Show HN: Detach – Mobile UI for managing AI coding agents from your phone (github.com)

2 points by salvozappa 4mo ago ↗ HN

Hey guys, about two months ago I started this side-project for "asynchronous coding" where I can prompt Claude Code from my mobile on train rides, get a notification when it's done and then review and commit the code from the app itself.

Since then I've been using it on and off for a while. I finally decided to polish it and publish it in case someone might find it useful.

It's a self-hosted PWA with four panels: Agent (terminal running Claude Code), Explore (file browser with syntax highlighting), Terminal (standard bash shell), and Git (diff viewer with staging/committing). It can run on a cheap VPS and a fully functioning setup is provided (using cloud-init and simple bash scripts).

This fits my preferred workflow where I stay in the loop: I review every diff, control git manually, and approve or reject changes before they go anywhere.

Stack: Go WebSocket bridge, xterm.js frontend, Ubuntu sandbox container. Everything runs in Docker. Works with any CLI AI assistant, though I've only used it with Claude Code.

Side project, provided as-is under MIT license. Run at your own risk. Feedback and MRs welcome.

EDIT: Removed redundant text

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sabzil37 4mo ago ↗

The demo video isn't playing. I'd really appreciate it if the videos worked properly for these kinds of installations

[dead] kaihong_deng 4mo ago ↗

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scka-de 4mo ago ↗

Building on the video issue—if it's a self-hosted PWA, the real bottleneck is probably streaming Claude's agentic outputs over a mobile connection. Polling for completion works, but WebSocket or Server-Sent Events would let you skip the "notification when done" step and just watch the agent work live. That's where the UX gets interesting on mobile.