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Introduction

You start a long-running coding task, step away from your desk, and your phone buzzes the moment the agent finishes. That's WhatCode.

WhatCode is an iOS companion for OpenCode, the open-source AI coding agent that runs on your machine. It lets you monitor sessions, send messages, and get push notifications in real time, all from your iPhone.

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What's covered here​

This documentation covers three things:

  • WhatCode - the iOS app: what it does, how to connect it to your machine, and how to navigate your projects and sessions.
  • OpenCode - how to install and run the OpenCode server that WhatCode connects to.
  • Daemon - the lightweight server that bridges the iOS app and OpenCode, enabling push notifications, better project sorting, and optional remote access via Tailscale.

Quick overview​

  1. Install OpenCode on your machine.
  2. Run the WhatCode daemon (npx @whatcode-ai/whatcode). It starts OpenCode and exposes it on your local network.
  3. Open the iOS app, scan the QR code shown in your terminal, and you're connected.
  4. Start a coding session. When the agent finishes, your phone buzzes.