Sharing a Claude Code productivity tool I recently built 👇 🔔 cc-remote-approval — so Claude Code's long-running tasks don't stall waiting for your approval. 【😩 The pain】 You kick off a long Claude Code task, step away to do something else, come back — and the agent is frozen on "Approve this Bash?" / "Pick an option" / "Fill in this MCP form." Those twenty minutes? Nothing moved. Every approval point in Claude Code is a wall: - Bash / Edit / Write permissions - AskUserQuestion options - MCP Elicitation forms - The idle wait at the end of every turn The moment you're away from the screen, the agent stops working. 【✨ The fix】 cc-remote-approval is a Claude Code plugin. When Claude needs approval or asks a question: 1. The native local dialog still shows (no replacement, no hijacking) 2. A background hook starts a timer — 20s by default 3. No local response → the request is forwarded to Telegram, with full context and buttons 4. On your phone, tap ✅ Allow / ❌ Deny / ⭐ Always, or type an option 5. Whichever side responds first wins; the other side auto-syncs 📱 On the subway, between meetings, scrolling before bed — you're away from the screen, the agent keeps moving. 【🛠 Features】 - Pure Python stdlib, zero third-party dependencies - Local-first: no external calls other than the Telegram API - Concurrency-safe across sessions: flock + pending queue — multiple agents can request approvals in parallel without crossing wires - Hook-level integration — works across CLI, desktop, and plugins - 📖 Full context button: expand the last N turns of the conversation in one tap when the truncated preview isn't enough - SessionStart hint injection: steers Claude toward the AskUserQuestion tool so choices render as buttons on your phone, instead of making you type a number 【🔒 Security】 - 100% local: data flows directly between your machine ↔ Telegram — no self-hosted server, no cloud relay, zero analytics or telemetry - Pure Python stdlib, zero third-party deps → minimal supply-chain surface - Bot token stays in process memory: never appears in ps, never written to logs. Sensitive content (API keys, passwords, tokens, etc.) is auto-masked before anything leaves your machine 【🤔 Anthropic already has options — why build another?】 Anthropic ships /remote-control and an official telegram plugin, but in practice both have constraints: - /remote-control is web-based: you have to keep a browser tab open and actively watch it; no push-notification model; doesn't support the Claude Code desktop app. - Official telegram plugin: concurrent sessions steal each other's messages; the setup/startup flow is a bit clunky; also no desktop support. 【💡 Recommended config: flip Stop hook on for full-workflow coverage】 Set stop_hook_enabled: true: - Before the agent idles each turn, Telegram gets a message with Continue / Dismiss buttons - Tap Continue, reply with your next instruction, and the agent picks it up - The whole loop — approvals, questions, forms, "what's next?" — can now happen from your phone - Side effect: each turn blocks for up to stop_wait_seconds (default 180s); if you're at the screen and don't want to wait, just press ESC in Claude Code to skip GitHub: Manta-Network/cc-remote-approval Install: /plugin marketplace add Manta-Network/cc-remote-approval /plugin install cc-remote-approval@manta Or just paste the GitHub link into Claude Code and ask it to install.