Relay sends a request from your phone to your Mac and runs it there, with real file tools on your real machine. You get the output on the phone. The desktop mirrors the whole run so nothing happens off the record.
Not a cloud sandbox. The run happens on your machine, with your files.
“Attach to a running session from your phone during a meeting break and steer it in fifteen seconds.”
The scenario users describe in GitHub #47926 and #52052. Anthropic's Remote Control shipped Feb 2026 as a Max-only research preview, single-controller.
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Built, and not gated. No Max tier, no single-controller limit, and not just a chat box: relayed runs use the real file tools on your own machine. The desktop mirrors every relayed run so you can scroll back through exactly what happened when you sit down.
A relayed request runs on your desktop, so it can read and write your actual files. Not a cloud sandbox with no access to your work.
Remote control of your own machine is a feature, not a paid research preview. It works on whatever account you already have.
Everything relayed from the phone appears on the desktop as it happens, in full, so nothing runs invisibly.
Pull out your phone, read where the run got to, send one correction, put it away. The run never stopped and you never opened a laptop.
Pair your phone to the Mac from settings and it stays linked. Connected devices are listed, and you can unlink any of them.
Link the Overwatch app on your phone once. Unlink from either end.