--remote-control
A Claude Code CLI flag, read out of the shipped bundle. No mined inventory carries it: everything below comes from what this site has written about it.
What it is
Start an interactive session with [Remote Control](/docs/en/remote-control#start-a-remote-control-session) enabled so you can also control it from claude.ai or the Claude app. Optionally pass a name for the session
Anthropic's own wording. Read off CLI reference, captured 2026-08-28.
Presence across releases
The miner has never read a build containing this name. It is here because a changelog entry of ours names it, which is evidence that it existed and not evidence of which releases carried it. The inventory starts at v2.1.138 and everything older than that was never mined.
Changelog entries naming it
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v2.1.224Remote-control autostart decision is resolved in one place
One resolver now decides whether Remote Control starts and in which mode, weighing flags, settings and env vars.
named in this entry
Documentation pages
- CLI reference reference table Claude Code CLI
- Claude Code changelog mentions it Claude Code CLI
- Use Claude Code on the web mentions it Claude Code CLI
- Error reference mentions it Claude Code CLI
- Choose a permission mode mentions it Claude Code CLI
- Continue local sessions from any device with Remote Control mentions it Claude Code CLI
- Claude Code settings mentions it Claude Code CLI
A reference table page is one whose own table defines this name, and it is where the description above came from. A page that mentions it carries the name somewhere in its text and may say nothing about it at all. Every page carrying it.
Names beside it
Every CLI flag in the inventory starting --remote, up to twelve of them.
--remoteDeprecated alias for --cloud, including the existing-session form 2.1.138
--remote-control-session-name-prefixPrefix for auto-generated [Remote Control](/docs/en/remote-control) session names when no explicit name is set. Defaults to your machine's hostname, producing names like myhost-graceful-unicorn. Set CLAUDE_REMOTE_CONTROL_SESSION_NAME_PREFIX for the same effect 2.1.138
Read out of the published npm bundle release by release, and out of Anthropic's own documentation as this site captured it. Nothing on this page is a description anybody here wrote about what the CLI flag does. All CLI flags.