Claude Remote Control: Why My Phone Could Not Start a Session
Research Log [2026 08 16]: Diagnosing and Automating a Phone-to-PC Remote Control Link for an LLM Agent 1. Objective Driving an LLM agent on a desktop machine from a phone is useful for a specific reason. The agent operates on the real files that exist only on that machine, including models, scripts, and drawings, so work started at the desk can be continued while away from it. A cloud session cannot do this, because the files are not there. The link had been in use for about a month and it stopped working one morning. This log documents the diagnosis, the three separate causes that were found underneath the failure, and the configuration that now survives a reboot. It also documents six errors in my own diagnostic reasoning, because those errors consumed roughly five hours and are more generally useful than the fix itself. 2. Summary of Work The failure had three independent causes that happened to coincide. A refresh token had expired on a thirty-day clock, an autostar...
