Control PC Terminal

Control your Desktop AI Agents from anywhere—via Telegram or Web Terminal.

🎥 Watch the Demo Video

Control-PC-Terminal is an open-source tool that lets you control Claude Code, Codex, or any custom CLI agent running on your Desktop or VPS directly from your mobile phone.

Unlike standard remote tools, this is built for AI Agent persistence. Your agents run inside tmux sessions, so they keep working even if your internet drops. You can interact with them via a Secure Web Terminal or a Telegram Bot that streams logs and sends commands in real-time.

• 🚀 Ready-to-Run: Comes with preconfigured AI agents (using A2A, ADK, MCP, & Skills) so you can test them instantly!

• 🌐 Language Agnostic: Build your own agents using ANY framework or language. Use the preconfigured ones as a blueprint.

• 🔓 Total Freedom: Unlike ClawdBot (which locks you into their plugins), if it runs in a terminal, it works here!

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✨ Key Features

1. 📱 Telegram Remote Control (New!)

Chat with your terminal! Control-PC-Terminal bridges Telegram messages directly to your running tmux session.

• Send Prompts: Message the bot to send text directly to Claude/Codex.
• Live Streaming: Use /watch to see the agent's output stream to your chat in near real-time.
• Interrupts: Stop runaway agents instantly with /interrupt (sends Ctrl+C).
• Control: Use /up, /down, /enter, and /yes to navigate menus remotely.

2. 💻 Persistent Web Terminal

• tmux Integration: Your work keeps running on your machine even if your phone browser disconnects or screen locks.
• ttyd Access: Turns your terminal into a web UI accessible from any browser (http://localhost:7681).
• cloudflared Tunnel (Optional): Generates a secure public URL (e.g., trycloudflare.com) so you can access your terminal from outside your home network without router configuration.

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🚀 Install

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kumar045/Control-PC-Terminal/main/install.sh | bash

The installer downloads the script and adds ~/.control-terminal/bin to your PATH.

🖥️ OS Support

• Linux: Supported directly.
• Windows: Use WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux).

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🧠 Usage

Run the tool:

control-terminal

You will be prompted to select an agent:

1. codex
2. claude
3. other
4. preconfigured custom agent

Telegram Setup

During startup, you can optionally configure Telegram control:

1. Enter your Bot Token.
2. Enter your Chat ID (for allowlist security).

Once running, the tool will:

• Start the agent in a tmux session.
• Launch the Telegram bot (if configured) to listen for commands.
• Expose the session over a web browser via ttyd.

Telegram Commands

Command	Description
/help	Show command list
/status	Check if the tmux session is running
/watch [s]	Stream terminal output to chat (default 2s interval)
/unwatch	Stop live updates
/tail [n]	Get the last n lines of output
/interrupt	Send Ctrl+C to the agent
/prompt <txt>	Send a prompt to the agent (or just type text)
/yes / /no	Quick confirmation helpers
/up / /down	Navigate command history/menus
/enter	Send Enter key

Note: If you send a plain text message, it is treated as a prompt and auto-enables /watch mode.

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🧩 Why Control-Terminal is special

Control-Terminal combines three proven tools into one smooth workflow:

1. tmux (The Engine): Keeps processes alive. If you use only a web terminal, your long-running agent dies when the tab closes. With tmux, it runs forever.
2. ttyd (The Web View): Provides remote browser input/output to that specific tmux session.
3. cloudflared (The Access): Gives you a shareable URL quickly, without manual router/NAT setup.

⚙️ Advanced Configuration

Preconfigured Custom Agents

You can define reusable agents in a config file so you don't have to type commands every time.

• File location: ~/.control-terminal/custom-agents.conf
• Format: name|command

Example:

a2a-adk-mcp|adk run --enable-a2a --enable-mcp --agent terminal_orchestrator

Credentials & Security

• Web Auth: You can set a username/password for ttyd access during startup.
• Telegram Auth: The bot only responds to the chat_id you provide.

Custom Script Requirements

If you are writing your own agent script (e.g., my_agent.py) to use with this:

1. Read from stdin (terminal input).
2. Write to stdout (terminal output).
3. Keep running (don't exit after one output).

Control-Terminal handles the bridging between Telegram/Web and your script automatically.