Away from your computer: approve on your phone and send work to the cloud
Big projects don’t have to keep you in your chair. With Remote Control, you can follow a session running on your computer from your phone. With Projects, research runs in the cloud, even with your laptop closed. In this lesson, Carla approves a plan from the sofa and sends research to the cloud, knowing what leaves her computer.
2Turn on Remote Control and approve from your phone
3Send research to Projects in the cloud
4Decide what can leave your computer
Goal: Follow and approve work from your phone, and send research to the cloud, knowing what leaves your computer.
01 · Three places to run your work
Tap or click each place. The farther away the work runs, the less you need to keep your computer on.
Lesson 501 · Three places to run your workTap or click each place. The farther away the work runs, the less you need to keep your computer on.
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On your computer
This is the way you already know: the session runs on your computer, and you follow along on the screen. Session = a conversation with Claude and its own history. If you get up from your chair, the work continues, but you won’t see when it stops and asks for your approval.
Scroll down: each step below lights up its part of the diagram.
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On your computer
This is the way you already know: the session runs on your computer, and you follow along on the screen. Session = a conversation with Claude and its own history. If you get up from your chair, the work continues, but you won’t see when it stops and asks for your approval.
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Remote Control
The session stays on your computer, but you can follow along and approve from the Claude app on your phone. You don’t need a terminal on your phone. One rule stays the same: if the computer goes to sleep or shuts down, the work stops.
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Projects
The new Projects feature in Claude Code is an ongoing conversation where Claude opens a thread (a workstream) for each task. Threads run in the cloud, so you can close your laptop. The tradeoff is that the files you deliver leave your computer. It’s in beta, with a waitlist, on the Pro, Max, and Ultra plans.
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Claude Duet
Duet is an assistant that brings you pending work from your projects, prepares a draft, and asks before taking action. For now, it’s only in the U.S., in preview, with a waitlist (Pro, Max, and Ultra). It hasn’t arrived in Brazil yet; just know that it exists.
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You choose where it runs
Task with a confidential file: on your computer, using Remote Control to approve from afar. Research with public data: in the cloud, with your computer off.
From your computer to your phone, from your phone to the cloud: each step frees you from your chair and calls for a new decision about your files.
02 · Turn on Remote Control
It works in the computer app (Code tab) and in the terminal. You only need the Claude app on your phone.
1. Ask for a plan
Open a session in the work folder (you choose the folder when opening the session, as in lesson 2) and include a pause point in your request: "show me the plan and wait for my OK".
That way, Claude works up to the decision point and waits for you instead of continuing on its own.
CarlaAsks for the lesson 2 script for her spreadsheet course, with a plan first.
2. Turn on control
In the session message box (where you write requests), type /remote-control (or the shortcut /rc) and send it. In the computer app, you can also turn it on from the session’s Environment card.
Done: the session appears in the Claude app on your phone.
No terminalIn the app’s Code tab, type /remote-control in the message box, or use the session’s Environment card.
3. Keep
The work runs on your computer. If it goes to sleep, everything stops.
In the app, go to Settings → Code and turn on "Keep this computer awake." Keep your laptop plugged in.
Common mistakeClosing the laptop lid, thinking your phone will keep the work going.
4. Approve from your phone
Open the session in the Claude app on your phone, read the plan, and reply: approve it, ask for an adjustment, or tell it to stop.
Then let it work. Checking your phone every five minutes won’t make the work go faster.
TakeawayYou decide from afar; the computer does the work.
03 · Carla’s prompt: the plan she approves from the couch
Paste this into the session opened in the course folder, then turn on control by typing /remote-control in the same message box. Replace the course-planilhas/… path with your file’s path (see lesson 2).
1 · Request with a pause for approval
Write the script for lesson 2 of my spreadsheet course in curso-planilhas/aula-2/roteiro.md.
Use the same format as curso-planilhas/aula-1/roteiro.md.
Topic: VLOOKUP explained with a list of students and grades.
Before writing, show me the plan in up to 6 bullet points and wait for my OK.
Don’t delete or change anything in the aula-1 folder.
2 · Turn on control (in the session message box)
/remote-control
Simulation: illustrative example
Plan for curso-planilhas/aula-2/roteiro.md
Opening: the problem of finding a student’s grade in a long list.
What VLOOKUP does, in one sentence.
Building the list of students and grades.
The formula step by step, with a sample student.
The two most common errors (#N/D and the wrong column).
Final exercise and invitation to the community.
I’ll follow the format of lesson 1 and won’t touch the aula-1 folder. Can I get started?
Approve: "Go ahead."
Adjust: "Change topic 5: show only the #N/D error and how to fix it."
Stop: "Stop here. I’ll finish tomorrow on my computer."
The session disappeared from your phone: the computer went to sleep or lost its internet connection. Check "Keep this computer awake".
Claude didn’t wait: the request was missing the phrase "wait for my OK".
