Hold Sleep
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Claude Code on your Mac,
from your phone. Lid closed.

Leave your MacBook shut on the desk. From the Claude app, start a Claude Code session in any of your projects — and your Mac sips about half a percent of battery an hour while it waits.

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Claude Code works today · Codex coming soon

How it works

Three taps from your pocket.

  1. Close the lid

    Turn on Remote standby once. Hold Sleep keeps your Mac awake and reachable — screen off — and runs a small “Hold Sleep Launcher” for you.

  2. Open the Launcher on your phone

    It's in your Claude Code sessions in the Claude app, wherever you are.

  3. Say which project

    “open shop” — a Claude Code session starts on your Mac in that folder and shows up in your list. Work with it like you would at your desk.

Setup guide

Set it up in two minutes.

Watch the whole setup, step by step: install Hold Sleep, turn on Remote standby, close the lid, and start Claude Code from your phone.

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Battery

Reachable all day. Barely a dent.

While nobody's looking, Hold Sleep turns on Low Power Mode and pauses idle apps like Chrome and Slack. A build or test run from your phone gets full speed, then it settles back down. Measured on an M-series MacBook Air, lid closed, on battery:

0.2%/hNormal macOS sleep
(unreachable)
~0.5%/hRemote standby with battery saver
about 11% a day
~0.9%/hKept awake, no battery saver
about 22% a day

Want real sleep at night? Set a sleep window — say midnight to 7. Hold Sleep wakes the Mac at the end, ready for your phone.

Safe by design

Your Mac, your Claude account, nobody else.

Claude's own Remote ControlSessions run between your Claude account and your Mac. Hold Sleep never sees or relays them.
No open portsYour Mac connects out. Nothing on the internet can connect in.
Trusted folders onlySessions start only in folders you already trust in Claude Code. Hold Sleep never grants trust.
Narrow permissionOne admin approval lets Hold Sleep switch sleep and Low Power Mode, and schedule a wake. Nothing else.
FAQ

Remote AI Agents, answered.

What do I need?

A MacBook with macOS 14 or later, Hold Sleep, and Claude Code signed in with a Claude subscription (Remote Control needs it). Your projects folder has to be trusted in Claude Code once — Hold Sleep shows you how.

Can it open any folder?

Projects inside your projects folder open by name (“open shop”). Any other folder Claude Code already trusts opens by its full path. You can add more projects folders in Settings › Remote AI Agents.

What happens to my open apps?

On battery, while the lid is closed or the screen is off, idle apps like Chrome, Slack and WhatsApp are paused and Low Power Mode is on. Terminals, editors, AI apps, virtual machines and anything busy keep running, and you can add apps that should never pause. Everything comes back the moment you open the lid.

Will a long build from my phone be slow?

No. When something needs real CPU — a build, a test run, an export — Hold Sleep lifts Low Power Mode for it and turns it back on a minute after.

Can my Mac still sleep at night?

Yes. Set a sleep window in Settings › Remote AI Agents. The Mac sleeps normally during it (unless work is running) and wakes itself at the end, reachable again.

Does it work with Codex or other agents?

Claude Code works today. Codex support is coming soon. Every agent you run at your desk is already kept awake by Hold Sleep's regular detection.

Is it safe to leave a closed MacBook running?

On a desk, yes — standby uses very little power. Don't keep a running, closed Mac in a bag; it can get warm. Below 10% battery, the Mac always goes to sleep.

Close the lid.
Keep Claude a tap away.

Remote AI Agents is included in Hold Sleep — one-time payment, no subscription.

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macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon & Intel