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Hey ya’ll, Ishaan and Kartik here. We're building Omnara (https://omnara.com/), an “agent command center” that lets you launch and control Claude Code from anywhere: terminal, web, or mobile — and easily switch between them.

Run 'pip install omnara && omnara', and you'll have a regular Claude Code session. But you can continue that same session from our web dashboard (https://omnara.com/) or mobile app (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/omnara-ai-command-center/id674...).

Check out a demo here: https://www.loom.com/share/03d30efcf8e44035af03cbfebf840c73.

Before Omnara, we felt stuck watching Claude Code think and write code, waiting 5-10 minutes just to provide input when needed. Now with Omnara, I can start a Claude Code session and if I need to leave my laptop, I can respond from my phone anywhere. Some places I've coded from include my bed, on a walk, in an Uber, while doing laundry, and even on the toilet.

There are many new Claude Code wrappers (e.g., Crystal, Conductor), but none keep the native Claude Code terminal experience while allowing interaction outside the terminal, especially on mobile. On the other hand, tools like Vibetunnel or Termius replicate the terminal experience but lack push notifications, clean UIs for answering questions or viewing git diffs, and easy setup.

We wanted our integration to fully mirror the native Claude Code experience, including terminal output, permissions, notifications, and mode switching. The Claude Code SDK and hooks don't support all of this, so we made a CLI wrapper that parses the session file at ~/.claude/projects and the terminal output to capture user and agent messages. We send these messages to our platform, where they're displayed in the web and mobile apps in real time via SSE. Our CLI wrapper monitors for input from both the Omnara platform and the Claude Code CLI, continuing execution when the user responds from either location. Our entire backend is open source: https://github.com/omnara-ai/omnara.

Omnara isn't just for Claude Code. It's a general framework for any AI agent to send messages and push notifications to humans when they need input. For example, I've been using it as a human-in-the-loop node in n8n workflows for replying to emails. But every Claude Code user we show it to gets excited about that application specifically so that’s why we’re launching that first :)

Omnara is free for up to 10 agent sessions per month, then $9/month for unlimited sessions. Looking forward to your feedback and hearing your thoughts and comments!

Comments (33)

Aarostotle · 1m ago

This is lovely, I was literally wishing for this two nights ago. I'll give it a try. Good luck!

henriquegodoy · 2h ago

This is pretty cool and feels like we're heading in the right direction, the whole idea of being able to hop between devices while claude code is thinking through problems is neat, but honestly what excites me more is the broader pattern here, like we're moving toward a world where coding isn't really about sitting down and grinding out syntax for hours, it's becoming more about organizing tasks and letting ai agents figure out the implementation details.

I can already see how this evolves into something where you're basically managing a team of specialized agents rather than doing the actual coding, you set up some high-level goals, maybe break them down into chunks, and then different agents pick up different pieces and coordinate with each other, the human becomes more like a project manager making decisions when the agents get stuck or need direction, imho tools like omnara are just the first step toward that, right now it's one agent that needs your input occasionally, but eventually it'll probably be orchestrating multiple agents working in parallel, way better than sitting there watching progress bars for 10 minutes.

kmansm27 · 1h ago

Exactly! My ideal vision for the future is that agents will be doing all grunt work/implementation, and we'll just be guiding them.

Can't wait til I'm coding on the beach (by managing a team of agents that notify me when they need me), but it might take a few more model releases before we get there lol

IncreasePosts · 1h ago

What will you have to offer when coding is so easy at that point?

kmansm27 · 1h ago

I still think that human taste is important even if agents become really good at implementing everything and everyone's just an idea guy. Counter argument: if agents do become really good at implementation, then I'm not sure if even human taste would matter if agents could brute force every possibility and launch it into the market.

Maybe I'll just call it a day and chill with the fam

Dayshine · 2h ago

But why should it take time at all? Newer developer tooling (especially some of the rust tools e.g. UV) are lightning fast.

Wouldn't it be better if you asked for it and rather than having to manage workers it was just... Done

mccoyb · 2h ago

One big question I have, in the era of Claude Code (and advancements yet to come) — is why should a hacker submit to using tools behind a SaaS offering … when one can just roll their own tools? I may be mistaken, but I don’t think there is any sort of moat here.

Truly — this is an excellent and accessible idea (bravo!), but if I can whittle away at a free and open source version, why should I ever consider paying for this?

bobbylarrybobby · 18m ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

kmansm27 · 2h ago

Thanks! I think the main reason to pay right now would be for convenience. A user wouldn't have to worry about hosting their own frontend/backend and building their own mobile app. And eventually, we want to have different agent providers host their agents for use on our platform, but that's further out.

svieira · 1h ago

Correct - but if this is such a game changer in development speed and the market is already validated that this kind of platform is useful then step 1 is build enough of a clone of the platform to start iterating with it and then ... TO THE MOON! It's entirely a having-the-best-vision moat, which is a moat, but one that's principally protected by trademark lawsuits.

zackify · 2h ago

Yeah exactly.

