mikhin

Claude Iphone Cam — Development skill for Claude Code

Development community

Show Claude Code what your iPhone camera sees: a snap button above the prompt, no AirDrop, no files.

How to install Claude Iphone Cam

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open mikhin/claude-iphone-cam and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Claude Iphone Cam does

Show Claude Code what your iPhone camera sees: a snap button above the prompt, no AirDrop, no files.

Alternatives in Development

Kztek Brand Info — PHẢI load khi: tạo hoặc sửa tài liệu/slide/báo cáo có logo KZTEK, áp dụng màu Navy #251C53 hoặc Cam #F05922, t 90 ★
Claude Image View — See the images you paste into Claude Code: thumbnails above the prompt instead of bare [Image #1] tags 44 ★
Quicktui — Self-hosted remote terminal for iPhone, iPad & browser — attach tmux and run Claude Code, Codex, or any CLI ag 40 ★

README

Claude iPhone Cam

A Claude Code mod that lets Claude see what your iPhone camera sees. Press **📷 snap** above the prompt, check the thumbnail, type your question, send.

![Claude iPhone Cam in action](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mikhin/claude-iphone-cam/demo/demo/pies-2.gif)

The terminal in the demo is drawn, the pies are real: photos by [Joe Dumas](https://unsplash.com/photos/89zuNmg6w0Y) and [Debby Hudson](https://unsplash.com/photos/IilbCWFsHMg) on Unsplash. The demo and its build script live in the [`demo` branch](https://github.com/mikhin/claude-iphone-cam/tree/demo/demo), so installing the plugin doesn't download them.

No AirDrop, no Telegram-to-yourself, no saving files. The iPhone is already a Mac webcam through [Continuity Camera](https://support.apple.com/en-us/102546); this mod grabs one frame from it.

Install

Inside Claude Code, run:

/plugin marketplace add mikhin/claude-plugins
/plugin install iphone-cam@mikhin
/reload-plugins

Requirements

macOS Ventura or later, iOS 16 or later, iPhone XR or newer
Both devices on the same Apple ID, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth on, iPhone locked and near the Mac
ffmpeg (brew install ffmpeg)
Camera access for your terminal app (macOS asks on the first snap)

What you see

[ 📷 snap ]
❯ _

After a snap:

╭──────────────╮ goes with the next message
│   (frame)    │ [ retake ]
│              │ [ drop ]
╰──────────────╯
❯ is my pie done?

retake snaps again, drop forgets the frame.
On send the frame goes with your message and the band clears.

How it works

ffmpeg -f avfoundation -list_devices finds the device named … iPhone … Camera (Desk View is skipped).
One ffmpeg run waits 1.5 s for exposure, then writes a full JPEG and a 640 px PNG thumbnail to $TMPDIR/claude-cam/.
The band above the prompt draws the thumbnail with Claude Code's Image element.
On send, a prompt.submit hook adds the JPEG's path to the message context, and Claude