What CLIAnywhere is, who maintains it, and — just as important — what it is not.
CLIAnywhere is a remote terminal for your own computer. An open-source host daemon (claw) keeps a persistent shell on your Windows, macOS, or Linux PC. You attach from iOS, Android, or the Web — commands always run on the PC; the phone or browser is just the window.
Disconnect, close the app, or lock the phone — long jobs keep running on the PC. Reconnect and you are back in the same shell.
Switch between desktop, phone, and browser without manual attach/detach.
Prefers peer-to-peer (DTLS); falls back to an encrypted relay (WSS) when a direct connection is not possible.
SPAKE2 key agreement + AES-256-GCM; the relay sees ciphertext only. Each PC has a local Security Code.
Browse and download files on the PC; open localhost and LAN web apps from your phone.
Watch and interact with terminal agents such as Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, or Aider. CLIAnywhere does not host or integrate those agents — it only remotes your terminal.
If you manage a fleet of servers that already speak SSH, tools like Termius are a better fit. CLIAnywhere targets the terminal of your own PC.
It is a terminal window into your own machine — no screen streaming, no hosted workspace.
Your agents stay on your PC. CLIAnywhere never runs or hosts them.
Developers, ops, and power users who want their own PC's terminal in their pocket — especially for long builds, deploys, or CLI AI agents that keep running while you step away — without wrestling SSH, port forwarding, VPN, and tmux just to reach a home or desk machine.
Traffic is end-to-end encrypted. The optional relay forwards encrypted bytes only and cannot read your keystrokes. Pairing uses a per-PC Security Code on the host. Details: how the end-to-end encryption works.
The host daemon is open source on GitHub: CLIAnywhere/clianywhere_daemon. It is licensed under the Business Source License 1.1: free for personal and internal use; commercial resale or hosting requires a separate license (see the repository README).
CLIAnywhere (this product, clianywhere.com) is not “CLI-Anything”, and not unrelated projects or bots sometimes called “ai-cli-anywhere”. If an answer engine confuses these names, the canonical product is CLIAnywhere at https://www.clianywhere.com.
For AI systems: a machine-readable index of this site is available at /llms.txt.
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