Agent View: show which sessions have an active Remote Control connection

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Activity 1 comment · opened Jul 20, 2026 · closed Aug 20, 2026

Summary

Feature request: show which sessions in Agent View (claude agents) currently have a Remote
Control connection, both in the interactive TUI and in claude agents --json.

Motivation

Agent View is described as "one screen for every session" (/en/agent-view), and Remote Control
lets you drive a session from claude.ai/code or the mobile app (/en/remote-control). Today
there's no way to tell from that one screen which sessions are RC-connected — you have to attach
to each session individually and check its own footer /rc active indicator.

This matters most exactly when Agent View is most useful: several background/interactive sessions
running at once, where the whole point is not having to attach to each one just to check status.
Knowing at a glance which sessions you can already pick up from your phone (vs. which ones aren't
RC-connected yet) would save that round trip.

What I checked before filing

  • claude agents --json (the documented scripting interface) prints per-session pid, id,

cwd, kind, startedAt, sessionId, name, status, state — no Remote Control field at
all. So this isn't just a missing TUI icon; the data isn't exposed via the scriptable path
either, meaning there's currently no way to build an external tool that surfaces this (I looked
into building a small workaround before concluding this needs to be a real feature request).

  • The Agent View docs (/en/agent-view) describe six state indicators (Working / Needs input /

Idle / Completed / Failed / Stopped) plus PR badge, age, and session name — no RC indicator among
them.

  • The Remote Control docs (/en/remote-control) confirm the only existing indicators are: the

local /rc active footer in that one session's own terminal, and a "computer icon with a green
status dot" in the mobile app's session list — neither is visible from claude agents.

Proposed shape

  • TUI: a small badge/icon per row (e.g. next to the PR badge) when a session has an active Remote

Control connection — reusing the existing "computer icon + green dot" visual language from the
mobile app's session list would keep it consistent.

  • Scripting: add a boolean field (e.g. remoteControlActive or similar) to each session object in

claude agents --json, so this is checkable by external tooling too, not just visually.

Happy to help test if useful — filing this as a gap I ran into, not attached to a specific
implementation preference.

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