himanshudongre/opendeck

OpenDeck turns a phone, tablet, or spare screen into a control panel for AI coding agents like Claude Code and Codex, so you can see what your agents are doing and approve their actions with a tap instead of watching a terminal. It is a free, open source alternative to a physical $230 device called Codex Micro, which only works with Codex and has six fixed keys, while OpenDeck supports both major agent tools and can show an unlimited number of agent tiles at once. You start it by running a single command on the machine where your coding agents run, then scanning a QR code with your phone to connect. It can also be installed as an app on your phone so it stays available. A demo mode lets you try it out even without any real agents running yet. Each agent tile shows live status such as which tool it is, the current repository and branch, how long it has been running, what tool it is currently using, and the running cost. When an agent needs permission to run a command or edit a file, that request shows up on the deck as the real command or a diff of the change, and you approve or deny it with one tap. If your phone is asleep when several updates happen, it replays everything it missed once it reconnects, so nothing gets silently lost. Under the hood, one background process connects to each agent tool through its own adapter, converts events into a shared format, and streams them to the phone over a local WebSocket connection on your own network. The interface itself only displays this shared data and has no logic specific to any single agent tool built into it. Everything runs on your local network with no cloud service, no telemetry, and no account required. The project is released under the MIT License.