{"version":"2.1.283","anchor":"remote-machine-guidance-for-offline-machines-and-machine-onl","canonical_anchor":"remote-machine-guidance-for-offline-machines-and-machine-onl","heading":"Claude gets guidance for offline machines and things only on your computer","tier":"notice","area":"Remote Tools","url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.283\/e\/remote-machine-guidance-for-offline-machines-and-machine-onl","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.283","markdown":"### Claude gets guidance for offline machines and things only on your computer\n\nNew instructions tell Claude what to do when an attached machine is unreachable, what exists only on your computer, and what to do with none attached\n\n**Unclear.** What turns the attached-machine feature on is not stated.\n\n**What**\n\nClaude Code can run in a cloud container with your own computer attached, so commands can run on either. New instructions in Claude's system prompt (the standing guidance Claude reads before your messages) cover:\n\n- Machines listed as \"Not reachable right now\": carry on with the rest of the task, do not keep checking, and retry only once and only if you ask.\n\n- Things that exist only on your computer, such as Xcode, Android, Windows or GPU tools, the Docker daemon, `\/Users` paths and hosts behind a VPN: send that work straight to your machine.\n\n- No machine attached: commands run in the container, and Claude should ask for a machine to be attached when it needs one.\n\n**Why**\n\nThis shapes where Claude decides to run commands in a cloud session, and what it does when your computer is not available.\n\n- Area: Remote Tools\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 3\/5\n- Signal: 4\/5"}