Remote control for
Claude Code on your laptop.
Your agents run on your laptop.
PUNK is how you reach them from your phone.
“Vibe Coding is the Punk Rock of Coding”
your local Claude Code
or start a new one
from your lock screen
4x faster than you type
in parallel
from one place
Reminders or anything
Plan, Ask, Auto, Dangerous
all from your phone
work across them instantly
Your laptop is the mainframe.
Your phone is the terminal.
We're back to the mainframe model: a persistent, stateful machine you access from a thin terminal. Except the mainframe is your laptop, and the terminal fits in your pocket.
Your phone is
mission control.
Most tools collapse execution and control into one place. PUNK separates them. Your laptop runs the agents. Your phone is where you direct them. You stay in control without being at the machine.
Always with you
changes everything.
A smaller screen and always with you changes the behavior. You start with code. Then you're asking it to summarize a thread, think through a decision, draft a message. What began as a coding agent becomes something you reach for all day.
Building PUNK
with PUNK.
I'm building PUNK while PUNK is running. When I push to GitHub the backend deploys automatically. If something breaks I check the logs from my phone, fix it, and push again. For mobile, I make the changes through PUNK, shake my phone to pull up the Expo menu, and reload. The new version is right there on the device. For releases I have a skill for App Store Connect. It builds, submits to TestFlight, and once approved adds all the groups automatically so everyone gets the new version right away.
Agents running.
I'm downstairs.
At the office, I leave my laptop on the second floor. I'll kick off a few tasks, then go down to make coffee. Sometimes a permission request pops on my lock screen while I'm waiting. I just tap it. By the time I'm back upstairs, things have moved.
Laptop in my backpack.
Agents still running.
I close the laptop, throw it in my bag, and walk to the office. About 10-15 minutes. The agents are still running the whole way. I'm on my phone checking progress, redirecting things, starting something new. By the time I walk in, they've been working the whole time.
Containers as
separate machines.
I spin up containers and connect them as separate devices in PUNK. I mount my skills directory into each one so every container already has all the tools I've configured on my Mac. From PUNK they just feel like more computers I can talk to.
My agent texted
their agent.
Someone shared noscroll.com in Slack — an AI that monitors the internet and texts you what matters, no app needed. I asked my agent to try it. It read the Slack message, texted the number via iMessage, and started talking to their agent over SMS. When it asked for an X login, my agent skipped it and looked at my Arc browser session instead, already logged into X, figured out my interests, and sent that context back.
2AM.
Something clicks.
Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night because something finally clicks. Maybe it's a bug I couldn't crack earlier, or a different way to approach the problem. I grab my phone and talk to PUNK. Usually voice. We try a couple things, maybe two or three iterations. Once it looks right, I tell it to run the plan and go back to sleep.
Elad Gil on stage.
Agents upstairs.
Elad Gil (Gil & Co) is on stage. I'm sitting in the crowd, laptop running upstairs on the second floor. Every once in a while I check my phone. Something finished, something needed a quick instruction. I reply and put it away.
400 people.
I knew who to find.
Close to 400 people in the group chat, everyone posting intros inside the YC mobile app. Too much to read through. So I reverse engineered the app, built a skill around it, and pointed PUNK at the whole thread. I walked in already knowing who I wanted to find.
Open PUNK on your iPhone.
Devices → Add Device → Scan
We relay.
No persistent database.
Your prompts and responses pass through our relay and disappear. Nothing is saved on our end.
Your agents run
on your laptop.
Claude Code executes entirely on your laptop. PUNK is just the remote control.
Outbound only.
No listening ports.
The PUNK CLI connects out to our relay over TLS. Messages route between your phone and laptop through that connection. Your laptop never accepts incoming connections.
This is slick. You took something insanely powerful and removed the one thing that made it annoying: being stuck at your desk. Claude Code already feels like having an extra engineer. PUNK makes it feel like having one that's actually with you everywhere. Approving runs, spinning up sessions, or giving it instructions while you're out is exactly how this should work. Simple idea, executed perfectly. The terminal in your pocket.
Punk is the future of work. It puts the most powerful AI tools of our time in the palm of your hand. Punk is ambient computing for the age of AI — welcome to the future.
Most AI tools run in the cloud. PUNK flips the model: your laptop becomes the agent, and your phone becomes the interface.
PUNK feels like the version of Claude Remote developers actually wanted. Better UI, better UX, and far more reliable.
Punk is what OpenClaw should have been — a personal AI agent you can access from your phone but powered by the most powerful harness that exists: Claude Code.
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