Workplace

At the laptop: SSH, zellij, several agents

My workplace is a terminal. I SSH into a drone and start zellij there, a terminal multiplexer (like tmux, but with friendlier defaults). zellij runs several tabs and panes, and in several of them a Claude Code agent is at work. The agents spin up sub-agents of their own for research or reviews when needed.

zellij has an important side effect: the session lives on in the drone when the connection drops. Close the laptop, the train enters a tunnel, whatever – next time I connect everything is still there, and the agents kept working in the meantime. That’s exactly what I was missing with GitHub Codespaces: there Claude Code ran in the VS Code terminal, and when the connection dropped, the session was gone.

Usually I have several drones open at once, one per project. I switch between them the way you switch between colleagues: who’s done, who has a question, who needs a decision?

Agents without confirmation prompts

By default Claude Code asks for permission before every command and every file change. In the drone I turn that off (--dangerously-skip-permissions). That sounds more dangerous than it is, because the drone is the sandbox:

• It’s disposable and can be rebuilt from the devcontainer.json at any time.
• The code lives in Git, and everything important lands on GitHub through pull requests.
• Its GitHub token only reaches the granted repositories.
• Anything that needs my identity needs my finger.

An agent that keeps asking for permission isn’t an agent, it’s a very slow colleague. Safety comes from the environment, not from the prompts.

What agents bring along

Every repository has a detailed CLAUDE.md with project knowledge, often plus skills and sub-agents of its own in .claude/. My personal conventions (for example test-driven development, functional style with Effect, no classes) live as a skill in my dotfiles and reach every drone via Hatchery.

On the go: Remote Control instead of SSH

From the phone I do not connect via SSH. A terminal on the phone is a pain, and my key lives on the Mac anyway. Instead I use Claude Code’s Remote Control: I switch it on in a running session, and then I can continue that session in the Claude app on my phone. I see what the agent is doing, answer its questions, give it the next task.

That works well for what you actually do on the go: read, decide, say something short. Voice input on the phone fits right in.

The catch: when the agent needs my SSH key, I have to confirm on the Mac. That doesn’t work from the phone. In practice it rarely matters, because the agent’s work runs through the agent channel and doesn’t need me.

Alternatives

• VS Code Remote-SSH or JetBrains Gateway. Works with every drone because each has a perfectly normal SSH server. I rarely need the IDE because I hardly edit code myself.
• tmux instead of zellij. Just as good if you know it.
• Mobile SSH clients like Blink or Termius. They work, but an agent wants to be read and steered, not operated. A chat interface is better for that.