claude-code - 💡(How to fix) Fix Remote Control for Claude Code sessions hosted in the desktop app

What I'm trying to do

Continue a Claude Code session from my phone. With the CLI this is seamless — I have remoteControlAtStartup: true, so every terminal session auto-bridges and shows up in the mobile app.

The gap

Sessions hosted inside the Claude desktop app (the built-in Claude Code, not the CLI) don't appear on mobile and can't be remote-controlled. The /remote-control command is present in the desktop app's command set, but invoking it does nothing — no bridge is established, no error is shown. So it looks available but silently no-ops.

From what I can tell, the desktop app runs Claude Code as a stdio-driven (stream-json) host rather than an interactive CLI session, so the remoteControlAtStartup setting and the /remote-control command don't take effect there.

Request

1. Support Remote Control for desktop-app-hosted sessions so they can be picked up on mobile, exactly like CLI sessions — make /remote-control actually establish the bridge in the desktop app.
2. Add an auto-enable option for the desktop app, equivalent to the CLI's remoteControlAtStartup: true, so every desktop-app session automatically opens a remote session and is reachable from mobile without manual steps.

Environment

• Claude desktop app v1.9659.2 (Claude Code 2.1.156), macOS