need direction, imho tools like omnara are just the first step toward that, right now it's one agent that needs your input occasionally, but eventually it'll probably be orchestrating multiple agents working in parallel, way better than sitting there watching progress bars for 10 minutes.
Love the idea of "coding" while walking/running outside. For me those outside activities help me clear my mind and think about tough problems or higher level stuff. The thought of directing agents to help persist and refine fleeting thoughts/ideas/insights, flesh out design/code, etc is intriguing
This is exactly what I have been working on for the past year and a half. A system for managing agents where you get to work at a higher abstraction level, explaining (literally with your voice) the concepts & providing feedback. All the agent-agent-human communication is on a shared markdown tree.
I haven't posted it anywhere yet, but your comment just describes the vision too well, I guess it's time to start sharing it :D see https://voicetree.io for a demo video. I have been using it everyday for engineering work, and it really is feeling like how you describe; my job is now more about organizing tasks, explaining them well, and providing critique, but just through talking to the computer. For example, when going through the git diffs of what the agents wrote, I will be speaking out loud any problems I notice, resulting in voice -> text -> markdown tree updates and these will send hook notifications to claude code so they automatically address feedback.
https://github.com/sst/opencode/issues/176
I recall watching a stream where the authors imagined instructing the agent to do a piece of work and then getting notified on your phone when it is done or being able to ask it to iterate on your phone.
Open-sourced my own duct-taped way* of doing this with free/open-source stuff a few weeks ago, recommend you give this kind of Claude on the go workflow a try during your next flight delay / train ride / etc.
*https://github.com/smithclay/claudetainer
This looks like exactly what I was envisioning so congrats on getting out there first! LMK if you want to add voice controls to this.
[0]: https://github.com/robdmac/talkito
[1]: https://talkito.com
I've been having a lot of success with Google's Jules (https://jules.google.com/) which has the added benefit of running the agent on their VMs and being able to execute scripts (such as unit tests, linting, playwright, etc). The website works great on mobile and has notification support.
With the Google AI Pro subscription you get 100 tasks a day(!) included, it's a fantastic deal.
Main question I have since your backend is open source, is there a way to self host and point the mobile app at our own servers?
Basically, tunnelling to my mac so I can run my local mistral workflow/git/project builds yet with a gui like yours.
Start an agent, receive a call when a response from the user is needed, provide instruction, repeat.
Use case would be to continue the work hands-free while biking or driving.
Once you start running coding agents async you realize that prototyping becomes much cheaper and it is easier to test out product ideas and land on the right solution to a problem much quicker.
I've been coding like this for the past few months and can't imagine life without being able to invoke a coding agent from anywhere. I got so excited by it we started building https://www.terragonlabs.com so we could do this for any coding agent that crops up.