PAI Mobile — Access PAI from your phone via Telegram (Beta)

[jdrolls]

Hey everyone,

I've been building and using something I wanted to share with the community: PAI Mobile — a Telegram gateway that connects your phone to Claude Code, and by extension, your entire PAI setup.

The problem it solves: PAI is incredibly capable, but it's stuck on your laptop. There are ways to get terminal access on your phone — Termius through Tailscale, SSH apps, various remote shell solutions — but they all fall short in terms of actual usability. You're squinting at a terminal on a 6-inch screen. Claude Code's remote connection feature is cool too, but you still have to initiate from the terminal. None of these give you a native, conversational mobile experience with your AI.

PAI Mobile fixes that — send a Telegram message, get a full Claude Code response back, including your skills, memory, and tools. No terminal required.

Why this matters for the PAI vision: One of the things that drew me to PAI is the idea of a single, unified AI that knows you and works for you — instead of bouncing between chatbots, claudecode, and a dozen other tools that each know a fraction of what you need. PAI Mobile extends that philosophy to your pocket. Instead of reaching for an inferior app when you're away from your desk, you reach for the same agent that has your full context.

What it does:

• Dual-mode routing — simple questions get fast answers, complex tasks get full Claude Code with tools
• Multi-session conversations
• Heartbeat monitoring — periodic check-ins that alert you only when something needs attention
• Cron scheduling — "daily 7am", "weekdays 9am", "every 2h" — your AI reaches out to you
• Runs as a system service, survives reboots, self-recovers

Inspired by OpenClaw's vision of autonomous, always-accessible AI — built as a PAI plugin that works with your existing setup.

I've been running this daily on my own machine and tinkering with it for a while now. It's stable and genuinely useful, but it hasn't been tested across many environments yet — that's where you come in. I'm sure eventually tools like this, or something better, will be built directly into PAI — but this is my current solution and it's been working well for me. Hopefully it helps others too.

Beta 1.0.0: https://github.com/jdrolls/pai-mobile/releases/tag/v1.0.0-beta

The README has step-by-step setup instructions. Prerequisites are Claude Code CLI and Node.js.

Would love feedback — what works, what doesn't, what you'd want next, or what you have built that may be different or better that I can learn from. Open an issue on the repo or reply here.

[danielmiessler]

Closing this out as part of a cleanup of the discussion board. We're on the 7.x releases now and a lot has changed since this thread was active. Thanks to everyone who jumped in. If this is still relevant on 7.x, please open a fresh discussion or issue and we'll pick it up there.