04 · Projects: work that continues with your laptop closed
Beta with a waitlist for Pro, Max, and Ultra plans. If it doesn’t show up for you, read and save the prompt.
1. Find Projects
Look for Projects in the sidebar of claude.ai/code or in the app’s Code tab. Don’t see it? Join the waitlist.
Heads up: this isn’t the old "Projects" feature in claude.ai chat, which is a folder for conversations with files. They’re different things.
2. Decide what to upload
Threads run in the cloud. Anything you give the project leaves your computer.
Simple rule: research using public information can be uploaded. A spreadsheet with students’ names and grades, a contract, or customer data stays in a local folder.
CarlaUpload: research on spreadsheet updates. Keep on your computer: the list of students and grades.
3. Ask and keep track
Describe the task in your own words. Claude opens a thread (a workstream) for each part and shows them in Overview (the overview), the panel alongside it. A dot appears when a thread is waiting for you.
The result is in the project’s Library tab. Open the file, check the source links, and only then use it.
Cloud research can be wrong too: broken links and incorrect dates happen. It’s up to you to check.
05 · Carla’s prompt: research that runs in the cloud
Paste this into a new Projects project. Public information only.
Research for the channel
Research what has changed in online spreadsheets (Excel and Google Sheets) in the last 30 days.
List 5 changes that are useful for someone who teaches spreadsheets, each with a link to the official source.
For each change, write an idea for a short video for my channel.
Propose the threads and wait for my OK before starting.
Save everything in pesquisa.md and let me know when you’re done.
Simulation: illustrative example
I propose 3 threads:
Excel: changes from the last 30 days, with the official link.
Google Sheets: the same, with the official link.
Video ideas: after the first two, 5 short ideas and the pesquisa.md file.
I’ll run the first two at the same time. Can I get started?
1. [change name]: what changed, in one sentence. Source: [official link]. Video idea: "[short title]".
… 4 more changes in the same format.
Simulation: the actual content depends on what was released that month.
Student lists with names, email addresses, or grades.
Contracts, invoices, or customer data.
Passwords and access keys, anywhere.
06 · Practice: approve from a distance
Do E1 or E2 (just one, depending on what you have) and E3, which everyone can do.
E1 · Approve a plan from your phone
20 min
Open a session in the folder for one of your projects, ask for a task with "show me the plan and wait for my OK," and turn on control: type /remote-control in the session’s message box (or use the Environment card in the app). Also turn on "Keep this computer awake" in Settings → Code. Step away from the computer and reply from your phone.
Done when: your approval (or adjustment), sent from your phone, appears in the session history, and the work continued afterward.
E2 · Cloud research
15 min
If Projects is available to you, create a project and request research using public information, based on Carla’s prompt. Close your laptop and come back later.
Done when: there’s a pesquisa.md file in the project’s Library, and you opened 2 source links to check that they work.
E3 · The list of things that stay off the cloud
5 min
Write down three types of files from your work that will never go to the cloud and where they stay on your computer.
Done when: You have a list with 3 file types and each one’s local folder.
07 · Test what you learned
The explanation appears after your answer.
Question 1 of 5
Carla turned on Remote Control and closed her laptop lid. What happens?
Correct
With Remote Control, your phone only monitors and approves; the computer does the work. That’s why “Keep this computer awake” exists. If you want the computer turned off, you need Projects in the cloud.
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With Remote Control, your phone only monitors and approves; the computer does the work. That’s why “Keep this computer awake” exists. If you want the computer turned off, you need Projects in the cloud.Review: Three places to run your work
Question 2 of 5
Which command turns on Remote Control during a session?
Correct
/remote-control (or /rc) turns on control; in the app, you can also use the Environment card. /btw is for a side question, and /recap is a one-line summary.
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/remote-control (or /rc) turns on control; in the app, you can also use the Environment card. /btw is for a side question, and /recap is a one-line summary.Review: Turn on Remote Control
Question 3 of 5
What should Carla keep OUT of a cloud project?
Correct
Anything you add to Projects leaves your computer. Student personal data stays in a local folder; public information can be uploaded.
Not this one
Anything you add to Projects leaves your computer. Student personal data stays in a local folder; public information can be uploaded.Review: Turn on Remote Control
Question 4 of 5
Is the “Projects” in this lesson the same as “Projects” in the claude.ai chat?
Correct
Projects in chat is a folder of conversations with files. Projects in Claude Code is an ongoing conversation that opens threads in the cloud. You can find it at claude.ai/code or in the app’s Code tab.
Not this one
Projects in chat is a folder of conversations with files. Projects in Claude Code is an ongoing conversation that opens threads in the cloud. You can find it at claude.ai/code or in the app’s Code tab.Review: Turn on Remote Control
Question 5 of 5
Why include “wait for my OK” in your request before turning on Remote Control?
Correct
The phrase creates a decision point. Without it, Claude may continue right away, and you’ll only see the finished result on your phone.
