Remote Control: I made a video from my phone at lunch

No mic, no laptop: a whole video from my phone at lunch.

I turned on Claude Code’s Remote Control, left my desk for lunch, and kept making a video from my phone. No mic, no laptop. Claude voiced the narration, planned every shot, asked before spending a single Kling credit, and I approved it all with short text messages.

Seven Kling clips, about 600 credits, approved from a phone. Claude caught that our captions would clash with YouTube’s, checked every clip frame by frame (one grew a mouth), and made the subtitles, thumbnail, YouTube text and a vertical Short.

Try it yourself

In Claude Code, run /remote-control and open the same session on your phone.
Tell Claude to stop before it spends anything: show the frames, the settings and the cost, then wait for your “go”.
Approve with short messages, and ask it to check every result before it moves on.

Chapters

0:00Superpower: Remote Control
0:15Cold open: how amazing was it that I did this at lunch
0:26The images were already made by Codex
0:49What /remote-control does
1:27Starting the job from my phone
1:46Leaving for lunch
2:49No mic from here on
3:16The approval gate: “Your call.”
3:28“Restart Claude Code?” I’m at lunch. Now what?
3:50Graphics and a rough cut, built while Kling renders
4:02“Go all”: seven clips
4:15Our captions fight YouTube’s captions
4:27Checking every clip: one grew a mouth
4:40Subtitles, thumbnail, YouTube text, a vertical Short
4:54Adding the episode to my website (and it asks before going live)
5:10Pointing Claude at my next video, from my phone
5:21Claude, asked to say something to you
5:47Claude’s own take on the session
6:21Forty minutes of agents at work
6:36Back at my desk
6:58The result: How It Actually Works, EP02: OAuth

Next superpower: #2, Kling AI →

Narration is an AI voice (a clone of my own for the lunch footage), and the animation was made with AI tools.

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