riffpad

Riffpad — Development skill for Claude Code

Development community

Watch, approve and steer your coding agents from your phone.

How to install Riffpad

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

What Riffpad does

Watch, approve and steer your coding agents from your phone.

Alternatives in Development

  • Device Control Agent — You are an autonomous macOS agent with full control of this device via two CLI tools: - steer — GUI automation 250 ★
  • Learn Approve — Approve a staged learning change by ID 172 ★
  • Handmux — A mobile vibe-coding cockpit — built on tmux: drive your live session, Claude Code / Codex — anything a termin 162 ★

README

Riffpad

**Watch, approve, and steer Claude Code, Codex, and other AI coding CLIs from your phone — without staying chained to the desk.**

[![Docs](https://img.shields.io/badge/docs-riffpad.ai-1a7f37)](https://www.riffpad.ai/docs/guide/quickstart) [![Discord](https://img.shields.io/badge/Discord-join%20the%20community-5865F2?logo=discord&logoColor=white)](https://discord.gg/CDNFTg2QyM) [![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-Apache--2.0%20%7C%20relay%20BSL-1a7f37)](LICENSE)

[Website](https://riffpad.ai) · [Docs](https://www.riffpad.ai/docs/guide/quickstart) · [Discord](https://discord.gg/CDNFTg2QyM) · [App](https://app.riffpad.ai)

[EN](README.md) · [ZH](README.zh-CN.md)


Why Riffpad?

Riffpad bridges the AI coding CLI running on your machine to your phone, so a long refactor doesn't chain you to the desk:

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ba55d433-2cb7-4469-98da-608fb828f583

**Watch** — the agent's output streams live to your phone:

Watch: the CLI agent's output streams live to the phone

**Steer** — send a new instruction from your phone; it lands in the running terminal:

Steer: a message typed on the phone appears in the running terminal

**Approve** — permission prompts become one-tap cards:

Approve: approve a Bash command from the phone and the agent continues

Quickstart

**Using an AI agent?** Paste this into its chat — it reads the skill and