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I accidentally built a knockoff JARVIS this week. With a VM and 20 minutes of effort.
Anthropic dropped two updates that, separately, are just nice features.
Together (with one dumb hack) they're a full mobile-first AI workflow.
Here's the setup 🧵
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📱 Claude Code Remote Control: kick off heavy terminal tasks on your machine, steer them from your phone.
Your code stays local. You just get a remote window into it.
(Currently research preview for Max subs. Pro users, your invite is coming.)
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⚙️ Cowork Scheduled Tasks: set recurring agent workflows and Claude runs them automatically.
Daily briefings. Weekly reports. File cleanup.
Write the prompt once, pick a cadence, walk away.
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The catch nobody's mentioning:
Cowork scheduled tasks only fire while your machine is awake and the desktop app is open.
Close your laptop and your "automation" takes a nap with it.
Fascinating interpretation of the word "automatic."
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The fix is almost embarrassingly simple.
Throw Cowork in an always-on VM.
Now your scheduled tasks actually run on schedule (revolutionary concept) and Remote Control gives you a mobile steering wheel for everything else.
Setup time: 20 minutes if you're slow and easily distracted. (I am both.)
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The result: a native Claude stack that handles local dev, desktop file manipulation, and recurring workflows from your phone.
No third-party agents. No WhatsApp relay wizardry. No open-source project whose mascot has been through more identity crises than a philosophy major.
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Is OpenClaw dead? No. It still does things this setup can't.
But for solo creators who just want local AI workflows they can run from the couch?
That gap is closing faster than the industry expected.
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The one thing still missing: a mobile Cowork interface.
The day Anthropic ships that, the conversation changes entirely.
Who else is duct-taping these pieces together, or am I the only one running agent workflows from a hammock in Paraguay?
I write about building workflows like this twice a week at Co-Write with AI.
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Nick Quick