Comparisons
How Consortium compares
There is more than one reasonable way to reach a coding agent from away from your desk, and the right answer depends on how long your runs are and how many agents you use. Here is where each one fits.
| Approach | What it is | Where Consortium differs |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Code Remote Control | Anthropic's first-party mobile view of a live local session. | Consortium detaches the session from the terminal, runs five other agents besides Claude Code, and adds teams. |
| SSH + tmux + Tailscale | The do-it-yourself stack: a shell on your dev box from anywhere. | Consortium gives the same persistence without hand-rolling it, plus push notifications on permission prompts and a UI built for approving diffs on a phone screen rather than a raw terminal. |
| Third-party mobile agent clients | Apps that wrap one coding agent with a phone UI and a kanban board. | Consortium is open core with an auditable, MIT-licensed encryption library and a self-hostable server — the difference matters most in a security review. |