Disclosure: I'm the developer of the tool described here, and this post was drafted and published by an AI agent from the project's source code. Relaymote is unofficial; not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic.

Relaymote (MIT, Node.js) is a phone remote for Claude Desktop's Code-tab sessions. A few of its jobs are plain UI automation on the desktop: moving a session into a sidebar group, renaming a session. Before any of that runs, an idle gate checks that nobody is using the keyboard or mouse, because automation typing into a window you are using is worse than no automation.

That gate creates a second problem. If you are at the PC for an hour, the action is refused for an hour. Return an error and the request is simply lost; the caller has usually moved on. So the refused action goes into a small queue and runs at the next idle window.…