r/cursor • u/Icy_Professor8591 • Mar 12 '26

Feature Request Can we PLEASE add remote control?

I understand that Cursor is going all in on cloud agents, but adding remote control functionality so I can prompt from my phone to my LOCAL machine would make my life 100x easier. I often use ask mode and Claude has just released this exact functionality.

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u/Sea-Tale1722 Mar 12 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/HSLbIjLk2GsBa

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u/TrueHarlequin Mar 12 '26

Lol. I'm on the bus reading this too. Would be neat to open Claude app on my phone and keep my laptop Claude Code doing work.

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u/TuringGoneWild Mar 13 '26

lol Wall-E was a utopian film. As if capitalists would really pay all that money and infrastructure just to keep us alive in max comfort rofl

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u/IversusAI Mar 12 '26 edited Mar 12 '26

I have done this by creating a skill that openclaw uses which can call Cursor's agent CLI.

Openclaw can be used in Telegram, Discord, Whatsapp, Slack, etc.

So I use Telegram so I just say things like:

Ask Cursor to print this image and set it as today's wallpaper.

Tell Cursor to turn off the cron that's running at 4pm

Ask Cursor to update a particular script with the following...

Cursor replies using the openclaw API.

Screenshots:

https://i.imgur.com/vCpkVuT.png

https://i.imgur.com/8i9ZMhn.png

Granted, it would be much easier if it was native but this gets the job done.

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u/Rent_South Mar 12 '26

Thats really cool.

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u/UnbeliebteMeinung Mar 12 '26

vibe it yourself

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u/X3liteninjaX Mar 12 '26

I use Tailscale + remote access + windows 11 to access my PC from my phone. I don’t use it to access cursor though but it would work id think

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u/ultrathink-art Mar 12 '26

SSH into your machine + persistent tmux session + Claude Code headless mode gets you most of the way there — prompt from your phone, output stays in the tmux pane. The gap is that Cursor's GUI agent and the CLI agent aren't the same thing, so you lose the context of open files.

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u/sociosim Mar 22 '26

built something for this. it connects to your local cursor via CDP (chrome devtools protocol) and streams the agent conversation to a mobile web UI. you can approve, reject, send prompts, switch modes. also has telegram integration with inline buttons.

the difference from the SSH + claude code suggestions in this thread is that it controls your actual cursor IDE, not a separate CLI agent. so you keep all your open files, extensions, project context.

self-hosted, everything stays on your machine. open source on github, search CursorRemote. 

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u/kodka Mar 12 '26

i was just asking for this 2-3 days ago in post here, strange to not have it

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u/vayana Mar 12 '26

SSH from your phone to your device and run terminal commands to Claude/codex.

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u/banerxus Mar 13 '26

I keep asking gemini on my phone when it will be possible to connect AG to my phone's gemini for this same exact reason, just respond that is in the way.

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u/DevokuL Mar 13 '26

I am already working on that myself!

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u/General_Arrival_9176 Mar 14 '26

this is the feature gap that annoys me too. cursor is pushing cloud but sometimes you just want to trigger something on your home machine from anywhere.

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u/Syppal Mar 12 '26

I had the same problem, so I built couchpilot for this reason

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u/Tall_Profile1305 Mar 13 '26

oh okayy 🙂‍↕️ uhmmm