Chat & Terminal

A session can run in one of two modes. You pick per session; both kinds can run side by side.

Chat mode

Claude Code runs headless and the page renders the conversation like a chat app: streaming text, tool calls, and file edits shown as tidy diff cards. Best on a phone — big touch targets, no terminal quirks.

Terminal mode

A real terminal (the same interactive claude you'd run yourself) streamed to the browser. What you'd see in your own terminal is exactly what you get — TUI, colors, everything.

• Billing note: interactive sessions count against your Claude subscription's 5-hour/weekly quota, while headless chat sessions bill differently. The mode picker is also a billing picker — check your plan's current rules.
• The same message box works here too: what you type is mirrored into the terminal's input line as you type, and Send submits it. On a desktop you can also just click the terminal and type directly.
• On touch screens, a helper key bar provides the keys phones don't have: arrows, Enter, Esc, y/n — enough to answer any prompt Claude shows.

Terminal tabs

Besides sessions, you can open plain terminal tabs — a shell on your computer, like SSH from your browser. They survive disconnects the way tmux does: scrollback is kept (10,000 lines) and replayed when you reattach.

Scrolling on mobile

Swipe to scroll works in all terminals, including inside Claude's TUI. While you're scrolled up, new output won't yank you down; a floating button returns you to the bottom.