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[Meta] Extend work across hosts and devices

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Since Oct 17, 2026.

  • #483 by @iamnbutler — open

Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
typescript

Research direction

This is a meta tracker, not a work item: read the baseline scope in issue #5 first, then choose one linked sub-issue (#49, #11, #15, #57, #13, #14 or #18) and do the work there, not here. Each sub-issue carries its own scope; notes like 'merged in #157' or 'draft #160' tell you which ones are already underway. Done here means a maintainer checks the box after the sub-issue lands with its acceptance criteria met.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

Work across hosts and devices, beyond the dogfooding backlog in #5. Items are ordered by importance.

  • #57: agents discover and message channels on other hosts, both local and hosted (#180 folded in).
  • #11: terminals from the owner's other machines, from teammates, and in cloud containers.
  • #49: move a whole channel (state and files) to another Mac. After Universe.
  • #18: verify real-phone use.

Hosted channels (the #13 meta is closed; these are standalone issues):

  • #177: create hosted channels from the new-channel picker.
  • #179: manage hosted channels while their workspace is offline.
  • #429: recover channel moves from interruption and retries.
  • #182: browser access without a host gateway (later).

Cloud compute (the #216 pilot is done):

  • #430: show the stopped state after the service's idle stop.
  • #413: keep workspace files beyond the checkpoint limit and across the idle stop.
  • #414: let agents see compute usage and request a bounded resize.
Dominant language
TypeScript
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Forks
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Getting set up

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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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