Lochan: Remote Coding Agents

Description

Your coding agents keep working when you step away. Lochan is how you keep up with them, calmly.

When Claude Code, Codex or any other agent on your computer stops to ask a question, open its real terminal on your phone, read what it did, and answer. Then get back to your walk.

A CALM VIEW OF A BUSY HERD
Every agent on the machine at a glance, with a line on where each one left off. The ones waiting on you always come first.
- Tiles: the whole herd as a grid that moves as your agents do
- Board: Blocked, Working, Done and Idle as columns you swipe through
- Projects: agents grouped by the project they are working in

ASK THE SHEPHERD
One question, the whole herd. The Shepherd is an agent on your computer that reads every other pane. Ask it what needs you, what changed or whether anything is stuck, and it answers from what is on the screens, with a link to each pane it mentions. It runs Claude Code by default, or Codex, Pi, OpenCode or Grok.

ANY AGENT CAN JOIN THE HERD
Lochan does not plug into your agent. It opens the terminal the agent is already running in, so it works with Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Grok, OpenCode, Aider and anything else with a prompt. A new agent works the day it ships.

A REAL TERMINAL, IN YOUR POCKET
Tap any agent for the actual session: full output, scrollback and a keyboard.

MAKE THE KEYS YOUR OWN
Two rows of keys sit above the terminal. Drag any key to either row, switch off the ones you never use, and add your own:
- Text keys for the commands you repeat, like /compact, /usage or /model sonnet
- Chord keys for Ctrl, Option and Shift combos, like your tmux prefix or Ctrl-R

SHARE A SCREENSHOT WITH YOUR AGENT
Pick a photo, take one of the screen in front of you, or send a file. It lands on your computer and its path goes into the prompt, ready for you to finish and send.

SAY IT. CHECK IT. SEND IT.
Dictate a long instruction, read the transcript, and send it only when it reads right. Or write it in a real text box, with a draft that waits if you get pulled away.

RUN THE HERD FROM YOUR PHONE
Start a new agent in any project, rename it, and close it when it is done.

BUILT FOR A PHONE
Lochan tells each agent it is being driven from a phone, so it leads with the answer, keeps replies short and batches its questions.

PAIRED IN ONE SCAN
Run one line on your Mac or Linux machine, then scan the code it shows. Your phone makes its own key, and it stays in the phone's Keychain. Nothing to type, no private key to copy. Save every machine you own and switch between them from the title bar.

No account, and no Lochan server in between: your phone talks to your computers over SSH. Away from home you need a route to them, and Tailscale is the two-minute version.

ALSO IN LOCHAN: A PRIVATE AI CHAT
Chat with Apple's on-device model, open models downloaded to your phone, or cloud models with your own API key. Conversations branch instead of overwriting, and you can share one with a link we cannot read.

Lochan works with Herdr, the terminal workspace for AI coding agents, on the computers you own.

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