I’ve been using Tailscale ssh to a raspberry pi.

With Termix on iOS.

I can do all the same stuff on my own. Termix is awesome (I’m not affiliated)

smithclay · 6m ago

similar: blink + tailscale + zellij + devcontainers

mccoyb · 2h ago

The answer here might be: "you're not our market" (which is totally fine! but slightly confusing, because presumably people _using agents like Claude Code_ are ... more advanced than the uninitiated)

kmansm27 · 1h ago

Yeah, I would say that most Claude Code users are pretty technical, but I was surprised to see that there's a decent number of non-technical users using Claude Code to completely vibe code applications for their personal use. Those users seem to love tools like Codex (the openai cloud UI one, not the CLI) and things like Omnara, where there's no setup

mccoyb · 1h ago

Makes sense! Thanks for discussing.

Depurator · 15m ago

I'm just using claude-code on termux on my s42 ultra with some mcp tools i built in rust - which thus runs on aarch64-linux-android. Very handy to get rust analyzer, webdriver, github cli etc on your phone, so i can get some small stuff done during commute.

smithclay · 1h ago

For the skeptics: using Claude Code from your phone is kind of great. Think this sort of solution is excellent once you've figured out a good workflow.

Open-sourced my own duct-taped way* of doing this with free/open-source stuff a few weeks ago, recommend you give this kind of Claude on the go workflow a try during your next flight delay / train ride / etc.

*https://github.com/smithclay/claudetainer

kmansm27 · 47m ago

Awesome stuff, mobile coding (imo mobile everything) is definitely the future

rgbrgb · 2h ago

Cool. I'm a vibetunnel user and this looks like a better UI. However, I like that vibetunnel keeps all of my data local. Does this have remote access to my codebase and session? I'm guessing that's hard here because of the notifications? Or do I misunderstand how the data flows?

kmansm27 · 2h ago

You're correct, that's one pro for vibetunnel/mobile SSH clients - they're a direct connection to your machine. For our platform, the messages flow through our server, which enables some use cases like push notifications and easier setup/reliability, but for a tradeoff of the data not being local.

robbomacrae · 40m ago

Like others (smithclay, sst/opencode) have said about aiming for a similar feature, I had plans to make a mobile app for Talkito[0][1] which primarily adds voice TTS/ASR and WhatsApp/slack interactions to Claude Code.

This looks like exactly what I was envisioning so congrats on getting out there first! LMK if you want to add voice controls to this.

[0]: https://github.com/robdmac/talkito

[1]: https://talkito.com

robbomacrae · 23m ago

Also looking more closely at yours I notice the Apache 2.0 license but that doesn't prevent a company taking your work and running it as a SAAS which seems to be how you yourself want to monetize. For this reason I went with AGPL-3.0 so I recommend looking into that.

nickelbob · 19m ago

This is awesome, I was trying to build this as well. I'd love a windows version if that's on the roadmap.

kmansm27 · 10m ago

Thanks! There's nothing inherently macos-specific about this, I just need to get my hands on a Windows machine to test it out in case there's some path issues. I'll try to do that soon and update you

decide1000 · 29m ago

Pretty cool, but where is the Android app?

kmansm27 · 22m ago

Coming very soon, it's been a long process with the Android store. Thank god for react native and expo

abe-101 · 1h ago

sst/opencode has plans to build a mobile app.

https://github.com/sst/opencode/issues/176

I recall watching a stream where the authors imagined instructing the agent to do a piece of work and then getting notified on your phone when it is done or being able to ask it to iterate on your phone.

kmansm27 · 50m ago

Oh interesting, we've gotten some requests for supporting opencode as well. Opencode would much easier to work with than Claude Code since the backend and frontend are separate and open source. Maybe we can beat them to the mobile support :)

k2xl · 39m ago

Been using cursors background agents to do this via mobile app. I was expecting a mobile app by anthropic by now. Wonder what will happen to this project when that happens?

kmansm27 · 19m ago

Really cool, I actually haven't met many people using cursor background agents. I do think Anthropic is working on a web app for Claude Code (saw it in some thread somewhere), so I'm sure they're also working on a mobile app. In that case, the value for Omnara + Claude Code diminishes, but we're able to support any agent, so if every company has their own app, but a user can use all the same agents from a single platform, hopefully they'll choose the single platform.

globular-toast · 1h ago

So you've reinvented SSH+screen except slower and much less flexible?

dang · 1h ago

"Don't be snarky."

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Ask questions out of curiosity. Don't cross-examine.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

kmansm27 · 1h ago

I'd say it's more flexible! At least we're trying to head in that direction, since the SDK allows you to hook up any agent to our platform, not just CLI agents. And eventually we want people to be able to add their own frontend components for their agents, which would make the experience more custom than a terminal UI. Although yes, if you just want a 1:1 CLI agent on your phone, then mobile SSH clients might make more sense.

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