Your Mac, From Your Pocket
Agent Remote puts Agent Mac on your iPhone — at home, away, and by voice. Its own autonomy level (Smart by default, never YOLO), and anything destructive still asks for your approval. Zero company backend.
At home: your LAN, pinned TLS
Pair once by scanning a QR code. The connection is direct over your network with a pinned TLS certificate — no traffic leaves your house. Bonjour self-heals the link when your Mac’s address changes.
Away: through your own iCloud
Out of the house, messages travel through a private CloudKit zone in your own iCloud account (one for each paired phone), sealed end-to-end with HKDF-derived keys and AES-GCM. Apple stores ciphertext; we store nothing — there is no company server.
Approval notifications
When a task you started from your phone needs your OK, a notification reaches your lock screen through your own iCloud, with no developer key or setup. Tap it to open the approval in the app, then allow or deny. Card payments also need a fresh Face ID or Touch ID. Since Agent Mac 2.3.3 they say what is happening in plain English, like “Needs your OK to run a command on your Mac”, never a tool name.
Voice, both kinds
Send voice notes from anywhere: Apple’s speech recognition turns what you say into text (on your iPhone when your language supports it, otherwise on Apple’s speech service), and your Mac acts on that. Or hold a full hands-free voice conversation with your Mac — at home, or away over Tailscale.
Scan paper into your Mac
Scan a letter, receipt or form with your iPhone camera. The text is recognised on the phone, and the scan is filed in your Filing Cabinet as a searchable PDF: into a folder you pick, or into the Inbox when you scan it into a chat, where the agent also sees the pages straight away. Scans file on their own over your home Wi-Fi. Over Tailscale or mobile data, a scan can wait on your phone until you tap Send Now. Away from home, a chat scan sends its pages now and the PDF is filed later. The phone can add scans but never moves or deletes anything in the cabinet, and you can switch scanning off on your Mac. Filing needs Agent Mac 2.3.2 or later.
See it in your hand
Hand your Mac a job from anywhere, watch it work in plain English, and approve the one step that needs you — then glance at your team of agents and your files. All from the phone in your pocket.
- Plain-English “workings”, live as the agent runs
- Tap to approve anything gated — or deny it
- Your whole team of agents, at a glance
- Browse your Mac’s filing cabinet
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Pairing, In Three Steps
Turn it on
Install Agent Remote (free, iPhone, iOS 17 or later). In Agent Mac, open Settings › Remote (iPhone), switch on “Enable direct connection from iPhone (Wi-Fi / Tailscale)” and “Allow LAN connections (same Wi-Fi)”, then click Pair New Device… and point the app at the QR code.
Scan once
Keys are exchanged directly between your devices and stored in each Keychain.
Done — for good
Pairing survives a reinstall of Agent Remote (your iPhone keeps it in its Keychain). At home it uses your Wi-Fi. When you’re out, turn on Away access in Agent Remote’s Settings and it reaches your Mac through your own iCloud, or connect over Tailscale. On the Mac, the Away channel switches itself on the first time you pair a phone, unless you have already chosen; you can turn it off in Settings › Remote (iPhone).
Your Mac sets the rules
Phone runs use their own autonomy level, which you choose on the Mac in Settings › Remote (iPhone): Smart by default, Full Auto at most, never YOLO. It is set separately from your level at the keyboard, so you can be stricter at the Mac and looser on the phone, or the other way round. Tools you switch off on the Mac stay off for the phone, anything destructive or irreversible still asks for your approval whatever level you pick, and every remote run appears in the activity log like any other. Read the full story on the security page.
Agent Remote is on the App Store.
Free, and a companion to Agent Mac. Install it on your iPhone, switch on remote control in Agent Mac's Settings › Remote (iPhone), then scan the QR code your Mac shows to pair.
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