01
Direct
Start chat-first, terminal-first, or from a GitHub issue.
- Choose model, effort, Plan or Work
- Attach files and mention repository context
- Stop or steer a turn in flight
Standing watch
Your Mac keeps coding.
You get your day back.
Direct Claude Code, Codex, or Grok on your Mac. Review the diff, run the tests, open the app, and land the branch from your phone.
The wait
The agent doesn’t need you for twenty minutes.
The desk does.
Reviewing, verifying, and merging keep you nearby. PRCHD moves the review, not the agent. Your Mac stays the computer; your phone becomes the control surface.
The whole loop
Direct. Review. Verify. Land.
A phone chat is the first quarter of the job. PRCHD carries the session through the real diff, the real checks, and the final branch decision.
02
Review
Read the diff your Mac renders from the real worktree.
- Compare from fork point or last commit
- Select lines and add an agent note
- Inspect files, commits, and markdown
03
Verify
Run the checks and the app before anything lands.
- Use project commands or an ad-hoc command
- Open a replayable interactive terminal
- View the dev server over your tailnet
04
Land
Commit, push, open a PR, or merge the branch locally.
- Edit the drafted commit message
- Create a PR through the gh CLI
- Merge & Close or Discard & Close
One session, one walk
A branch moves from brief to merge while you move through your day.
The work runs on the Mac, so putting the phone away changes nothing.
create workspace
- 00:00
Direct
Create a workspace from main and send the first brief while the setup script finishes.
prchd/rate-limit-login - 00:02
Walk away
The session stays on your Mac. The phone can close without interrupting the turn.
- 00:19
Check Activity
Running shows the active chat. A content-free push can route you back when it finishes.
- 00:31
Review
Open the real diff, select the exact span, and send a note back to the agent.
src/auth/login.ts +12 −3 - 00:38
Verify
Run the test button. The complete result returns to the transcript as a durable check.
✓ 42/42 - 00:44
Open the app
Start the dev server and open it on the phone over your tailnet.
:5173 - 00:51
Merge & Close
Commit, push, and land the branch. A close-time conflict preserves the worktree for the desk.
Refs #214
merge & close
Fifty-one minutes. No desk.
Isolation
A workspace is a branch.
One worktree, one branch, one snapshotted base. Parallel work cannot collide before merge time.
- Merge & Close lands the branch and removes the worktree
- Discard & Close asks before removing the work
- A failed merge preserves the branch and every file
main
prchd/rate-limit-loginactive · 7 files changed
Merge & CloseDiscard & Close
Three agents, one set of controls
Choose the agent. Keep the routine.
Claude Code, Codex, and Grok use the same model, reasoning effort, and Plan or Work vocabulary.
- Ready, needs login, or not installed before you start
- Each backend exposes only the controls it supports
- Your CLIs, subscriptions, configuration, and credentials
When you’re not looking
The Mac keeps the record.
Activity answers three questions across every paired Mac: what needs you, what is running, and what happened recently.
Needs you
Setup failures, sign-in, unresolved merges
Running
Chats and PR reviews with elapsed time
Recent
Commands, commits, pushes, and outcomes
- Opt-in push notifications with quiet hours
- Content-free payloads from a connected Mac
- Cron automations and file recipes without a phone attached
- Running work survives disconnects and reconciles after restart
Where your code goes
Your Mac stays the source of truth.
Your phone talks to your Mac directly over your own Tailscale network. Repositories, worktrees, prompts, transcripts, diffs, command output, and attachments stay on your Mac.
There is one PRCHD service. It enrolls your Mac’s identity and forwards content-free notification requests to Apple and Google. It is not a relay for app traffic and never sees source code. It stores no project, workspace, chat, event, prompt, or notification body.
Notification payloads carry fixed event values and opaque routing ids — never code, names, paths, diffs, or agent prose. Connecting a Mac stores one email address for the sign-in code and new-Mac notice. A Mac you never connect sends the service nothing.
your phoneWireGuardyour Mac
PRCHD service
- host identity
- content-free push
app relaystoragecompute
Two surfaces
A sentinel on the Mac. The full loop in your pocket.
On your Mac
One menubar beacon and a dashboard for workspaces, projects, devices, and settings. It keeps the Mac awake while work is in flight and installs signed updates.
In your pocket
Projects from every paired Mac in one list, with host chips and reachability beacons. iPad uses two panes for chat and review.
What you need
Four things before the first workspace.
The host is the load-bearing install. Tailscale gives the phone a private route to it.
- 01A MacmacOS 13.0 or later, Apple Silicon
- 02TailscaleOn your Mac and phone, signed into the same tailnet
- 03A coding agentClaude Code, Codex, or Grok — set up and signed in on that Mac
- 04The phone appiOS or iPadOS 15.6+, or Android 11+
Optional A GitHub remote and the gh CLI signed in on your Mac.
Standing watch
Your Mac keeps coding. You get your day back.
Install the Mac host first, then pair the phone over your tailnet.