Finally stopped babysitting my Claude Code sessions

[amanbuild]

Sharing this because I spent three weeks trying to solve the mobile access problem with VNC and remote desktops — dealing with remote desktops was a total PITA, lag was awful, and it killed my battery. Finally switched to OpenACP with a Telegram bot pointing at my home server. Now I send tasks from my phone, go to the gym, come back to finished work. The session persistence is what sold me — nothing drops when I close the laptop.

[amanbuild]

How are you handling auth? I'm nervous about anyone who has the Telegram bot link being able to trigger agent actions.

[amanbuild]

You can whitelist specific Telegram user IDs in the config — only those accounts can send commands. Works well for solo or small team setups.

[amanbuild]

Same setup here. Been running it for about 6 weeks. The battery improvement over VNC is real — Telegram uses maybe 2% battery per hour vs 15–20% for a VNC session with the screen on.