Remote control is now live in the Copilot CLI! Run Copilot on your local machine, leave it plugged in, head to the beach, and drive the agent from your mobile phone 😎

Blog post:

Ok!

@JamesMontemagno I foresee many people getting better tan in the next summer

@JamesMontemagno Any chance the copilot SDK has/gets the ability to operate against a remote CLI session?

@JamesMontemagno Yes! We have some fun new things we're building internally ontop of the SDK that are already have support for remote control 🙂

@JamesMontemagno Looking forward to this, the teams hard work is appreciated

This looks great, but I usually have my copilot run in a directory with a collection of worktrees to make changes across repositories. 🤔

Working on support for running this in a plan folder vs the repo root requirement cc @tiagonbotelho

yaay! are you gonna share the internal protocol details (like MCP notifications used by CC?), or are you just using the raw copilot sdk primitives?

Right now it uses pretty naive polling to power it. Works well and is very reliable. We will move to web sockets to power all of this at some point for various reasons.

i love how big companies don't overengineer to ship stuff and just iterate toward a better solution

This is great! Will it work outside of GitHub? We use Azure DevOps and GitLab repos

Trying this right now - so cool. You guys are full of surprises right now!

@DanWahlin Awesome. Is it possible to use with Github Enterprise?

My account got flagged after using Copilot with agents like Hermes. I sent a ticket 2 weeks ago and nobody has answered until now.

Wow good news

@JamesMontemagno Finally just what was missing!

Why? Why would someone use Copilot?

I'm not sure I'd trust my phone's connection at the beach enough to let an agent run commands on my machine. What happens if you lose signal mid-execution?

@ashleymcnamara On ADO ?

@gregor_suttie Awesome. Also sad to take work to the beach. I will resist the temptation.

But how to open a new session remotely

Remote controlling an agent from your phone while it runs on your local machine is a genuinely underrated use case. Nice to see this shipping!

I hope there should be option for Ctrl + C if anything start going wrong 😀

@davidfowl Amazing!

dont like the copilot cli so much - it is not elegant enough

please give us your feedback on what you want to see improved. @maaslalani is cranking away on improving our TUI and CLI experience all up

Good job 👍 I'm wondering if it's possible for it to become a continuously running daemon, so I can connect my servers like a GHA runner and have them complete tasks whenever needed.

@tgrall Why?? you can enjoy the sun,a drink and read a good book instead...

@davidfowl No way!!!! I saw it this morning, when, unfortunately I had already left the house. Had I seen it earlier, I would have been remote-coding instead of tweeting… 😂

I've been waiting very impatiently for this, fantastic! 🎉 Is there a way to activate the remote capability when starting sessions from VSCode?

Does the session open in the GitHub app if installed on device (iPhone)?

iOS support is in beta and the team is iterating very quickly on it.

Nice!!

Dude, you are cooking!!!

Finally taking the agent to the beach.

This is nice. Will try it for sure

How does the remote control feature in Copilot CLI handle potential issues like network latency or disconnections?

Does it support model switching too? Didn't notice it in the videos, while the blog post says "Remote sessions support all of the features you expect from the Copilot CLI" And why does Opus use 6x in the video there? I thought it's 3x... Inflation's coming? :))

Copilot is pretty amazing. However, you can already securely run Github Copilot CLI from remote. No special setup. No VPN. No steps. You just install, run. (

How can a Claude user like me be convinced to try and use Copilot? What would be the best use cases?

You can use open-relay for all CLI tools, claude code, codex, copilot, qwen etc. And you also get notifications, agent to agent etc. All in one simple CLI proxy. Support windows, macos and linux.